Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds--possible interpretation
I asked my investment manager, shortly after the bailout, who was buying treasuries. He didn't know but told me he knew some of them had negative values. Someone was actually buying them for more than they could be redeemed for later! But he wasn't aware that they were being marketed to Americans. No wonder the Chinese were angry--being forced to buy less than worthless paper coming out of the New York Fed. But they felt at the time they had no choice because trade agreements required them to buy that paper or the U.S. would not buy the worthless plastic crap being pumped out of Chinese factories. Volcker should know firsthand what it's like to get caught in the middle of these games after American hostages were seized in Iran in 1980 while the Shah was being shipped from one place to another before he succumbed to cancer. Whether Obama has decided to listen to Volcker or to Geithner and Robert Rubin (whose work at Goldman Sachs two decades ago helped with the looting of USSR) is yet to be seen. Linda On 2/27/2010 8:46 PM, muckblit wrote: I guess if Obama wants to block the Iran-China pipelines by war, and talk to Tibet's Dalai Lama, China can play its part in that script. China can take some blame off Obama and the financial hatchetmen for doing a meltdown here like they have done in many other countries. Those countries might be able to laugh at us having our turn, or not be in a position to. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com mailto:cia-drugs%40yahoogroups.com, Linda Minor lmi...@... wrote: Unsustainable Deficits and Bond Boycotts: Panic at the Fed or Back to Financial Normalcy? By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=17788 http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103106645549s=2941e=001wHvtrvyK03Zw_wi51VO9yHzRzFGPrRmxS4W1MIqifD58ZJUZBcSPtGR20g01szP88btJYNO_3c2_2iwiJfSCDdh0HW7aQ5Av8EwyZP-88CL_BpiZqUjtCpN9PePwhcO5QGbMbPjzB45IZw0QfkPJcsZCfjdvzGZZXD51uo60mBo= http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103106645549s=2941e=001wHvtrvyK03Zw_wi51VO9yHzRzFGPrRmxS4W1MIqifD58ZJUZBcSPtGR20g01szP88btJYNO_3c2_2iwiJfSCDdh0HW7aQ5Av8EwyZP-88CL_BpiZqUjtCpN9PePwhcO5QGbMbPjzB45IZw0QfkPJcsZCfjdvzGZZXD51uo60mBo= Global Research http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103106645549s=2941e=001wHvtrvyK03ZF25GNlgo2k_dDN5lY1sDrsPonEVNVJo9xcNzh6kDdIfxoNn3b2nXmULclmMdGJPKopaHVBLoma95zC9z4gyN1zTDVQ_I-HigtWg372dYQDw== http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103106645549s=2941e=001wHvtrvyK03ZF25GNlgo2k_dDN5lY1sDrsPonEVNVJo9xcNzh6kDdIfxoNn3b2nXmULclmMdGJPKopaHVBLoma95zC9z4gyN1zTDVQ_I-HigtWg372dYQDw==, February 24, 2010 The decision of the US Federal Reserve to raise its key interest rate was definitely not a sign of confidence in the US economic recovery or a signal that Fed policy is slowly returning to normal as claimed. It was rather a signal of panic over the weakness in US Government bond markets, the heart of the dollar financial system. Financial markets have reacted with jubilation, by buying dollars and selling Euros, at the decision by the Fed to raise rates for the first time since 2006 for its so-called Discount Rate, going from 0.5% to 0.75%. The Discount Rate is the interest rate charged for banks to borrow from the central bank. At the same time the Fed left its more important short-term Fed Funds rate unchanged and historically low -- between 0.0% and 0.25%. In its official statement the Board of Governors said the rate move was intended to push private banks back into the private inter-bank borrowing market and away from reliance on Federal Reserve subsidized money which had been provided since the financial crisis began in August 2007. The decision, in plain words, was framed so as to give the impression of a return to business as usual. At the same time, financial players like George Soros continue to speak openly about the fundamental weakness of the Euro. This has the effect of taking speculative pressure away from fundamentally worse economic and financial fundamentals within the dollar zone at the expense of the Euro. The reality is that the dollar world is anything but returning to normal. *Unsustainable deficits* The conservative President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, Thomas Hoenig recently warned in a little-reported speech that if the size of the Federal Budget deficit is not dramatically and urgently reduced, public debt will soon look like that of Italy or Greece, exceeding 100% of GDP. In a recent speech Hoenig noted, The fiscal projections for the United States are so stunning that, one way or another, reform will occur. Fiscal policy is on an unsustainable course. The US government must make adjustments in its spending and tax programs. It is that simple. If pre-emptive corrective action is not taken regarding the fiscal outlook, then the United States risks precipitating its own next crisis. Translated into laymens language, that means savage cuts in Government spending at a time when
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds--possible interpretation
10% of their reserves in gold. The German Bundesbank holds some 3,400 tons of gold, the second largest after the US Federal Reserve. To even get to that 10% level, China would have to buy more than $200 billion worth - about two years' global mine output. Silver is not a significant part of most countries' reserves, but China is historically an exception, since in Imperial times before 1900 it was on a silver standard rather a gold standard, and so retained substantial silver reserves. One aim of the 1840s British Opium Wars against China was to drain the Chinese state of its entire silver currency reserves to the advantage of the British gold standard. In 2001 and 2002 China was a major seller of silver, selling a total of 100 million ounces at its then-price of less than $5 an ounce. Since then, it has stopped selling silver. Last September 2009, the Chinese government passed a decree encouraging Chinese savers to buy silver, explaining that buying silver was a good deal since the gold/silver price ratio at 70-to-1 was historically very high, offering them convenient small-value ingots with which to buy it, and prohibiting the export of silver from China. This was almost certainly a move designed to dampen stock-market speculation and reduce money supply growth, since bank deposits converted into silver would effectively be sterilized. What's more, if the long-awaited Chinese banking crisis ever developed, the effect on the long-suffering Chinese public would be mitigated if people held substantial wealth in the form of readily negotiable silver ingots. It's likely that China is now a very large buyer of silver, possibly even more than gold. Thus, a selloff in People's Bank of China holdings of US Treasuries could be offset by purchases of gold for its own account and of silver to supply to the Chinese public. /*F. William Engdahl*, author of Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century./ On 2/26/2010 10:50 PM, muckblit wrote: With rampant false flags and suicide bombings in Afg-Pak now, and US and Britain sending in tens of thousands of troops, starting ethnic cleansing under cover of those false flags but afg-pak people know and will defend, all to destabilize and probably Tarpley is right about destabilizing hindering those two Iran-China pipelines. So, understandable if China puts a cap on neocon insanity at some level. *'The gunmen drive in mainly four-wheel vehicles and quickly disappear from the crime scene.' Silencer guns kill 67 in one day in Baghdad http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-02-23%5Ckurd.htm* By Anwar Jumaa 23 Feb 2010 Last Sunday 67 corpses were brought to Baghdad morgue all shot with silencer guns, medical sources said. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said silencer guns have instilled fear and terror in Baghdad and most of the victims were civil servants, former Baathists and army officers. The latest [Blackwater] victim has been a university professor who was shot dead on Monday as he drove home. The sources named the victim as Dr. Thamer Kamel, head of the human rights section at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific research. *Taliban strike at heart of Kabul, killing at least 16 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-strike-at-heart-of-kabul-killing-at-least-16-1912345.html --Indians believed to be targets, but Italian secret service officer and French film producer also dead* 17 Feb 2010 With suicide bombs, grenades and gunfire, insurgents struck at the heart of Kabul yesterday, killing at least 16 people in co-ordinated attacks that the Afghan President said were targeted at Indians, but which also claimed the life of a senior member of the Italian secret service and a French film producer. The targets of the two-hour explosion of violence included two guesthouses used by foreigners and Kabul's first shopping mall. http://www.google.com/search?q=severin+blanchet+killed http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9956355 Severin Blanchet, a French documentary filmmaker who was training young Afghans, died Friday during an attack by insurgents in a hotel for foreigners in Kabul where he was staying. He was 66. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Linda Minor lmi...@... wrote: http://www.gata.org/node/8369 Concerns grow over China's sale of US bonds Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2010-02-24 21:39. Section: Daily Dispatches http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/2 By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Telegraph, London Wednesday, February 24, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7300770/Concerns-grow-over-C... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7300770/Concerns-grow-over-Chinas-sale-of-US-bonds.html Evidence is mounting that Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds over recent months are intended as a warning shot to Washington over escalating pol itical disputes rather than being part
[cia-drugs] Afghanistan's thriving opium trade
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022404914_pf.html Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai By Andrew Higgins Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 25, 2010; A10 KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money's origin. The cash, estimated to total well over $1 billion a year, flows mostly to the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, where many wealthy Afghans now park their families and funds, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. So long as departing cash is declared at the airport here, its transfer is legal. But at a time when the United States and its allies are spending billions of dollars to prop up the fragile government of President Hamid Karzai, the volume of the outflow has stirred concerns that funds have been diverted from aid. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, for its part, is trying to figure out whether some of the money comes from Afghanistan's thriving opium trade. And officials in neighboring Pakistan think that at least some of the cash leaving Kabul has been smuggled overland from Pakistan. All this money magically appears from nowhere, said a U.S. official who monitors Afghanistan's growing role as a hub for cash transfers to Dubai, which has six flights a day to and from Kabul. Meanwhile, the United States is stepping up efforts to stop money flow in the other direction -- into Afghanistan and Pakistan in support of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Senior Treasury Department officials visited Kabul this month to discuss the cash flows and other issues relating to this country's infant, often chaotic financial sector. Tracking Afghan exchanges has long been made difficult by the widespread use of traditional money-moving outfits, known as hawalas, which keep few records. The Afghan central bank, supported by U.S. Treasury advisers, is trying to get a grip on them by licensing their operations. In the meantime, the money continues to flow. Cash declaration forms filed at Kabul International Airport and reviewed by The Washington Post show that Afghan passengers took more than $180 million to Dubai during a two-month period starting in July. If that rate held for the entire year, the amount of cash that left Afghanistan in 2009 would have far exceeded the country's annual tax and other domestic revenue of about $875 million. The declaration forms highlight the prominent and often opaque role played by hawalas. Asked to identify the source of funds in forms issued by the Afghan central bank, cash couriers frequently put down the name of the same Kabul hawala, an outfit called New Ansari Exchange. Early last month, Afghan police and intelligence officers raided New Ansari's office in Kabul's bazaar district, carting away documents and computers, said Afghan bankers familiar with the operation. U.S. officials declined to comment on what prompted the raid. New Ansari Exchange, which is affiliated with a licensed Afghan bank, closed for a day or so but was soon up and running again. The total volume of departing cash is almost certainly much higher than the declared amount. A Chinese man, for instance, was arrested recently at the Kabul airport carrying 800,000 undeclared euros (about $1.1 million). Cash also can be moved easily through a VIP section at the airport, from which Afghan officials generally leave without being searched. American officials said that they have repeatedly raised the issue of special treatment for VIPs at the Kabul airport with the Afghan government but that they have made no headway. One U.S. official said he had been told by a senior Dubai police officer that an Afghan diplomat flew into the emirate's airport last year with more than $2 million worth of euros in undeclared cash. The Afghan consul general in Dubai, Haji Rashoudin Mohammadi, said in a telephone interview that he was not aware of any such incident. The high volume of cash passing through Kabul's airport first came to light last summer when British company Global Strategies Group, which has an airport security contract, started filing reports on the money transfers at the request of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, the domestic intelligence agency. The country's notoriously corrupt police force, however, complained about this arrangement, and Global stopped its reporting in September, according to someone familiar with the matter. Afghan bankers interviewed in Kabul said that much of the money that does get declared belongs to traders who want to buy goods in Dubai but want to avoid the fees, delays and paperwork that result from conventional wire transfers. The cash flown out of Kabul includes a wide range of foreign currencies. Most is in U.S.
[cia-drugs] Goldman Sachs's dealings with the Greek government
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-probing-goldmans-dealings-with-greece-2010-02-25 Feb. 25, 2010, 10:09 a.m. EST · Recommend (1) · Post: Bernanke probing Goldman's dealings with Greece WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed Thursday that the central bank is looking into Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s dealings with the Greek government. We are looking into a number of questions of Goldman Sachs' derivative arrangements with Greece, Bernanke said in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. The European Union has demanded that the Greek government provide details of how it used currency swaps and other instruments. The New York Times reported that Greece in 2001 had borrowed billions, with the aid of Goldman Sachs /quotes/comstock/13*!gs/quotes/nls/gs (GS 156.36, -0.08, -0.05%) in a deal hidden from public view because it was treated as a currency trade rather than a loan. Bernanke also said the Fed was looking into trading of credit default swaps that allow financial firms and investors to bet that Greece will default on its debt. Bernanke said this trading was counter-productive and under review by the Fed and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
[cia-drugs] Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds--possible interpretation
http://www.gata.org/node/8369 Concerns grow over China's sale of US bonds Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2010-02-24 21:39. Section: Daily Dispatches http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/2 By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Telegraph, London Wednesday, February 24, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7300770/Concerns-grow-over-C... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7300770/Concerns-grow-over-Chinas-sale-of-US-bonds.html Evidence is mounting that Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds over recent months are intended as a warning shot to Washington over escalating political disputes rather than being part of a routine portfolio shift as thought at first. A front-page story in the state's China Information News said the record $34 billion sale of US bonds in December was a commendable move. The article was republished by the National Bureau of Statistics, giving it a stronger imprimatur. It follows a piece last week in China Daily, the Politburo's voice, citing an official from the Chinese Academy of Sciences praising the move to slash holdings of US debt. This was published on the same day that US President Barack Obama received the Dalai Lama at the White House, defying protests from Beijing. There are ongoing spats between the US and China on so many fronts so you have to assume that this is some sort of implicit threat, said Neil Mellor, a currency expert at the Bank of New York Mellon, who cautioned that it can be hard to read the complex signals from China. We still think China will have to continue buying US Treasuries by the bucket load. Where else can they invest in a liquid market? The euro has become a tarnished currency, he said. China's power is growing so fast that it now feels confident enough to raise the stakes on a string of festering conflicts with the US. It has threatened to impose sanctions on any US firm that takes part in a $6.4 billion arms deal for Taiwan agreed by the White House. This is a tougher response that on any previous occasion and raises the _spectre of a trade war over Boeing, the key supplier_. Chinese leaders are deploying their reserves to try to pressure the US to stop haranguing China about its currency and trade policies, and to back off from interference in its domestic issues, said professor Eswar Prasad, former head of the IMF's China division. Stephen Jen from BlueGold Capital said Chine is probably moving out of bonds from many countries as it prepares for a likely 5 percent revaluation of its currency in coming weeks. Other assets might prove better protection against an immediate loss on holdings Use of China's $2.4 trillion reserves to challenge US foreign policy is fraught with problems, not least because any damage to America will recoils immediately against China -- which depends on the US market for its mercantilist growth strategy. _Beijing cannot stop accumulating dollars unless it is willing to let the yuan ride, eroding the margins of its export industry. _Some reserves can be parked in gold or even copper, but liquid commodity markets are not big enough to absorb the scale of Chinese surpluses. China and America are locked together by fate. Any petulant action by either side involves a degree of mutual assured destruction. But sometimes in politics -- as in life -- emotion flies out of control.
[cia-drugs] BREAKING Real News: Hillary's Bush Connection
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO YOUR LISTS A Real News Exclusive Hillary Clinton's Bush Connection** NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Real News Project reports exclusively today that the engineer of George W. Bush's rescue from financial disaster---a man who would propel Bush on the path to elective office---has quietly moved into Hillary Clinton's inner circle of key financial backers. The engineer is longtime GOP backer Alan Quasha. His mysterious Harken Energy drew intense scrutiny from investigators and the media in the early 90's and again during Bush's first term because of its dubious financial practices and board members connected to the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Along with a business partner, Quasha has been forging new links with Clinton and her associates for several years. Among other things, they have raised substantial sums for her, and in 2005 they discreetly hired Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe, providing him with a lucrative temporary perch until the Clinton campaign formally launched with McAuliffe as its chairman. That Hillary Clinton's campaign is involved with this particular cast of characters should give people pause, says John Moscow, a former Manhattan prosecutor. In the late 1980s and early '90s, Moscow led the investigation of the BCCI global financial empire---which included Harken board members among its prominent shareholders. Too many of the same names from earlier troubling circumstances suggests a lack of control over who she is dealing with, says Moscow, or a policy of dealing with anyone who can pay. In the wake of revelations that Clinton accepted large sums of money from convicted swindler Norman Hsu, her involvement with Quasha and his associates is likely to raise new concerns over major sources of money for her presidential bid. The full article, published in conjunction with /The Nation /magazine, can be found at http://www.realnews.org , the website of The Real News Project, an independent source for ground-breaking investigative reporting. The article's co-author, Russ Baker, founder of the Real News Project, is at work on a book about George W. Bush's rise to power and the forces behind it. CONTACT: Real News Project, +1-212-477-2234, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [cia-drugs] BREAKING Real News: Hillary's Bush Connection
Russ Baker is not connected to The Nation. He happens to be a friend of mine. He is a free-lance writer, not employed by The Nation. Possibly his colleague has some connection, but that has nothing to do with the facts contained in the article. Arlene Johnson wrote: Good heads up Linda, but The Nation is headed by a CFR member. This is true, but one needs to be cautious of the articles out of that rag. Peace, Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemo cracy.net -Original Message- From: Linda Minor Sent: Oct 20, 2007 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Subject: [cia-drugs] BREAKING Real News: Hillary's Bush Connection PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO YOUR LISTS A Real News Exclusive Hillary ClintonâEUR^(TM)s Bush Connection* * NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- The Real News Project reports exclusively today that the engineer of George W. BushâEUR^(TM)s rescue from financial disasterâEURa man who would propel Bush on the path to elective officeâEURhas quietly moved into Hillary ClintonâEUR^(TM)s inner circle of key financial backers. The engineer is longtime GOP backer Alan Quasha. His mysterious Harken Energy drew intense scrutiny from investigators and the media in the early 90âEUR^(TM)s and again during BushâEUR^(TM)s first term because of its dubious financial practices and board members connected to the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Along with a business partner, Quasha has been forging new links with Clinton and her associates for several years. Among other things, they have raised substantial sums for her, and in 2005 they discreetly hired Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe, providing him with a lucrative temporary perch until the Clinton campaign formally launched with McAuliffe as its chairman. âEURoeThat Hillary ClintonâEUR^(TM)s campaign is involved with this particular cast of characters should give people pause,âEUR? says John Moscow, a former Manhattan prosecutor. In the late 1980s and early âEUR^(TM)90s, Moscow led the investigation of the BCCI global financial empireâEURwhich included Harken board members among its prominent shareholders. âEURoeToo many of the same names from earlier troubling circumstances suggests a lack of control over who she is dealing with,âEUR? says Moscow, âEURoeor a policy of dealing with anyone who can pay.âEUR? In the wake of revelations that Clinton accepted large sums of money from convicted swindler Norman Hsu, her involvement with Quasha and his associates is likely to raise new concerns over major sources of money for her presidential bid. The full article, published in conjunction with /The Nation /magazine, can be found at http://www.realnews .org http://www.realnews.org , the website of The Real News Project, an independent source for ground-breaking investigative reporting. The articleâEUR^(TM)s co-author, Russ Baker, founder of the Real News Project, is at work on a book about George W. BushâEUR^(TM)s rise to power and the forces behind it. CONTACT: Real News Project, +1-212-477-2234, [EMAIL PROTECTED] org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.3/1081 - Release Date: 10/19/2007 5:41 PM
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: More Lies?
I had to laugh when I read this exchange. Sean: Do you realize that there is a major lack of specificity and facts in your statements on this subject? I suggest you research and master these areas first before trying to comment on them in any kind of authoritative way. VMANN: soon as i get a $100,000.00 grant from the ford foundation, ill get right on that. Try as I might, I found no malicious personal attack in VMANN's post; only in Sean's inference. Methinks he doth protest too much. My second laugh bordered on a guffaw over this bit: Why should I engage in a discussion *on my own list *with someone who is circulating malicious lies about me? What's Sean doing here--writing a defense for Kris? Who appeared first on whose list? And third is this: Sean: Perhaps you haven't noticed: you are the only remaining member from the former cia-drugs community who is still loyal to Millegan and Dodds, and who hasn't deserted their group. What broke cia-drugs was Millegan's paranoid and false accusations against at least five members of the list. Ahem. I still lurk off and on when there's an interesting post, I follow up with my own research. I don't have time to waste on pedants and know-it-alls. If the shoe fits... In my humble opinion, it's folks like Sean who invade someone else's list and try to change the dynamic. I have to wonder why. Makes no sense to me. If it's uncomfortable for you to try to argue with imbeciles like us, what's keeping you here? Goodbye already. Linda Minor, my real name *From:* Sean McBride mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* Vigilius Haufniensis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:30 AM *Subject:* More Lies? Are you accusing me of receiving a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation? If you are, you are mindlessly repeating lies that are originating from Kris Millegan and Bob Dodds. I have received money from no one to pursue my own research -- I am completely independent. And it is insulting in the extreme for you to suggest otherwise. Why should I engage in a discussion on my own list with someone who is circulating malicious lies about me? Perhaps you haven't noticed: you are the only remaining member from the former cia-drugs community who is still loyal to Millegan and Dodds, and who hasn't deserted their group. What broke cia-drugs was Millegan's paranoid and false accusations against at least five members of the list. You are one of the few people on the list who hasn't been able to figure out what's going on. If you want me to post this, rewrite it with the malicious personal attack removed, and I will answer your points about the Rothschilds. */Yahoo! Groups Notification political-research- accept-ZtYjXX0uU XdzA9qyDQYbR3A@ yahoogroups. com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Hello, A message has been sent to the political-research group from thehatefulnerd@ comcast.net mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The message summary: FROM: thehatefulnerd@ comcast.net DATE: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:19:44 -0500 SUBJECT: Re: [political-research ] An Unanswered Question to Vigilius Haufniensis Do you realize that there is a major lack of specificity and facts in your statements on this subject? I suggest you research and master these areas first before trying to comment on them in any kind of authoritative way. VMANN: soon as i get a $100,000.00 grant from the ford foundation, ill get right on that. in the meantime, i think you've been arguing my case very well. I once posted an article pointing to a Rothschild connection To: political-research@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:19:44 -0500 From: Vigilius Haufniensis thehatefulnerd@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [political-research ] An Unanswered Question to Vigilius Haufniensis Do you realize that there is a major lack of specificity and facts in your statements on this subject? I suggest you research and master these areas first before trying to comment on them in any kind of authoritative way. VMANN: soon as i get a $100,000.00 grant from the ford foundation, ill get right on that. in the meantime, i think you've been arguing my case very well. I once posted an article pointing to a Rothschild connection to Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- but MK is only one billionaire out of hundreds on the planet. In addition to the Simon Schama book I just mentioned, you should also read Niall Ferguson's two fairly recent major volumes on the Rothschilds: Niall Ferguson
[cia-drugs] How money, politics and American government work
Scoop News in New Zealand is serializing the ebook written by Catherine Austin Fitts, a former member of the CIA-Drugs list. This is an important story about how money, politics and American government work. "Creating jobs" and "new business" are merely euphemisms used by venture capitalists and investment bankers who work with members of their own family, and with financially networked families, to finance political careers of people who will assure the success of stock manipulations leading to large profits for the network that supports them and their inherited stock portfolios. By understanding how people make money work in Wall Street and how the stock exchange ties families together throughout history, one can begin to sort out conspiracy theories from what Catherine calls "the real deal." Linda Minor Part I appears here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00302.htm The entire book can be read, beginning here: http://www.dunwalke.com/ Dillon Read And The Aristocracy Of Stock Profits Saturday, 25 August 2007, 6:22 pm Column: Catherine Austin Fitts Catherine Austin Fitts' Mapping the Real Deal A Serialised Story - Part 1 of 20 (publishing August/September 2007) Dillon Read Co. Inc. And the Aristocracy of Stock Profits By Catherine Austin Fitts PART 1 - Why I wrote This Story, Introduction Graphic Contents Page (Bookmark this page and return to find links to new chapters as they are published.) Why I Wrote This Story I made the decision to write Dillon, Read Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits in the middle of a vegetable garden in Montana during the summer of 2005. I had come to Montana to develop a venture capital model to support a healthier, fresher local food supply. If we want clean water, fresh food, sustainable infrastructure, and healthy communities, we are going to have to finance and govern these resources ourselves. We cannot invest in the stocks and bonds of large corporations, banks and governments that are harming our food, water, environment and all living things and then expect these resources to be available when we need them. Surviving and thriving as a free people depends on creating and transacting with currencies and investments other than those printed and manipulated by Wall Street and Washington to the eventual end of our rights and assets. What I found in Montana, however, was what I have found in communities all across America. We are so financially entangled in the federal government and large corporations and banks that we cannot see our complicity in everything we say we abhor. Our social networks are so interwoven with the institutional leadership government officials, bankers, lawyers, professors, foundation heads, corporate executives, investors, fellow alumni that we dare not hold our own families, friends, colleagues and neighbors accountable for our very real financial and operational complicity. While we hate "the system," we keep honoring and supporting the people and institutions that are implementing the system when we interact and transact with them in our day-to-day lives. Enjoying the financial benefits and other perks that come from that intimate support ensures our continued complicity and contribution to fueling that which we say we hate. Standing among the beautiful vegetables and flowers that Montana summer day, I was facing the futility of trying to craft investment solutions without some basic consensus about the economic tapeworm that is killing us and all living things while we blindly feed the worm. In a world of economic warfare, we have to see the strategy behind each play in the game. We have to see the economic tapeworm and how it works parasitically in our lives. A tapeworm injects chemicals into a host that causes the host to crave what is good for the tapeworm. In America, we despair over our deterioration, but we crave the next injection of chemicals from the tapeworm. With this in mind, I decided to write Dillon Read Co Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits as a case study designed to help illuminate the deeper system. It details the story of two teams with two competing visions for America. The first was a vision shared by my old firm on Wall Street Dillon Read and the Clinton Administration with the full support of a bipartisan Congress. In this vision, America's aristocracy makes money by ensnaring our youth in a pincer movement of drugs and prisons and wins middle class support for these policies through a steady and growing stream of government funding and contracts for War on Drugs activities at federal, state and local levels. This consensus is made all the more powerful by the gush of growing debt and derivatives used to bubble the housing and mortgage markets, manipulate the stock and precious metals markets and finance trillions missing from the US government in the largest pump and dump in history the pump and dump of the entire Ameri
[cia-drugs] [Fwd: BREAKING Real News -- CIA and Bush Sr.]
*PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO YOUR LISTS* A Real News Exclusive CIA Role in Bush Sr. Oil Company Revealed By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project January 8, 2007 NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.' But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush's oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s -- *The full report can be seen at **_www.realnews.org http://www.realnews.org/,_** the website of The Real News Project, an independent source for ground-breaking investigative reporting. * *The authors of the report -- Russ Baker, founder of the Real News Project, and Jonathan Z. Larsen, Real News editorial board member -- are at work on a book about George W. Bush and the Bush clan, due out later this year. They may be reached at: russ [at] realnews.org. * ## No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.7/619 - Release Date: 1/7/2007 6:29 PM
[cia-drugs] Re:Ted Gunderson: A Treatise of Lies, Deception, Murder, Treason, Drug Dealing and Theft
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/gundersondumpnew4,4,01.htm The above url contains the whole scenario, followed by: *THE TED (EX? FBI AGENT?) GUNDERSON DATA DUMP! CLICK TO READ. http://www.newsmakingnews.com/gunderson.htm * http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,quig,6,23,03.htm NEWSMAKINGNEWS.COM http://www.newsmakingnews.colm IN HONOR OF BRIAN DOWNING QUIG RUN DOWN IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA JUNE 16, 2003 By Virginia Lee McCullough Here it is all over again. Another brilliant researcher and writer lost to the forces that only come out into the daylight from under their rocks to destroy the open sharing of information by destroying the man or woman sharing it. Although I had never met Brian Downing Quig, we communicated over the past years on a variety of subjects of mutual interest. I tried to think of a proper way to honor such a bright man. It occurred to me that this is the fifth journalist I have known that has been lost to the New World Order since 1991. These accidents do not occur in a vacuum; they are made to happen to silence the free speech in what used to be a free country. Little people with small minds are used by intelligence operatives to eliminate troublesome people who would speak the truth. These people infiltrate a journalist, work diligently to separate him from his normal support group and pursue them until he or she is destroyed. I am getting very tired of writing memorial pages to brilliant people eliminated by grunts paid for by black op operations. So in honor of Brian Downing Quig I am posting the scenario I experienced, that I backed away from. If Quig had recognized these small people have a large agenda, he might still be alive. A woman named _Barbara Hartwell_ (www.barbarahartwell.com) was first introduced to me March 1, 2000 through an email from John Quinn who posted to the web, at that time, as NewsHawk Inc. (Click. http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,quig,6,23,03.htm#Click.%201) Quinn had been doing good work on the Columbine shootings and the crash of Air Alaska Flight 261. So it puzzled me as to why he would forward me, what in essence, was a diatribe against two men by someone I have never heard of named Barbara Hartwell. I thought that perhaps he knew I was an advocate of women and children. I sent her an a email complimenting her writing. That same day (3-19-00) she forwarded me Barbara Hartwell's Security Letter clearly _aligning herself with former FBI agent Ted Gunderson and the notorious Chip Tatum._ She stated that she is a survivor of CIA MKULTRA and the Phoenix Program and was in the process of writing a book to be entitled /Hardwired, The True Story of a CIA Black Ops Survivor. /She said she had documentation and eye witness testimony./ /And, of course, Ms. Hartwell was destitute and soliciting for contributions to her Legal Defense and Research Fund so that she could continue to try to expose the evil government operations which she had managed to survive because Ted Gunderson had rescued her just in the nick of time. Some of the donated funds were to be used to publish the /Gunderson/Hartwell Intelligence Report /and to produce a series of video tapes she would call /The Hartwell Files./ She staked her bona fides on Ted Gunderson who for 27 years had an exemplary career with the FBI. She repeatedly cried poor mouth for not only herself but also for her animals. She said that every time she had almost finished her work that spooks and goons would hack into her computer and bring down her web site thereby destroying her files and making her start all over again. Finally her survival letter concluded with many patriotic quotes and a few religious quotes. And, of course, she ended with God bless you and God bless America. March 19, 2000 also found her News Bulletin dated 1-24-00 in my in box and that revealed she had alliances with _Kurt Billings_ (www.psychops.com), _Mike Ruppert _(www.copvcia.com) and the previously mentioned John Quinn. Hartwell and all three of her correspondents had experienced a hellish day as some evil high tech genius tried to take down their web sites implying that it was secretive insider information that was so valuable that the government had assigned half its employees to sabotage only their web sites. The third email was received 3-19-2000, but created 2-11-00, and _Hartwell's wrath was directed at Walter Bowart_ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . She accused Bowart of defrauding Hartwell of $100.00 that she had sent him a year ago for membership in the /Freedom of Thought Foundation /and a copy of /Operation Mind Control. /Hartwell demanded her money back and threatened to file a lawsuit against Bowart and she urged others to join her in a class action suit. The amount and intensity of Hartwell's emails to this writer left me uneasy. Usually when a source contacts a writer, they are interested in a specific subject
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: Ted Gunderson: A Treatise of Lies
One obvious lie was that Gunderson married LaVey's former wife. The website [http://www.stewwebb.com/Ted%20Gunderson.html] says her name was Rachel, whereas Anton LaVey was married twice, once to Carole and once to Diane [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491990/], with a third companion named Blanche. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491989/bio Biography for Anton LaVey Birth name Howard Stanton Levee Anton Szandor LaVey was born April 11, 1930 to Joseph and Augusta LaVey. His father was a liquor salesman. They soon moved to the San Francisco, California area. The name LaVey came from an immigrant ancestor who in passing through Ellis Island was given the name of his place of origin, Levey, France. Known as Tony, he showed early musical talent, and received musical training. He was always an outsider. He left home after an incident where another youth knifed his face and Tony fought back. He joined circuses and carnivals, learned carny jobs and to play the calliope. He knew Clyde Beatty and Tim McCoy. He played organ for burlesque, and had a short affair with Marilyn Monroe. He left Los Angeles and returned to San Francisco where he continued as an organist and became a police photographer. He married Carole and started his Magic Circle meetings. He later left Carole for even more beautiful Diane. There is a tape circulating of an episode of the local TV program The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz, narrated by Pat MacCormick, which centers on LaVey's lion Togare, but also shows the life of his wonderful normal family with wife Diane, and daughters Karla (by first wife Carole) and Zeena, as well as many animals, who lived in the soon to be famous Black House. At that time Anton was a psychic investigator. He and Diane founded the Church of Satan as a partnership in 1966. It was the world's first openly acknowledged Satanic Church. Anton was spokesman and still remains the very image of Satan and Satanism. High Priestess Diane LaVey was equally Satanic but performed the role of good wife and church administrator. Soon followed the first public Satanic wedding, then a first baptism (for their daughter Zeena) and first Satanic funeral. This period of public rituals, about 1967-70, generated intense worldwide publicity and growth in membership. The movie Satanis (1970) allowed Anton to espouse many of his views, and shows the church at that time. The LaVey's associated with many famous and accomplished people, particularly actors, writers and circus people. Among them were Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., Kenneth Anger, Forrest J Ackerman, Joseph Cotten, Barbara McNair, Elke Sommer, Keenan Wynn, and directors Milo O. Frank Jr. and Robert Fuest. Anton authored several well-known books on Satanism and witchcraft. Most of what he's told about himself is true as he saw it through his own biases, although he did not tell all. It was NOT a self-created legend as charged by critics. As with many '60s celebrities who were private people there was a burnout factor. Press distortion, harassment from many quarters, including gunshots, vandalism and pestering fans caused him to withdraw from most public activities in his last 20 years. Speak of the Devil (1995) (V) once again gave him a chance to express his views on film. He had a son Xerxes with his _last companion and successor to the church leadership, Blanche Barton_. He was able to spend some time with his grandson, Zeena's son Stanton LaVey. Many fascinating details of his life are still unknown to the public, and some points have been argued back and forth by those who do not know. There is much to be learned about his activities with Jayne Mansfield and Sammy Davis Jr., and the _making of The Devil's Rain (1975) with Director Fuest and William Shatner, John Travolta, Tom Skerritt, Ernest Borgnine and others_. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/] He was a kindly man, who was particularly protective of animals and children, but as a human also had a dark side. Being physically strong he almost killed once or twice with his bare hands. He was philosophically an outlaw and heretic. His influence remains great. He was a multi-talented, elitist, private person. He held on to much from the past, yet was also ahead of his time, a forerunner of among other things heavy-metal, Satanic rock, vampire and goth cultures. norgesen wrote: That was written by the infamous Stew Webb, himself often accused (with good reason) of being disinfo. So, here again you have two accused disinfo ops/sides accusing each other, as happens quite often these days, creating confusion, dissent and disarray, which I guess is the intent. Here is a link to the Stew Webb 'piece': *Stew Webb: 'Ted Gunderson is a bad, bad, /bad/ man'!* http://educate-yourself.org/tg/webbslandersted18apr02.shtml http://educate-yourself.org/tg/webbslandersted18apr02.shtml norgesen --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com
[cia-drugs] Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/relatedstories/160717.php Tucson Region STAR INVESTIGATION Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine Some kept visiting schools for 3 years after FBI caught them on tape By Carol Ann Alaimo / Arizona Daily Star / Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.17.2006 A Midtown strip mall that should have housed the best of the best served as Corruption Central in Tucson. Two military recruiting stations sit side-by-side there, one run by the Army, the other by the Marines. Between them, a total of seven recruiters were on the take, secretly accepting bribes to transport cocaine, even as most spent their days visiting local high schools. They had help from several more recruiters at an Army National Guard office, where one recruiter was said to be selling cocaine from the trunk of his recruiting vehicle. Together, these dozen or so recruiters formed the nucleus of one of the FBI's biggest public corruption cases, the sting known as *Operation Lively Green*, which unfolded in Southern Arizona from 2002-2004 and was made public last year. Many of the drug-running recruiters remained on the job, with continued access to local schools, for months --- and often, years --- after FBI agents secretly filmed them counting cash next to stacks of cocaine bricks, the Arizona Daily Star found in a months-long probe of court records and military employment data. _Some were still recruiting three years after they first were caught on camera running drugs in uniform_. Most have pleaded guilty and are to be sentenced in March. Some honorably retired from the military. There is no suggestion in court records that the recruiters were providing drugs to students. What they did between FBI drug runs isn't known because they weren't under constant surveillance, the FBI said. For example, in the middle of the cocaine sting, one of the recruiters was arrested by another law-enforcement agency in an unrelated drug case, accused of transporting nearly 200 pounds of marijuana on Interstate 19, court records show. Military recruiting officials say the corruption was not widespread. They also say they kept these recruiters on the job because they either didn't know they were under investigation, or were told by the FBI to leave the suspects alone so as not to jeopardize the sting's outcome. Some Tucson parents and school officials, contacted by the Star about the results of the paper's research, said students should not have been left exposed for so long to recruiters known by the FBI to be involved in cocaine-running. I don't like the thought of someone involved with drugs having access to my child, and I don't know anything about it and the school doesn't know anything about it, said Kathy Janssen, who has a 15-year-old son at Tucson High Magnet School, the city's largest high school. High school students are very vulnerable. This isn't the first time the FBI has come under criticism in the Lively Green case. Allegations of sexual misconduct by undercover informants also have dogged the case and could result in reduced punishment for the recruiters and dozens of other defendants. * * *SCHOOLS * At a press conference to unveil the case last year, the FBI announced that many Lively Green defendants were military members. Agents didn't say that recruiters were involved. A Phoenix-based FBI spokeswoman said the agency can't say much at this point about the Lively Green probe because it's still in progress. Special Agent Deb McCarley did say the FBI generally performs risk assessments before deciding to keep suspects who work in public positions on the job during undercover probes. We recognize the range of ethical issues that inherently arise in the course of our undercover investigations, McCarley said in an e-mail. We have sound policies in place to address such dilemmas, she said, and this case has been no exception. Some high schools in Tucson Unified, Flowing Wells Unified and Marana Unified school districts, and in Amphitheater Public Schools, were visited by one or more of these recruiters on a regular or occasional basis, according to military recruiting officials. Schools in other districts may have had visits as well, but precise records no longer are available in some cases, officials said. One TUSD Governing Board member was incensed to hear the recruiters remained on the job so long. It's ludicrous to me that the FBI would leave these people in place and allow them onto our high school campuses, Judy Burns said. If they were going to do that, they should have been monitoring them constantly. Monica Young, who has two children attending TUSD high schools, agreed. It is appalling that recruiters who were known to be involved in such activity were allowed on any school campus, she said. Legal expert Stephen Saltzburg, who teaches criminal procedure at George Washington University, said it's entirely possible that the Tucson recruiters were running
[cia-drugs] Widening Gaps: Evangelical-Republican
*The Widening Gaps in the Evangelical-Republican Coalition* November 30, 2006 21 42 GMT *By Bart Mongoven* The Christian Coalition of America announced Nov. 28 that it has asked its president-elect, Joel Hunter, to resign. The news came a week after Hunter told the coalition's board that he wanted the organization to take on a new set of issues, particularly poverty, AIDS and the environment. The board reportedly said it did not think the group's grassroots membership was ready for such a shift, and that Hunter would not be given an opportunity to follow through on these plans. The story behind Hunter's forced resignation reveals far more than a difference of opinion over the organization's future direction. Membership in the Christian Coalition has plunged from the millions to the thousands, four state chapters have bolted and its budget is a fraction of what it used to be. However, while the group no longer stands as the political vanguard of the conservative Christian movement, its internal disagreements do represent in a nutshell a major problem faced by the religious right and, by extension, by the Republican Party in the coming two years. At the center of the conflict is the recognition that the religious views of evangelical Christians and the politics of the American right are diverging after two decades of confluence. In essence, the overlap between the libertarian Republican point of view and that of religious conservatives has dissolved during the past decade of Republican control of government. Historically, the religious conservatives and secular libertarians justified their advocacy of a small federal government for very different reasons. For secular libertarians, a small government was the central objective; for the religious conservatives, small government was an element of a strategy to reduce the power -- or at least slow the growth -- of institutions purveying secular values. The growth of government over the past 10 years has suggested to evangelicals that the strategy does not work. The Faith-Based Initiative, for instance, is seen as a small move in a positive direction, but one that also has done nothing to displace secular federal government activity. What comes next will be guided by three variables: First, whether Christian leaders together find a new path forward that balances politics and faith; second, whether the GOP changes its policies and approaches to accommodate the evangelicals' new direction; and third, whether the Democrats find a way to accommodate at least some of the evangelicals' wishes. *Libertarianism: A Goal or a Tool* The alliance between the Republican Party and evangelical Christians developed over two decades -- and the Christian Coalition was the most important player in creating this alliance. The Christian Coalition championed the argument that secular forces were degrading the moral underpinning of the United States and that the federal government -- through, for example, large and expensive welfare programs -- was the largest single instigator of the growth of these secular forces. The Christian Coalition -- and the evangelical right in general -- argued that in addition to strengthening powerful secular organizations, federal government institutions are inherently hostile to religion. Particularly in the earlier years of the coalition, the evangelical opposition to the federal judiciary was as focused on countering a liberal reading of the Establishment Clause as it was on Roe v. Wade. Throughout the Reagan presidency, evangelicals battled judicial prohibitions against any government endorsement of religion -- whether federal, state or local -- which had come to mean any expression of religion in a government context (school Christmas plays, creches at city halls, religious groups meeting in schools, etc.). Evangelicals became driven by the idea that the federal government was not merely secular, but after the Warren Court, it was aggressively secular or even anti-religious. In addition, most conservative evangelicals also held that the traditional family should be the center of an individual's life, and saw a large active federal government as replacing traditional family roles in many ways. Evangelicals spoke out against welfare programs -- such as the WIC program that in early inceptions penalized unwed mothers for marrying -- as threatening to the traditional family structure. In this context, an alliance with the libertarian wing of the Republican Party made perfect sense. Libertarian Republicans come in two major factions: ideological libertarians who are simply against large, active government, regulation and high taxes; and federalists who oppose a large federal government and see the most effective government as one that is closest to the people. Most members of the Christian Coalition fell into the latter group. They were not opposed to government helping
Re: [cia-drugs] RFK assassination articles back online in full
You may also find it interesting to see what Michael Ruppert said about the RFK assassination and investigation. http://dks.thing.net/RFKassassination.html Robert F. Kennedy's assasasination is tied directly to the CIA, Mike Ruppert's life AND the _LAPD officers working for CIA who groomed Mike's early career._ Those same people turned up again when Mike caught CIA people inside LAPD protecting major traffickers. Here you will see how solid the connections are, why Sirhan is innocent and read _an LAPD document that will convince you that CIA mind control programs to produce both assassins and patsies are real_. See a letter from a BBC producer to the L.A. Police Commission President authorizing Mike to hand deliver an advance copy of a documentary linking CIA to Bobby's assassination. The key eight minutes were cut before the documentary aired in the U.S. Don't go here if you want to sleep tonight. .
Re: [cia-drugs] RFK assassination articles back online in full
Also a list of articles compiled by Preston Peet: crash into crime by Preston Peet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - October 18, 2000 The Rampart scandal may be the most serious man-made disaster our city has ever faced, stated Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Parks in the 'Daily News of Los Angeles' newspaper (February 16th, 2000). "Think about the horrors. People killed, framed, imprisoned, beaten by the very people we've entrusted to protect us from such criminal behavior. The Rampart scandal has scarred the city, and tarnished the reputations (sic) of an internationally renowned department." LAPD's Rampart Division has been running berserk from the mid-1990s to today, with Police Chief Bernard C. Parks already asking that ninety-nine separate cases against framed suspects be dismissed, with another three thousand at least that need investigating. Parks wants up to US$9 million from the city to further investigate allegations, and has estimated damages from civil actions at close to US$125 million. Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has said that it might take years to 'unravel' the entire scandal. The reason this scandal is in the news is not because an honest policeman reported rampant corruption, but because one dirty cop got caught stealing cocaine from a police evidence locker. One of Rampart's anti-gang unit CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), Officer Rafael Perez has worked out a plea agreement for a five year prison sentence with prosecutors in exchange for his cooperation. Rafael, initially arrested for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from LAPD evidence, has outlined such egregious behavior on the part of himself and fellow CRASH officers that it is almost beyond belief. His first sale was through a confiscated beeper, and an accompanying pound of cocaine, which he and his then-partner sold, passing themselves off as associates of the beeper's owner, an arrested dealer. When Rafael's new partner in CRASH, Nino Durden, found out Rafael was stealing coke, he wanted in, immediately. Rafael has implicated himself and Durden in handcuffing, shooting, paralyzing, then framing unarmed gang-member Javier Francisco Ovando in 1996. Ovando was freed after serving three years of his twenty-three year prison sentence in September of 1999. Rafael, and one other unidentified officer, have both painted a picture of CRASH officers who were routinely committing illegal searches, beating suspects, shooting them, planting drugs on them, lying under oath, then awarding each other plaques for the shootings, red for wounding the victim, black for killing them. Twenty officers have already been fired, with hundreds more under suspicion, merely for being LA cops, in any department. Joe Domanik, author of 'To Protect And Serve: LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams', wrote an article for the 'LA Times' newspaper (February 13th, 2000) in which he draws attention to the political power of the police in California, and how that has worked to stifle investigations into the police department itself. "The LAPD's rank-and-file union, the 'Police Protective League', and the 'Command Officers Association', both used their influence and political clout to punish or reward local politicians during election campaigns. They wanted high-pay, and benefits, but they didn't want DA investigations and officer indictments. The last thing a DA wanted in the months leading up to an election was for the chief, the league, or the officer's association to point at him and say he's anti-cop." DA Garcetti has ceded the investigation of the LAPD Rampart division to the LAPD, allowing the police to police themselves, which got them where they are today. How could LAPD Rampart have gotten so out of control, especially after the Rodney King beating in 1991, and the resultant riots? Didn't the message that people are fed up with police corruption and brutality get through? LAPD Chief: Signs That Could Have Tipped Off Corruption Missed This 'Court TV Online' article (February 17th, 2000) offers Chief Parks' view on the scandal: now it is because of the overworked supervisors simply missing the signs of his underlings committing horrendous, psychotic, sadistic offenses against the neighborhoods they were supposed to be protecting. Cannabis Culture: Corruption Here is a long list of corruption-related links from the folk at 'Cannabis Culture'. Just Shoot Him An irreverent look at the sickening shooting of Ovando by former Officer Rafael in LA. Fourth Inmate To Be Freed In Wake Of LAPD Corruption This 'Court TV Online' article (November 18th, 2000) makes me ask How many people are going to go free at the end of this scandal, if an end is ever reached? How will any jury be able to look and listen to any
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Putin: Once A KGB Thug, Always A KGB Thug
Peter Levenda's work seems to indicate that there was an organized group of wandering bishops sponsored under the auspices of refugee members of Eastern Orthodox churches in Russia or other areas under Soviet influence. Some of these groups in the early 1960's were part of the network named by the Torbitt Document as the financing arm of the assassination of JFK (such as Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, as well as Tolstoy Foundation), along with wandering bishops like David Ferrie and Jack Martin of New Orleans. Torbitt also named Protestant offshoots (such as American Council of Christian Churches). See http://www.newsmakingnews.com/archives/archive%201,1,01,1,6,01.htm : According to the Torbitt Document, J. Edgar Hoover asked his friend Carl McIntire to set up the ACCC. http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/torbitt.htm. The American Council of Christian Churches. A.C.C.C.'s West Coast representative, E.E. Bradley, was indicted by the New Orleans Grand Jury for complicity in the assassination. A.C.C.C. launched a campaign in 1964, at J. Edgar Hoover's request, to elect him President of the United States.7 In 1941, J. Edgar Hoover had his good friend and agent, Carl McIntire, organized the espionage and intelligence unit under the cover name American Council of Christian Churches with the headquarters in New York City. _This group was able to take in many innocent religious groups who did not know they were connected with a spy and propaganda agency_. However, Hoover and McIntire through this guise were able to place agents posing as ministers and missionaries throughout the United States and most Latin American countries Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: There are a lot more assassinations in the US than people realize. But first the US thugocracy tries bribes, then blackmail, then harrassment in degrees. By the time they get to murder, many are so depressed about being dead-ended in their careers that they may actually be committing suicide. VMANN: what of the satanic cult aspect of all this? it seems to me that there is a phoenix style assassination program on US soil, under the guise of serial killers, which create the illusion of random, motiveless crime. j edgar hoover said there is no such thing as a mafia. there is no such thing as organized crime in the united states. today, people say the same thing about the murder for hire across the entire country in the form of these satanic cult groups, whose main functions include narcotics trafficking and leveraging prominent citizens. vigilius haufniensis
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Putin: Once A KGB Thug, Always A KGB Thug
Actually, it's the same shit, according to Levenda. Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: yeah thanks. im mainly referring to the MAURY TERRY material on the son of sam cult, vis a vis the Process Church of the Final Judgement. and Dave McGowens non-wingtv style ruppert wanking material in his book THE POLITICS OF SERIAL MURDER. and max call's HAND OF DEATH, about henry lee lucas. shit like that. - Original Message - *From:* Linda Minor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com mailto:cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:05 AM *Subject:* Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Putin: Once A KGB Thug, Always A KGB Thug Peter Levenda's work seems to indicate that there was an organized group of wandering bishops sponsored under the auspices of refugee members of Eastern Orthodox churches in Russia or other areas under Soviet influence. Some of these groups in the early 1960's were part of the network named by the Torbitt Document as the financing arm of the assassination of JFK (such as Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, as well as Tolstoy Foundation), along with wandering bishops like David Ferrie and Jack Martin of New Orleans. Torbitt also named Protestant offshoots (such as American Council of Christian Churches). See http://www.newsmakingnews.com/archives/archive%201,1,01,1,6,01.htm : According to the Torbitt Document, J. Edgar Hoover asked his friend Carl McIntire to set up the ACCC. http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/torbitt.htm. The American Council of Christian Churches. A.C.C.C.'s West Coast representative, E.E. Bradley, was indicted by the New Orleans Grand Jury for complicity in the assassination. A.C.C.C. launched a campaign in 1964, at J. Edgar Hoover's request, to elect him President of the United States.7 In 1941, J. Edgar Hoover had his good friend and agent, Carl McIntire, organized the espionage and intelligence unit under the cover name American Council of Christian Churches with the headquarters in New York City. _This group was able to take in many innocent religious groups who did not know they were connected with a spy and propaganda agency_. However, Hoover and McIntire through this guise were able to place agents posing as ministers and missionaries throughout the United States and most Latin American countries Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: There are a lot more assassinations in the US than people realize. But first the US thugocracy tries bribes, then blackmail, then harrassment in degrees. By the time they get to murder, many are so depressed about being dead-ended in their careers that they may actually be committing suicide. VMANN: what of the satanic cult aspect of all this? it seems to me that there is a phoenix style assassination program on US soil, under the guise of serial killers, which create the illusion of random, motiveless crime. j edgar hoover said there is no such thing as a mafia. there is no such thing as organized crime in the united states. today, people say the same thing about the murder for hire across the entire country in the form of these satanic cult groups, whose main functions include narcotics trafficking and leveraging prominent citizens. vigilius haufniensis No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.16/551 - Release Date: 11/25/2006
[cia-drugs] Don't blame me. It's THEIR fault
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612?currentPage=3 ... Richard Perle: "Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war. I was in favor of bringing down Saddam. Nobody said, 'Go design the campaign to do that.' I had no responsibility for that." Kenneth Adelman: "The problem here is not a selling job. The problem is a performance job. Rumsfeld has said that the war could never be lost in Iraq, it could only be lost in Washington. I don't think that's true at all. We're losing in Iraq. I've worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I've been to each of his houses, in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I'm very, very fond of him, but I'm crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don't know. He certainly fooled me." Eliot Cohen, director of the strategic-studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and member of the Defense Policy Board: "I wouldn't be surprised if what we end up drifting toward is some sort of withdrawal on some sort of timetable and leaving the place in a pretty ghastly mess. I do think it's going to end up encouraging various strands of Islamism, both Shia and Sunni, and probably will bring de-stabilization of some regimes of a more traditional kind, which already have their problems. The best news is that the United States remains a healthy, vibrant, vigorous society. So in a real pinch, we can still pull ourselves together. Unfortunately, it will probably take another big hit. And a very different quality of leadership. Maybe we'll get it." __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00491.htm Real Deal: U.S. History Uncensored - Introduction Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 3:56 pm Column: Carolyn Baker Catherine Austin Fitts' Mapping the Real Deal series INTRODUCTION TO - U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didnt Tell You By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. U.S. History Uncensored INTRODUCTION: American inventor and entrepreneur, Henry Ford, is famous not only for his astounding success in making the automobile available to nearly every American family in the 1920s, but also for his famous quote: History is bunk. Many historians, offended by Fords abrupt dismissal of the subject, defensively retort that history is not bunk and set out to prove their case regarding the relevance and significance of the study of history. The reader may be surprised to learn that on one level, I agree with Ford. A few years ago while browsing the titles in the history section of my local bookstore, my eyes fell upon James Loewens Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Instantaneously, I snatched the book from the shelf and began frantically shuffling through its pages. Presently, I realized that Loewen had elucidated the exasperation of countless teachers of American history, and I could barely wait to get the book home where I could pore over his words without interruption. A sociologist by trade, Loewen articulates brilliantly the effects upon a society when its citizens are ignorant of their history and shines an almost blinding light on some of the most sacrosanct American historical legends. By and large, Americans do not consider themselves ignorant of their history. Yet, most are still under the influence of grammar-school indoctrination in the discovery of America by Columbus and the myth of George Washingtons confession to his father that he, indeed, could not tell a lie and did, in fact, cut down the cherry tree. Sadly, in the technologically-obsessed twenty-first century, any knowledge of history beyond these mythical snippets is considered onerous or simply extraneous to the real world. [keep reading at url above..]
[cia-drugs] Contractors tell you who THEY love
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/43572/ Halliburton Voter Guide Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:51 AM on October 27, 2006. Contractors tell you who THEY love... Via anonymous tipster, comes a voter guide from the Contract Services Association (CSA) that you won't want to miss! The CSA, whose president Christopher Jahn, was the Chief of Staff for Wyoming Republican Craig Thomas, is an influential organization of Military (and other) government contractors, with $40 billion in contracts. Some of the 200 or so members you'll recognize as major providers of Iraq War personnel and services: DynCorp Kellogg Brown and Root (a Halliburton subsidiary) L-3 Communications Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman Pacific Architects and Engineers, Inc. SAIC The Shaw Group, Inc. Wackenhut Corporation The CSA also has an illustrious history of lobbying against regulations on human trafficking: "A proposal prohibiting defense contractor involvement in human trafficking for forced prostitution and labor was drafted by the Pentagon last summer, but five defense lobbying groups oppose key provisions..." Let's see if you can spot the pattern in the members of the Senate loved by your friendly neighborhood military contractor... And special gift for the reader who creates a spreadsheet from the House PDF that matches my Senate spreadsheet below...
[cia-drugs] Saddam Hussein's show trial -American puppet theater
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/43579/ Posted by Joshua Holland at 2:20 PM on October 27, 2006. Earlier in the week I wrote about the likely death sentence to be handed down in Saddam Hussein's show trial just two days before the mid-term elections. If you missed it, read it here. When I wrote that, I didn't know for a fact that most observers expected the trial to take far longer. But, according to Scott Horton, an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Law School who has visited Baghdad several times, that does appear to be the case. According to the Institute for Public Accuracy, Horton said yesterday: Most observers expected the date would be much later, but it seems to have been moved up. It will be front page news in the papers on Monday -- the day before the election. This is designed to show some progress in Iraq. The American public will see Saddam condemned to death and see it as a positive thing. When you look at polling figures, there have been three significant spike points. One was the date on which Saddam was captured. The second was the purple fingers election. The third was Zarqawi being killed. Based on those three, it's easy to project that they will get a mild bump out of this. I'd add that these have been short-lived spikes. Longer than two days, but short-lived. In my experience, everything that comes out of Baghdad is very carefully prepared for U.S. domestic consumption. There is a team of American lawyers working as special legal advisers out of the U.S. embassy, who drive the tribunal. They have been involved in preparing the case and overseeing it from the beginning. The trial, which is shown on TV, has mild entertainment value for Iraqis, but they refer to it regularly as an American puppet theater. Tom Englehardt pointed out in The Nation that the media haven't even taken note of the timing in their coverage. This kind of transparent manipulation of something as important as seeing justice served for the tens of thousands of Iraqis tortured and killed by Hussein for the sake of the GOP's prospects in the mid-term elections is simply outrageous. Reporters should be asking hard questions about it in Washington and in Baghdad -- this should be a major story. It's a perfect opportunity to dig into the revelations contained in Michael Gordon's Cobra II about how everything done in the "Battle for Baghdad" was carefully scripted for U.S. domestic consumption, and in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Emerald City about how the Green Zone is awash in Republican political appointees, many of whom have no visible qualifications for their posts beyond party loyalty. If the media were doing their jobs this craven act might back-fire on the Republicans as it should. Can you take a minute and give me a hand? Beneath the fold are some selected media contacts. A brief, polite note asking them why they're not covering this issue -- why they're not asking the appropriate questions -- would be really helpful. Contact your local media as well. Reference Scott Horton's statement above. And any members of the press can e-mail me for Horton's contact info. NBC, MSNBC, Newsweek: Contact form. ABC News: Contact form. CNN: Contact form. New York Times: Contact form. Washington Post: National desk. Foreign desk. LA Times: National desk contact form. World desk contact form. Chicago Tribune: George de Lama. Deputy Managing Editor, News. Kenneth H. Bredemeier, Washington Bureau News Editor. Hugh Dellios, Foreign Editor. McClatchy's Washington Bureau. Associated Press. Reuters. Here are 570 more press contacts collected by timroff at DailyKos. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Ellsberg: Hastert got suitcases of Al Qaeda heroin cash
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/ellsberg-hastert-got-suitcases-of-al.html Saturday, October 21, 2006 Ellsberg: Hastert got suitcases of Al Qaeda heroin cash, should be in jail Over at DU, Randy mentioned an ' untranscribed interview between Ellsberg and Kris Welch of KPFA from Sept. '05'' - I actually hadn't heard it before (dammit!) - so I found it, and it is no longer 'untranscribed' (at least the Sibel related bits.) Daniel Ellsberg said that Dennis Hastert received suitcases of cash at his home from Turkish heroin money and that Hastert should be in jail, along with his friends. He also says that people in the State Department, and in nuclear labs, are paid in 'cold cash' for secrets that are sold on the nuclear black market. He also says that a Dem Congress "could be pressed into holding genuine investigations of the torture, of the corruption, getting rid of Hastert, and starting impeachment proceedings." All errors are mine, some snippage, usual disclaimers, etc. - Kris Welch: I know you just met with Sibel Edmonds - what's the key thing about Sibel Edmonds' case? Daniel Ellsberg: For several years, Sibel has been really hoping to get her case into a court, or into a hearing room in Congress. That's pretty well impossible with Republicans in charge of hearings - they won't hold any. She has told her story on a classified basis to several congressional venues, plus the 911 Commission - none of whom have done anything with it so far - it's too hot for them, essentially. You get a pretty good clue as to why the congressional people haven't pressed it in the article about her in the current Vanity Fair issue. Sibel is not yet in a position to tell all, but has been telling more and more. Let me suggest two interviews with her that have come out since the VF article that go a good deal further than VF chose to print. VF did print ten pages and they got a lot but there was a lot that the reporter had, David Rose, that didn't get into the article, and a lot of that is in these two other interviews - both at antiwar.com, Chris Deliso and Scott Horton. In those interviews she finally reveals more of what she wished that VF had put out. Namely, if I can summarize it quickly, Al Qaeda, she's been saying to congress, according to these interviews, is financed 95% by drug money - drug traffic to which the US government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours - such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all the 'Stans - in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe's heroin, by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo - Albanian Muslims in Kosovo - basically the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century. It was known at the time that the KLA consisted largely of drug-dealers, and they still do. They're dominating the politics, pretty much, of Kosovo right now. Now, all of these people are, for various reasons, allies, or clients, of the US - and the fact that they get a large amount of their income from the heroin trade is something the US just regards as the price of doing business with them. That means that not only is the heroin coming into our markets where it furnishes, according to Sibel based on her FBI experience, some 14% of our heroin - up from 4% before the invasion of Afghanistan. The major effect of that is that terrorist gangs are taking a cut of this, including Al Qaeda, which essentially taxes this traffic as it goes through the various lands where each 'band' pays a percentage as they hand it off. In other words, the US is in effect, endorsing - well, 'endorsing' is too strong a word - 'permitting', definitely permitting, or 'not acting against,' a heroin trade - which not only corrupts our cities and our city politics, AND our congress, as Sibel makes very specific - but is financing the terrorist organization that constitutes a genuine threat to us. And this seems to be a fact that is accepted by our top leaders, according to Sibel, for various geopolitical reasons, and for corrupt reasons as well. Sometimes things are simpler than they might appear - and they involve envelopes of cash. Sibel says that suitcases of cash have been delivered to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, at his home, near Chicago, from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money. Now these are pretty inflammatory allegations, let's say, and it's note-worthy that they haven't even been picked up by the mainstream press. The Vanity Fair article made that plain, though not in as much detail as the antiwar.com interviews - but not one major newspaper I don't think has picked up her allegations against Hastert which are very specific, and one would think very important. Kris Welch: Dennis Hastert's name is mentioned in
[cia-drugs] What do Mark Foley and Larry Craig have in common?
http://www.blogactive.com/2006/10/senator-larry-craig-whats-with-gay.html UPDATE: Click here to listen to me talk to Ed Schultz about Larry Craig. Since the Mark Foley scandal broke earlier this month, increasing attention has been paid to the hypocrisy of Republican leaders. Every election year, these party leaders make what many of us see as anti-gay appeals to religious conservative voters who object to what they disparagingly call the "homosexual lifestyle." What these party leaders don't tell these voters is how many of them actually lead secret lives which include sexual encounters with members of the same sex. Recent stories in USA Today, National Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have discussed this GOP messaging problem. As readers know, my work is bipartisan. The recent use of gays by the Republican Party during this election makes it necessary to focus on the Party and how it facilitates keeping gay men closeted. My tactics at blogACTIVE have taken a new path from those of the past. Reporting on hypocrisy within the gay community has been going on for years. My goal with this site and my companion site, Proud Of Who We Are, is to take that message further. To educate not just gays and lesbians about these homophobes, but to educate the greater electorate at large. Because of this, I find myself in the odd position of being one of the few people who seems to be willing to tell religious conservatives, who don't approve of people like me, just how many conservative political leaders are like me. I have been calling on gay Republican representatives, senators, and high-level staffers to stand up and be proud of who they are, to level with voters about the truth, and to let people decide on their politicians based on truth, honesty and openness. As this message is posted, I have apppeared on the Ed Schultz Show, a nationally syndicated radio program broadcast in more than 100 cities and on Sirius Satellite. On the show I have called on Senator Larry Craig to end his years of hypocrisy by leveling with Idahoans about who he really is. I am also calling upon several prominent Idaho social conservative leaders to ask them how they square their anti-gay positions with their support for this leader. I have done extensive research into this case, including trips to the Pacific Northwest to meet with men who have say they have physical relations with the Senator. I have also met with a man here in Washington, D.C., who says the same -- and that these incidents occurred in the bathrooms of Union Station. None of these men know each other, or knew that I was talking to others. They all reported similar personal characteristics about the Senator, which lead me to believe, beyond any doubt, that their stories are valid. Larry Craig being mentioned as possibly connected to Congressional scandals is nothing new. Check out these video clips from 1982 when he preemptively denied his involvement in a Congressional sex and drug scandal. (I love what he says about unmarried people back then and how often do politicians issue preemptive denials based on rumors?) Two clips--Sex, Drugs and Congressional Pages. 1. Steven R. Valentine, book by a former Page 2. Roger Mudd report in 1981 about Larry Craig and Congressional personnel drug delivery network. Senator Craig has consistently relied on the support of Idaho's "values voters," but he has not been honest with them about his own conduct. Conservatives and liberals are both standing up and recognizing the hypocrisy of elected officials like Senator Larry Craig. The time for treating Americans one way and behaving in another is over. By: Michael Rogers
[cia-drugs] Bill Moyers on PBS -- The Net @ Risk: Big, Bigger, Biggest Media
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html Backgrounder: Big and Bigger Media Media ownership rules are again a topic of debate on Capitol Hill, as the rules come up for a review and Republican Kevin Martin undergoes hearings to reconfirm him as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Senator Barbara Boxer grilled Martin about an FCC study on local media ownership, which found local reporting decreased markedly after the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 1984, the number of companies owning controlling interests in America's media was 50 today that number is six. Critics of media consolidation say it has led to fewer and fewer voices being heard and a marked decrease in local news coverage. Some media watchers are worried that the much touted "free for all" of the Internet will go the same way. Proponents of "net neutrality" worry that the cable and telecom companies providing the bulk of Internet connectivity will use new fee structures, which may favor some content providers over others. Phone and cable companies have a near monopoly over Internet service. More precisely, it's a 'duopoly' - which means that in more than 90 percent of American homes in the U.S [more] Class Is in Session... In 1941, the federal government regulated the ownership of media outlets to ensure a broad spectrum of opinion. The Local Radio Ownership Rule, National TV Ownership Rule stated that a broadcaster cannot own television stations that reach more than 35% of the nation's homes. Many other regulations followed as the American media landscape changed. In the 1980s the climate changed in the U.S. -- fewer federal regulations became the order of the day under President Reagan. (View a timeline of media regulation.) Then came the Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed into law by President Clinton. It is generally regarded as the most important legislation regulating media ownership in over a decade. The radio industry experienced unprecedented consolidation after the 40-station ownership cap was lifted. Clear Channel Communications now owns 1200 stations, in all 50 states, reaching, according to their Web site, more than 110 million listeners every week. Viacom's Infinity radio network holds more than 180 radio stations in 41 markets. Its holdings are concentrated in the 50 largest radio markets in the United States. In 1999, Infinity owned and operated six of the nation's Top 10 radio stations. Then in 2003 ownership limits came up for review again -- media companies wanted ownership rules relaxed further. Among the proposed changes: allowing greater cross-ownership in media markets (newspapers and broadcast stations, radio and television stations) and caps on television and radio stations ownership raised in large markets. In addition, the FCC proposed that a single entity could own television stations reaching up to 45 percent of the national viewership, an increase from 35 percent. In 2003, Barry Diller, the man who created Fox Broadcasting and ran ABC Entertainment, Paramount, Vivendi Universal, spoke out against the rule changes to an industry group - and to Bill Moyers. (Diller is currently chairman and CEO of USA Interactive, itself an empire of informational services from the Home Shopping Network to Ticketmaster.) What about the fairness doctrine? Critics of consolidation fear that the fewer the owners the fewer the voices on the airwaves. Several recent cases -- among them Sinclair Broadcasting's decision not black out names and faces in an episode of NIGHTLINE which listed the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - have media watchers saying conglomerates have too much power over the message heard. The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, called for stations to offer "equal opportunity" to all legally qualified political candidates running for office. In 1949, the FCC adopted the "fairness doctrine," a policy that viewed station licensees as "public trustees" and, as such, responsible for addressing controversial issues of public importance. The key requirement was that stations allowed opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on these issues. By the 1980s, many stations saw the FCC rules as an unnecessary burden. Some journalists considered the fairness doctrine a violation of the First Amendment rights of free speech and free press; they felt reporters should be able to make their own decisions about balancing stories. In order to avoid the requirement of presenting contrasting viewpoints, some journalists chose not to cover certain controversial issues at all. In addition, the political climate of the Reagan administration favored deregulation. When the fairness doctrine came before the courts in 1987, they decided that since Congress did not mandate the doctrine, it did not have to be enforced. (You can also see how the major news stations prioritize the news by visiting the Tyndall Report. Andrew Tyndall has watched the major broadcasts
[cia-drugs] Soldiers in 'guns for coke' scandal--Sunday Times - Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2372277,00.html The Sunday Times - Britain The Sunday Times September 24, 2006 Soldiers in 'guns for coke' scandal David Leppard BRITISH soldiers have been caught smuggling stolen guns out of Iraq and allegedly exchanging them for cocaine and cash on the black market. Security officials confirmed this weekend that soldiers from the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment are at the centre of a criminal inquiry by the Royal Military Police (RMP) into a guns for cocaine network. Their alleged involvement with organised crime is a fresh blow to the British Army after a week in which a corporal from the Duke of Lancasters Regiment admitted he had committed a war crime against an Iraqi civilian. Although drug use is increasing in the armed forces, this is the first time military police have evidence that stolen weapons are being sold to pay for them. One of the first soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment to have been arrested is alleged to have bought drugs by trading handguns, including Glock pistols, smuggled from Iraq to Germany on at least six occasions. A security source said some of the weapons had been exchanged for about 50 grams of cocaine with a street value of 2,500. The drugs were sold to other British soldiers serving in Iraq. The source said it was unclear whether the weapons were army issue or seized from Iraqi insurgent groups. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) fears the soldiers may have been doing business with members of organised crime syndicates in Germany. The battalion has a base near Fallingbostel, north of Hanover. One security official said: Who did the guns go to? And what purpose did they want guns for? Did they take them back to the UK and sell them on? Are they in the hands of Yardies? The case is being overseen by the Army Prosecuting Authority and falls under the jurisdiction of a court martial. The battalion completed a tour of duty in southern Iraq last year and is now based in Warminster, Wiltshire. As Iraq slides further into chaos, the country has become awash with illicit weapons, many provided to the Iraqi police by America and Britain. The army is suffering an epidemic of drug abuse. Earlier this year The Sunday Times revealed how the army regiment involved in the first Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal was awash with drugs as the soldiers went to war. One former fusilier claimed that 75 men from his company, some 60% of its strength, regularly took cocaine, ecstasy or marijuana. Theres guys who have to have two or three lines of coke before they can operate, he said. According to a parliamentary answer, 1,020 army personnel tested positive for drugs last year, including 520 cases using class A drugs a 50% rise in the past five years. The MoD confirmed the RMP inquiry but declined to comment further.
[cia-drugs] Missing Keynes
Overview Missing Keynes By: Chris Sanders Date: 10-07-2006 If you don’t know what a Peaker is, you should. In fact you should treat yourself to an Italian holiday and attend the fifth annual conference next week of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil in Pisa, where SRA’s Chris Sanders will be speaking along with Colin Campbell. In the meantime, don’t worry about Peak Oil. The European Commission is on the case. Well, sort of. And most reassuringly, Goldman Sachs says not to worry, all it takes is your money. Read on…. Follow this link: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=880 (c) Copyright Sanders Research Associates Limited, 2006 All rights reserved. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/383 - Release Date: 7/7/2006 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] SRA: Overview: The Corporation Militant
Follow this link: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=874 Overview The Corporation Militant By: Chris Sanders Date: 04-07-2006 War crimes and corporate profits are not an obvious match, but the connections are tighter than you think. Follow this link: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=874 (c) Copyright Sanders Research Associates Limited, 2006 All rights reserved. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/381 - Release Date: 7/3/2006 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] WMR - new feature --news propagandists
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ July 2/3, 2006 -- WMR is going to begin a new feature, a spotlight on those members of the corporate media and public relations spin machine, and their mostly GOP/neo-con shill relatives, especially their spouses. Our first spotlight is directed at Howard Kurtz, the ostentatious apologist for the Bush administration in his coverage of the corporate media for the elitist Washington Post. The following chart will be expanded and serve as a permanent feature on WMR (additions are welcomed): This may go a long way in explaining why the corporate media is so biased in favor of the Bush regime. This morning, many corpo-media web sites are featuring the "celebration" ceremony of the conservative lickspittle candidate in Mexico's presidential election before all the votes have been counted. We urge our Mexican readers to provide us with a list of the GOP operatives and Democratic Leadership Council Fifth Columnists and traitors to the progressive cause who descended upon your country during the election campaign to engage in vote fraud. Based on the early reports of fraud throughout Mexico, American Democrats and progressives should seek judicial restraining orders barring these Gringo "campaign consultants" from having anything to do with our own election in November if we can prove their recent illegal activities across the southern border. If child molesters can be prevented by court order from getting anywhere near a school or playground, the same should hold true for those who engage in electoral fraud working at polling place or campaign headquarters. Journalist/Propagandist Relative Job title of spouse/relative Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Sheri Annis (wife) Pres. Fourth Estate Strategies, GOP campaign consultant, 2002 spokesperson for Arnold Schwarzenegger, media consultant for various anti-immigration California propositions, including Prop. 227, which eliminated various California bi-lingual education programs. Has written for the neo-con National Review. Campbell Brown, NBC News Dan Senor (husband) Former Coalition Provisional Authority chief spokesman, contributor to Fox News, former intern for American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), senior associate of The Carlyle Group. director US-Israel Business Exchange (USIBEX), Wendy Senor Singer (sister-in-law) Head of AIPAC office in Jerusalem. Saul Singer (brother-in-law) Opinion editor of Jerusalem Post. Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute, Karl Rove adviser, formerly with The New Republic. Barbara Ledeen (wife) Staffer, Senate Republican Conference. Simone Ledeen (daughter) Former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authrity adviser to occupation Iraqi Ministry of Finance for northern Iraqi affairs Brit Hume, Managing Editor, Fox News, Washington Kim Schiller Hume (wife) Fox News Washington Bureau Chief, Vice President Fox News. Carl Cameron, Fox News Pauline Cameron (wife) Campaigned for George W. Bush's 2000 election. John Ellis, Fox News George W. Bush (cousin) In charge of 2000 election projections for Fox News. Tucker Carlson, MSNBC Richard Carlson (father) Vice Chairman of neo-con Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), member Scooter Libby Legal Defense Fund Trust Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute Stephen Rademaker (husband) Then-Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton's deputy. Veronique Rodman, American Enterprise Institute Peter Rodman (husband) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Former senior editor of National Review and signatory of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Although PNAC recently closed its doors, its core members are connected to successor neo-con elements, including FDD and the Committee on the Present Danger. Bob Schieffer, CBS News Tom Schieffer (brother) U.S. Ambassador to Japan, former U.S. Ambassador to Australia, G. W. Bush's Manager of Texas Rangers. Anne Applebaum, Washington Post Radek Sikorski (husband) Defense Minister of Poland, former Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Jim VandeHei, Washington Post Autumn Hanna (wife) Former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Alan Greenspan (husband) Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank July 3, 2006 -- WMR has learned of another massive data theft that was initially reported in February of this year. Providence Health Homes Services of Portland, Oregon reported the theft of data tapes and disks that contained the names,
[cia-drugs] Bolton still works for James A. Baker III
olton perspired heavily. Michael Carmichael became a professional public affairs consultant, author and broadcaster in 1968.He worked in five American presidential campaigns for progressive candidates from RFK to Clinton.In 2003, he founded The Planetary Movement, a nonprofit public affairs organization based in the United Kingdom. He has appeared as a public affairs expert on the BBC's Today, Hardtalk, and PM, as well as numerous appearances on ITN, NPR and European broadcasts examining politics and culture. He can be reached through his website: www.planetarymovement.org References Bolton rejects grand bargain with Iran http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3016bd02-f7e9-11da-9481-779e2340.html Woman accuses Bolton of harassment http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-20-whitehouse-bolton_x.htm Bolton Delay Offensive to Jewish Community, Says JINSA http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49090 Israel's UN ambassador slams Qatar, praises U.S. envoy Bolton http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718679.html Israel's UN ambassador slams Qatar, praises U.S. envoy Bolton Larry Flynt: Bush UN nominee won't answer questions about troubled marriage http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/larry_flynt_bolton_511.htm John R. Bolton http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_R._Bolton Who Is John Bolton? http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVFb=252671 John Bolton Profile rightweb http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/972 Rice's Iran Gambit http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/05/rices_iran_gambit.php John Bolton - officialssay http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/bolton.html = See SRA's 'A Government Cult' by Linda Minor http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=429Itemid=62 __._,_.___ 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. __,_._,___ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.4/364 - Release Date: 6/14/2006
[cia-drugs] Rumsfeld Colbert-ed by CIA man (video)
http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/35855/ Posted by Evan Derkacz at 2:09 PM on May 4, 2006. It's contagious. CIA vet Ray McGovern, whose articles frequently appear on AlterNet, stood up today and asked Rumsfeld why he lied to the American people about WMD. From John Amato, who has the VIDEO: Rumsfeld: ...it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. McGovern: You said you knew where they were. Rumsfeld: I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were and... McGovern: You said you knew where they were. Tikrit, Baghdad, northeast, south, west of there. Those are your words. Rumsfeld: My words-my words were that-no-no, wait a minute--wait a minute. Let him stay one second. Just a second Man, did McGovern screw the pooch on this one. What Rummy actually said was: "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." See the wording? The way it's all out of order and inexact? Unfortunately, much as he was thrown off his game and forced to lie to cover his earlier lie and then lie again when it came to al Qaeda/Saddam connections, Rumsfeld gets to play the part of the elder statesman to the sheep-like audience who boo and want McGovern kicked out. No no, Rummy says, keep him in here. The following questioner, unfortunately cut off at the end of the video, couldn't have been more advantageous, all but urinating on McGovern and fellating the Secretary. Rummy called out in Atlanta! (Crooks Liars) Ray McGovern,who was in the CIA for twenty seven years asked him why he lied about the run-up to the Iraq war. Rumsfeld then proceeded to lie to McGovern to cover up his earlier statements about WMD's being in Iraq. He also tries to use the troops in his defense, a terrible strategy, but not uncommon unfortunately. Notice, at the end of the clip, Ray gets vilified for askingRumsfeld some pointed questions. We can't have that, no-no-no reader DoverBcomes through: MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally, weapons of mass destruction. Key goal of the military campaign is finding those weapons of mass destruction. None have been found yet. There was a raid on the Answar Al-Islam Camp up in the north last night. A lot of people expected to find ricin there. None was found. How big of a problem is that? And is it curious to you that given how much control U.S. and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven't found any weapons of mass destruction? SEC. RUMSFELD: Not at all. If you think -- let me take that, both pieces -- the area in the south and the west and the north that coalition forces control is substantial. It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. THIS Week transcript... Update: Here's the transcriptof the clip... (h/t Marcus)
[cia-drugs] trashing Stephen Colbert
This Colbert issue reminds me of what Phil Graham, husband of Katharine Graham of the Washington Post said about the media shortly before he was locked up in a mental hospital and committed self-murder. As Carol Felsenthal relates in her book, as his depressive moods increased, Phil had become sick of sapless Unitarianism and was increasingly drawn to Catholicism to bring some shape and rootedness to his lifereal religion.[i] Phils father had not been happy about his sons marriage to Katherine Meyer. He distrusted Wall Street and Jews. At the end of his life, Phil was coming around to his fathers way of thinking. While working to settle a strike involving the International Typographical Union against the publishers in April 1963, Phil told the union leader, Bertram Powers that a publisher could do anything he wanted to do and it wouldnt be reported. I can go out to Times Square right now and shit, he said, and you wouldnt read a word about it in any paper.[ii] Felsenthal emphasized how true that statement turned out to be the day after Grahams brilliant tirade in Phoenix, when he was physically restrained and transported by Presidential jet to the nuthouse. It was almost as if he wanted to prove his point, his self-hatred feeding the disdain he felt for his colleagues. He had undoubtedly chosen to have his ugly breakdown practically in their laps. With the exception of Sarah McClendon at her small Texas news service, no one in the country printed a word of it.[iii] [i] Felsenthal, p. 214. [ii] Felsenthal, p. 212, quoting from an interview with Powers. [iii] Felsenthal, p. 217. COLBERT SHOCKS MEDIA SILENT Greg Mitchell, Editor Publisher The same media that's trashing Stephen Colbert gave a pass to Bush's jokes about missing WMDs in Iraq two years earlier. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35804/ STEPHEN COLBERT'S REMARKS TO THE PRESIDENT 'The president makes decisions, he's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.' http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35797/ ... THE INTELLIGENCE WAR OVER IRAN Robert Parry, TomPaine.com Intelligence Czar John Negroponte splashes cold water on the neocons who are hot to attack Iran. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35707/ ... HITCHENS TRASHED FOR WARMONGERING AND BAD MANNERS PEEK -- Juan Cole writes: 'We are not going to let you have a war on Iran... So sit down and shut up.' http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/35816 --New in Multimedia: AGAINST THE GRAIN: SICKNESS AND WEALTH Against the Grain On this episode of Against the Grain, a look at how spending money on healthcare does not create a healthy society, and the relationship between wealth and health. http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/35690/ __ *** New in THE MIX: Maria Luisa Tucker asks, why do more Americans trust the government than the media? http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/35789/ Onnesha Roychoudhuri on how Enron is still wreaking havoc: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/35799/ *** The Latest From THE ECHO CHAMBER: Deanna Zandt on how the American dream has become a nightmare for most middle and lower class Americans http://www.alternet.org/blogs/echochamber/35783/ __ 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.
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[cia-drugs] Dictatorship is the danger.
Title: Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US democracy Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US de www.sandersresearch.com The Heron's Latest Catch http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1729350,00.html March 13, 2006 Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US democracy Jonathan Raban Monday March 13, 2006 The Guardian Linking the words "America" and "dictatorship" is a daily staple of leftwing blogs, which thrive on the idea that Bush administration policies since 9/11 are taking the country ever closer to totalitarian rule. Liberal fears that democracy is endangered by Republicans in Congress are so widespread, so endemic to the jittery political climate in the US, that they hardly bear repeating. It'll surprise no one to learn that another voice was added to the chorus last Thursday, warning that recent attacks on the American judiciary were putting the democratic fabric in jeopardy and were the first steps down the treacherous path to dictatorship. What is surprisingmore than that, electrifyingis that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O'Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee. Regarded as the "swing vote" on the court, she swung the presidential election to George Bush in 2000. Equally surprising is that O'Connor's speech to an audience of lawyers at Georgetown University was attended by just one reporter, the diligent legal correspondent for National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg. No transcript or recording of the speech has been made available, so we have only Totenberg's notes to go on. Butassuming they are accuratethe notes are political dynamite. O'Connor's voice was "dripping with sarcasm", according to Totenberg, as she "took aim at former House GOP [Republican] leader Tom DeLay. She didn't name him, but she quoted his attacks on the courts at a meeting of the conservative Christian group Justice Sunday last year when DeLay took out after the courts for rulings on abortions, prayer and the Terri Schiavo case. "It gets worse, she said, noting that death threats against judges are increasing. It doesn't help, she said, when a high-profile senator suggests there may be a connection between violence against judges and decisions that the senator disagrees with." Then she spoke the D-word. "I, said O'Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O'Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." Delivered by someone who was, until recently, one of the nine guardians of the US constitution, these are spine-chilling opinions, and you might have thought they'd have been all over the papers the next day. Not so. I happened to catch Totenberg's NPR report last Friday, and have been following up references to it. A cable TV talkshow and a handful of blogs have mentioned Totenberg's piece: otherwise there's been a disquieting silence, as if the former justice had laid an unsavoury egg and had best be politely ignored. Why did O'Connor choose such a closed forum to air her thoughts? Why was Totenberg the only reporter present? The possibility that America is sliding toward dictatorship or an unprecedented form of corporate oligarchy ought to be a matter of world concern. And if O'Connor believes what she is reported to have said, surely she owes it to the world to make public the prepared text of her remarks, which so far have the dubious character of the scores of unverifiable leaks that have passed for news in the compulsively secretive world of the Bush administration. It's unsurprising that, say, Colin Powell chooses to leak rather than speak out, but when a supreme court justice prefers to whisper her fears to a coterie audience, it's hard to avoid the inference that the whisper itself speaks volumes about the imperilled democracy it purports to describe. Death threats to judges figured importantly in O'Connor's speech, with good reason. Last year, an Illinois federal judge found her husband and mother murdered, and a Georgia state judge was shot dead in his courtroom. Within days, Senator John Cornyn of Texas mused: "I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence." DeLay, speaking of the judges
[cia-drugs] Re: Abramoff is a Little Sniffle , the DISTRACTION and a SYPTOM of a COV ER UP -
I have to disagree. Abramoff is much more than a sniffle. The reason for any attempts at covering up the scandal is that it could disclose how the entire political structure of American government has operated for decades. The Abramoff machine has been so blatant in following a long-hidden model of financial operations that closer scrutiny can reveal and end the procedure, if prosecutors and legislators are really forced to follow up on what they find. For example, Abramoff was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but moved to Beverly Hills CA, in 1968-69. His father worked for Alfred S. Bloomingdale--Diners' Club--the first card designed to launder mob money into an alternative banking system. This was the money skimmed from Las Vegas casinos, poured into Paradise Island, and later Atlantic City--where Jack's uncle still lived and engaged in real estate development and sales in partnership with Abramoff's father. Bloomingdale owned Ronald Reagan, and it was through that connection that Jack got his job with the College Republicans and started his owning consulting business. It was also through his dad's Hollywood connections that he and his brother were able to produce his flop 1989 propaganda movie, "Red Scorpion." So we don't need to look around Abramoff, but behind him. Abramoff and what he represents are much bigger than Bush himself. Bush is the sniffle. Abramoff is the money that looks to make more money. Bush is the front. Abramoff tells us who he is fronting for. Linda --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, judson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: judson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: judson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Abramoff is a Little Sniffle , the DISTRACTION and a SYPTOM of a COV ER UP - not the main disease 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] Earmarks, the currency of corruption
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602221.html?referrer=emailreferrer=email K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork As Barriers With Lawmakers Fall, 'Earmarks' Grow By Jonathan Weisman and Charles R. Babcock Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, January 27, 2006; Page A01 An explosion of special interest funding engineered in part by lawmakers with close ties to lobbyists is drawing increased scrutiny as Congress moves to address concern about corruption that already has led to the conviction of a Republican House member and former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. At issue is a symbiotic relationship between lawmakers well positioned to slip special-interest projects into legislation, and wealthy lobbying groups that raise large sums of campaign funds or provide trips and other benefits to those lawmakers. In the latest example of these backstage dealings, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) told The Washington Post that he helped steer defense funding, totaling $37 million, to a California company, whose officials and lobbyists helped raise at least $85,000 for Doolittle and his leadership political action committee from 2002 to 2005. Brent Wilkes, a director of the company, PerfectWave Technologies LLC, and a major contributor to House Republican leaders, was identified as "Coconspirator No. 1" in criminal charges brought against Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) late last year. Cunningham pleaded guilty in November and resigned from Congress after admitting he conspired to take $2.4 million in bribes in return for using his office to help Wilkes and another defense contractor, in part by placing earmarks in defense appropriations bills. Doolittle said in a statement this week that as one of three California Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee, he frequently supports "well deserving projects throughout the state." The statement added that his support of PerfectWave Technology "was no exception and based completely on the project's merits and the written support of the military." The link between special interests and members of Congress has grown so tight that nearly a dozen House and Senate members who control federal spending have retained lobbying veterans to raise campaign funds for them, and those lobbyists have secured lucrative favors in spending bills. These relationships have coincided with the rapid growth in the volume of home-state pork-barrel projects, commonly called earmarks, that have swelled appropriations bills in recent years, according to congressional experts and watchdog groups. "It's the currency of corruption," Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said of appropriations earmarks. Since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, the number of home-district earmarks jumped from 4,155 valued at about $29 billion in 1994 to 14,211 worth nearly $53 billion 10 years later, according to the Congressional Research Service. Once a backwater for boutique lobbying shops, the House and Senate Appropriations committees are fueling a lobbying boom in Washington. The hunt for earmarks has become so consuming that lawmakers are neglecting other duties, said Scott Lilly, who recently retired as chief Democratic aide on the House Appropriations Committee. Last year, the committee received 10,000 requests for home-district projects on one spending bill alone -- 25.4 projects per lawmaker, said committee spokesman John Scofield. "It has become an obsession of the Congress," Lilly said. "That's all they do." Traditionally, Congress has provided large pots of money to federal, state and local agencies, such as housing authorities and transportation departments, which then funded specific programs based on merit and local need. The Appropriations committees funded specific projects only when they had been vetted and approved by authorizing committees, such as the Armed Services Committee. But increasingly, lawmakers have gone around authorizers and agency officials to finance pet projects in their home districts. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) secured $207 million for the "Prairie Parkway" through Kane and Kendall counties in Illinois in last year's major highway law, although the Illinois Department of Transportation is only two years into a five-year study of the project and has not yet determined whether a highway is needed or whether improvements to existing roads would suffice. The hunt for earmarks on Capitol Hill and on K Street has opened up new avenues for lobbyists and lawmakers to come together. Seven members of the House Appropriations Committee -- Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R-Okla.), Kay Granger (R-Tex.), Dennis Rehberg (R-Mont.), John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) -- have political action committees headed by registered lobbyists or former registered lobbyists with business before the committee, according to the Center for Public Integrity and campaign
[cia-drugs] [Fwd: Abramoff charity's claims disputed]
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/15abramoff.html Groups listed as beneficiaries of more than $330,000 in gifts say they never got them By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, December 15, 2005 Capital Athletic Foundation, a charity run by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff now at the center of an influence-peddling investigation on Capitol Hill, told the IRS it gave away more than $330,000 in grants in 2002 to four other charities that say they never received the money. The largest grant the foundation listed in its 2002 tax filing was for $300,000 to P'TACH of New York, a nonprofit that helps Jewish children with learning disabilities. MORE ON THIS STORY Return of Private Foundation 990 Return of Organization exempt from Income Tax 990 "We've never received a $300,000 gift, not in our 28 years," a surprised Rabbi Burton Jaffa, P'TACH's national director, told the Austin American-States- man. "It would have been gone by now. I guess I would have been able to pay some teachers on time." Federal investigators have not contacted P'TACH about the grant, Jaffa said. Representatives of three other nonprofits that supposedly received Capital Athletic money also said they have not been contacted. The grant-reporting discrepancy raises further questions about Abramoff's use of the foundation's finances as he built one of the most successful and well-connected lobbying practices in Washington. Abramoff's dealings already have led to the indictment of a Bush administration official, a subpoena for a GOP committee chairman and investigations by the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Senate. The discrepancy also follows e-mails between Abramoff and members of his lobbying team that say then-House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land wanted to raise money through Capital Athletic for an unspecified purpose. In one of those e-mails, Abramoff announced a $200,000 fundraising goal. DeLay does not recall making such a request, his lawyer, Richard Cullen, said Wednesday. Capital Athletic's tax return does not indicate whether Abramoff reached his $200,000 goal. But around the time Capital Athletic's tax form was filed in fall 2003, listing the $300,000 donation P'TACH says it didn't get, a DeLay-created charity called Celebrations for Children was begun with $300,000 in seed money. Celebrations for Children was a short-lived effort to raise money for children's charities by providing donors with special access to DeLay, plus yacht trips and other enticements, during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Watchdog groups protested, claiming the fundraiser violated a new ban on accumulating unlimited "soft" money, and DeLay dropped it in May 2004. E-mails and documents released so far in the ongoing investigations do not detail where Capital Athletic's elusive $300,000 went, or if it was money raised at DeLay's behest in possible violation of federal law. Abramoff, who knows the answers, is not talking. Abramoff spokesman Andrew Blum declined to comment on whether Capital Athletic donated to Celebrations for Children. Blum also refused to discuss the missing grants. "No comment on your entire set of questions," he said. DeLay lawyer Cullen, asked Wednesday afternoon if Capital Athletic gave $300,000 to Celebrations for Children, said he could not reply, noting there was not enough time to track that information down. The ultimate answers may be important for DeLay. Federal law prohibits members of Congress from requesting "anything of value" from anyone seeking official action from the House or doing business with the House. Lobbyists in particular should not be solicited, according to an ethics committee memo explaining the House Ethics Manual. An exchange of e-mails in the summer of 2002 between Abramoff and lobbying partner Tony Rudy, DeLay's former chief of staff, demonstrate that the men were not shy about using DeLay's name to solicit money for Capital Athletic, particularly from Indian tribe clients that had proven lucrative to Abramoff's lobbying practice. Capital Athletic's financial records also show that the foundation spent money on political endeavors unrelated to the foundation's stated mission of promoting sportsmanship. In June 2002, Abramoff told Rudy in an e-mail that DeLay wanted Capital Athletic to raise some money for him, and Abramoff suggested hitting up one of the six casino-operating Indian tribes that enriched Abramoff and a partner with $82 million in lobbying fees. "I recommend we hit everyone who cares about Tom's requests. I have another few to hit still, " Abramoff wrote. "I think that, if we can do $200K, that would be good." Abramoff suggested that Rudy contact the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, saying, "it'll look better coming from you as a former DeLay (chief of staff). We'z gonna make a bundle here." Rudy, however, made a mistake, passing off the task of
[cia-drugs] House Backs McCain on Detainees, Defying Bush
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/politics/15detain.html?hpex=1134622800en=27235f7d7c0221ccei=5094partner=homepage House Backs McCain on Detainees, Defying Bush By ERIC SCHMITT Published: December 15, 2005 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - In an unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed Senator John McCain's measure to bar cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in American custody anywhere in the world. Although the vote was nonbinding, it put the Republican-controlled House on record in support of Mr. McCain's provision for the first time, at the very moment when the senator, a Republican, is at a crucial stage of tense negotiations with the White House, which strongly opposes his measure. The vote also likely represents the lone opportunity that House members will have to express their sentiments on Mr. McCain's legislation. The Senate approved the measure in October, 90 to 9, as part of a military spending bill. But until Wednesday, the House Republican leadership had sought to avoid a direct vote on the measure to avoid embarrassing the White House. The vote was on a motion to instruct House negotiators, who had just been appointed to work out differences between the House and Senate spending bills, to accept the Senate position on the McCain amendment. The House bill, providing $453 billion for military programs, has no provision like Mr. McCain's, but if the negotiators follow these instructions to the letter, the final bill passed by Congress will. The House vote was 308 to 122, with 107 Republicans lining up along with almost every Democrat behind Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who sponsored Mr. McCain's language and who has become anathema to the administration on any legislative measure related to Iraq since his call last month to withdraw American troops from Iraq in six months. "Torture does not help us win the hearts and minds of the people it's used against," Mr. Murtha said on the House floor. "Congress is obligated to speak out." Unlike the tumultuous three-hour debate that Mr. Murtha's Iraq-related measure provoked last month, this measure met with just 10 minutes of statements to a nearly empty House chamber. Mr. Murtha, a former Marine colonel who is the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said Mr. McCain's legislation was essential to standardizing American interrogation methods and sending a clear signal to the world that the United States condemned the abusive treatment of detainees. "If we allow torture in any form," Mr. Murtha said, "we abandon our honor." Representative C. W. Bill Young of Florida, head of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, was one of 121 Republicans who voted against Mr. McCain's language. One Democrat, Jim Marshall of Georgia, voted against it; 200 Democrats and one independent supported it. Mr. Young was quick to point out that he was in no way endorsing torture as an interrogation technique, but said he opposed the measure because it wrongly bestowed the full protections of the Constitution to terrorists and tied the hands of Congressional negotiators. Another Republican who voted against the measure, Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, said he opposed it because he said laws already barred torture and abusive treatment. "It's absolutely unnecessary," said Mr. Tiahrt, who is on the House Intelligence Committee. It was unclear what effects the vote would have on the negotiations between Mr. McCain and President Bush's national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, and on the Congressional negotiators for the two military bills now in conference committee. A spokeswoman for the Arizona senator, Eileen McMenamin, said Wednesday night that he had no comment on the vote. "I don't think it will have any effect on the negotiations," Mr. Young said. Mr. Murtha said the vote bolstered his previous assertions that the military spending bill would include Mr. McCain's provision after the conference committee completed its work. "It's going to be in there, period," Mr. Murtha said after the vote. Earlier in the day, Senator Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican who is the senior member of the Appropriations Committee, echoed Mr. Murtha's prediction, telling reporters that Mr. McCain "wants it in there, and I think it will stay in there." The negotiations over provision intensified on Wednesday. Early in the morning, Mr. McCain met in his office with Mr. Hadley. When asked whether the two had narrowed their differences, Mr. McCain told reporters: "We're still talking. We'll get this resolved one way or another. We have the votes." Mr. McCain also attended the weekly Senate Republican policy lunch on Wednesday, but senators who attended the private gathering said that Mr. McCain did not address his colleagues and that the subject of his amendment did not come up. After the lunch, however, Mr. McCain was mobbed by reporters seeking
[cia-drugs] Ledeen using James Jesus Angleton (JJA) as foil?
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/12/michael_ledeens.html#more Michael Ledeen's "Wilderness of Mirrors" by emptywheel Summary: In this post, I look at a series of columns Michael Ledeen has written using former Counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton (JJA) as a literary foil. In the earliest of these JJA columns, Ledeen basically uses the character of the noted paranoid JJA as an excuse to formulate his own baseless conspiracy theories. But of late, Ledeen has been using the device to excuse intelligence breaches he--or his very close allies--have been involved in. In this new formulation, Ledeen seems to be alluding to JJA as a way to boast of his own conspiracies to those in the know, while setting up straw man arguments to otherwise deny the conspiracy. Michael Ledeen is regularly haunted by a crazy old ghost. Not just any ghost. He's visited by the longtime head of US Counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton (JJA), conjured up through an old ouija board he bought in New Orleans. Or at least that's what Ledeen contrives in a series of columns. He first used this device, I think, to give himself cover for exploiting current events to make great paranoid claims. Want to turn the Chandra Levy murder into a case of international espionage? Conjure JJA to tell you that Gary Condit was a double agent--blackmailed into trading intelligence in exchange for silence about his multiple affairs. When Levy threatened to expose her affair, she threatened to ruin the double agent arrangement. Want to use the DC Sniper case to drum up fear about Islamic terrorists? Have JJA explain to you that Mohammed's attacks were done at the behest of an Islamic terrorist group who was actually probing US defenses. Want to exploit the anthrax attacks in your attempts to launch a war against Iraq? Make JJA explain how, contrary to all the evidence, the attacks were obviously a plot of Saddam's. You see, by the end of his life, JJA was absolutely fricking nuts. He had spent his life hunting double agents--heck, he even was a close friend of Kim Philby. And by the end, he had been seeing double for so long he had by most accounts become certifiably paranoid. By invoking JJA, Ledeen allows himself to posit all manner of wacky plots without damaging his (in some crowds, anyway) considerable credibility. But Ledeen's use of the JJA device has changed in recent years, in ways that I think merit some attention. Ledeen's use of JJA to issue denials for others Sometime in 2004, Ledeen begins to use the JJA device to project blame onto the CIA and others (Richard Armitage is a favorite scapegoat) for failures of the Bush Administration. So Ledeen channels JJA to excuse the Bush Administration for failing to predict 9/11. The August 6 PDB? Just one isolated, "vague" piece of intelligence. And Richard Clarke's mountain of evidence? A better justification of a hard line against Iran than evidence that Bush ignored 9/11. This use of the JJA device is more complex than its earlier use to build grand conspiracy theories. Ledeen is still using JJA to make claims that are not defensible, similar to the way he used JJA to make totally unsubstantiated conspiracy claims. But he's now making logically inconsistent claims, so he can rage against ignored intelligence without acknowledging that Bush ignored it. JJA: Right. So all the Dems and their pals in the press are busily looking at this one PDB as if everyone should have seen that 9/11 was coming. Such nonsense. They don't know the first thing about intelligence. [snip] it wasn't some vague statement like the ones in the PDB, "bin Laden is determined to attack inside the United States," and "al Qaeda is thinking about using airplanes," and so on. ML: Yes, it looked like one of those CYA things, where CIA is passing on information from other intelligence services (funny how nobody's remarked on that, huh? It's not as if we had this stuff firsthand.) just in case something happens, so they can say "we told you." JJA: Remember that Bush had asked about possible domestic attacks, so they gave him some bits and pieces. But that document does not say "we know an attack has been planned." Let JJA claim that these are unspecific threats, rather than having to make such a ridiculous claim himself. But after dismissing the ability of intelligence to draw conclusions from such information, Ledeen has JJA suggest that we should be using the same evidence to attack Iran. What is at once inconclusive intelligence is, through the magic of JJA, also a casus belli. JJA: Sure it is. But the point I'm making is that we didn't have enough information to justify a serious, specific warning. We were generally concerned, but we didn't have enough to act on. So we kept on looking. That's the way life is, most of the time. ML: Right. But what about Clarke's book? JJA: The dynamite stuff in Clarke's book has to do with Iran. He says, for example, on page 284,
[cia-drugs] the country's equestrian class
Title: Notebook [Extracts] Original Message Notebook [Extracts] www.sandersresearch.com The Herons Latest Catch December 8, 2005 Notebook[Extracts] By Lewis H. Lapham Harpers December 2005(pp. 10-11) On further acquaintance with the modus operandi of the Bush Administration, I've come to think that the attributions of a competent criminal intelligence miss the point. They give credit where no credit is due, and they fail to account for both the increasingly evident childishness of American culture and the corollary attitudes of entitlement that over the last thirty years have infected ever larger sectors of the country's equestrian class. President Bush and his friends bear comparison not to Jesse James or Commodore Vanderbilt but to a clique of spoiled trust-fund kids. Certain of their superiority by virtue of their wealth (whether derived from corporate salary, family inheritance, or a sweetheart real estate investment), they fit the profile of wised-up teenagers who don't want to hear it from anybody telling them what to do-which shoes to wear, how to behave in a dance club, when to speak to the caddie o r the French ambassador, why it might not be a good idea to wreck the Social Security system, redirect the flow of the Missouri River, or invade Iraq. Smug in their cynicism, proud of their selfishness, pre-Copernican in the sense that they know it is the sun that revolves around them, not they who revolve around the sun, fortune's children interpret corrections as insult, amendments as impertinence old news, uncool. The attitude shows plainly in nearly every _expression_ that wanders across the President's schoolboy face-the sly smirk, the cute smile, the petulant frown. At home on the range with his chainsaw in Crawford, Texas, he looks to be making a guest appearance for Paris Hilton on The Simple Life; at a White House podium threatening Arab terrorists or standing tall in his opposition to universal health insurance, he strikes the pose of a rich boy anarchist wishing to frighten the faculty at Yale. Three years ago on Earth Day the news photographs showed the President setting off into the forest with an axe over his shoulder, glancing back at the camera with a hint of malicious mischief, as if to say, "You liberal media guys think that the environment is sacred? Let me show you how we deal with trees." . . . Understand "government" as a synonym for "adult," and what we have now in Washington is the sovereignty of the state in the careless and resentful grasp of teenage anarchists. The historical precedents are legion, among them the reign of the adolescent Roman Emperor Nero; more often than not the story doesn't lead to a happy or romantic ending, but maybe I'm unduly pessimistic, and possibly what we have before us is the dawn of a new and golden age. If so, at least some of the credit is deserved by all the good people in the fashion, news, banking, and entertainment industries who have made America great. If Vice President Cheney and his business associates don't know how to think or read, they owe their peace of mind to an educational system that teaches by television clip and film montage; if President Bush and his companions in arms delight in all things shallow, derivative, and dumb, they take their sense of ease and comfort from the assurances of a consumer market and a popular culture that place a high value on those qualities. Who can say that the President doesn't embody the American dream come true? 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. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/193 - Release Date: 12/6/2005
[cia-drugs] open invitation to bribery
http://www.slate.com/id/2131370?nav=wp Corrupt Intentions What Cunningham's misdeeds illustrate about conservative Washington. By Michael Kinsley Posted Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, at 7:08 AM ET Caught in the cookie jar It used to be said that the moral arc of a Washington career could be divided into four parts: idealism, pragmatism, ambition, and corruption. You arrive with a passion for a cause, determined to challenge the system. Then you learn to work for your cause within the system. Then rising in the system becomes your cause. Then finally you exploit the systemyour connections in it, and your understanding of itfor personal profit. And it remains true, sort of, but faster. Even the appalling Jack Abramoff had ideals at one point. But he took a shortcut straight to corruption. On the other hand, you can now trace the traditional moral arc in the life of conservative-dominated Washington itself, which began with Ronald Reagan's inauguration and marks its 25th anniversary in January. Reagan and company arrived to tear down the government and make Washington irrelevant. Now the airport and a giant warehouse of bureaucrats are named after him. By the 20th anniversary of their arrival, when an intellectually corrupt Supreme Court ruling gave them complete control of the government at last, the conservatives had lost any stomach for tearing down the government. George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" was more like an apology than an ideology. Meanwhile Tom DeLaythe real boss in Congressopenly warned K Street that unless all the choice lobbying jobs went to Republicans, lobbyists could not expect to have any influence with the Republican Congress. This warning would be meaningless, of course, unless the opposite was also true: If you hire Republican lobbyists, you and they will have influence over Congress. And darned if DeLay didn't turn out to be exactly right about this! No prominent Republican upbraided DeLay for his open invitation to bribery. And bribery is what it is: not just campaign contributions, but the promise of personal enrichment for politicians and political aides who play ball for a few years before cashing in. When Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty this week to accepting a comic cornucopia of baubles, plus some cash, from defense contractors, the vast right-wing conspiracy acted with impressive speed and forcefulness to expel one of its most doggedly loyal loudmouths and pack him off to a long jail term. Even President Bush, who possesses the admirable quality of an affable capacity for understanding and forgiveness on the personal level, seized an unnecessary opportunity to wish the blackguard ill. There was no talk of "sadness"the usual formula for expressing sympathy without excusing guilt. This astringent response would be more impressive if the basic facts about Cunningham's corruption hadn't been widely known for months. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported last June that a company seeking business from the Pentagon had bought Cunningham's southern California house from him, held it unoccupied briefly, and sold itin the hottest real estate market in human historyfor a $700,000 loss. You didn't need to know that Duke's haul included two antique commodes to smell the stench. Yet all the Republican voices now saying that Cunningham deserves his punishment were silent until he clearly and unavoidably was going to get it. Like medieval scholastics counting the angels on the head of a pin, Justice Department lawyers are struggling with the question of when favors to and from a member of Congress or a congressional aide take on the metaphysical quality of a corrupt bribe. The brazenness of the DeLay-Abramoff circle has caused prosecutors to look past traditional distinctions, such as that between campaign contributions and cash or other favors to a politician personally. Or the distinction between doing what a lobbyist wants after he has taken you to Scotland to play golf, and promising to do what he wants before he takes you to Scotland to play golf. These distinctions don't really touch on what's corrupt here, which is simply the ability of money to give some people more influence than others over the course of a democracy where, civically if not economically, we are all supposed to be equal. So, where do you draw the line between harmless favors and corrupt bribery? It's not an easy question, if you're talking about sending people to prison. But it's a very easy question if you're just talking: The answer is that it's all corrupt bribery. People and companies hire lobbyists because it works. Lobbyists get the big bucks because their efforts earn or save clients even bigger bucks in their dealings with the government. Members of Congress are among the world's greatest bargains: What are a couple of commodes compared with $163 million of Pentagon contracts? Perhaps conceding more than he intended, former
[cia-drugs] Lincoln Group's tailored intelligence services for government clients
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12840 US: The Hazy Story of the Lincoln Group It's tough to follow the history of Lincoln Group, a contractor that won a $100 million contract with the Special Operations Command to assist with psychological operations. byJason Vest,Government Executive November 30th, 2005 It's tough to follow the history of Lincoln Group, a contractor that won a $100 million contract with the Special Operations Command to assist with psychological operations. The common denominator to the firm's history is Christian Bailey, listed on its Web site as executive vice president, capital markets. After graduating from Oxford University in England in the 1990s, Bailey moved to the San Francisco area around 1998, and in 1999, founded Express Action, an e-commerce company he apparently later sold. In the Nov. 15, 2002, issue of HedgeWorld Daily News, Bailey was identified as the founder and chairman of a New York-based hedge fund called Lincoln Asset Management. On March 1, 2003, the Alternative Investment News reported that Lincoln Asset Management had an initial $100 million in commitments to underwrite a leveraged buyout fund to acquire defense and intelligence companies. In 2003, the Lincoln Alliance Corp. (a subsidiary of Lincoln Asset Management) made its debut, presenting itself primarily as a purveyor of what it called "tailored intelligence services" for "government clients faced with critical intelligence challenges," and as an Iraq business development catalyst. Its Web site listed no officers, principals or partners, but described operations as focused on an ambitious mix of political campaign intelligence and commercial real estate. With one office in Baghdad and more projected, Lincoln would act as a clearinghouse for U.S. and foreign companies doing business in Iraq, providing "the information, research and contacts necessary to develop and grow businesses" in the post-Saddam era. During this time, Lincoln appears to have maintained a business address at 1130 17th St. NW in Washington, and shared phone and fax numbers with Omnicept, a firm located at the time at 1432 T St. NW. Omnicept described itself as an "advanced information technology and systems design firm" and "analytic and intelligence firm" comprising "experts whose experience encompasses military intelligence, education and academia, big business, money managers, political activists, law enforcement, entrepreneurs, artists, and more." Paige Craig was listed at the same phone numbers as Omnicept's September 2003 point of contact for Internet solicitations for interns. He also represented Lincoln as vice president at the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority's Nov. 19, 2003, Industry Day in Crystal City, Va. According to phone records, the T Street address was a residence with listings for Bailey and Craig. In late 2003 or early 2004, however, the Lincoln Alliance Corp. became Iraqex, and in a Sept. 27, 2004, Agence France Press news story, was referred to as "a U.S. firm involved in a range of activities from manufacturing construction materials to providing logistics for U.S. forces." In October 2004, it apparently added communications to its repertoire, scoring a $6 million contract from the Multi-National Corps-Iraq (formerly known as Combined Joint Task Force-7, which had operational control of all troops in Iraq) to design and execute an "aggressive advertising and public relations campaign that will accurately inform the Iraqi people of the coalition's goals and gain their support," as the contract's August 2004 request for proposal put it. O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, an influential public relations trade publication, struck a somewhat skeptical tone in its coverage of the tender. MNC-I's contract officer refused to disclose the five other bidders. Bailey said "more information would be forthcoming" about Iraqex and its efforts. Little came, save a November 2004 brief in the trade publication, PR Week, that reported, "Iraqex has a policy of not speaking to the press regarding its work, but has hired 5W PR as its mouthpiece," and quoted 5W PR's chief as saying of Iraqex, "We have more experience working in Iraq than any other firm or organization anywhere in the world." Oddly, at the December 2004 Destination Baghdad Expo in Iraq, Iraqex listed itself as Iraq-based, but provided only its Washington telephone and address. Then, in March 2005, it changed its name yet again, to Lincoln Group, a communications and PR firm "providing insight and influence in challenging and hostile environments." And on June 11, along with SYColeman and Science Applications International Corp., Lincoln Group got its JPSE contract. While the group's current Web site does list noteworthy examples of successful endeavors apparently part of its MNC-I work, some find it curious that a firm set up by two
[cia-drugs] ORIGINS OF NSA
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2005/11/112805.html#7 THE ORIGINS OF NSA The evolution of the U.S. signals intelligence capability from Pearl Harbor to the establishment of the National Security Agency in 1952 is the subject of a newly declassified NSA history volume. The internal history traces "the struggle between centralized and decentralized control of SIGINT, interservice and interagency rivalries, budget problems, tactical versus national strategic requirements, the difficulties of mechanization of processes, and the rise of a strong bureaucracy." The document was originally produced in classified form in 1990 under the title "The Origins of NSA" (which is also the title of an unclassified NSA public affairs brochure). The declassified version, published by the NSA Center for Cryptologic History earlier this year in hard copy only, is now entitled "The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952." A scanned copy of the 129 page volume is available here in a large 6.6 MB PDF file: http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/quest.pdf A hardcopy original may be obtained while supplies last by sending a request with mailing address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. 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] Judith Miller's other source--Dr. David Kelly, deceased
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0006DF05.htm 5 September 2003Printer-friendly versionEmail a friend Kelly's connections If David Kelly was the peace-lover described by some in the anti-war movement, what was he doing hanging around with the New York Times' Judith Miller? by Brendan O'Neill Since his suicide in July 2003, Ministry of Defence scientist David Kelly has been adopted by some in the media and anti-war lobby as a 'good man' who was keen to 'raise questions about the nature of the war in Iraq' (1). Left-wing writer John Pilger claims the 'heroic' Kelly was 'the antithesis of those [in government], who have shown themselves to be the agents of a dangerous, rampant foreign power' (2). If this is true, why does Kelly appear to have been a close acquaintance of Judith Miller of the New York Times - the most vitriolic pro-war journalist, whose shrill articles about Saddam and his WMD have recently become the subject of ridicule? Shortly after Kelly's death, it emerged that his final email was to Miller. This is the one in which he referred to 'many dark actors playing games', words that Miller first quoted in an article for the NYT and which quickly spread around the world. The submission of Kelly's emails as evidence to the Hutton Inquiry this week reveals the rest of his message to Miller, in which he refers to her as 'Judy' and says 'Thanks for your support. I appreciate your friendship at this time' (3). Hutton's evidence also shows that Kelly's email was in response to one sent by Miller, in which she asked Kelly how it went at the Foreign Affairs Committee where he gave evidence days before committing suicide. 'I heard from another member of your fan club that things went well for you', wrote Miller. 'Hope it's true, J.' (4) Why was Miller a member of Kelly's 'fan club'? Miller is one of the most arch pro-war journalists; she has published numerous articles for the NYT over the past two years claiming that Saddam was developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. For some of these reports, Miller appears to have relied on highly dubious sources. In May 2003, it was revealed that one of her anonymous Iraqi sources, who she admits 'provided most of the frontpage exclusives on WMD' (5), was none other than Ahmad Chalabi - the Washington stooge who heads the CIA-backed Iraqi National Congress, and who has lived in the West for the past 45 years before returning to postwar Iraq in April 2003. For another report in April, as US forces continued to hunt for WMD, Miller claimed to have found more than a 'smoking gun'; she had discovered the 'silver bullet', an Iraqi scientist who claimed that Saddam destroyed his WMD just before the war started, but also buried some 'precursor materials' from which illegal weapons could once again be constructed (6). Kelly and Miller's 'friendship'/'fan club' seems to go back a number of years However, Miller said she was barred from naming the precursor material, or from visiting the scientist's home, or from speaking to him - though she was allowed to, in the words of one Miller critic, 'view the baseball cap-clad scientist from a distance as he points at spots in the sand where he says precursor compounds are buried' (7). In later reports, Miller switched from calling this mysterious man on the horizon a 'scientist' to a 'military intelligence officer' (8). In the aftermath of the war, and in the absence of WMD, many on the American left have ridiculed Miller's journalism. Jack Shafer of the online publication Slate refers to her 'wretched reporting', writing: 'If reporters who live by their sources were obliged to die by their sources, Judith Miller would be stinking up her family tomb right now.' (9) One of Miller's many sources appears to have been David Kelly. Judging from other comments made at the Hutton Inquiry, Kelly and Miller's 'friendship'/'fan club' goes back a number of years. On 21 August 2003 Nick Rufford of The Sunday Times, who knew Kelly well, was asked by the Hutton Inquiry 'if Dr Kelly spoke to other journalists'. Rufford replied: 'I saw his name in other newspaper articles, particularly in the New York Times. His name was in a book called Germs, written or co-authored by somebody called Judith Miller.' (10) Germs: The Ultimate Weapon was written by Miller and two other NYT journalists, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, and published in October 2001. It is a shrill, scaremongering book on the alleged proliferation of chemical and biological
[cia-drugs] C.I.A. Hunts Iraq Tie to Soviet Smallpox By JUDITH MILLER
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/ciahuntsiraqtie.html Source: New York Times, December 3, 2002. GERM WEAPONS C.I.A. Hunts Iraq Tie to Soviet Smallpox By JUDITH MILLER The C.I.A. is investigating an informant's accusation that Iraq obtained a particularly virulent strain of smallpox from a Russian scientist who worked in a smallpox lab in Moscow during Soviet times, senior American officials and foreign scientists say. The officials said several American scientists were told in August that Iraq might have obtained the mysterious strain from Nelja N. Maltseva, a virologist who worked for more than 30 years at the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow before her death two years ago. The information came to the American government from an informant whose identity has not been disclosed. The C.I.A. considered the information reliable enough that President Bush was briefed about its implications. The attempt to verify the information is continuing. Dr. Maltseva is known to have visited Iraq on several occasions. Intelligence officials are trying to determine whether, as the informant told them, she traveled there as recently as 1990, officials said. The institute where she worked housed what Russia said was its entire national collection of 120 strains of smallpox, and some experts fear that she may have provided the Iraqis with a version that could be resistant to vaccines and could be more easily transmitted as a biological weapon. The possibility that Iraq possesses this strain is one of several factors that has complicated Mr. Bush's decision, expected this week, about how many Americans should be vaccinated against smallpox, a disease that was officially eradicated in 1980. The White House is expected to announce that despite the risk of vaccine-induced illness and death, it will authorize vaccinating those most at risk in the event of a smallpox outbreak 500,000 members of the military who could be assigned to the Middle East for a war with Iraq and 500,000 civilian medical workers. More broadly, the Russian government's refusal to share smallpox and other lethal germ strains for study by the United States, or to answer questions about the fate of such strains, has reinforced American concerns about whether Russia has abandoned what was once the world's most ambitious covert germ weapons program. A year ago in Crawford, Tex., Mr. Bush and Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, issued a statement vowing to enhance cooperation against biological terrorism. But after an initial round of visits and a flurry of optimism, American officials said Russia had resisted repeated American requests for information about the Russian smallpox strains and help in the investigation into the anthrax attacks in the United States in October 2001. "There is information we would like the Russians to share as a partner of ours," William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in an interview. "Because if there are strains that present a unique problem with respect to vaccines and treatment, it is in the interests of all freedom-loving people to have as much information as possible." Cooperation on biological terrorism was not discussed at the meeting last week between Mr. Bush and Mr. Putin in St. Petersburg, American officials said, mainly because administration officials are not certain just how willing Mr. Putin is to enhance cooperation in this delicate area. They wonder if he is not doing more because of the military's hostility to sharing the information. "The record so far suggests he is either unable or unwilling to push the military on this front," an administration official said. "We think it may be a little of both, but we're not really sure at this point or what to do about it." Administration officials said the C.I.A. was still trying to determine whether Dr. Maltseva traveled to Iraq in 1990, and whether she shared a sample of what might be a particularly virulent smallpox strain with Iraqi scientists. World Health Organization records in Geneva and interviews with scientists who worked with her confirmed that Dr. Maltseva visited Iraq at least twice, in 1972 and 1973, as part of the global campaign to eradicate smallpox. Formerly secret Soviet records also show that in 1971, she was part of a covert mission to Aralsk, a port city in what was then the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, north of the Aral Sea, to help stop an epidemic of smallpox. The Soviet Union did not report that outbreak to world health officials, as required by regulations. Last June, experts from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, drawing on those Kazakh records and interviews with survivors, published a report saying the epidemic was a result of open-air tests of a particularly virulent smallpox strain on Vozrozhdeniye Island in the Aral Sea. The island, known as Renaissance Island in English, is between Kazakhstan and another Central Asian country, Uzbekistan.
[cia-drugs] HITLER WAS A BRITISH AGENT
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/spymaster/auth.htm HITLER WAS A BRITISH AGENT a brilliant analysis of the deception of war by Greg Hallett and the Spymaster. ABOUT THE AUTHORS The authors' wake up each morning quite surprised they are still breathing. The Spymaster has worked in a background of undeclared hostilities over many years. He has gone undercover amongst Nazis, Communists, Marxists and some of the most vicious gangs of criminals in New Zealand. Several times other people have been killed in his place in cases of mistaken identity. The Spymaster has been arrested more times than he can remember and by more outfits than he can remember. He has been on both sides of enforcement operations. He has an in-depth knowledge of offenders in New Zealand and is often sought out by people in high places. Former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon once said of him, "If St Peter ever made a mistake and let you into heaven, there'd be a fistfight in five minutes". Greg Hallett trained in various psychological models in parallel with his architecture degree and training. He travelled widely behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, hitchhiking on planes, making bunks out of airmail bags, to party and report between cities. His contacts in Eastern Europe led to deep penetration of the Soviet State, how it functioned and how it was to colonise the West. It was these qualifications that led him to buy buildings in Moscow immediately after the Berlin Wall fell. This led to interviews with the KGB and their revelations about the planned sex-communism and deconstruction of Westerners. What they had planned for the West happened in the West. Equally all modern history can be dated back to 1945. What Hitler planned for the world happened to the world over the next sixty years. INTELLIGENCE TALES When Hallett teamed up with the Spymaster they found they had many of the insights and historical answers to many of the controversies of Europe from WWII to the Cold War and the present . . . not completely disregarding aspects of the future. In listening to each other's stories they noticed a lot of common ground and have attempted to lay this bare for you. "Take of it what you will. We don't expect you to reject sixty years of official history overnight, but we do expect you to view it with new-found suspicion." "Any serious attempt at the truth creates controversy and we expect Hitler was a British Agent to be considered as the most expedient option of creating war." The Spymaster says that he will often go on operations and end up in entirely the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time, but always much wiser. Through such coincidences, history is often more explicable to the ordinary man than a lot of complicated analysis. We found "filling-in-the-gaps analysis" to be a primary cause of ill-informed history. As such, Hallett and the Spymaster have teamed up to give you this riveting insight into how the enemies of war are created and how enemies work together to prolong and expand wars. This authoritative and unique insider's look at Hitler outlines his missing year, his British psychological training and financial support, his British-linked minders, and the British sabotage of the Hitler assassination attempts. It outlines in great detail, Operation WINNIE THE POOH, Hitler's escape out of Berlin on 2 May 1945, who he flew with, what planes he caught, their serial numbers, where he flew to, who greeted him, where he spent the remainder of his life and what he eventually died of. FILE THEFT WWII has passed its 60-year suppression rule. Despite this, information coming out about WWII is still controlled as it reflects on how the current wars are carried out. File theft is such common practise it is a forerunner to any elevation. Two Intelligence agencies have regularly stolen Hitler was a British Agent and "it has been read at the highest levels" during the final phases of writing. As quickly as it was written it was stolen and in August 2005 word got back that they would let it out. This came with further inside information and at least one historical act. The question remains . . . did the theft of Hitler was a British Agent in disk form on 11 May 2005 cause the Tavistock Square bombing on 7 July 2005? HITLER WAS A BRITISH AGENT Living Libraries Adolf Hitler The Incestuous Catholic Jew Adolf Hitler in Britain Hitler's Sexuality Hitler's Psychiatric Condition Hitler's Deconstruction Body Doubles Hess and Hess Fly to Britain Dunkirk James Bond Pearl Harbor Dieppe Anthony Blunt Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII Operation JAMES BOND Operation WINNIE THE POOH Lost Leaders Churchill, Hitler and Stalin Work Together Afterword Appendices Bibliography Perfect bound, 467 pages. Includes photographs, appendices,
[cia-drugs] [Fwd: Federici at CSPAN 3 live now]
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[cia-drugs] Woodward admission raises questions in leak case
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1117,0,903942.story?coll=ny-nation-big-pix Woodward admission raises questions in leak case BY TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU November 16, 2005, 9:51 PM EST WASHINGTON -- A Bush administration official's belated admission in recent weeks that he told the Washington Post's Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003 about covert CIA officer Valerie Plame raises new questions in the special counsel's two-year-old leak investigation. That admission ends two years of secrecy between source and reporter, and in the process raises concerns about Woodward's role as a journalist, the special counsel's probe and the perjury indictment of former aide I. Lewis Libby, as well as the White House's cooperation in the investigation. Attorneys for Libby called the revelation a "bombshell" for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's case against their client, but attorneys familiar with the probe said it might not be enough to get Libby off. Yesterday began with Woodward's statement in the Washington Post that he had testified under oath about an unnamed official telling him in June 2003 about Plame. And it ended with Woodward apologizing to the Post's top editor, Leonard Downie, for not telling him about it for two years. "I apologized because I should have told him much sooner," Woodward told the Post. "I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed." Until now, Woodward had not been connected to the investigation into the leak of Plame's identity, which her husband, Joseph Wilson, has said was a White House attempt to undercut his criticism of its pre-war Iraq intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. But Woodward said in a statement published yesterday that he had testified in a lawyer's office about parts of interviews with three current or former Bush officials that related to the outing of Plame. He said Fitzgerald contacted him Nov. 3, after one of the officials notified Fitzgerald about telling Woodward that "Wilson's wife worked for the CIA" as an analyst on weapons of mass destruction. The timing of that interview, mid-June 2003, would make the unnamed official the first to tell a reporter about Plame, not Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff. Ted Wells, one of Libby's attorneys, said Woodward's disclosure undercut Fitzgerald's five-count indictment charging Libby with lying when he said he learned about Plame from reporters, rather than the CIA, State Department and Vice President Dick Cheney. Wells said the disclosure shows Fitzgerald's statement at his Oct. 28 news conference that Libby was the first official to tell a reporter about Plame "was totally inaccurate." Fitzgerald said Libby was the "first known" official to do it, however. Wells added that Woodward said in two interviews in June 2003 that Libby did not mention Plame, undermining Fitzgerald's case that Libby sought to discredit Wilson. Floyd Abrams, who represents The New York Times in the leak case, said, "I don't think it seems to have much effect on the core of the charge against Mr. Libby." The identity of the official who spoke with Woodward is unknown. But the official's decision to come forward in recent weeks raises the issue of whether other officials have withheld information and whether the White House is aware of them. The White House declined to comment. In October 2003, President George W. Bush pledged cooperation with the investigation, and investigators requested and subpoenaed all records of contacts with reporters. = http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/HEADLINES%20PAGE/cloak_news_toronto__updated_pos.htm Cloak News Toronto - UPDATED posted OCT.29/05 Cloak News Toronto - UPDATED Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald under National Security guidelines sealed two Grand Jury Indictments. Tom Heneghan (special Cloak guest) who has been on the forefront releasing first news on the work of the Grand Juries, has learned that RICHARD PERLE and PAUL WOLFOWITZ have been indicted (under seal) for violations of the Espionage Act and for misuse of classified information. V.P. CHENEY named as unindicted co-conspirator. White House National Security Advisor STEVE HADLEY has flipped. Stay with Cloak News and stay ahead of the Mass Media parade. More to come in the Member's Archives if we are not shut down by the Bush White House Internet Police. (W.H.I.P.) Who Might Be The Other 22 Sealed Felons? http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal#hadley Deputy National Security Advisor (2001-2005); National Security Advisor (2005-Present) ROVE COMMUNICATED HIS CONVERSATION WITH COOPER TO HADLEY: After Karl Rove spoke to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about Joseph Wilson (according to Cooper, this was the first time he learned of Plames identity), Rove wrote Hadley an email. The July 11, 2003 email said: Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that hes got a welfare reform
[cia-drugs] Abramoff--See Jack’s Back Door
http://www.sandersresearch.com/Sanders/NewsManager/index.aspx Jack’s Back Door November 15, 2005 Linda Minor While special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald proceeds with his hush-hush investigation of Scooter Libby, a high-level official with front-door entry into executive decision-making channels, another equally fascinating inquiry is drawing to a close within the Senate’s Committee on Indian Affairs, chaired by Senator John McCain. On November 2, the Committee completed its last of four scheduled hearings into lobbying activities engaged in by Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon on behalf of an assortment of Indian tribes. A key witness, Italia Federici, is now the fuse which may ignite the next scandal involving yet another Bush Administration cabinet member—Secretary Gale Norton of the Department of Interior. More » 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] Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR200501650.html?referrer=emailreferrer=email By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 12, 2005; Page A06 A private missionary group has assigned a pair of full-time Christian ministers to the U.S. Air Force Academy, where they are training cadets to evangelize among their peers, according to a confidential letter to supporters. The letter makes clear that the organized evangelization effort has continued this year despite an outcry over alleged proselytizing at the academy that has prompted a Pentagon investigation, congressional hearings, a civil lawsuit and new Air Force guidelines on religion. "Praise God that we have been allowed access by the Academy into the cadet areas to minister among the cadets. We have recently been given an unused classroom to meet with cadets at any time during the day," the husband-and-wife team of Darren and Gina Lindblom said in the Oct. 11 letter to their donors. http://home.navigators.org/us/collegiate/index.cfm?Entity=12Department=92Dept_Order=2This_TopicOrder=3This_SubtopicOrder=1 Following allegations of religious intolerance at the academy, the Air Force issued interim guidelines in late August that caution senior officers against discussing their faith with subordinates. But the guidelines do not limit "voluntary, peer to peer discussions," and they do not say whether Air Force officials can provide office space or other assistance to professional missionaries who train cadets to evangelize among their peers. The Lindbloms' letter was made public by Michael L. "Mikey" Weinstein, a 1977 Air Force Academy alumnus who was a White House lawyer in the Reagan administration. He has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Air Force of violating the First Amendment's establishment clause by fostering evangelical Christianity over all faiths. Weinstein, who has been joined in the suit by four recent graduates of the academy, said that some other religious groups are allowed onto the academy's campus, but only during certain hours and under close supervision by Air Force chaplains. "The only group that gets 24/7 unrestricted access to cadets is this fundamentalist, born-again Christian group," Weinstein charged. The Lindbloms are not chaplains hired by the military. They are private, full-time ministers assigned to the Air Force Academy by the Navigators, a Colorado-based group whose motto is: "To know Christ and to make Him known." It began in 1933 as a ministry to sailors and now has missionaries in 104 countries, according to its Web site. Reached by telephone at their home in Colorado Springs, the Lindbloms declined to comment on their letter or their missionary work. Lauren Libby, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Navigators, said the Lindbloms were assigned to the academy earlier this year, replacing a previous young couple. He said the Navigators have placed full-time staff members at the academy for more than a decade. "We're there as a spiritual resource to cadets," he said. "We've had a very good experience there." Libby also said that the Navigators are following the Air Force guidelines, which have been criticized as infringing religious freedom by more than 70 members of Congress and several Christian lobbying groups, including Focus on the Family and the Christian Coalition. "Those are the guidelines, and we honor them," Libby said. In their letter, the Lindbloms referred several times to the guidelines and to Weinstein's lawsuit, saying that "we are vitally aware we are in the front lines of a spiritual battle." They included photos of the Navigator Cadet Ministry Team, a group of cadets who "have shown an interest in receiving training and development to have a personal ministry among their peers at the Academy," the letter said. "Please pray for unprecedented wisdom for Gina and me as we coach these cadets to live among the lost, sharing the Gospel in the midst of this current climate. We must be so careful. Yet we do not wish to squelch the passion of men like Daniel," a cadet who has vowed to "impact the lives of 200 men with the Gospel" before he graduates, Darren Lindblom wrote. In a postscript, they said, "We respectfully request that you not share this letter publicly. Due to the lawsuit recently filed, the contents of this letter are confidential." A spokesman for the Air Force Academy said the Navigators are one of 19 outside religious groups -- including Buddhist, Jewish, Catholic and Mormon organizations -- that hold voluntary meetings on Mondays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in a program known as SPIRE, for Special Program in Religious Education. The groups are invited on campus at the request of cadets, and each is assigned a room, but only for that 90-minute period once a week, said the spokesman, John Van Winkle. "They can't just use the room whenever they want. That would be a violation of the memorandum of agreement they
[cia-drugs] How Barry Goldwater became the College Republicans' golden boy
From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CTRL] [11] Loud and Clear Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 1:33 PM -Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[11]-- 11 " A Matter of Jurisdiction'' All of my discovery papers went to the defense lawyers. If Dunlap and Robison won release, it would come through the judicial system, with the attorneys pulling the necessary strings. I viewed my function as similar to a hod carrier's, bringing bricks to the mason who builds a case. Without the mason, the hod carrier has only a pile of bricks. "Mr. Savoy," I said, visiting his office on January 12, 1979, "have you had a chance to look at the material I sent over?" "Not all of it," Savoy said, "but enough to make me think you're on to something. Unfortunately, until the Arizona Supreme Court rules on our appeal, we can't move with this information. We're forbidden from introducing newly discovered evidence prior to a ruling on our pending motions. As you know, an appeal in the supreme court stays all other proceedings. I grant you, often it seems unfair, and maybe it is, but that's how the system works." "Do you have any idea when the supreme court will rule?" "No way we can predict that, or hurry it along. Our chances for a reversal are slim to none, I'm afraid. You should keep digging, learn everything you can for the appeal, which we'll base on points not covered during the trial. Your press conference helped a lot." "Maybe. But none of the reporters seemed fired up by what they heard." "Lake, rest assured, members of the supreme court read the story in the Progress. And it could have an impact. Like everyone else, they're influenced by the media." I gave Savoy my impressions of the Funk-Emprise-Bolles battle that began in 1969, spilled into the 1972 Pepper Committee hearings, had hardly settled when the Republic pulled Bolles off the story in 1973, and then could have flared again shortly before the bombing with Bradley Funk finding out his ex-wife had talked to the reporter about preparations for her incendiary lawsuit. A dozen times I'd read Funk's hearing testimony, full of bullet-dodging ramblings and excessive preoccupation with Bolles and "the conspiracy." Then, in 1976, shortly before the bombing, up popped Funk's recurring nightmare. Perhaps this time Funk feared the reporter had honed his expository pen scalpelsharp-not to peel away layers covering a questionable business arrangement but to publicly eviscerate Funk's personal secrets. If Funk knew that Bolles nosed around his ex-wife's lawsuit, what must have gone on in his head? Betty Funk Richardson told Detective Marcus Aurelius about Bolles showing up at a child support hearing: "He just sat there and glared at Brad, and I love him for it. I think Don's been kicked around and around and made to look ridiculous for years. And finally when they couldn't shake him, they tried to destroy him. I hope Don becomes a Jesus Christ ... and you all rally around the poor guy and recognize what he's been fighting alone." Attorney General Robert Corbin, who took over the Bolles case in 1978 when Bruce Babbitt became governor, twice described Bradley Funk as a "contingency suspect" in the murder. Whatever that means, the Phoenix police interviewed Funk for less than one minute, suggesting they get together later with the racetrack magnate "to talk." But that talk never took place. Why not? I asked Savoy. What kind of police investigation was this? I'd never accepted the alleged motive for the murder, that Kemper Marley ordered the hit because a newspaper story cost him a post on the racing commission. But since that first night reading the discovery, I'd learned Marley had lost his bid for the position before the Bolles article. The weak motive had turned into no motive. I felt discouraged and shackled with the defense apparently unable to use the new information. Dammit, I fumed to myself, Robison and Dunlap should be out on bail, awaiting a new trial. But sitting there in Savoy's office, I couldn't even be sure they would be retried. Prosecutors had gone to great lengths to convict them on the flimsiest evidencesimply Adamson's testimonyand it was nose-on-the-face clear that the only "solution" to the case the powers that be wanted was the one they had now. I wondered what else they feared would be found, and assured Savoy as I left his office that I'd continue to look. "Absolutely," he said. "As a private investigator you're not hampered by a state bar or canon of ethics that restricts lawyers from dealing with the press during a pending criminal action. Stay with it. You're filling our quiver with arrows for a new trial after the appeal is denied." On January 20 I sat opposite Max Dunlap in the drab little room at Arizona State Prison
[cia-drugs] Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering
http://bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODProduct_Code=381 Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering by Peter Reuter and Edwin M. Truman November 2004 248 pp. ISBN paper 0-88132-370-5 $23.95 Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, national and international efforts to reduce money laundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes, and most recently, terrorism. These efforts now constitute a formidable regime applied to financial institutions and transactions throughout much of the world. Yet few assessments of either the achievements or consequences of this regime have been made. Reuter and Truman (1) explore what is know about the scale and characteristics of money laundering, (2) describe the current antimoney laundering regime, (3) develop a framework for assessing the effectiveness of the regime, and (4) use that framework to assess how well the current system works and make proposals for its improvement. Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Chasing Dirty Money 2. How Much Money is Laundered? 3. Money Laundering: Methods and Markets 4. The Anti-Money Laundering Regime 5. Combating Predicate Crimes Involved in Money Laundering 6. Protecting Financial System Integrity 7. Combating Global "Public Bads" 8. Improving the Global AML Regime References Glossary Index 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.
[cia-drugs] New Tribes Mission, based in Sanford, Fla
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1208444CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 By IAN JAMES Associated Press Writer The Associated Press Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gives land titles to Karina indigenous from Anzoategui state at a ceremony in Barranco Yopal in Venezuela's Apure state, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, on Columbus Day, known in Venezuela as Indigenous Resistance Day. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) BARRANCO YOPAL, VenezuelaOct 12, 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered a U.S.-based Christian missionary group working with indigenous tribes to leave the country Wednesday, accusing the organization of "imperialist infiltration" and links to the CIA. Chavez said missionaries of the New Tribes Mission, based in Sanford, Fla., were no longer welcome during a ceremony in a remote Indian village where he presented property titles to several indigenous groups. "The New Tribes are leaving Venezuela. This is an irreversible decision that I have made," Chavez said. "We don't want the New Tribes here. Enough colonialism!" Insurgents Bomb Sunni Arab Office in Iraq Pakistan Ends Search for Quake Survivors Saudi King's Delicate Balancing Act He accused the missionaries of building luxurious camps next to poor Indian villages and circumventing Venezuelan customs authorities as they freely flew in and out on private planes. The group is involved in "true imperialist infiltration, the CIA, they take away sensitive, strategic information," Chavez said, without elaborating. "And on top of that, exploiting the Indians." "We don't want to abuse them, we're simply going to give them a period of time (to) pack up their things because they are leaving," Chavez said to applause from hundreds of Indians who sat under tents in Barranco Yopal, a remote village on Venezuela's southern plains. Nita Zelenak, a New Tribes representative reached by phone, declined to comment on Venezuela's decision or say how many missionaries are working in the country. The New Tribes Mission specializes in evangelism among indigenous groups in the world's remotest places. The organization says it has 3,200 workers and operations in 17 nations across Latin America, Southeast Asia and West Africa. During the ceremony, Chavez granted 15 property titles for more than 1.65 million acres to the Cuiba, Yuaruro, Warao and Karina tribes. The documents recognize collective ownership of ancestral lands by communities with some 3,000 people. "Previously, the indigenous people of Venezuela were removed from our lands. This is historic. It is a joyful day," said Librado Moraleda, a 52-year-old Warao from a remote village in the Orinoco River Delta. Moraleda received a land title and government pledges of $27,000 to build homes and plant cassava and plantains. Chavez says he is leading a "revolution" for the poor and that defending the rights of Venezuelan's 300,000 indigenous people is a priority. Iraq Insurgents Attack Sunni Party Office Rescue Efforts Wind Down in Pakistan Saudi King's Delicate Balancing Act But poverty remains severe in many Indian communities, and some said they need more help beyond land titles. "We want the government to help us with hunger, with credit," said Yuaruro Indian Pedro Mendez, 26. He said his community had asked for an electrical generator and loans to help plant more crops. Copyright 2005The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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] Feds looking into link between sweatshop donor and DeLay
From: MA PA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: WedOct5,2005 4:18 pm Subject: BREAKING: Blunt Money Laundering; DeLay, Successor Swapped Donations drymarc2003 Offline Send Email BREAKING: Blunt Money Laundering; DeLay, Successor Swapped Donations By JOHN SOLOMON and SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writers 19 minutes ago Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes. When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay's private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt's son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist recently charged in an ongoing federal corruption and fraud investigation, and Jim Ellis, the DeLay fundraiser indicted with his boss last week in Texas, also came into the picture. The complicated transactions are drawing scrutiny in legal and political circles after a grand jury indicted DeLay on charges of violating Texas law with a scheme to launder illegal corporate donations to state candidates. The government's former chief election enforcement lawyer said the Blunt and DeLay transactions are similar to the Texas case and raise questions that should be investigated regarding whether donors were deceived or the true destination of their money was concealed. "These people clearly like using middlemen for their transactions," said Lawrence Noble. "It seems to be a pattern with DeLay funneling money to different groups, at least to obscure, if not cover, the original source," said Noble, who was the Federal Election Commission's chief lawyer for 13 years, including in 2000 when the transactions occurred. None of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations DeLay collected for the 2000 convention were ever disclosed to federal regulators because the type of group DeLay used wasn't governed by federal law at the time. DeLay has temporarily stepped aside as majority leader after being indicted by a Texas prosecutor. Blunt who had been majority whip, the No. 3 Republican in the House has taken over much of that role in DeLay's absence. Spokesmen for the two Republican leaders say they disclosed what was required by law at the time and believe all their transactions were legal, though donors might not always have know where their money was headed. "It illustrates what others have said, that money gets transferred all the time. This was disclosed to the extent required to be disclosed by applicable law, said Don McGahn, a lawyer for DeLay. "It just shows that donors don't control funds once they're given." Blunt and DeLay planned all along to raise more money than was needed for the convention parties and then route some of that to other causes, such as supporting state candidates, said longtime Blunt aide Gregg Hartley. "We put together a budget for what we thought we would raise and spend on the convention and whatever was left over we were going to use to support candidates," said Hartley, Blunt's former chief of staff who answered AP's questions on behalf of Blunt. Hartley said he saw no similarity to the Texas case. The fact that DeLay's charity, Christine DeLay's consulting firm and Blunt's son were beneficiaries was a coincidence, Hartley said. Much of the money including one donation to Blunt from an Abramoff client accused of running a "sweatshop" garment factory in the Northern Mariana Islands changed hands in the spring of 2000, a period of keen interest to federal prosecutors. During that same time, Abramoff arranged for DeLay to use a concert skybox for donors and to take a golfing trip to Scotland and England that was partly underwritten by some of the lobbyist's clients. Prosecutors are investigating whether the source of some of the money was disguised, and whether some of DeLay's expenses were originally put on the lobbyist's credit card in violation of House rules. Both DeLay and Blunt and their aides also met with Abramoff's lobbying team several times in 2000 and 2001 on the Marianas issues, according to law firm billing records obtained by AP under an open records request. DeLay was instrumental in blocking legislation opposed by some of Abramoff's clients. Noble said investigators should examine whether the pattern of disguising the original source of money might have been an effort to hide the leaders' simultaneous financial and legislative dealings with Abramoff and his clients. "You see Abramoff involved and see the meetings that were held and one gets the sense Abramoff is helping this along in order to get access and push his clients' interest," he said. "And at the same time, you see Delay and Blunt trying to hide the root of their funding. "All of
[cia-drugs] [Fwd: UPDATE: C-SPAN to air Congressional Briefings on 9/11]
Original Message Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:59:10 -0400 From: Kyle F Hence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good news! Spread the word! Tape, duplicate and circulate! The two-part, nine-hour Congressional briefing I lobbied for and 9/11 CitizensWatch co-founder John Judge helped to organize with Rep. Cynthia McKinney concering remaining issues about 9/11 and the Commission's report and recommendation will now air on the main C-SPAN channel at the same times and dates, not on C-SPAN2, which means it will reach a wider audience. That channel is already airing a repeat of the recent series of forums by the 9/11 Public Discourse Project (PDP), a non-profit group created by members and staff of the 9/11 Commission to push for implementation of their recommendations. These various PDP panels will also air nightly at 8:00 pm, so those following them will then see an alternative view of the historical framework and flawed conclusions and recommendations of the official version. Hope you can watch or tape the two-part series on August 31 and September 2. Details follow: *C-SPAN to broadcast the entirety of the McKinney congressional Briefing on 9/11* Event / Events related to 9-11 *Date:* Aug 14, 2005 - 08:06 PM Representative Cynthia McKinney organized a day-long briefing on July 22 to address the 9/11 Commission's Final Report one year later. The event included leading victims' family members, former government and intelligence workers, academics and authors speaking on the flaws and weaknesses of the 9/11 Commission's investigation, assumptions, omissions, conclusions and recommendations. It was filmed in entirety by C-SPAN. C-SPAN has now set some times and dates for airing the event. August 31 They will air on C-SPAN from 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm on Wednesday, August 31 And on Friday, September 2 from 8:00 pm to 1:00 am. It is broken into two parts as described below: Part I Forum September 11 Commission Report Results, Pt. 1 U.S. House of Representatives, McKinney, C. (D-GA) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 187857 - 07/22/2005 - 3:30 - No Sale Daugherty, Rebecca, Director, Freedom of Info. Service Center Smith, Wayne, Member, Center for International Policy Gage, Kit, National Coordinator, National Coalition to Protect Policical Freedom Kleinberg, Mindy, Relative Judge, John, Co-Founder, 9/11 CitizensWatch McKinney, Cynthia, U.S. Representative, D, Georgia (State) Families of victims, former intelligence officials, and authors speak at a day-long forum on the September 11 Commission Report, focusing on the methodology of the investigation, recommendations made by the commission, causes of the attacks, and government responses to the attacks. Part II Forum September 11 Commission Report Results, Pt. 2 U.S. House of Representatives, McKinney, C. (D-GA) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 187857 - 2 - 07/22/2005 - 5:00 - No Sale McKinney, Cynthia, U.S. Representative, D, Georgia (State) Families of victims, former intelligence officials, and authors speak at a day-long forum on the September 11 Commission Report, focusing on the methodology of the investigation, recommendations made by the commission, causes of the attacks, and government responses to the attacks. The 9-11 Public Discourse Project forums will be aired around our events on the following days on C-SPAN on the following days: CIA and FBI Reform on August 24 at 8 pm Congressional Intelligence Reform on August 24 at 10:10 pm Challenges Facing the DNI on August 25 at 8 pm Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction on August 26 at 8 pm Homeland Security on August 26 at 10:05 pm Civil Liberties on August 29 at 8 pm Foreign Policy on August 30 at 8 pm [NOTE: CitizensWatch co-founder confronts Hamilton] Winning the Struggle of Ideas September 1 at 9:30 am and 8:00 pm on C-SPAN For full details on these see: www.c-span.org and click the "TV Schedules" link at the top right of the lead page, just above the flashing ad for C-SPAN pod-casting. 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. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005
[cia-drugs] David Sassoon, Sons Co
http://www.dangoor.com/75060.html Silas Aaron Hardoon (1851-1931): Business, Politics and Philanthropy in Republican Shanghai, 1911-1931 by Chiara Betta University of Indianapolis, Athens (UIA) Condensed from the original paper by Chiara Betta, who holds the copyright Hardoon and Trade Diaspora of Baghdadi Jews Salih Harun or Saleh Haron, then Anglicised as Silas Aaron Hardoon, was born to a poor Jewish family in the city of Baghdad in 1851. Five years later the Hardoons left the ailing Ottoman empire and, like other Jews of the Baghdad area, searched for fortune in Bombay. Once they arrived in the city they found protection under the wing of the local Baghdadian Jewish trading community that was headed by David Sassoon, a merchant-prince, renowned philanthropist and the scion of Baghdads most eminent Jewish family. Hardoon attended a charitable school funded by Sassoon and, as an adolescent, he joined the firm D. Sassoon Co., which supervised a large commercial empire. In 1868, after his employers had noticed his remarkable business acumen, he was sent to Hong Kong to gain experience of the Chinese market. However, six years later he was, for some unknown reason, suddenly dismissed. Penniless, he took a third-class deck passage to Shanghai where the tiny local community of Baghdadi Jews helped him to secure a badly paid job as rent collector and godown watchman at the local branch of David Sassoon, Sons Co. Most importantly, Baghdadi Jewish communities of Shanghai and Hong Kong represented individual nodes of the trade diaspora of Baghdadi Jews which extended from London to Shanghai and operated under the aegis of the British Empire. As a result of their ancillary position to the British, Baghdadi Jews who lived outside the Ottoman empire underwent a notable process of Anglicisation after the middle of the nineteenth century. They discarded their traditional dress, adopted English tastes and manners and lived a culturally hybrid lifestyle in westernised domestic spaces. Hardoon himself wore Western dress, spoke English, though with a thick Arabic accent, drank whiskey and took on the British passion for gardening. From Rags to Riches From the first moment Hardoon moved to Shanghai, he could foresee the exceptional development of the citys foreign settlements, areas administered by foreign municipal councils, which blossomed into a westernised metropolis by the beginning of the twentieth century. Thanks to his commercial shrewdness he quickly rose among the local ranks of D Sassoon, Sons Co and secured exceptionally profitable real estate deals on behalf of his employers. At the same time he also invested his own savings in land and constantly acquired pieces of property which yielded him good rents for re-investments in other lots. By 1882 Hardoon switched his interest to the cotton market. He left D Sassoon, Sons Co and established a cotton brokerage, a venture that failed within a short time. In 1886 he then resumed his career as real estate developer at E D Sassoon Co, which had been established by David Sassoons second son Elias David in 1867. In less than a decade Hardoon, who was in charge of real estate investments and also of opium dealings, was appointed partner and was in effect one of the firms most valuable assets. His entrance in Shanghais commercial elite was then marked by his appearance in 1893 as a member of the Shanghai club, Shanghais leading British club. Whilst working for E D Sassoon Co Hardoon continued to invest all his savings in real estate in the International Settlement. Since he constantly lacked liquid capital he raised cash for real estate investments by mortgaging his properties and also by dealing in opium, a legal commodity between 1858 and 1918. Thus in Chinese Shanghai Hardoon was known as a dealer of tu, a word that meant both land and opium. By 1911, when he finally left E D Sassoon Co, he owned large land assets in the Central and Western districts of the International Settlement and was in the process of acquiring properties on Nanking Road, which became Shanghais most fashionable commercial thoroughfare within a few years. As a result, prices of properties along the road skyrocketed prompting Hardoon to become by one of Shanghais wealthiest men. Going Native At the beginning of the Republican period Hardoon was not only Shanghais main real estate tycoon but also the only prominent foreign merchant who had established close and intimate ties with the Chinese socio-cultural milieu. Since his arrival in Shanghai Hardoon had, in fact, undergone a notable and gradual process of cross-cultural adaptation in the Chinese environment and, as a result, had absorbed Chinese patterns of behaviour and had adopted an increasingly Chinese lifestyle. The main force behind Hardoons increasingly close relationship with Chinese society was his wife Luo Jialing (Liza Roos) (1864-1941), a Buddhist Eurasian possibly of Jewish origin (see note below) - who completely
[cia-drugs] Pushing Nuclear Armageddon
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/2073346.html
Cheney's
'Spoon-Benders' Pushing Nuclear Armageddon
This article appears in the August 26, 2005 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
Cheney's
'Spoon-Benders' Pushing Nuclear
Armageddon
by Jeffrey
Steinberg
Sometime
in late 1980, then-Col. Paul E. Vallely, the Commander of the 7th
Psychological Operations Group, United States Army Reserve, Presidio of
San Francisco, Ca., co-authored a discussion paper, which received wide
and controversial attention within the U.S. military, particularly
within the Special Operations community. The paper was titled "From
PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory," and it presented a
Nietzschean scheme for waging perpetual psychological warfare against
friend and enemy populations alike, and even against the American
people.
The
"MindWar" paper was provoked by an article by Lt. Col. John Alexander,
which appeared in the December 1980 edition of Military Review,
advocating the introduction of ESP (extra-sensory perception),
"tele-pathetic behavior modification," para-psychology, psychokinesis
("mind over matter"), remote viewing, out of body experiences, and
other New Age and occult practices into U.S. military intelligence.
Alexander's paper was titled "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up,
Spock."
But the
subsequent paper co-authored by Vallely went way beyond ESP and the
other paranormal techniques advocated by Alexander: "Strategic
MindWar
must begin the moment war is considered to be inevitable," the document
stated. "It must seek out the attention of the enemy nation through
every available medium, and it must strike at the nation's potential
soldiers before they put on their uniforms. It is in their
homes and their communities that they are most vulnerable to
MindWar
"To this
end," Vallely and co-author continued, "MindWar must be strategic in
emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing,
supplementary role. In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to
friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globeneither through
primitive 'battlefield' leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through
the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronicsbut through
the
media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to
reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are,
of course the electronic mediatelevision and radio.
State of
the art developments in satellite communication, video recording
techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make
possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have
been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur
[King
Arthur's magical sworded.], we have but to reach out and seize this
tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and
the integrity to enhance civilization with it. If we do not accept
Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures
with our morality. If they can then desire moralities unsatisfactory to
us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level.
"MindWar
must target all
participants to be effective. It must not only weaken the enemy; it
must strengthen the United States. It strengthens the United States by
denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining
and
emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest in a
specific war."
Leaving
nothing to the imagination, the document concluded by emphasizing that
MindWar should employ subliminal brainwashing technologies, and
weapons
that directly attack the targetted population's central nervous system
and brain functioning: "There are some purely natural conditions under
which minds may become more or less receptive to ideas, and MindWar
should take full advantage of such phenomena as atmospheric
electromagnetic activity, air ionization, and extremely low frequency
waves," the paper concluded.
The
"MindWar" paper was disturbing, for reasons beyond its fascistic and
occultist content. For one thing, Colonel Vallely's co-author was a
PSYOP Research Analysis Team Leader named Maj. Michael A.
Aquino.
Five years before the circulation of the MindWar paper, Special Forces
Reserve officer Aquino had founded the Temple of Set, a Satanic
organization which was the successor to Anton Szandor LeVay's Church of
Satan. Aquino would soon be grabbing headlines, which persisted
throughout the 1980s, as a leading suspect in a nationwide Satanic
pedophile ring, that particularly targetted daycare centers on such
military bases as Fort Bragg and the Presidio (see article, p.21).
Furthermore,
Vallely and Aquino's MindWar scheme is remarkably similar to the
Total
Information Awareness (TIA) program launched by the Donald Rumsfeld
Pentagon, under the direction of Irangate figure Adm. John
Poindexter.
Ostensibly, the Total Information Awareness global propaganda and
mega-data-mining plan was scrapped after a series of negative news
[cia-drugs] Data Mining and Able Danger
http://www.intel-dump.com/posts/1123659720.shtml More on Data Mining and Able Danger [Jon Holdaway, Wednesday August 10, 2005 at 3:42am EST] Phil, Let me add a couple of comments to your post. 1. Information Sharing and US Persons. The critical part of your first quote block below is: Under American law, United States citizens and green-card holders may not be singled out in intelligence-collection operations by the military or intelligence agencies. That protection does not extend to visa holders, but Mr. Weldon and the former intelligence official said it might have reinforced a sense of discomfort common before Sept. 11 about sharing intelligence information with a law enforcement agency. This is just flat-out wrong. First, the "law" cited is Executive Order 12333, which defines the Intelligence Community and its authority to conduct operations. The most important provision of EO 12333 is its rules for when the IC can collect information on "US Persons." This is a specific definition and applies to a) US citizens, b) Permanent Resident Aliens (green-card holders), c) un-incorporated organizations composed by a majority of a) or b), or d) US corporations not owned by a foreign government. The general rule for EO 12333 is basically, "thou shalt not collect information (that is, spy on) US Persons, except . . ." The "except" portion is critical. There are 13 exceptions under which an intelligence agency can collect information on US Persons. These include for personnel security investigations, for administrative purposes, when the subject gives consent to collect. The two most important categories are for Foreign Intelligence purposes (that is, collecting information on US Persons who are agents of a foreign power) and for Counterintelligence purposes. The Counterintelligence exception also includes collection for counternarcotics and international counterterrorism purposes. It also allows for collection of not just individuals reasonably believed to be engaged in international terrorism activities, but also collection of information on people associated with individuals reasonably believed to engaged in international terrorism activities (for the purpose of determining the relationship if no significant relationship, then the info is destroyed). All of this falls under the rubric of "intelligence oversight", which is a well-ingrained program within the military intelligence community ensuring that collection (especially HUMINT) activities did not retain information on US Persons without authority. So when someone says that the military couldn't share information because of rules against collection of US Person information, that is not an accurate statement. Even if Mohammed Atta was a Permanent Resident Alien, the Intelligence Community was free to spy on him, collect the information, database it, and use it in intelligence reporting community-wide. The excuse doesn't make sense logically, either: How could Able Danger have conducted intelligence collection, using Army intelligence resources at LIWA have built the briefing to begin with? Once the information has been properly collected, it can be shared (theoretically). The reason the information was not forwarded probably had more to do with the infamous "wall" created by Justice Department's misreading of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, fixed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Appeals and the Patriot Act. 2. Datamining. When one talks of datamining, they need to be clear on what exactly they mean. All datamining is is a set of tools used to dip into databases which can sort through the data and provide the answer to the query. Think of Westlaw or Lexis/Nexis on speed. The controversy in TIA was created over the types of databases they were going to search. DARPA was talking about applying the analytical toolkits to civilian business databases such as credit cards, hotel bookings, rental cars, etc. Even then, there were rules in place (using EO 12333 as the foundation) to ensure that the databases were not being queried without a legitimate purpose. However, TIA was killed in a spate of misinformation. Before its death, these toolkits were already being used and improved by the Information Dominance Center at Fort Belvoir, VA. The significant difference between TIA's goals and the IDC's actual practice is that IDC is only analyzing databases of Intel Community information already collected. Here's how IDC (at this discussion level) works: if Army intelligence has a reasonable belief that I am either engaging in or supporting international terrorist activities (or had a relationship with those engaged in the same) based on information that I had attended a mosque with a known terrorist and/or had made pro-terrorist statements, the first thing Army intel is going to do is to "tip" its own databases and see what has already been collected on me. Low and behold, they find a report written about a Gitmo
[cia-drugs] Laura Rozen, Curt Weldon's Deep Throat
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=rootname=ViewWebarticleId=9836 Curt Weldon's Deep Throat The Pennsylvania Republicans freelance spying has once again brought a discredited arms dealer's fabrications to the CIA. By Laura Rozen Web Exclusive: 06.10.05 Print Friendly | Email Article Countdown to Terror, Representative Curt Weldon's sensationalistic new book about his personal struggle to combat the Iranian terrorism threat despite the alleged resistance of the CIA, is based entirely on the Pennsylvania Republican's freelance communications with a secret source he code-named "Ali." Much of Weldon's book, which will be released next week by Regnery Publishing, consists of reproduced pages of comically overwrought "intelligence" memos faxed from the Iranian migrs Paris location to Weldons office between 2003 and 2004. Dear Curt, reads one memo excerpt from Ali published by Weldon. An attack against an atomic plant by a plane, the name mentioned, but not clear it begins with SEA [Seattle?]. Another reads: Dear Curt: I confirm again a terrorist attack within the United States is planned before the American elections." But in an exclusive interview with The American Prospect, Weldon's "Ali" -- who was identified in an April article by me and Jeet Heer as Fereidoun Mahdavi, a frail, elderly former minister of commerce in the shahs government and a longtime business associate of Iran-Contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar -- said he was stunned and perplexed to learn that Weldon had used his information to write a book, emphasizing that Weldon never even told him about the book. Mahdavi also said that the bulk of the information that he had provided to Weldon was originally sourced from none other than Ghorbanifar, the subject of a rare CIA burn notice after the agency found him to be a "fabricator" more than two decades ago during the Iran-Contra affair. Many information that I have given to Weldon is coming from Ghorbanifar, said Mahdavi, who was reached in Paris by telephone on June 6. Because Ghorbanifar used me, in fact, to pass that stuff because I know he has problems in Washington. The former minister continued: I am well-known in Tehran. How can I call Tehran? But Ghorbanifar is something else. He has all the contacts within Iran. Nobody has so many information and contacts that he has. Now if he is using that information through me to try to buy power indirectly, that is his business. I do it because I have known him for many years. Several Iranian exile associates of the pair have told the Prospect that Mahdavi, living in reduced circumstances and caring for his cancer-stricken wife, is in fact financially dependent on Ghorbanifar. They have been involved in various businesses together, from petroleum shipping to arms dealing to (more recently) intelligence peddling, since both washed up in Paris after the Iranian revolution in 1979. Although Mahdavi expresses understanding of the motives of his old pal and business partner Ghorbanifar, he says he is utterly baffled by Weldons decision to use his information as the foundation of a book that the congressman never once mentioned to him. I assume that if [Weldon] wanted to publish a book, I assure you I would have heard it, Mahdavi said initially, in disbelief that Weldon would publish the book without even a phone call. I am just surprised that you tell me he has a book coming out . Hours later, after receiving a fax with a Congressional Quarterly article about Weldons forthcoming book and the amazon.com book description, Mahdavi spoke again in shock and anger. Someone is using me for their purposes, he raged. How is it possible that something like that book comes out and the people who publish it dont inform me? Dont you think thats strange? What I cannot understand is, if you had not called me and told me there is a book coming out from Weldon, I would have never known about it. You informed me. But this is now, I am sure, there is a fight between all these [U.S. government] organizations, and they are using this issue and using me. Among those who agree is the former senior CIA official who met with Mahdavi in response to Weldons pressure on the agency to accept the Mahdavi/Ghorbanifar information. The tale of "Ali" suggests that the agency is assiduously seeking to weed out another fabricator like Ghorbanifar (or Iraqi fabulist Ahmad Chalabi) from corrupting U.S. intelligence information on Iran. Bill Murray, a former CIA station chief in Paris, met with me on June 9 at a northern Virginia shopping mall to talk about Weldon's assault on the agency. Still doing contract work for the CIA since his recent retirement, Murray chose to speak up about the agencys role in vetting and determining Alis information to be fabrications -- migr babble" -- because Weldon has publicly savaged the CIA in his book. By speaking with reporters, Murray believes he could be risking his contract work, but hes outraged over what he
[cia-drugs] TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law part 1
It's interesting that the Bush leakers are using the same defenses brought up in a case a few years ago in which they prosecuted persons for leaking information intended to hurt them. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they think the courts will reverse the interpretation of the law, I assume. Linda http://citizenspook.blogspot.com/2005/07/treasongate-controlling-law-big.html Thursday, July 28, 2005 TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law - Big Trouble For The White House Staff. The controlling law for Treasongate has been greatly ignored by the main stream media and the blogosphere. This article seeks to clarify the controlling law. To determine the controlling law, all one needs to do is read the non-disclosure agreement Karl Rove and all of the members of the Bush administration with security clearance signed which included the following statement: "I have been advised that any unauthorized disclosure of classified information by me may constitute a violation, or violations, of United States criminal laws, including the provisions of Sections 641, 793, 794, 798, 952 and 1924, Title 18, United States Code, the provisions of Section 783(b), Title 50, United States Code, and the provisions of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982." Sanctions for a breach of the non-disclosure agreement are provided for by Executive Order, but those sanctions are ancillary to the United States Code provisions cited in the paragraph above which stand alone. Please notice that the Title 18 United States Code statutes are separate statutes that precede the first mention of the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act". The complicated "Intelligence Identities Protection Act" of 1982 which has been exclusively discussed by the media is not controlling. Rove and company may be guilty of violating that act, but prior United States Code statutory law and Federal case law, specifically 18 USC 793 as interpreted by United States v. Morison (and related cases) has been breached and should lead to convictions under the facts known to the public at large. 18 USC 793 provides for a maximum of ten years in prison to those convicted under this statute. Analysis of the law and precedent regarding 18 USC 793 indicates that the facts known to the public in the Plame case may be sufficient to guarantee convictions because the statute does not require that the information leaked be "classified". Certainly, the information leaked in the Plame case was classified as "SECRET" in a State Department memo circulated from and to White House staff, but that classification is not necessary for convictions under sections of Title 18 statutes. 18 USC 793 does not require that officials responsible for disclosing information about Valerie Plame had to know she was "covert" or under cover. Discussed in great detail below, the statute only requires that the information leaked be related to the national defense and that the individual responsible for disclosing that information have a reasonable belief that the information could be used to the detriment of the USA. Ths legal test is much easier to meet than the test put forth in the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Furthermore, the highest courts in the USA that have studied this issue already address the defensive arguments forwarded in Treasongate. And it is clear that arguments which might stand a chance in a defense to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, will fail as a defense to charges brought under 18 USC 793, 794 and 641. [If 18 USC 794 has also been breached, that statute provides a maximum sentence of the death penalty for those convicted "in a time of war". Analysis of 18 USC 794 and 18 U.S.C. @ 641 will be the subject of a future article by this author. The focus of this study will center upon 18 USC 793(d), which is the statute most likely to return convictions in the Plame matter. Sections 794 and 641 may also have been violated, but those issues are slightly more difficult to prove. Please note that in 2002, the Bush administration used 18 U.S.C. @ 641 to convict Jonathan Randel for leaking to the media non-classified information about Drug Enforcement Administration files.] It has been reported in various publications that a State Department memo was circulated among members of The White House staff indicating that the paragraph containing Valerie Plame's name was marked with an "[S]" meaning the information in that paragraph was classified as "Secret". EXECUTIVE ORDER 13292, signed by President Bush on March 25, 2003 explains the various levels of classified information: "2) "Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe. " The classified State Department memorandum central to the federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie
[cia-drugs] Why Did Attorney General Ashcroft Remove Himself?
John Dean was on this story 18 months ago. ~~~ http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040106.html Why Did Attorney General Ashcroft Remove Himself From The Valerie Plame Wilson Leak Investigation? Signs that a Key Witness May Have Come Forward By JOHN W. DEAN Tuesday, Jan. 06, 2004 Recently, Attorney General John Ashcroft removed himself from the investigation into who leaked the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Since the announcement, there has been considerable speculation as to why this occurred, and what it means. Some think the move suggests the inquiry will be scuttled -- and Ashcroft is ducking out early to avoid the heat. But that seems unlikely. The new head of the investigation, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is a high profile, well-respected U.S. Attorney, who runs one of the more important offices in the country, Chicago's. Fitzgerald is also a close friend of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who announced his appointment. It seems unlikely that Fitzgerald was brought in merely to kill the case. Others believe that Ashcroft's decision to remove himself suggests that the investigation must be focusing on people politically close to Ashcroft, and that Ashcroft thus pulled out because he knew he would be criticized whatever he did. That is certainly possible. But as I will explain, I have a slightly different take on what has occurred and why. Here is what the latest positioning of the tea leaves tells me. The Recent Progress of the Plame Investigation All signs indicate that the Plame leak investigation has been gaining steam. As readers may recall, it was in a July 14 column that journalist Robert Novak revealed that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA covert agent. As I discussed in a prior column, the leak is potentially a felony, and could violate several laws. According to The Washington Post, on December 23, minority leader Thomas Daschle, and the ranking Democrat of the Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, sent Ashcroft a letter. The letter demanded a status report on the Plame investigation, and urged the appointment of a special counsel. So Democrats have kept the heat on, but that does not strike me as the probable reason for Ashcroft's decision. On December 26, the Post reported that the investigation was, in fact, gaining momentum, and the Justice Department had added a fourth prosecutor "specializing in counterintelligence" (which I translate as meaning he had all the security clearances needed to work on a case like this). It also reported that "FBI agents have told people they have interviewed that they may be asked to testify before a grand jury." Empanelling a grand jury empowers prosecutors both to serve subpoenas, and to gather testimony under oath. On December 30, Deputy Attorney General Comey held a press conference to announce that Ashcroft had removed himself from the investigation. Comey said that the investigation would instead be headed by Fitzgerald. Of note to me, was Comey's comment that "this has come together really in the last week" -- meaning, apparently, the week of December 22-26 -- the Christmas holiday week during which the FBI raised the prospect of a grand jury. As Comey explained, given Fitzgerald's U.S. Attorney status -- which will be continuing concurrent with his "special counsel" status -- there will be no interruption in the investigation. Comey noted that if Fitzgerald "needs to issue a subpoena involving the media, for example, or if he wants to grant immunity to somebody," he will not have to obtain approval of the Justice Department. (The reference to the media certainly hints at subpoenaing Novak's phone records, or calling him before the grand jury -- again suggesting progress in the inquiry.) On January 2, NBC News reported that the FBI was focusing on the White House as the probable source of the leak. It also reported that the FBI had asked White House staffers "to sign a form releasing reporters from any promises of confidentiality they may have made to their sources." Not only does none of this activity indicate an investigation that is being scuttled, but it clearly implies something noteworthy has happened in the investigation. The New Phase Of the Investigation Not wanting to hype the situation, all Comey said was that Ashcroft withdrew because, in an "abundance of caution," he "believed that his recusal was appropriate based on the totality of the circumstances and the facts and evidence developed at this stage of the investigation." He added later in the press conference that the "recusal is not one of actual conflict of interest that arises normally when someone has a financial interest or something. The issue that he was concerned about was one of appearance." What facts would raise a serious questions of the appearance of a conflict of interest here? I'd bet that the investigation is focusing on at least one target whom Ashcroft knows more than casually, or works with regularly.
[cia-drugs] Chicago Grand Jury
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/ Cloak and Dagger RADIO-NEWS Bulletin 1:53 EDT August 2ND CHICAGO GRAND JURY FINGERS PRESIDENT BUSH VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY BUSH CHENEY INDICTED! CLICK TO HEAR BUT WILL THEY BE PROTECED AND PROMOTED BY THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE SYSTEM RULING ELITE? INDICTMENTS FROM DOCUMENTS FURNISHED TO THE GRAND JURY BY CLOAK AND DAGGER REGULAR GUEST TOM HENEGHEN FIND OUT ON CLOAK AND DAGGER SHOP TALK BRIEFINGS. SKOLNICK BLOOM IN PRE-BRIEFING WITH TOM FLOCCO CLICK TO HEAR FIRST EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE INTERVIEW WITH THE CLOAK "I hope they go after the 'fictitious Presidency' as well!" says Cloak and Dagger A Chicago grand jury has indicted the President and Vice-President of the United States along with multiple high officials in the Bush administration! His father, Bush Senior, Saved Him From a Murder Rap But Can He Save Him Against a Treason Rap. CLICK TO HEAR 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.
[cia-drugs] Tom Heneghen report on July 17
This show aired before the disclosure about the
actual indictments reported by Flocco.
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http://www.total911.info/2005/07/tenet-under-investigation-for-pre-911.html
Tom Heneghen reports to Cloak
Dagger Internet Radio
(late of 50,000-watt blowtorch CFMJ-AM) that a trusted "source close to
the Fitzgerald investigation" says the independent prosecutor is
looking into former CIA Director George Tenet's role in pre-9/11 put
options placed on American Airlines.
Previous editions of Cloak
Dagger reported that the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
has taken his investigation beyond who named Valerie Plame as a CIA
agent into who frauded up claims that Saddam Hussien was seeking
yellowcake uranium and, ultimately, the 9/11 scam.
CD correspondent Tom Heneghen reported on the July 17 show
that Fitzgerald is looking into insider trading on airline stocks
before 9/11. Heneghen reports that over the three trading days before
9/11 on the Chicago Board of Options 4,516 put options (bets the price
would tank) were placed on American Airlines stock vs only 748 call
options (bets the price would go up).
According to CD,
Fitzgerald is investigating Tenet's role in connection to Buzzy
Krongard, a former No. 3 at the CIA, and that man's relation to the
2,157 airline options placed through Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter,
located on 22 floors of the WTC.
Texas money laundering operation involving Hunts
Philippines
V.K. Durham trust
Beverly Enterprises and Stephens, Inc.--45 nursing home
associates--Mena, Ark.
bogus gold cert.
Brady Bond fraud
Wachovia Bank
assassinations--William Doonesbury and ?
offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood
financial and operational terrorist fraud
leaker to Judith Miller
Bolton cables and intercepts with Uzbekistan
hedge fund in London involving two "suicides" in NY
James Warren at Chicago Trib is obstructing justice
Chicago Mercantile
Roger Morris, NSC--Air Force One signal of Bush and Cheney talking
about Valerie Plame
Leo Wanta letter to Dick Cheney about Philippine money --linked to
Wachovia Bank
Marc Rich
Russian Mafiya
Arrest of "E.P" in London, money laundered through Denmark
If Bush fires Patrick Fitzgerald, it will set P.F. free to talk.
white-skinned Moslems in Texas
Arrests in London are the same as what went on in NY after 9/11 to shut
up people who knew too much
Subway bombs were underneath the trains and could not have been planted
by the youths they arrested.
Private company, mock drill, piggy-backed with actual bombing.
P-2 and Calipari, who was assassinated in Iraq.
Niger's embassy broken into and papers stolen
Bush is desperate to fire Fitz., but can't. Indictments will open up
the whole money laundering network.
Throughout the tape, there has been no mention of any sources for the
information--where any leaks are coming from other than documents
submitted by Tom Heneghen.
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http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/beverly_arkansas.html
A Rose Law Firm Deal, Revisited
The Wall Street Journal PAGE A20 - - - 03/15/1994
Jonathan Roos
(Copyright (c) 1994, Dow Jones Co., Inc.)
The following is reprinted with permission
from the Des Moines Register of June 13, 1993. A related editorial
appears nearby {see related editorial: "Review Outlook
(Editorial): Who Was Webster Hubbell? -- I" -- WSJ March 15,
1994}.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton complained in a
recent speech about profiteering in the health care industry, she
could have found a ready example in the role one of her former
Arkansas law partners played in an Iowa nursing-homes deal that made
millions for the deal makers.
William H. Kennedy III, a partner in the Rose
Law Firm of Little Rock and now associate counsel to President
Clinton, shepherded the deal for Beverly Enterprises, a giant
nursing-home company that paired up with a Texas banker to sell its
Iowa and Arkansas nursing homes.
Forty-one Iowa homes were acquired four years
ago by a nonprofit corporation, now known as Care Initiatives, that
was effectively controlled by the banker, Bruce Whitehead. The deal
was financed by $86 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds.
Whitehead and the bond underwriters took
up-front profits exceeding $15 million.
Beverly, which needed cash to reduce its
crippling debt, made about $10 million.
"Kennedy was involved in the whole thing,
period. He was the point man for Beverly," says Frank Pechacek, a
Council Bluffs lawyer who investigated the deal for county assessors.
The assessors were contesting Care Initiatives' claim to property tax
exemptions for its nursing homes in about 30 counties.
Kennedy could not be reached for
comment.
Other Rose Law Firm partners who now work in
the Clinton administration may have been involved, too. Webster
Hubbell, who holds the No. 3 slot in the Justice Department {Mr.
Hubbell resigned yesterday}, listed Beverly Enterprises among his 26
Rose Law Firm clients.
Vincent Foster Jr., deputy counsel to the
president, represented Stephens Inc., a Little Rock
[cia-drugs] Daniel Schorr: Rove leak is about a casus belli.
They're finally getting around to what I wrote last month in "A Government Cult." http://www.sandersresearch.com/Sanders/NewsManager/ShowNews.aspx?NewsID=950 Linda http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0715/p09s02-cods.html CommentaryDaniel Schorr from the July 15, 2005 edition Rove leak is just part of larger scandal By Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON Let me remind you that the underlying issue in the Karl Rove controversy is not a leak, but a war and how America was misled into that war. In 2002 President Bush, having decided to invade Iraq, was casting about for a casus belli. The weapons of mass destruction theme was not yielding very much until a dubious Italian intelligence report, based partly on forged documents (it later turned out), provided reason to speculate that Iraq might be trying to buy so-called yellowcake uranium from the African country of Niger. It did not seem to matter that the CIA advised that the Italian information was "fragmentary and lacked detail." Prodded by Vice President Dick Cheney and in the hope of getting more conclusive information, the CIA sent Joseph Wilson, an old Africa hand, to Niger to investigate. Mr. Wilson spent eight days talking to everyone in Niger possibly involved and came back to report no sign of an Iraqi bid for uranium and, anyway, Niger's uranium was committed to other countries for many years to come. No news is bad news for an administration gearing up for war. Ignoring Wilson's report, Cheney talked on TV about Iraq's nuclear potential. And the president himself, in his 2003 State of the Union address no less, pronounced: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Wilson declined to maintain a discreet silence. He told various people that the president was at least mistaken, at most telling an untruth. Finally Wilson directly challenged the administration with a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed headlined, "What I didn't find in Africa," and making clear his belief that the president deliberately manipulated intelligence in order to justify an invasion. One can imagine the fury in the White House. We now know from the e-mail traffic of Time's correspondent Matt Cooper that five days after the op-ed appeared, he advised his bureau chief of a supersecret conversation with Karl Rove who alerted him to the fact that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA and may have recommended him for the Niger assignment. Three days later, Bob Novak's column appeared giving Wilson's wife's name, Valerie Plame, and the fact she was an undercover CIA officer. Mr. Novak has yet to say, in public, whether Mr. Rove was his source. Enough is known to surmise that the leaks of Rove, or others deputized by him, amounted to retaliation against someone who had the temerity to challenge the president of the United States when he was striving to find some plausible reason for invading Iraq. The role of Rove and associates added up to a small incident in a very large scandal - the effort to delude America into thinking it faced a threat dire enough to justify a war. Daniel Schorr is the senior news analyst at National Public Radio. 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.
