[CTRL] FBI again denies access to Pentagon crash videos
-Caveat Lector- http://www.total911.info/2005/12/fbi-again-denies-access-to-pentagon.html -- -- www.total411.infowww.total911.info www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI raids Minneapolis City Council member's house, Green Party member candidate for re-election
-Caveat Lector- Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActionGreens] FBI raids Green City Council candidate in Minnesota Green Minneapolis City Councilman Dean Zimmermann's house was raided and his computers, files, financial records(campaign and personal) and campaign literature are all being reported to have been confiscated and may include sample ballots for the 10 Green candidates in Minneapolis paid for by the Minneapolis/5th Congressional District Local and being distributed from Dean's home as a central location with nearly always someone from his campaign available. Dean's home has been the staging ground for much of the networking efforts between our 10 green party campaigns in the city and with the primary next Tues. this(whatever this is) is coming down at a very inopportune time and some suspect it to be political motivated. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. The FBI agents would only say that the affidavit was sealed and that they were unable to let anyone know why the home was being searched. I'm sure myself and the MN delegates can keep the national committee informed as further information becomes available. David Strand The story on the FBI search of Dean Zimmermann's home and campaign materials is in the Star Tribune tomorrow. http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5604473.html Betsy Barnum Minneapolis http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5604473.html Last update: September 8, 2005 at 6:16 PM Feds search Minneapolis Council member's home Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune September 9, 2005 ZIMM0909 Federal agents executed a search warrant at the home of Minneapolis City Council member Dean Zimmermann today. Zimmermann, a Green party member who is seeking re-election, was not available for comment, but his campaign manager, Lauren Maker, said the agents spent three hours at his home. Maker said the agents confiscated everything relating to Zimmermann's campaign, including financial records and a pre-primary mailing in process. Maker said the agents told her the affidavit attached to the warrant was sealed, so she was unable to explain the purpose of the search. But Maker also said the agents took Zimmermann's personal financial records as well. Zimmermann, a first term council member, is seeking re-election and because of redistricting is in the same ward as council vice president Robert Lilligren, a DFLer. Dean ZimmermannThey shut down the campaign, Maker said. It's politically motivated. Maker said she drew that conclusion because of the timing five days before the primary. - Rochelle Olson is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wcco.com live tv coverage of FBI raid can be seen at http://wcco.com/video/?cid=5 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI/DEA/CIA files on William Robert Tosh Plumlee
-Caveat Lector- http://toshplumlee.info/ FBI/DEA/CIA files on William Robert "Tosh" Plumlee The following FBI/DEA/CIA files were released between the years 1981 and 1999. These United States government files are placed here for review by professional researchers, law enforcement officials and by the general public. A responsible review of these documents should provide the reader with a clear picture of the covert background of Tosh Plumlee. A careful review of these documents will reveal that the United States Department of Justice has been guilty of obstruction of justice since 1963 and before. You will need a FREE to review these files! FBI FILES DESCRIPTION toshrequest.pdf Initial written request for information under FOIA fbiresponse.pdf FBI Letter responding to Plumlee's request for information fbicoverpage.pdf Cover page on information released by FBI fbi9396.pdf The Tosh Plumlee - Johnny Rosselli Files Released 1993-1999 fbi1.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi2.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi3.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi4.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi5.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi6.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi7.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi8.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi9.pdf FBI News article fbi9a.pdf FBI News article fbi9b.pdf FBI News article fbi9c.pdf FBI News article fbi9d.pdf FBI News article fbi9e.pdf FBI News article fbi9f.pdf FBI News article fbi9g.pdf FBI News article fbi9h.pdf FBI News article fbi9i.pdf FBI News article fbi9j.pdf FBI News article fbi9k.pdf FBI News article fbi9l.pdf FBI News article fbi9m.pdf FBI News article fbi9n.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files fbi9o.pdf Plumlee - Rosselli Files senate1.pdf Notice of voucher for expenses for Senate testimony senate2.pdf Voucher for Tosh Plumlee appearing before Senate sengaryhart.pdf Letters from U.S. Senator Gary Hart and Telluride Journal FBI81a.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81b.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81c.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81d.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81e.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81f.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) FBI81g.pdf FBI FOIA documents 1981 (no mention of Rosselli) check1.pdf FBI report that Plumlee arrested for hot checks check2.pdf FBI report that Plumlee arrested for hot checks check3.pdf FBI report that Plumlee arrested for hot checks check4.pdf FBI report that no bad checks were listed for Plumlee FBIlist1.pdf FBI list of all documents on Tosh Plumlee FBIlist2.pdf FBI list of all files on Plumlee (note files destroyed) FBIlist3.pdf FBI list of all files on Plumlee (note files destroyed) DEA FILES INFORMATION DEAfiles.pdf DEA Mexico OPS: These documents make reference to "Guatemalan Guerrillas" training at a ranch owned by Drug Lord CARO- Quintero in Vera Crus, Mexico. It was reported at the time this was a CIA training site where weapons were exchanged for drugs in support of the Contra effort in Nicaragua and Costa Rico. DEA Agent Enrique Camarena (KIKI) and his pilot found out about this operation known as "The CIA Thing" and were killed because of this knowledge. Plumlee and other American undercover pilots had flown into this ranch many times as reported in various sections within these documents and other news media leaks in Mexico and America. The operation was known as "AMSOG" and, as reported to Senator Gary Hart and his Senate investigators in early 1983, was an "illegal" smuggling operation through Mexico into the United States, supported by the US Military, Panama Southern Command. CIA FILES INFORMATION Thunder Ops MASOG OMC: THUNDER OPS. CLASSIFICATION DATE: July 14, 1965... from CIA Washington, DC to SECSTATE Washington D.C... (declassified July 1997) Ref; "Top Secrete Operation" -- embedded within a section of a declassified document known as: (Rolling Thunder) note: declassified 32 years after the fact. (page one of one) " I have limited my approvals for operations inside the DRV FROM LAOS to small scale intelligence probes to determine popular attitudes and the recruitment of indigenous to provide intelligence and support to TEAMS sent in from LAOS. With respect to: 'The broader object of a FULL SCALE RESISTANCE EFFORT'..." Spear Ops SPEAR OPS Document date: March 18, 1965 Declassified date: March 5,1998 Reference: Top Secret Western Hemisphere Political report on Bolivian Junta chiefs resignation: "...this document influenced the introduction of the Bolivian Drug Lords with CIA political and military influence in the region... a form of "destabilization" and inadvertently introduction of the future drug problem in Bolivia. Spin Ops This a brief INTEL report about two pilots that were down and captured, Shelton and Hedlicka, and held in a cave and the interrogation of the two pilots A "specialized" team was sent in to
[CTRL] FBI Raids Offices of Pro-Israel Group
-Caveat Lector- From Capitol Hill Blue News FBI Raids Offices of Pro-Israel Group By CURT ANDERSON Dec 2, 2004, 03:47 FBI agents searched files and served subpoenas Wednesday at the offices of the major pro-Israel lobbying organization as part of an investigation into whether Israel improperly obtained classified U.S. information on Iran. The search at the offices of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was disclosed in a statement by the organization, which repeated it is cooperating in order to get these false and baseless allegations put to rest fully and swiftly. As we have said from the beginning, AIPAC has done nothing wrong, the statement said. The FBI previously searched AIPAC's offices on Aug. 27. Agents also have interviewed two AIPAC employees about whether a Defense Department analyst, Larry Franklin, gave them classified information that would up with Israel. Franklin works on Iran and Middle East issues in the office of policy undersecretary Douglas Feith. Franklin has not commented on the probe and has not been charged. AIPAC said FBI agents on Wednesday requested and received files related to those same two employees, who previously were identified - Steve Rosen, the director of research, and Keith Weissman, deputy director of foreign policy issues. The FBI has copied computer hard drives and files from both men. In addition, the AIPAC statement said subpoenas were served by the FBI requiring four senior AIPAC officials to testify before the federal grand jury investigating the case. A source familiar with the inquiry identified the four as AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr, managing director Richard Fishman, communications director Renee Rothstein and research director Rafi Danziger. The FBI and Justice Department declined comment. The Israeli government has denied spying on the United States, saying that meetings between U.S. and Israeli officials are common and that the two countries share many secrets. Iran, particularly any assessments of its nuclear ambitions, is of critical importance to Israel's security interests. Israel said it has imposed a ban on espionage in the United States since the scandal over Jonathan Pollard, an American caught spying for Israel in 1985. The AIPAC investigation, which dates to the early 2001 days of the Bush administration, is being handled by U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty of Alexandria, Va. No charges have been brought. --- On the Net: American Israel Public Affairs Committee: http://www.aipac.org FBI: http://www.fbi.gov 2004 The Associated Press Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue Fair Use Notice This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, human rights, economic, democracy, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] FBI Snitch Burns Himself in Front of White House
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- War On Error: Idiot Who Burned Himself at the White House was an FBI Snitch http://www.politrix.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1533 Posted on Tuesday, November 16 @ 01:35:39 EST Topic: United States of America WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who set himself on fire outside the White House on Monday was a Yemeni federal informant on terrorism upset over how the FBI had managed his case, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Mohamed Alanssi, who had recently discussed his work as an informant in interviews with The Washington Post, told the newspaper by faxed letter and telephone on Monday he intended to "burn my body at unexpected place," the newspaper reported. Man Who Ignited Self at White House an InformantREUTERS The U.S. Park Police said in a statement that a Middle Eastern male in his early 50's approached the northwest gate of the White House around 2 p.m. with a letter for the president. After a brief conversation with Secret Service officers, the man pulled a lighter from his pocket and ignited his jacket, the statement said. The Washington Post said Alanssi, 52, was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he was listed in critical condition with burns over about 30 percent of his body. Neither the Secret Service nor White House had immediate comment on the incident. The man's name was being withheld pending notification of his family, the Park Police said. A spokesman for the FBI in Washington was not immediately available for comment on the Post report early on Tuesday. In interviews with the newspaper, Alanssi, who is from Yemen and also uses the name Mohamed Alhadrami, expressed anguish over not being able to visit his family in Yemen. He told the newspaper that he suffers from diabetes and heart problems and that his wife suffers from stomach cancer. Alanssi said he could not travel to Yemen because he has no money and because the FBI, which expects him to testify at a terrorism trial in New York, was keeping his Yemeni passport. "It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI," Alanssi was quoted as saying. "The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position . . . I am not crazy to destroy my life and my family's life to get $100,000," he said. Alanssi said he became a major informant for the FBI after the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States. He said he was paid $100,000 in 2003 but had expected much more and had not received the permanent residency status he was promised, the newspaper reported. "We don't have a policy on revealing who is a cooperator or informing witness," Joe Valiquette, an FBI spokesman in New York, told the Post. The U.S. attorney's office in the eastern district of New York, which is prosecuting the terrorism-related trial in January, also declined comment, the newspaper said. Original Article via Reuters FBI Snitch Burns Himself in Front of White House Associated Topics Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! Try it today! www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for
[CTRL] FBI Seizes Computer from AIPAC Offices
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullcid=1093921795845 Sep. 1, 2004 0:49 |Updated Sep. 1, 2004 0:56FBI seizes computer from AIPAC officesBy JANINE ZACHARIA FBI agents on Friday copied the computer hard drive of a senior staffer at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who has been questioned in relation to the case of a Pentagon official suspected of turning over a classified document either directly to Israel, or via the pro-Israel lobby group. Sources in Washington said the hard drive was that of Steve Rosen, AIPAC's director of foreign policy issues. It was not clear if FBI agents also seized other materials from Rosen's office. AIPAC says it is cooperating fully with the FBI's investigation. Government lawyers, according to Tuesday's New York Times, are preparing to make the first arrests in the case by issuing a criminal complaint against one or more figures who are said to be involved. The case is being handled by federal prosecutors in Virginia. But experts suggested that the rush to file a complaint could be a sign that the charge will be less severe than that of espionage, as was originally reported. "The fact that they're going to file a complaint instead of an indictment is an indication of the weakness of their case," said one criminal defense expert. A criminal complaint would allow the government to proceed with arrests more quickly. AIPAC and Israel have denied any wrongdoing in a case that has become increasingly muddled since CBS News reported on Friday that the FBI was about to arrest an Israeli mole in the Pentagon. Investigators suspect that a mid-level Pentagon staffer, Larry Franklin, provided either AIPAC or Israel with a secret draft of an internal planning document on US policy toward Iran. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith have been briefed on the case, as have officials at the White House, State Department, and congressional leaders. Congressional leaders continued on Tuesday to rally around AIPAC, whose image, many in the pro-Israel community fear, has been tarnished by accusations of wrongdoing. "AIPAC has worked hard to build its credibility with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle," House Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri said. "While the House will want to look carefully at any allegations that might endanger our national security, it will begin that look with a record of great confidence in our relationship with AIPAC and our strongest ally and the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel." The House Democratic Whip, Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) also expressed confidence in AIPAC. "I have worked with AIPAC for many years. They are a very successful, strong, and committed organization and do a tremendous job advocating for the important US-Israel relationship." Despite those voices of confidence, some in Washington said they expected that US officials would be reluctant to meet with AIPAC staffers, at least in the immediate short-term, now that there is a suspicion that AIPAC is being monitored by the FBI. "The biggest implication, is that mid-level officials will not be meeting with AIPAC. They don't want to be seen with them," said one Washington lobbyist. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI investigates Congressional sex/murder ring
-Caveat Lector- http://www.total411.info/2004/08/fbi-investigating-congressional.html FBI investigates Congressional sex/murder ring New movement on the Condidit front... From Fox News' Big Story with Rita Cosby August 28, 2004: RITA COSBY: There is new information tonight into the investigation into the unsolved murder of former Washington intern Chandra Levy, whose skeletal remains were found in May of 2002, in a Washington D.C. park. Fox News has learned that recent tips given to law enforcement working on the Levy case have caused FBI agents to revisit several old leads. In fact, in recent weeks, several individuals who had been previously questioned in the case have been revisited by FBI agents who have shown them two photos of a man who lived in Maryland and has done work for the Defense Department. Sources tell me that this man had a reputation for throwing parties that several members of Congress would attend. One of the people recently questioned by the FBI about this man was Gary Condit's former driver, Vince Flammini. Two FBI agents recently showed up at Flammini's California home and asked him if he ever saw this man with the former Congressman. He did not. Flammini refused to comment about this visit to Fox News. It is important to point out that Gary Condit, who had an affair with Chandra Levy, has always denied any involvement with her disappearance and also her murder. Several individuals working on the Levy case tell Fox News that although it's been two years since Chandra Levy was found, this case now has some promising new leads and they're hopeful that it may finally be solved, possibly in the near future. And now to another major story with ties also to Modesto, California, the Scott Peterson double-murder trial. + From Globe magazine May 14 2002: Disgraced Congressman Gary Condit conspired with two famous politicians - including a one-time presidential candidate - to kill intern Chandra Levy in a cold-blooded bid to cover up a kinky sex club for Washington power-brokers. That's the explosive charge leveled by a top attorney who represented one of Condit's former mistresses and has extremely close ties to the case. I will expose Gary Condit for conspiracy to commit murder, Jim Robinson tells GLOBE. Condit didn't need to hire a hit man to kill Chandra - his political pals had her done away with to protect the sordid little secret of their sex club. Two high-profile political players and a Washington-based Saudi with direct links to the royal family are directly involved with Condit's sex club and Chandra's disappearance. They know who they are and I know who they are... when Chandra threatened to expose them, panicky members of the sex club told Condit to 'maker her disappear - or we will.' The alleged conspirators, says Robinson, are names everyone will know: One is governor of a large state. The other is a former congressman and one-time presidential candidate. Robinson also identifies a Saudi with royal connections as being in on the 24-year-old intern's disappearance on May 1, 2001... Says Robinson, Condit is a sexual predator and so are many of his friends. Young girls were supplied to these four people and to other politically connected men, and Chandra flat out didn't want to play the game. She threatened to blow the whistle and was made to disappear. ... His investigation included meetings with Metro D.C. detectives, FBI agents, sources from the U.S. Attorney's Office, sources from the Justice Department and confidential police informants. Robinson says he also met with members of Congress who were both directly and indirectly involved in the sex club, which Condit and others audaciously code-named TLG - for The League of Gentlemen. It was all about their own sick, sexual gratification, adds Robinson. We're talking about men in their 50s -- political heavy hitters -- using girls in their 20s as sex toys. Robinson clearly has vast knowledge of both Condit and the continuing investigation into Levy's disappearance. He represented one of Condit's ex-lovers, Anne Marie Smith, and has since become a confidant of the Levy family. Now, he promises to rip the lid off the Levy case in an explosive book to be published in November. Among the shocking charges he plans to level in the book are how: * Condit seduced starry-eyed Levy, prompting her to move from California to Washington, only to realize later on that her Prince Charming was a wolf in sheep's clothing. * Condit begged Levy to bed his political cronies and Arab businessmen, causing her to become disillusioned at being treated like just another bimbo in the congressman's sex club. That, in turn, led her to threaten to expose them all. * Condit and his bisexual political pals aroused each other while young, attractive women talked dirty to them. Robinson says his book also will allege that following her abduction, the tragic intern was executed in the back of a luxury sedan with blackened
[CTRL] FBI agent: Nichols evidence was lie
-Caveat Lector- Because of the corruption in the FBI lab we have no reliable fdorensic evidence regarding Ruby Ridge, Waco, the OKC bombing and 9/11. Nothing has changed since Whitehurst's initial expose. Heads should roll including FBI director Meuller (who helped kill the BCCI investigation). JR http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0405/20/a05-158683.htm FBI agent: Nichols evidence was lie McALESTER, Okla. A government scientist lied when he claimed that ammonium nitrate crystals found on Oklahoma City bombing debris had been embedded by the force of the blast, an FBI whistleblower testified Wednesday at bombing conspirator Terry Nichols state murder trial. Frederic Whitehurst, testifying for the defense, said an FBI forensic scientist he trained himself, Steven Burmeister, also lied when he testified that the crystals came from fertilizer nodules believed to have been used in the bombing rather than some other form. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Bullet Analyses Flawed, Imprecise
-Caveat Lector- This may have been the "technique" used to make all of those "matches" in the sniper shootings since they supposedly did not have the weapon to make test firings before the matches were announced.-JR http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=542u=/ap/20031121/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_lab_bulletsprinter=1 AP: FBI Bullet Analyses Flawed, Imprecise By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - In a finding that could affect thousands of criminal cases, the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites) has concluded that some techniques the FBI (news - web sites) has used for decades to match bullets to crimes are flawed or imprecise. AP Photo The study, expected to be released in the next few weeks, makes about a half-dozen recommendations to improve the FBI lab's science used to match bullets through their lead content. The academy's findings, which are in final draft form, were described to The Associated Press by several people involved in the study. They would speak only on condition of anonymity. The study specifically urges the bureau's chemists to stop a practice known as data chaining that chemists have used in the past to match bullets to a crime. In data chaining, scientists can conclude that if the lead content of bullet A matches bullet B, and bullet B's content matches bullet C, then it is safe to testify that bullet A and bullet C are a match even if their test results don't match identically. Said another way, the FBI can match two dissimilar bullets if they can find a third from a manufacturer, for instance that matches both. The FBI science relies on the theory that bullets from the same batch of lead share a common chemical fingerprint. Charles Peters, an FBI's expert witness in cases involving bullet lead comparison, testified recently that data chaining the technique disavowed by the academy was important to matching bullets. "I'm a fan of chaining," Peters testified in April in a case in Alaska. "If we had great precision, really good precision ... and we didn't do something like chaining, or something like that, nothing would ever match." A reference in the latest draft of the academy report indicates the FBI may abandon the data-chaining technique, the sources said. FBI officials said Thursday night they had not seen the report and could not comment on it. "I cannot comment on a draft report that is still being peer reviewed and subject to change," National Academy of Sciences spokesman Bill Kearney said Thursday. Citing specific examples of conflicting or inconsistent testimony by FBI experts, the study also recommends that lab analysts' work and testimony be reviewed by a peer to ensure accuracy and precision, the sources said. The FBI lab's director has been trying to increase the number of peer reviews inside the lab. The academy's recommendations are likely to have a huge impact, opening the door for appeals from defendants convicted in past cases where bullets were matched by the FBI using lead analysis. It also could force FBI lab witnesses to more narrowly describe the statistical significance of their findings in future cases. The FBI has been the prime practitioner of lead bullet comparisons in the United States, and has used it for decades, dating to around the time of President Kennedy's assassination 40 years ago. A database of lead test results kept by the agency had more than 13,000 samples in the late 1990s, FBI officials have told the AP. The FBI most commonly identifies bullets recovered from a crime by firing new bullets from the suspect's weapon and comparing the markings left by the gun barrel on the test bullet with the crime scene bullet. But that method only works when the crime scene bullet is in good shape or if police have the suspect weapon. In cases where recovered crime scene bullets are fragmented or disfigured or a suspect's weapon is unavailable, the FBI has turned to chemical analysis to try to determine whether the bullet's lead content is comparable to the same manufacturer, lead source or box of bullets connected to the suspect. When the lab makes a match, its experts testify that two bullets are "analytically indistinguishable." FBI Lab Director Dwight
[CTRL] FBI Handling of Mob Informants Condemned
-Caveat Lector- http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/7312314.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Posted on Thu, Nov. 20, 2003 FBI Handling of Mob Informants CondemnedLOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press WASHINGTON - While probing organized crime in New England since the 1960s, the FBI used killers as informants, shielded them from prosecution and knowingly sent innocent people to jail, House investigators said Thursday in concluding a two-year inquiry. The bureau's conduct "must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement," according to the final report from the House Government Reform Committee. "Federal law enforcement personnel tolerated and probably encouraged false testimony in a state death penalty case just to protect their criminal informants," said Rep. Dan Burton, who started the investigation when he was committee chairman. "False testimony sent four innocent men to jail. They were made scapegoats in order to shield criminals," said Burton, R-Ind. The FBI came under criticism for trying to stonewall investigators. Lawmakers complained that the bureau delayed giving them access to audio recordings and logs of conversations involving New England crime boss Raymond Patriarca that provided vital information on the 1965 murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan. "The Justice Department made it very difficult for this committee to conduct timely and effective oversight," the report said. "The FBI must improve management of its informant programs to ensure that agents are not corrupted. The committee will examine the current FBI's management, security, and discipline to prevent similar events in the future." Lawmakers are pressing for more House hearings on the FBI's failure to cooperate. "This is an unfinished project and I think the report acknowledges that," said one committee member, Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass. "I would like to continue to investigate why the Justice Department was so recalcitrant in getting us the information. We should not tolerate that kind of behavior," he said. The FBI said in a statement that it has taken "significant steps" to improve the use of informants, who are vital to many investigations. A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the bureau was not always as forthcoming as committee members wanted. The official said some information was withheld or delayed because it related to a court case involving FBI Agent John Connolly Jr., who was convicted last year of protecting his gangster informants. The report concluded there is not enough evidence to find that former Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger used his political authority to punish those who investigated his brother, mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger. Whitey Bulger, a former FBI informant who worked with Connolly, fled in 1995 and is on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list. He is being sought in connection with 21 murders. The report said there were some inconsistencies in William Bulger's testimony. His lawyer, Thomas Kiley, said the report exonerates his client, who was given immunity to testify. "For any thinking person, this should end it," said Kiley. "But there is a cadre of Bulger bashers here who have spread these street legends for years and I don't harbor any illusion they're going to stop." The report, while broadly condemning the FBI's practices, focuses on the Deegan murder and law enforcement efforts to protect informants, including Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. Four men were wrongly convicted of Deegan's murder - two died in prison and two served more than 30 years in prison - all due to what officials concluded was false testimony and the FBI's efforts to protect informants. Jimmy Flemmi died in prison while serving time for a different murder. Stephen Flemmi
[CTRL] FBI has new 20th Hijacker
-Caveat Lector- It seems that all the major attention now getting drawn to the Global Hawk theory regarding 9-11 - that's remotely controlled hijacking - the state department felt the need to bring to light new evidence supporting the party line: that lead provided by GW and clung to loyally by many independent 9-11 investigators, the lead that goes there were Arab hijackers. FBI has new 20th Hijacker http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-11-04-hijacker-usat_x.htm For info developing on the remote hijacking of a few Boeing 757's some time ago, see: Operation Two Towers http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/conspiracies.html ~ Also see: Resistance is the First Step Towards Iraqi Independence http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Ali_Iraqi-Resistance.htm Iraq Bill Includes Millions for Miami FTAA Meeting http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1104-03.htm Second Bold Attack in Two Nights on U.S. in Baghdad http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1104-06.htm US to Deny Aid to Nations Who Won't Exempt US War Crimes http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1104-01.htm www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Polarized by 'Wahhabi Lobby'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.insightmag.com/news/446224.html Insight on the News - National Issue: 07/22/03 FBI Polarized by 'Wahhabi Lobby'By J. Michael Waller As FBI agents in the field moved in on a dozen suspected terrorists running recruitment operations in Northern Virginia, a senior FBI official appeared June 26 before a Senate Homeland Security panel and avoided testifying about what senators had called him to discuss. The issues were sponsorship of pro-terrorist ideology, extremist political action and terrorist recruitment financed from Saudi Arabia, supposedly a U.S. ally.Well into the war on terrorism, the FBI is a house divided. On one side, agents are wrapping up terrorist-support networks coast to coast that include radicalized American Muslims bent on unleashing a murderous jihad against their own country. On the other side, in Washington, a culture of political correctness seems to have settled in the bureau's upper management, which some insiders describe as a Clintonlike pandering to the latest favored victim group. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, a favorite self-proclaimed victim has been an aggressive band of Washington-based groups that purport to represent the nation's Muslims and hyphenated Arabs. That constituency is known as the "Wahhabi lobby" for many of its members' alleged ties to Saudi Arabia, whose state religion is considered by many to be an extremist and violent Wahhabi sect of Islam [see "'Wahhabi Lobby' Takes the Offensive," Aug. 5, 2002]. Sources say the FBI has silenced a senior counterterrorism agent, Robert Wright of the Chicago field office, for exposing how senior figures in the bureau blocked investigations of al-Qaeda terror networks inside the United States prior to Sept. 11, and for complaining that a Muslim special agent, Gamel Abdel-Hafiz, refused to wear a wire when questioning terror suspects, allegedly saying, "A Muslim doesn't record another Muslim." Wright's FBI colleague, John Vincent, says he also was called off pre-9/11 cases, and has been speaking in Wright's stead. Wright is receiving legal counsel from David Schippers, the Chicago attorney who led the House commission to impeach president Bill Clinton [see picture profile, Jan. 1, 2001]. Schippers tells Insight that the Wright case is symptomatic of out-of-control political correctness at the FBI.Meanwhile, senior administration officials tell Insight that FBI Director Robert Mueller was under orders from an unnamed senior White House campaign strategist to appease Muslim and Arab-American groups that have been complaining noisily that federal counterterrorism efforts are impinging on their civil rights. Mueller was widely criticized both inside the bureau and out for addressing the June 2002 national convention of the American Muslim Council (AMC). An FBI spokesman defended Mueller's appearance on grounds that the AMC was one of the most "mainstream" organizations in Washington. This proved especially embarrassing to the director when, at the very time of the Mueller speech, AMC spokesman Eric Vickers appeared on Fox News and MSNBC and refused, under questioning, to denounce by name terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.Mueller and other top FBI officials have met subsequently with the AMC and other high-profile Washington groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), that claim to be mainstream but seem to antiterrorism specialists to be more opposed to the FBI's efforts to fight terrorism than to the terrorists themselves. The FBI says it holds such meetings to build relations with Arab-American and Muslim communities. But some of its interlocutors are using those relations against the FBI's counterterrorism efforts, say careful observers of the Wahhabi lobby. Representatives of those groups reportedly have used these high-profile meetings to credentialize themselves while serving as character witnesses for terrorism suspects arrested by the FBI. In one case, the activists defended suspected Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor arrested earlier this year under a 50-count terrorism indictment. For the previous two years, Al-Arian was the lobbying coordinator at the AMC conventions, working to organize efforts on Capitol Hill to weaken U.S. antiterrorism laws, according to the programs of the 2000 and 2001 AMC conferences.According to testimony at the June 26 hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, the FBI has retained members of the vocal Wahhabi lobby to run "sensitivity-training" classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. The FBI official the subcommittee called to address the Wahhabi issue, Larry A. Mefford, assistant director of the counterterrorism division, did not discuss it.Overall, some senior FBI leaders have shown a barely
Re: [CTRL] FBI: Friggin' Blithering Idiots
-Caveat Lector- You got it. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI: Friggin' Blithering Idiots
-Caveat Lector- (Good article except I totally disagree with the last sentence. The FBI should be abolished and replaced with NO new un-constitutional federal police agency.) --- To Serve, To Protect, To Brag The Blundering FBI: A Joke To Behold By: Phil Brennan You could see it coming - minutes after the news flashed around the nation, FBI agents, active and retired, were preening themselves before the TV cameras, once again basking in the limelight of an arrest that had absolutely nothing to do with. Let this be said loud and clear before it becomes part of the self-created image of an agency that, like the Mounties, says it always gets its man: Eric Robert Rudolph was nabbed by a local cop on the beat. The FBI didn't have a damned thing to do with the capture of a man who had evaded the Bureau for five long years while hiding practically under their noses. After Attorney General Ashcroft, obviously miffed by the FBI's blatant grab for credit, showed the good sense to tell the Bureau to shut up about the case, they went scavenging for an alternative route to the publicity bandwagon by joining in a widely publicized massive search for Rudolph's hiding place which they couldn't find over a five year period at the cost of a reported $30 million in taxpayer's money. Think about it. Remember the video shots of a thousand-man strong search team acting under FBI control, looking under every rock and peering into every cave and every nook and cranny trying to find their prey, who appears to have been hiding in what amounts to plain sight somewhere in the area where he was ultimately caught by an alert local cop. Also keep in mind the FBI's absurd fingering of Richard Jewell who they subjected to extreme harassment, leaking what turned out to be false leads about the man's alleged culpability for the Olympic Park bombing where in fact he'd been a hero. They're up to the same kind of skullduggery, incidentally, with Dr. Steven Hatfill, where the harassment has now included an FBI employee, part of the 50 agent surveillance team dogging his heels, running over the man's foot when he tried to photograph his tormentor as evidence of what he is being subjected to. Remember, the FBI candidly admits that they haven't got a shred of evidence that Dr. Hatfill is the anthrax mail killer. Not one scintilla of evidence, yet they have 50 people on his tail 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But let's get back to the Bureau's never-sated craving for favorable publicity they don't deserve. Think back a few months to the Elizabeth Smart case. Like Rudolph, Elizabeth was picked up by guess what ... local police officers, after being missing for almost 10 months. For a lot of that time, Elizabeth had been under the FBI's nose, but they couldn't find her, even though on occasion she was out and about in public. At one point she and her kidnappers were camped out in the hills almost within sight of Elizabeth's home but FBI search planes or helicopters couldn't find her. It took alert local Sandy, Utah cops to find her. But during a press conference held to announce her recovery attended by Chief Steve Chapman, of Sandy City Police, Chief Rick Dinse, Salt Lake City Police, FBI Special Agent in Charge Chip Burrus, of the Salt Lake Office of the Bureau, hogged center stage, preening in the limelight and crowing about his agency's delight in finding the girl even though the Bureau had nothing to do with the outcome and had failed miserably to find her over more than nine months of searching. Burrus admitted that Elizabeth was taken to a campsite about three miles from her home and remained there for two months. Like the FBI's current search for Rudolph's hiding place, Burrus said the campsite had been found and was being processed by the FBI evidence response team. If you can't get in on the recovery, go looking for what you missed months after you missed it. At least it keeps the FBI in the news. Getting back to Dr. Hatfill, who looks more and more like another Richard Jewell. The Bureau's man in charge of the anthrax investigation, Van Harp who presided over the FBI's failed investigation of the anthrax killings is retiring. In an amazing coincidence as he approached retirement news stories suddenly surfaced about a mysterious plastic box and a rope found in a Maryland pond which the stories suggested had been used to manufacture anthrax underwater, a conclusion an FBI source dismissed as a fantasy - It got a lot of giggles, the source said. Moreover, the so-called discovery contracted reports at the time that the search uncovered nothing, nada, no plastic boxes, no traces of anthrax, no ropes, nothing! The leaks from the Bureau appear to have come from Harp himself, who seems to have wanted to leave the FBI with allegedly damning evidence against Hatfill, indicating that he'd been right all along. Just who is Van Harp. Well, to begin with, he's an FBI
[CTRL] FBI Pulls Open Net For Wiretapping
-Caveat Lector- http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA4BS6J3ED.html FBI Pulls Open Net For Wiretapping The Associated Press Published: Apr 4, 2003 NEW YORK - Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for the FBI as it seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a safe haven for criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants regulators to affirm that such services fall under a 1994 law requiring phone companies to build in surveillance capabilities. It also is pushing the industry to create technical standards to make wiretapping easier and cheaper. But privacy advocates fear that because online eavesdropping technology is crude, tapping into the data for voice means getting more than what a court ordered - including possibly e-mail and other digital communications. Service operators also question who should pay. The increasingly popular Voice over Internet Protocol technology breaks phone conversations into data packets, sends them over the Internet and reassembles them at the destination. Such calls, made on handsets or using computer microphones, are more efficient and cheaper than traditional calls, which require that a dedicated circuit remain open. The technology creates gray areas in applying the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which required that then-emerging digital technologies include the same capabilities authorities had with analog phones. Lawmakers exempted information services such as the Internet but didn't anticipate Net-based voice calls. Now, as the Federal Communications Commission considers the extent that high-speed Internet services through cable and DSL should be free of regulation, the FBI and the Justice Department want assurances that those services also build in surveillance functions. Because VoIP is so new, standards don't exist for setting up networks, let alone for eavesdropping. Several groups, including the Telecommunications Industry Association, are working on VoIP surveillance standards. In January, the FBI convened a summit for law enforcement and industry representatives to identify core issues. ``We're seeing major changes in the network, and we are trying to be ahead of the curve,'' said Les Szwajkowski, the FBI's unit chief for electronic surveillance. On its face, the debate is less about law enforcers' surveillance authority and more about whether Voice over Internet companies need to provide capabilities ahead of time. Authorities should be the ones providing and paying for such capabilities on a case-by-case basis, said Michael Altschul, general counsel for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. Although Szwajkowski said law enforcers are merely applying existing authority to emerging technologies, David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center worries about an expansion in wiretaps. Sobel, at this week's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, said that under draft legislation from Justice, dubbed Patriot II, legal wiretap authority for phones would automatically cover e- mail and electronic calendars. Szwajkowski said he was mostly worried about voice communications online, but acknowledged that the FBI later might be ``potentially looking at other things as well.'' But the Internet poses challenges not found in phone networks. For one, intercepting a voice stream means diverting it, making a copy and sending it along again, and tech-savvy criminals might be able to tell that the call was relayed through an intermediary. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI to Rely on Rumor Hearsay Database to Catch Criminals
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-03-25-fbi-database_x.htm Justice Dept.: FBI database info no longer has to be accurate WASHINGTON (AP) . The Justice Department lifted a requirement Monday that the FBI ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information about criminals and crime victims before adding it to the country's most comprehensive law enforcement database. The system, run by the FBI's National Crime Information Center, includes data about terrorists, fugitives, warrants, people missing, gang members and stolen vehicles, guns or boats. Records are queried increasingly by the nation's law enforcement agencies to help decide whether to monitor, detain or arrest someone. The records are inaccessible to the public, and police have been prosecuted in U.S. courts for misusing the system to find, for example, personal information about girlfriends or former spouses. Officials said the change, which immediately drew criticism from civil-liberties advocates, is necessary to ensure investigators have access to information that can't be confirmed but could take on new significance later, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. The change to the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act was disclosed with an announcement published in the Federal Register. The Privacy Act previously required the FBI to ensure information was accurate, relevant, timely and complete before it could be added to the system. It's a pretty big job to be accurate and complete, said Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who specializes in technology and surveillance issues. On the other hand, these are potentially very significant records for people, and if it's not accurate and complete, it can mean trouble. Critics urged Congress to review the change, arguing that information in the computer files was especially important because it can affect many aspects of a person's life. This is information that has always been stigmatizing, the type of data that can prevent someone from getting a job, said Marc Rotenberg of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. When you remove the accuracy obligations, you open the door to the use of unreliable information. Critics have noted complaints for years about wrong information in the computer files that disrupted the lives of innocent citizens, and the FBI has acknowledged problems. In one case, a Phoenix resident was arrested for minor traffic violations that had been quashed weeks earlier; in another, a civilian was misidentified as a Navy deserter. The system is replete with inaccurate, untimely information, but everybody does their best to keep it up to date, said Beryl Howell, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's a goal we shouldn't just throw out. In the change, the Justice Department said earlier restrictions on information would limit the ability of trained investigators and intelligence analysts to exercise their judgment in reporting on investigations and impede the development of criminal intelligence necessary for effective law enforcement. It added that, because the system collects its data from so many other organizations, it is administratively impossible to ensure compliance. Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Bungles: Pensioner in Most Wanted Arrest
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2795055.stm Pensioner in 'most wanted' arrest Mr Bond was arrested and imprisoned in Durban A 72-year-old retired charity worker has been arrested on a wine-tasting holiday in South Africa on suspicion of being one of America's most wanted men. Derek Bond, a grandfather from Bristol, is being held in custody in Durban after he was detained at the request of FBI officials investigating fraud in the United States. The father-of-three and his family insist it is a case of mistaken identity. But the FBI told the BBC it believed the pensioner was Derek Sykes, a man they are looking for in connection with a telemarketing scheme which defrauded people of millions of dollars. We're terribly upset - he's been kept in prison for more than two weeks, but it's not the fault of the South African authorities Gillian Bond, daughter The Clifton-based Rotarian was arrested at gunpoint as he arrived in the country two weeks ago for the wine-tasting tour with his wife Audrey. Mr Bond's son Peter, 45, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, said his father's health had deteriorated since the ordeal began. We believe that he is the victim of an identity fraud where some person in the United States obtained details of his identity, including his passport number, and has used them for fraudulent purposes in the US, he said. He said Mr Bond had agreed to be extradited to the US on legal advice, in order to get the problem sorted out quickly. 'Fraudulent purposes' The situation is entirely unacceptable, but our immediate concern is to secure the safe release of our father, he said. Mr Bond's daughter, Gillian, 46, from Norwich, Norfolk, flew to South Africa to join her 71-year-old mother. She said: We're terribly upset. He's been kept in prison for more than two weeks, but it's not the fault of the South African authorities. The FBI have had all the paperwork, but they don't appear to have read it until now. It wasn't until yesterday morning that an FBI officer was sent to speak to him. She said a statement had only been taken from him on Monday. Identity dispute Despite the family's pleas that they have arrested the wrong person, the FBI now wants to extradite Mr Bond to America. Agent Bob Doguim, of the FBI field office in Houston, Texas, told the BBC it would take a few more days positively to identify him. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Pretoria said: We are actively involved in attempting to establish whether Mr Bond is in any way identifiable with Derek Sykes. If he is identified as being an individual charged with fraud in the US he will be extradited, if not he will be released. Earlier, an FBI press office spokesman said a man called Derek Bond appeared on one of their wanted lists some time ago for fraud-related activities in Texas. The Foreign Office has been in contact with the British consul in Durban to try to improve conditions for Mr Bond. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/031503D.shtml Editor's Note: Another brick in the wall here. After Powell's use of a plagiarized British dossier, and after Hans Blix's refutation of virtually every piece of 'evidence' offered by the United States regarding Iraqi weapons, there is now this. Decide for yourself how solid the case for war is at this point. - wrp FBI Probes Fake Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Plans By Dana Priest and Susan Schmidt Washington Post Thursday 13 March 2003 The FBI is looking into the forgery of a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program, including the possibility that a foreign government is using a deception campaign to foster support for military action against Iraq. It's something we're just beginning to look at, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. Officials are trying to determine whether the documents were forged to try to influence U.S. policy, or whether they may have been created as part of a disinformation campaign directed by a foreign intelligence service. We're looking at it from a preliminary stage as to what it's all about, he said. The FBI has not yet opened a formal investigation because it is unclear whether the bureau has jurisdiction over the matter. The phony documents -- a series of letters between Iraqi and Niger officials showing Iraq's interest in equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons -- came to British and U.S. intelligence officials from a third country. The identity of the third country could not be learned yesterday. The forgery came to light last week during a highly publicized and contentious United Nations meeting. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the Security Council on March 7 that U.N. and independent experts had decided that the documents were not authentic. ElBaradei's disclosure, and his rejection of three other key claims that U.S. intelligence officials have cited to support allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions, struck a powerful blow to the Bush administration's argument on the matter. To the contrary, ElBaradei told the council, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indications of the revival of a nuclear program in Iraq. The CIA, which had also obtained the documents, had questions about whether they were accurate, said one intelligence official, and it decided not to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass destruction. The FBI has jurisdiction over counterintelligence operations by foreign governments against the United States. Because the documents were delivered to the United States, the bureau would most likely try to determine whether the foreign government knew the documents were forged or whether it, too, was deceived. Iraq pursued an aggressive nuclear weapons program during the 1970s and 1980s. It launched a crash program to build a nuclear bomb in 1990 after it invaded Kuwait. Allied bombing during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 damaged Iraq's nuclear infrastructure. The country's known stocks of nuclear fuel and equipment were removed or destroyed during the U.N. inspections after the war. But Iraq never surrendered the blueprints for its nuclear program, and it kept teams of scientists employed after U.N. inspectors were forced to leave in 1998. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send
[CTRL] FBI May Have Aided Pentagon Data Project
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-data-mining0121jan21,0,4473868.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines FBI May Have Aided Pentagon Data Project By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer January 21, 2003, 6:29 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Possible FBI involvement in a high-tech Pentagon project that sifts through Americans' personal information raises new concerns about privacy and civil liberties, Sen. Charles Grassley said Tuesday. The Defense Department's inspector general, Joseph Schmitz, told Grassley, R-Iowa, in a letter that the FBI was working on a memorandum of understanding with the Pentagon "for possible experimentation" with the data-mining project. Disclosure of FBI contacts regarding the Total Information Awareness project "only heightens my concern about the blurring of lines between domestic law enforcement and military security efforts," said Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a frequent critic of the FBI. Schmitz also told Grassley he will order an audit to help the Pentagon develop sufficient privacy safeguards that do not exist now to ensure the project has adequate protections for computer security and people's privacy. The project, being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would collect and mine huge amounts of data, including telephone records, credit card transactions, travel information and medical records. The goal of the effort, headed by retired Rear Adm. John Poindexter, is to spot clues and patterns that possibly could identify would-be terrorists. Grassley asked Attorney General John Ashcroft for detailed information about the possible involvement of the FBI and Justice Department and those agencies' potential uses of the information. A Justice Department official said agency sharing of intelligence, including any produced under the Pentagon project, is essential to fight the war on terror. "We will shield Americans from violations of their civil liberties ... while we work across the government to stop terrorists from killing more innocent Americans," said Justice spokesman Mark Corallo. The proposal has drawn sharp criticism from government watchdog groups and from some Democrats in Congress, who have proposed legislation to shut it down as a threat to Americans' privacy and civil liberties. In the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks, the government already is using powerful new domestic wiretap and surveillance abilities. "At a time when Americans are calling for more privacy of personal information, this program would provide a backdoor to databases of private information," said the American Civil Liberties Union, the conservative Eagle Forum and seven other watchdog groups last week in a letter to Congress. In his letter to Ashcroft, Grassley said the FBI and Justice Department "may have been less than forthright" to the press and public about potential law enforcement uses of data collected and analyzed under the Pentagon project. "We need to strike a balance between targeting terrorists with everything we've got and also protecting the rights and freedoms cherished by Americans," Grassley said. "Military dollars shouldn't be spent on domestic law enforcement." A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Terrorists Alerts Manufactured!
-Caveat Lector- FBI Terrorists Alerts Manufactured! http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_052202_faketerror.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_010603_terror.html http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30312 The Bush administration issued a spate of terror alerts in recent days to mute criticism that its national security team sat on intelligence warnings in the weeks before the September 11 attacks. The warnings, including yesterday's uncorroborated FBI report that terrorists might target the Statue of Liberty, quieted some of the lawmakers who said President Bush failed to act on clues of the September 11 attacks, although Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle yesterday reiterated his demand for an independent investigation. ... no wonder Tom Daschle got a letter full of anthrax in the mail... he stood in the way of an imposed silence on this whole 911 coup by the white house. Damn well the white house knew before 911 happened... Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] FBI reportedly didn't act on Ptech tips
-Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/341/metro/FBI_reportedly_didn_t _act_on_Ptech_tips+.shtml FBI reportedly didn't act on Ptech tips By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff, 12/7/2002 The Boston FBI office received two reports that a Quincy software company had financial ties to a suspected terrorist financier but acted on neither, according to law enforcement and government officials and a televised report. A whistle-blower from Ptech Inc. told the Boston FBI in October 2001 that the company was being financially backed by Yasin al- Qadi, a Saudi businessman whose US assets were frozen after the Sept. 11 attacks amid allegations that he has funded terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda and Hamas, a Bush administration official and a former Clinton administration official involved in the case said yesterday. WBZ-TV reported last night that a second whistle-blower went to the Boston FBI office this past June with allegations that the company had financial ties to the suspected terrorist financier. A spokeswoman from the FBI's Boston office denied that it had failed to follow up on leads about Ptech's financial backing. ''That is not accurate,'' spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. ''This investigation has been going on for quite some time, and it was jointly decided by the FBI and Customs that Customs would take the lead.'' WBZ reported that a former Ptech consultant named Indira Singh came forward this past June. Singh said last night in an interview on WBZ that she told the FBI ''in no uncertain terms'' about the connection between Ptech and Qadi. She said that weeks after talking to the Boston FBI, she was ''shocked'' and ''frustrated'' to learn that the FBI still had not alerted any of the government agencies using Ptech software that there were questions about the company's ties to suspected terrorist fund- raisers. Ptech has sold information management software to a range of government agencies, including the Army, Air Force, Congress, the White House, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the FBI. The FBI, the officials said, didn't aggressively pursue the initial October 2001 tip, prompting that whistle-blower to go to other government officials this past summer. The US Customs Service ended up leading the investigation, and the search Thursday night and yesterday of Ptech's headquarters. News that the FBI may have ignored the tips comes after a recent scathing memo from top FBI officials to the bureau's field offices complaining that not enough is being done to combat terrorism. The New York Times reported last month that Bruce Gebhardt, the FBI's deputy director, sent a memo to the FBI's 56 field offices, saying he was ''amazed and astounded'' that field supervisors were not committing essential resources to fighting terrorism. The allegation is the latest in a series of embarrassments for the Boston FBI office, including a failure to follow up on bank robber Gary Sampson's offer to surrender before he went on a killing spree, and the scandal over the agency's coddling of murderous organized crime informants. Documents provided to the Globe by The Investigative Project, a Washington, D.C.-based terrorism research organization, show that two of Ptech's founding directors were former employees of BMI, a now-defunct collection of Islamic finance companies that was targeted in an investigation by the FBI's Chicago office. ''BMI was an Islamic financial institution that would loan money in an Islamically permissible manner,'' said Matthew Epstein, director of research for The Investigative Project. ''According to the FBI, they were involved in Hamas financing activities and potentially involved in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Africa,'' he said. BMI was targeted by the FBI's Chicago office in a probe of alleged money laundering and funnelling of funds to terrorist groups like Hamas. BMI also shared office space in Secaucus, N.J. with Qadi International, an organization controlled by Qadi. According to state records, two of Ptech's founding directors were former officials with BMI. One of the directors, Soliman Biheiri, was quoted in Management Review magazine as the ''president of BMI Leasing'' in an article about financial institutions that adhered to Islamic law. Another director, Hussein Ibrahim, is currently listed as Ptech's vice president and chief scientist. Ibrahim's resume, filed with the US General Services Administration as part of the company's application to do business with the US government, lists his prior employment from 1989 to 1995 as a vice president of BMI. Michael Kranish of the Globe Staff contributed to this report.Ralph Ranalli can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 12/7/2002. © Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with
[CTRL] FBI Benefits From Surveillance Law
-Caveat Lector- http://cgi.worldnews.com/?action=displayarticle=16888078template=worldnews/?action=displayarticle=16888078template=worldnews/search.txtindex=recent Thu, 21 Nov 2002 FBI Benefits From Surveillance Law The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) After FBI agents broke into the apartment of a suspected spy to search for clues, they extracted from a laptop computer a prescient warning from Cuban intelligence officers: Don't leave any evidence lying around the FBI might find. ``Do not leave prepared information that is not ciphered in the house,'' the message advised, according to court records. ``This is the most sensitive and compromising information that you hold.'' Too late. The FBI secretly stole into that apartment in northwest Washington at least twice last year, using one of the government's most extraordinary and little-understood weapons in the high-stakes fight against the world's spies and terrorists. Operating with permission from a secretive federal court, the FBI has broken into homes, offices, hotel rooms and automobiles. Installed hidden cameras. Listened with microphones in one couple's bedroom for more than a year. Rummaged through luggage. Eavesdropped on telephone conversations. Most Americans never see this side of the FBI. ``The average citizen has no idea whether information about them might be caught up in one of these investigations,'' said David Sobel of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, an expert on this type of surveillance. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enacted in 1978 and strengthened after Sept. 11 by the USA Patriot Act gives investigators a formidable weapon against ``agents of a foreign power.'' This week, the Bush administration won an important court victory affirming its plans to expand these tactics to more cases. Besides break-ins, agents have pried into safe deposit boxes, watched from afar with video cameras and binoculars and intercepted e-mails. They have planted microphones, computer bugs and other high-tech tracking devices. ``The whole thing is very, very mysterious and quiet,'' said Plato Cacheris, the Washington lawyer who represented spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. ``There's not a lot that anyone can tell you.'' This is a deadly serious game among the trench-coat set. Their 007-like gadgets one captures every keystroke typed on a target's computer and the specialized agents who use them are among the best available. These tools and the law are ``designed to target intelligence officers and people trained by intelligence officers,'' said Michael Woods, a former senior FBI lawyer who coordinated many investigations. Nearly all those known to have been targeted never detected what was happening until FBI agents flashed guns and badges. The bureau is cautious. Agents didn't break into Hanssen's home in the Washington suburbs because they couldn't find time when his wife or children weren't there, according to people familiar with the case. ``They're very good at not getting found out,'' said Nina Ginsberg, a lawyer in Alexandria, Va., who has represented three people under surveillance. ``I'm sure they would sit outside a house for a week before they made sure they could go in.'' The FBI watched Therese Marie Squillacote, a Defense Department lawyer, and her husband for 18 months. Over that period, they broke into the couple's home three times and planted a microphone in their bedroom to monitor conversations, according to court records. She was sentenced in 1999 to nearly 22 years for attempting to spy for East Germany and Russia with her husband. Details about some FBI techniques emerge from court records spread across dozens of cases. But only a fraction of these nearly 1,000 surveillances each year result in any kind of public disclosure, so little is known outside classified circles about how they work. Convinced that a longtime Defense Department analyst was spying for Cuba, the FBI sneaked into her apartment in Washington last year to search her bedroom and make a secret copy of all the files on her laptop. They went back six weeks later to look around, while other agents secretly watched her elsewhere. And the FBI rifled through her purse and wallet one week after that. Their evidence haul: e-mails and codes describing espionage, a shortwave radio and a prepaid calling card used to send spy messages over pay phones. Ana Belen Montes pleaded guilty and was sentenced last month to 25 years in prison. FBI microphones in another case recorded a murder. Surveillance of suspected terrorists in St. Louis captured one man fatally stabbing his teenage daughter 13 times with a butcher knife while shouting, ``Die! Die quickly!'' Stunned FBI agents handed over the recording to Missouri prosecutors, who convicted the man and his wife. He died of an illness in 1997 on death row. Sometimes the FBI overreaches. An FBI memo that surfaced last month said agents in early 2000 illegally
[CTRL] FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive - Usama Bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm Note the charges; once again the BushWhackers have deputised themselves as being the world's foremost vigilante group. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Admits: No Evidence
-Caveat Lector- http://www.americanfreepress.net/051302/FBI_Admits__No_Evidence_/fbi_admits__no_evidence_.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Title: FBI Admits: No Evidence -Caveat Lector- FBI Admits: No Evidence Links 'Hijackers' to 9-11 The possibility that 19 Muslim men accused of being the Sept. 11 hijackers were not, in fact, the hijackers, is not so extraordinary an idea as it might seem. Exclusive To American Free Press By Michael Collins Piper After seven months of non-stop declarations by U.S. government spokesmen that there exists solid proof tying 19 Muslim men to plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller has now admitted quite the opposite. That 19 Muslim men who have apparently disappeared have been named as the hijackers is not in doubt. What is in doubt is whether those 19 men were actually plotting anything, either individually or together. The amazing possibility remains that others carried out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, using the identities of the 19 Muslims who have been assigned guilt in the tragedy. In an April 19 speech delivered to the Common wealth Club in San Francisco, Mueller said that the purported hijackers, in his words, left no paper trial. The FBI director stated flatly: In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of papereither here in the United States or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewherethat mentioned any aspect of the Sept. 11 plot. In describing Muellers evidence fiasco, Los Angeles Times reporters Erich Lichtblau and Josh Meyer, whose article was reprinted in The Washington Post on April 30, note that: Law enforcement officials say that while they have been able to reconstruct the movements of the hijackers before the attacksall legal except for a few speeding ticketsthey have found no evidence of their actual plotting. The Times reporters acknowledge that Muellers comments offer the FBIs most comprehensive and detailed assessment to date of its investigation, remarkable as much for what investigators have not found as for what they have. The FBI director explained away the absence of evidence by making the disingenuous assertion that the hijackers used meticulous planning, extraordinary secrecy and extensive knowledge of how America works to conceal their scheme. Mueller made this claim despite the fact that in the immediate wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a variety of U.S. officials and media sources speciously announced, almost instantaneously, that there was firm evidence not only that these 19 Muslim men were agents of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda network but that they were indeed the individuals who hijacked the doomed flights on Sept. 11. Mueller seems to forget that early government and media reports loudly hyped discoveriesletters and other documentsin the luggage and personal belongings of the presumed hijackers which proved that they were on a mission for Allah, etc etc. Now Muellers comments seem to contradict everything thats been said. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity
[CTRL] FBI intimacy with terrorists smacks of Manchurian Candidates
http://www.freeworldalliance.com/newsflash/2002/02newsflash1528.htm FBI intimicy with terrorists smacks of Manchurian Candidates ___ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush/Ashcroft Garrison State National Police Grab Alleged Terrorist Away from Local Police Justice Department Moves again to Handle John Muhammad after the Killing as they did before the Killing FBI intimacy with terrorists smacks of Manchurian Candidates By JAYSON BLAIR OCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 29 — State and federal investigators said today that John Muhammad had been talking to them for more than an hour on the day of his arrest in the sniper shootings, explaining the roots of his anger, when the United States attorney for Maryland told them to deliver him to Baltimore to face federal weapons charges and forcing them to end their interrogation. The investigators said an F.B.I. agent and a Maryland detective had begun to develop a rapport with Mr. Muhammad. The other suspect, Lee Malvo, 17, being questioned by a Montgomery County detective, was not answering any questions, the investigators said. "It did not look like the juvenile was going to talk," a local law enforcement official said. "But it looked like Muhammad was ready to share everything, and these guys were going to get a confession." The investigators said they spoke with a reporter to explain why they have been so upset with the federal prosecutor, Thomas M. DiBiagio, who brought federal charges today against Mr. Muhammad. The account was given by two law enforcement officials from Maryland and three federal officials involved in the case. Two Maryland state officials and two federal officials said that in a conference call with police officials and prosecutors Mr. DiBiagio had said he was "on orders from the Justice Department and the White House" to take the suspects into custody. They said one federal investigator had checked with the criminal division of the Justice Department, which said there was no such order. Today, the federal government charged Mr. Muhammad with using murder as a way to commit extortion across state lines. Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft said he wanted to determine the best jurisdiction for the death penalty. Federal officials had filed the weapons charge against Mr. Muhammad as a means of holding him. The charges require that he be taken before a federal magistrate soon after being arrested. A senior law enforcement official defended Mr. DiBiagio's decision, saying it was based on the law and an effort to protect the case. "All this was about was being a good lawyer," the official said. The investigators said, though, that within hours of the arrests of Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo at a rest stop at 3:19 a.m. on Oct. 24 in Myersville, they had enough evidence to file state murder charges, meaning they could continue questioning him for as long as a day before taking him before a judge. The investigators said they ignored Mr. DiBiagio's first call at 10:30 a.m. By 1 o'clock, they said, Mr. DiBiagio told F.B.I. agents to seize Mr. Muhammad if he was not sent to Baltimore. A federal law enforcement official dismissed the idea that Mr. Muhammad might have confessed to the killings if the interrogations had continued. The official said Mr. Muhammad "was talking, but he wasn't giving anything relevant to the crimes" in the interrogation. "I don't believe there's anything to that at all," the official said, referring to a suggestion that Mr. DiBiagio's action had hurt the case. "The investigation has been a fully cooperative enterprise, and everyone's first priority is to bring these guys to justice. So they obviously wouldn't do anything to damage that." State and federal investigators who were at the Montgomery County police building where Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo were taken on the morning of the arrests recalled the conference call with police officials, prosecutors and Mr. DiBiagio. The investigators now say they do not believe that Mr. DiBiagio was "on orders from the Justice Department and the WHite House" to take the suspects into custody. A senior federal law enforcement official said that it was routine for the Justice Department to become involved in such decisions but that officials there had not given Mr. DiBiagio any orders and that "the White House had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with that." The official said that Mr. Muhammad "was just babbling" and that taking the men to court in Baltimore was a "mutual decision" by prosecutors and members of the sniper task force. This official added that it "wasn't the U.S. attorney coming in and saying, `We're going to do this.' "Even if the move got in the way of a fruitful interrogation, the senior federal law enforcement official said, there would be no need for a confession in this case. "Tell me what more we need from them," the official said. "We have the ballistics. We don't need the confession."The investigators
Re: [CTRL] FBI intimacy with terrorists smacks of Manchurian Candidates
-Caveat Lector- http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=cia%2Cwaco%2Csleeper%2C%22leadership+management%22Do you Yahoo!? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive medley & videos from Greatest Hits CD
[CTRL] FBI Agents 'Miffed' that Gun Owner Contacted Media
-Caveat Lector- FBI Agents 'Miffed' that Gun Owner Contacted Media By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief November 05, 2002 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Prior to the capture of Beltway Sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, an unconfirmed number of Maryland gun owners received surprise visits from the FBI as part of the investigation. One such gun owner had a surprise of his own for the agents when they arrived at his home. Jeff Brown of Gaithersburg, Md., was a little nervous when he heard the voicemail message from an FBI agent on the sniper task force who wanted to visit Brown at his home to check a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle Brown purchased in 1993. Adding to that apprehension was the fact that Brown owns and drives a full-sized white panel van, the type of vehicle investigators believed the sniper was driving. I expected, actually, to be pulled over and spread-eagle on the street at some point, Brown told CNSNews.com Monday. When he called, I knew their database had had a double hit. A white van and a .223 rifle? I knew they were coming. In a subsequent telephone conversation, Metzger reportedly told Brown that agents merely wanted to verify the serial number of the rifle and confirm that it was, in fact, still physically in Brown's possession. The two scheduled an appointment to accomplish those goals. But Brown later learned that the agents had tried at least once to make an unannounced visit, and only called because they were unable to catch him at home. Once I told some of my friends in the pro-gun community what was happening, they began to relate some stories to me about guys having their guns confiscated, for so-called 'ballistic fingerprinting,' and not getting their guns back, Brown explained. I became alarmed. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said the attitude of the federal agents comes as a result of years of accepting gun control as somehow useful for solving crimes. The [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] went to the stores and got the lists of gun owners that had something that could fire a .223. But, it didn't solve the crime, Pratt noted. The only reason we find that gun registration is 'useful' is for confiscation. FBI Agents 'Were Not Happy' Brown's apprehension prompted him to contact an attorney, who instructed him on preparing for the visit. So, when FBI Special Agent Greg Metzger and his partner arrived at Brown's home for their scheduled meeting, they were greeted by Brown and his wife, Mary, along with reporters and photographers from various media outlets. As Brown described the situation, the agents were a little bit miffed. They were not happy, he observed. They just were not interested in being around any cameras. The agents asked Brown to step outside the home, away from the television crew, to talk. Can we, uh ... come here, one of the agents said to Brown. Obliging, Brown stepped away from the door to speak with the agents, but still within view of the camera. Brown began recapping the agreement he had made with Special Agent Metzger. But when one of the agents realized Brown was wearing a wireless microphone, he stopped the conversation short. Do you have a microphone on? the agent asked as he reached toward the microphone clipped to Brown's shirt. Brown backed away and continued talking, but the agent interrupted him again. Can you do me a favor? the agent asked. Can you take the apparatus off that you have on? I'd like to speak to you privately. Brown complied, but only after summoning his wife to serve as a witness to the conversation with the agents. Out of the camera's view, and believing they could not be heard, the agents challenged Brown about the presence of the media. They were belligerent, at that point, with me. They weren't threatening me or pushing me around or touching me or anything like that, but their mannerisms and attitude quickly became offended and belligerent, Brown recalled. I was thinking to myself, 'See, this is what I was afraid would happen if you guys came into my house, especially if I was alone.' 'Don't You Know People Are Dying?' Parts of the conversation picked up by the camera's long-range microphone confirm Brown's account of what happened next. Why didn't you give us a chance to do what we said we were going to do instead of ambushing us with the media? Why didn't you trust us? one agent asked. Brown said it was not so much the words the agents used, as their attitude and body language that made him uncomfortable. There was some lecturing about it, he said recalling one comment that did unnerve him. One thing they said was, 'Don't you know people are dying and we're just trying to do our job?' Brown recalled, Of course, the inference was that I didn't care that there were people dying and I was trying to interfere with them doing their job. During
[CTRL] FBI Warnings, CIA Cutouts Mind Control Killers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94contentid=642page=2 FBI Warnings, CIA Cutouts Mind Control Killers by ANONYMOUS New FBI warnings claim that "information from debriefings of al Qaida detainees as of mid-October indicates that the group has considered directly targeting U.S. passenger trains, possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance." Note the words "considered" and "possibly" using operatives. First, I am reminded that FBI (and other federal) informants) often tell their handler/interrogator exactly what they, the FBI, wants to hear. In other circumstances the FBI, and other federal agents lie. This is based on my lengthy interviews of retired FBI agents and public documented evidence of many court cases, especially that of certain agents who have authored books such as retired FBI Special Agent Wesley Swearingen. Swearingen admitted to participating in hundreds of black bag jobs (illegal burglaries). He also stated in his book "FBI SECRETS An Agents Expose" that the FBI hired operatives to murder people. He also helped defense attorneys gain the release of former Black Panthers who had been in prison for decades for alleged murders they never committed. The FBI knew they had set them up for convictions by paying informants/operatives to lie in court. Thus, when the FBI adds the possibility of operatives of "western appearance" and the mainstream meadia spreads this "information" nationwide, this justifies all police, airport security, AMTRAK security, and every other officer, agent and security company to further harass American citizens in keeping with their ultimate goal of a total police state. As you may know many 'western looking citizens', especially Americans have loudly complained of unnecessary harassment going through airports, while mid eastern terrorists appear to have been let through airports with weapons, and while the majority of airport security screeners are foreign in many U.S. airports, many of whom have been illegal aliens and others with criminal records. It is my opinion that if there are any operatives of a western appearance who may be involved with any foreign terrorists such as al Quaida, it would be quite possible, if not probable, that they would be set up by US federal agents to join al Quaida. That could be accomplished by mind control conditioning, by offering bribes accompanied by misinformation and lies, and a number of other means. In my professional law enforcement investigative experience inside a major metropolitan police department, including working international investigations and expertise airports investigations in the US, the vast majority of criminals smuggling drugs and weapons, and committing other crimes such as thefts of personal belongings from luggage and commercial freight thefts were always employees of the airlines, mostly ground personnel. I do not mean to imply that all FBI and other federal agents lie or are dishonest. The majority are trying to do their job and seek out the real foreign terrorists. It is officials in top key positions that control and manipulate the agenda of the rest of the agents. It is interesting to note the facts of the story, "Did 'Jihad' Arms Course Visit U.S.?" by Mike Brunker MSNBC www.msnbc.com/news/668509.asp It apears that a former British military officer allegedly was, and still may be, running a training camp for Islamic terrorists in Marion, Alabama. If history teaches us anything, then I smell CIA connection to this camp, along with an FBI cover up. It is my viewpoint that the so called Beltway Sniper was/is a Manchurian Candidate patsy who probably never fired a shot in the shootings. This includes the seventeen year old accomplice. It is highly probable that a terrorist commando team, or more than one did all of the shootings, and if so, they would have had their training, support, and cover up from the U.S. Government, at least from an element inside the CIA. Any good police investigator can tear apart this sniper story put out by the government and media. SURE SHOT AUTO SALES in NEW JERSEY? If that isn't a government front I will hang up my PC keyboard. I have no time today to go into the many red flags in this sniper case. This is not to say that the CIA and military do not use mind control to train and activate assassins and mass murderers. They do. I will get to that later. In my many lengthy talks with former career CIA FBI agents and operatives, and other federal agents, who are honest men, and in documented evidence, it is known that the CIA, among other agencies, has directed operations in which their agents and operatives committed criminal and terrorist acts in the US such as armed robberies of numerous US National Guard and other military armories, in which US soldiers were severely injured and killed, or the draftees or the ones who would not accept bribes or just let it go. Automatic weapons
[CTRL] FBI to set up office in Communist China
-Caveat Lector- Traitors Bush and Ashcroft setting up FBI office in Communist China. Wasn't it traitors Clinton and Reno that oversaw the opening of the FBI office in Communist Russia? Why are we dealing with a enemy nation that has threatened to Nuke Los Angeles three times in the last five years? The Constitution is plain: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, OR IN ADHERING TO THEIR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT. World - AP Asia Ashcroft Announces FBI China Office Thu Oct 24, 4:33 AM ET By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) on Thursday announced the opening of an FBI (news - web sites) office in Beijing a step meant to strengthen U.S.-Chinese cooperation in fighting terrorism and international crime. The United States and China agree that the most important ... response to terrorism is that we act cooperatively and swiftly, Ashcroft said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy. Washington has repeatedly asked for permission to open an FBI office, but China only agreed in February, when President Bush (news - web sites) met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin (news - web sites) in Beijing. The one-person FBI office is to be staffed by Tony Lau, a 20-year Chinese-American veteran of the bureau. According to the agency's Web site, it has more than 40 such offices worldwide. Lau's job will be to promote cooperation aimed at curtailing organized and transnational crime ... and in the major endeavor of counterterrorism, Ashcroft said. That is our highest priority. Ashcroft is in the middle of a weeklong trip to Asia to discuss law enforcement efforts in the war on terrorism. Earlier in the week, he met with Japanese Foreign Minster Yoriko Kawaguchi in Tokyo. He planned to visit Hong Kong before returning to the United States on Friday. Ashcroft said that in Beijing he had met with Luo Gan, the Communist Party's senior law-enforcement official, and Justice Minister Zhang Fusen. He said he was pleased that they and other Chinese officials uniformly indicate that wherever, whenever, however terrorism can be disrupted, (it) needs to be disrupted. China has accused the East Turkestan Islamic Movement a small group seeking independence for the Muslim Chinese northwest of being part of an international Islamic terrorist conspiracy. Beijing says the group got weapons and training from Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al-Qaida network, though it has not provided evidence to support its claims. The U.S. government had initially rejected the Chinese claims, but in August added the group to its own list of terrorist organizations. That step came the day after China released rules on missile exports that had long been sought by Washington. The timing prompted some observers to say the Bush administration was motivated by politics rather than solid evidence against the group. Ashcroft rejected those suggestions, insisting Thursday that the decision to put any group on the list was based not on political negotiations ... (but) on the availability of evidence that supports the designation. -- -iNFoWaRZ Democrats and Republicans, not a nickels worth of difference. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Warns Al Qaeda May Be Planning Attack
-Caveat Lector- http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnewsStoryID=1557184 FBI Warns Al Qaeda May Be Planning Attack October 10, 2002 12:00 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Citing a recent flurry of statements from al Qaeda leaders, the FBI on Wednesday warned U.S. law enforcement agencies that the network may be planning an attack against U.S. interests. In a alert sent to law enforcement agencies across the United States, the FBI said the statements suggest that an attack may have been approved, but said it had no information on a specific time, date or location for an attack. The coordinated release of these statements, coupled with our knowledge of ongoing plotting by al Qaeda members and threat information described by detainees, strengthens previous assessments that al Qaeda continues to plan major attacks against U.S. interest, the FBI warned. Our concerns are heightened by comments from al Qaeda detainees who are independently interpreting these taped remarks as a sign of attack. The warning noted the audio message from Osama bin Laden broadcast by al-Jazeera television on Sunday which referred to the targeting of key sectors of the U.S. economy. It also pointed out that bin Laden's senior deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, repeated the threat in a taped interview released on Tuesday. The content of the statements and the context surrounding these threats reinforces our view that they may signal an attack, the statement said. One senior detainee maintains that al Qaeda would only release such a statement after approving a specific plan for an attack. The FBI warned U.S. law enforcement officials to take additional steps to detect, disrupt, deter and defend against potential attacks against critical infrastructure and installations at home and abroad. However, the nationwide threat level would remain at yellow because there were no specifics on the method, target or timing of a potential attack, the FBI said. Except for a brief period around the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America, when the threat level was raised to orange, it has stood at yellow, the middle of the five-point scale since it was introduced in March to help communities assess the risk of a terrorist attack. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent Terrorism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.markletaskforce.org./ For Immediate Release Contact: Craig Brownstein: 202-326-1799 Markle Foundation Task Force Says FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent Terrorism; Report Calls for National Network of Information Sharing According to Guidelines October 7, 2002 - Washington, DC -- A new report released today by the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age recommends that a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rather than the FBI should take the lead in shaping domestic information and intelligence priorities to inform policymakers. The report calls for a networked information technology system that effectively shares information among local, state, regional and federal agencies and the private sector, and sets forth a blueprint for how such a system can be established under a set of Presidential guidelines. "Today's information technology allows us to use the power of widely distributed information to protect Americans against terrorist threats," Task Force co-chairs Zoe Baird and James Barksdale said. "America will make a mistake if we create a centralized 'mainframe' information architecture focused on the nation's capital when the intelligence and other information critical to homeland security need to be shared and coordinated across the country and around the world." As the 9/11 stories illustrate, most information gathering is done by people who are far removed from Washington. The people on the frontlines are at the local level: the police officer hearing a complaint from a landlord; an airport official who hears about a plane a pilot trainee left on a runway; an FBI agent puzzled by an odd flight school student in Arizona;, or an emergency room resident treating a strange ailment. The report argues that because of the nature of new terrorist threats, it is necessary to create a more horizontal, cooperative, and fluid process for intelligence collection, sharing and analysis. "The U.S. has to develop a sophisticated and integrated information network to protect Americans from attacks at home," said Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of The Task Force, which included experts who had served in the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations and leaders from the private sector and the academy. "We need a new national strategy that transforms intelligence institutions, uses guidelines to balance privacy with security, and uses the best practices from the private sector." The Task Force, composed of leading experts in national security, information technology, and legal and privacy issues, argues that the Department of Justice and its FBI should be the lead agencies for law enforcement, exercising the power to investigate crimes, charge people with crimes, and prepare cases for trial and appeal. The report argues that DHS should be the lead agency shaping domestic information to inform policymakers and set broad priorities for collecting information. The Task Force notes that criminal investigation (and counterintelligence) often overlaps with intelligence work, and that overlap will enhance our knowledge. But it concludes that the case for a fundamental separation of law enforcement from the responsibility of providing information to policymakers is strong. The report argues that those running criminal investigations and who hold the arrest power-the greatest power to deprive someone of his or her liberties-should not be the same people who will be seeking all kinds of domestic information from local officials and business firms throughout the nation and using that information in databases. Nor should the intelligence analysts be the people who will be preparing cases prosecutors must present in court-the very problem recently cited by the federal court that oversees FBI foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps. Under the scenario outlined in the report, the FBI would continue to have responsibility for managing clandestine collection operations inside the United States, like FISA wiretaps or the recruitment of undercover agents, under the supervision of the Attorney General. The Task Force report, entitled Protecting America's Freedom in the Information Age, offers specific recommendations on how the government can develop information collection and analysis capabilities while also protecting the civil liberties of our citizens. The Task Force examined highly successful regional initiatives from around the county, for example in Utah, Texas and California, where local and state homeland security efforts provide models for a national system. According to the report, the federal government is planning to spend $40 billion annually to protect the homeland, much of which will be used for new information technologies. Yet not enough of these dollars have been allocated to share and analyze information. Striking a balance between privacy and security is also a major concern of
Re: [CTRL] FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent Terrorism
-Caveat Lector- You remember Zoe Baird don't you. She was Clinton's nominee for Attorney General who had to withdraw when it came out that she had hired two illegal aliens and "forgot" to withhold taxes and pay social security taxes on their wages. Does the fact that she "almost" became Attorney General and would have had the FBI under her qualify her to advise now? JR - Original Message - From: William Shannon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:46 PM Subject: [CTRL] FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent Terrorism -Caveat Lector- http://www.markletaskforce.org./For Immediate ReleaseContact: Craig Brownstein: 202-326-1799 Markle Foundation Task Force Says FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent Terrorism; Report Calls for National Network of Information Sharing According to Guidelines October 7, 2002 - Washington, DC -- A new report released today by the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age recommends that a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rather than the FBI should take the lead in shaping domestic information and intelligence priorities to inform policymakers. The report calls for a networked information technology system that effectively shares information among local, state, regional and federal agencies and the private sector, and sets forth a blueprint for how such a system can be established under a set of Presidential guidelines. "Today's information technology allows us to use the power of widely distributed information to protect Americans against terrorist threats," Task Force co-chairs Zoe Baird and James Barksdale said. "America will make a mistake if we create a centralized 'mainframe' information architecture focused on the nation's capital when the intelligence and other information critical to homeland security need to be shared and coordinated across the country and around the world." As the 9/11 stories illustrate, most information gathering is done by people who are far removed from Washington. The people on the frontlines are at the local level: the police officer hearing a complaint from a landlord; an airport official who hears about a plane a pilot trainee left on a runway; an FBI agent puzzled by an odd flight school student in Arizona;, or an emergency room resident treating a strange ailment. The report argues that because of the nature of new terrorist threats, it is necessary to create a more horizontal, cooperative, and fluid process for intelligence collection, sharing and analysis. "The U.S. has to develop a sophisticated and integrated information network to protect Americans from attacks at home," said Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of The Task Force, which included experts who had served in the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations and leaders from the private sector and the academy. "We need a new national strategy that transforms intelligence institutions, uses guidelines to balance privacy with security, and uses the best practices from the private sector." The Task Force, composed of leading experts in national security, information technology, and legal and privacy issues, argues that the Department of Justice and its FBI should be the lead agencies for law enforcement, exercising the power to investigate crimes, charge people with crimes, and prepare cases for trial and appeal. The report argues that DHS should be the lead agency shaping domestic information to inform policymakers and set broad priorities for collecting information. The Task Force notes that criminal investigation (and counterintelligence) often overlaps with intelligence work, and that overlap will enhance our knowledge. But it concludes that the case for a fundamental separation of law enforcement from the responsibility of providing information to policymakers is strong. The report argues that those running criminal investigations and who hold the arrest power-the greatest power to deprive someone of his or her liberties-should not be the same people who will be seeking all kinds of domestic information from local officials and business firms throughout the nation and using that information in databases. Nor should the intelligence analysts be the people who will be preparing cases prosecutors must present in court-the very problem recently cited by the federal court that oversees FBI foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps. Under the scenario outlined in the report, the FBI would continue to have responsibility for managing clandestine collection operations inside the United States, like FISA wiretaps or the recruitment of undercover agents, under the supervision of the Attorney General. The Task Force report, entitled Protecting America's Freedom in the Information Age, offers specific recommendations on how the
Re: [CTRL] FBI Should Not Be Lead Agency For Domestic Information to Prevent ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/9/02 8:44:40 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You remember Zoe Baird don't you. She was Clinton's nominee for Attorney General who had to withdraw when it came out that she had hired two illegal aliens and "forgot" to withhold taxes and pay social security taxes on their wages. Does the fact that she "almost" became Attorney General and would have had the FBI under her qualify her to advise now? I remember her clearly...she was probably a prosecutor somewhere at some point in time and that being the case I'd suggest that she's more qualified than Ashcroft! Now what's Kimba Wood up to I wonder? Bill. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI will tap into personal profiles
-Caveat Lector- http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/news/news_1n3fbidata.html FBI will tap into personal profiles No legal basis for suspicion needed By Bruce V. Bigelow STAFF WRITER September 3, 2002 When direct marketing consultant Mike DeCastro gets hired to plan a campaign pitching vacations in Mazatlan or cell phone service in San Diego, one of his first moves is to consult an online catalog of customer lists. Such lists are the lubricant that keep the wheels of our consumer society spinning. If you applied for a loan or used a credit card, your name is on a list. They identify almost everyone who has attended school, subscribed to anything, or bought anything from a catalog, direct mail or online merchant. Ultimately, such lists also provide the raw material used to build sophisticated computerized databases that have become a multibillion- dollar industry. Just about anything that you want to know about anybody is available in a commercial database, said DeCastro of San Francisco. Most people don't have a clue that such databases compile information from a variety of sources, linking their names to their Social Security numbers, credit profiles, employment histories, travel records, court records, personal interests and chronic health conditions. And now, under changes ordered by Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI is moving to use commercial databases in its efforts to prevent acts of terrorism in the United States. The change was part of a broader decision, announced by the Justice Department May 30, to loosen the internal policies that guide federal terrorist investigations. Now, even if they don't have a specific suspect or legal basis for suspicion, FBI agents under the new guidelines are empowered to scour public sources for information on future terrorist threats, Ashcroft said. The attorney general did not specify how the FBI would use commercial databases, and a Justice Department spokesman did not return calls seeking elaboration. Experts say the FBI would likely use special software and advanced data-mining techniques that can sift through enormous fields of data to identify patterns and characteristics of potential terrorists. Given the potential threats to American security, some say the changes were long overdue. The computer systems that were available to the general public were not available to agents like me, said Darwin Wisdom, a former FBI agent who runs the Baker Street Group, a San Diego investigative firm. I was always dismayed by our inability to access information that was available on computer just about everywhere else. 'Dragnet-style' Before Ashcroft changed the guidelines, the FBI could not even use standard Internet search engines such as Google to look for information concerning terrorist activity, said Mitch Dembin, who resigned two years ago as a federal prosecutor specializing in computer crimes. Investigators first had to have suspicion. The guidelines cannot be so strict that they shut out from law enforcement the very tools that are available to you and me, Wisdom said. That's preposterous. Ashcroft's changes have stirred some opposition. The American Civil Liberties Union says the new FBI guidelines reversed many self- imposed restraints the Justice Department adopted in the 1970s after revelations of FBI illegal spying. For over a decade, the commercial data collectors have promised Americans they would not turn this data over to law enforcement, said Chris Hoofnagle, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. This was a guarantee that has staved off legislation and allowed this data collection to continue. The new capabilities of these technologies now allows suspicionless, dragnet-style investigations of all Americans, Hoofnagle said. FBI agents could use commercial databases before Ashcroft changed the guidelines, but only after indications of criminal activity were established, Hoofnagle said. A prosecutor would then obtain a warrant that allowed a search, as well as electronic eavesdropping. Under the old guidelines, they were not allowed to engage in prospective searches meaning they could not sit down and say all Protestant men between 20 and 24 are likely terrorists and print out a suspect list, Hoofnagle said. By using commercial databases, DeCastro said, the FBI could generate lists of potential suspects based on a profile using such criteria as race, religion, travel, bank accounts and even grocery-store purchases. It's a disaster, said John Perry Barlow, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This information has been gathered with an assurance to the consumer that his privacy was being protected, except when warrants were issued for a specific release. Said Barlow: We have increasingly what strikes me as the foundation for a police state in the United States. But Wisdom, who spent 27 years as an FBI
[CTRL] FBI Expands New Agent Training
-Caveat Lector- What this article fails to report is that agents are also being taught that Christians and the Founding Fathers and patriots are also terrorists, and that the Constitution is a terrorist document. I am not making this up, it is on film, in 911-the Road to Tyranny, and from an official FBI Flyer sent out the Phoenix, AZ FBI office. FBI Expands New Agent Training By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON Associated Press Writer August 27, 2002, 6:53 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- FBI agents are learning to read body language, understand Islamic fundamentalism and master other skills geared toward combating terrorism, part of the most significant change in training in more than half a century. Roger Trott, head of the FBI's new agent training program at Quantico, Va., said the amount of time new agents are trained in counterterrorism and counterintelligence will be more than doubled beginning in October -- from 23 hours to 55 hours. FBI basic training, which usually lasts 16 weeks, will be extended by a week to help accommodate the change. The FBI is also training some longtime agents to read body language, officials said. Since Sept. 11, there has been an emphasis on preparing agents to deal with terrorism cases, Trott said. It is very rare that time is added on to new agent training. FBI training generally has focused on physical conditioning and crime-solving techniques. Abilities like reading body language and dealing with foreign intelligence are now receiving more attention. Training includes deciphering all the clues you can get -- not just what someone tells you in an interview, but all the signals they may give off, Trott said. Former FBI chief analyst Paul Moore said the expansion of basic training was necessary, but was skeptical about whether the FBI was doing enough. It is significant, but compared to what we need, it is a drop in the ocean, said Moore, an analyst for the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, a private research firm. What we need to do is focus on creating agents who have a better chance to intercept intelligence and disrupt operations. One week probably won't be enough to make a real change. The usefulness of agents who are trained in the basics of reading body language became clear as the FBI learned more about how terrorists operated in the country undetected before the Sept. 11 attacks. Two days before the attacks, for example, Ziad Jarrah roared past a Maryland State Police trooper at about 90 mph. He got the usual treatment: a ticket and a quick reprimand. That ticket was found crumpled up in the car's glove compartment at Newark Airport on Sept. 11, hours after Jarrah and three others hijacked an airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania. Law enforcement officials, while being careful not to suggest the officer should have done anything differently, say the story illustrates that chance encounters can be important. David Givens, director of the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Wash., said it's relatively easy to learn the basics about body language. It's like any other language -- you can get a few basic words that will help you with easy situations very quickly, Givens said. Getting a working knowledge of the more subtle points can take years. Givens said it's likely that terrorists give off obvious signs of anxiety before they attack. There are certain human responses to great pressure that cannot be easily controlled, if you accept the idea that they can be controlled at all, Givens said. It can be an effective law enforcement tool. The FBI is also expanding training about Islamic fundamentalism. In the hunt for al-Qaida members, the FBI has turned up troves of computer records, operation manuals and other documents, most of which are in Arabic. Translating the documents has been a slow process, according to Justice Department officials, but making use of the translated data is equally difficult. It took the FBI three months to discover a picture of Saud Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed among pictures of the Sept. 11 hijackers in one trove of al-Qaida documents. The agency immediately issued a public alert with al-Rasheed's picture, seeking information on his possible whereabouts. A senior Justice Department official acknowledged the FBI is trying to expand its ability to assess information in Arabic. Juliette Kayyem, a terrorism expert and professor at Harvard University, said the new training will only be useful if it focuses on behavior. The FBI gets into the most trouble when it views a certain belief as dangerous, Kayyem said. The behavior training or training that focuses on dealing with people from other cultures is good, but when agents begin to focus on belief systems you just get widespread alienation in the communities where you most need help. * __ On the Net: FBI: http://www.fbi.gov Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press -end article-
Re: [CTRL] FBI connects Moussaoui to Atta and Mcveigh andTerry Nichols OKC case
-Caveat Lector- I thought they'd find a way. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI connects Moussaoui to Atta and Mcveigh andTerry Nichols OKC case
-Caveat Lector- Prudy L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: -Caveat Lector-I thought they'd find a way. Prudy this is yet ANOTHER florida connection to terrorism on US soilthis is the OP. NORTHWOODS GANG...THE BAY OF PIGS GANG...THE TEXAS, PROMIS, EARL BRIAN, E. HOWARD HUNT, CARLUCCI, MCNAMARA, BUSHES...oki'll be alright now please see: Is it just a coincidence that many of the same players that are in 9:11 and everything from the Bay of Pigs to Operation Northwoods to LBJ to the Miami 5 to JFK's assassination to the Venezuelan Coup to Jeb Bush and the election fraud to Florida Flight Schools to Iran-Contra to BCCI all have Florida connections? EVERY link below contains connection between said topics and the anti-Castro bunch that did in Kennedy, the same bunch that ran Iran-Contra and that also, seems to have direct connections to Oklahoma City. the Bay of Pigs, Operation Northwoods, and LBJhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11081 The Miami 5 and the Bay of Pigshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11125 Cuba and the question of international terrorismhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11134 REFLECTIONS ON SELECTING THE POLITICALLY CONVENIENT TERRORISTShttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11135 The Bush-Florida-Cuba connectionhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11141 Noriega, Global Crossing, Cuba, and the War on Terrorhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11143 Bay of Pigs and Dealy Plazahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11149 the Venezuelan Coup attempt and the florida terroristshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11150 THE BUSH FAMILY, FLORIDA, and the AMERICAN CIAhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11155 Bushistas and Venezuela: The Coup That Went Southhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11156 Operation Northwoods - Proof US Government Could Harm Americanshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11157 Mohamed Atta, Florida, Falwell, and September 11http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11174 The Serial Terrorist George Bush Freedhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11180 why is the FBI taking the heat for the CIA's errant ways?http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11183 Fidel Castro Finds Heir in Chavezhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11186 Bush Sr., Iran-Contra, "Brothers to the Rescue", and the L.A. Crack Explosionhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11188 Three Days that Shook the Mediahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11189 Operation Northwoods And The Reichstag Firehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11193 more on florida and september 11http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11195 JEB BUSH AND RIGHT WING CUBAN EXILEShttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11200 Iran-Contra, the Bushes, Al Martin, HUD, Armitage, and Harkenhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11215 Thailand, Heroin, and the Iran-Contra Ganghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11216 if Bushes are Nazis...here is ANOTHER connection to JFK assassinationhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11226 Israel and the Contrashttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11227 Bush Pardons Florida-trained assassin: June 2000http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11231 FBI connects Moussaoui to Atta and Mcveigh andTerry Nichols OKC casehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11197 Re: FBI connects Moussaoui to Atta and Mcveigh and Terry Nichols OKC casehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11233 Jose Basulto Leon and "Brothers to the Rescue"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11235 Up Against the Beast: High-level Drug Runninghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11238 THE CIA: "COCAINE IMPORTING AGENCY"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11256 The Drug Trade, the Kennedy Assassination, and the War in Vietnamhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11257 Free the Five web sitehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11394 The Clinton Connection: Iran-Contra, OKC's John Doeville, and Mena Arkansashttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11395 Bush, Atta Visit Same Florida Island Resort Before Sept 11http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11398 Orlando Boschhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11400 George II's Dangerous Liaisonshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11401 Re: connections between sept. 11 and anti-castro cuban-americanshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11406 Re: The Clinton Connection: Iran-Contra, OKC's John Doeville, and Mena Arkansashttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11409 Israelism, Harari, and Iran-Contra - the Israeli Connectionhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11407 The CIA and the Drugs Tradehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11410 on the Miami 5http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11413 Oklahoma City, Florida, and BCCIhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/11414 Re: Oklahoma City, Florida, and
[CTRL] FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist, Prime Suspect is a Jewish Zionist
-Caveat Lector- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html http://aztlan.net/zack.htm FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist Prime Suspect is a Zionist by Hector Carreon La Voz de Aztlan Los Angeles, Alta California - 2/26/2002 - (ACN) Jewish microbiologist Dr. Philip M. Zack may be behind the deadly anthrax contaminated letters that were mailed to NBC's Tom Brokaw, Senator Tom Daschle and others, according to FBI sources. In a rapidly unravelling investigation by the FBI, it appears that the Arab-hating-Jew was behind a vile conspiracy to frame a colleague who was born in Egypt and who worked, along with Dr. Zack, at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. La Voz de Aztlan has maintained from the beginning that the anthrax-laced letters seemed contrived and were purposely written to make them appear that they were coming from someone in the Islamic World. New information just released by the FBI confirms our suspicions. On October 9, 2001 we published Anthrax Terrorists may be Zionists in which we outlined the reasons for our suspicions and in addition reported on a letter we received with a yellowish powder. On October 24, 2001 we published an editorial Anthrax Letter Messages Seem Contrived in which we commented on our theory concerning the origin of the letters. We also published pictures of the three actual letters and envelopes. We have now compared the handwriting on these letters to the one we received and it looks suspiciously the same. We are not handwriting experts and have made the decision to publish the envelope and letter we received so that our readership can see for themselves. Our local police department never came to pick up the envelope and letter and we still have them in a double zip-lock plastic bag. The letter and envelope addressed to La Voz de Aztlan are published at http://www.aztlan.net/letterbiochem.htm The case against Dr. Phillip M. Zack began unravelling when Egyptian-born scientist Dr. Ayaad Assaad, now a U.S. citizen, was called in by the FBI for an interview on October 2, 2001. The FBI had received an unsigned letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad of being responsible for mailing the anthrax tainted letters. The letter stated, among other things, Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist, and I have worked with Dr. Assaad, and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S. government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on. Rosemary A. McDermott, attorney for Dr. Assaad, stated that here is a very close connection between the person who sent that letter and the person who sent the anthrax. Ms. McDermott said The person who wrote that letter knew intimate details of my client's life and his professional history, and about the Fort Detrick operation. I don't think that is a coincidence. The Fort Detrick biochemical research laboratory has maintained stores of weapons-grade anthrax that is commonly known as the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis. The anonymous letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad was sent a little after the September 11 terrorist attacks but before anyone knew about the anthrax-laced letters. On October 5, 2001, about 10 days after the anonymous letter was mailed, Robert Stevens, Photo Editor of The Sun in Florida, became the first of five individuals to die from an anthrax infection. The racist and bigoted attacks on Dr. Ayaad Assaad by Zionist Philip Zack and others started while he worked at the Army's bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland during the 1990's. This is when a vicious racist vendetta was launched against the scientist of Arab descent. A group of coworkers led by then Army Lt. Col. Philip Zack began a hateful campaign to harass and get Dr. Assaad fired from his duties. The Zionists apparently wanted to get rid of anyone that could uncover their sinister plans which consisted in stealing weapons grade anthrax and other deadly viruses used in biological weapons. The conspirators had the support of the lab's former commander. Among other things, the bigots wrote and passed around a very crude poem denigrating Arab Americans, an obscene rubber camel and constantly poked fun at Dr. Assaad's use of the English language. In 1991 Dr. Assaad discovered the eight-page poem in his mailbox. The poem was lewd and mocked Dr. Assaad. The poem also referred to the rubber camel that was passed around. It was outfitted with all manner of sexually explicit appendages. The poem in part read: ``In Assaad's honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast.'' The bigots noted that the rubber camel will be given each week ``to who did the least.'' It appears that the conspirators created an extremely toxic workplace on purpose in order to take control of the laboratory. The lab became very dysfunctional and hostile to the few good scientists that worked there which included Dr. Assaad. Dr. Assaad said ``This person knew in advance what was going
[CTRL] FBI Secretly Controlled Communist Party USA
-Caveat Lector- http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?fileName=lsn20020713231549.html FBI Secretly Controlled Communist Party USA Informer Was CPUSA #2 From 1954 - 1971 7/13/02 11:15:49 PM American Free Press / Michael Collins Piper Washington, DC -- http://www.americanfreepress.net The late FBI Director J Edgar Hoover had a very big secret about the communist movement. He kept it under wraps for the 20 years that precededhis death in 1974. Beginning in 1954 -- and for the 27 years that followed -- the FBI was essentially in chage of the activities of the Communist Party USA. This eye- opening idbit appears in a newly released book, The Secret History of the FBI, by veteran mainstream journalist Ronald Kessler. Despite its sensational title Kessler's book is hardly a genuine "secret history," butthe revelation regarding Hoover's secret "reign" over the Communist Party is certainly an item that had not really been given the public airing it's due. According to Kessler: In 1954, the FBI began running a top-secret operation codenamed SOLO, which entiled operating as an informant Morris Childs, the principal deputy to Gus Hall, the head of the American Communist Party. In effect, Childs -- referred to by the FBI as Agent 58 -- eas the second-ranking official of the party. Carl N Freyman, an FBI agent in Chicago, recruited Childs, a Ukrainian-born Jew and a former editor of the party newspaper, the Daily Worker, after visiting him in his Chicago apartment. Since Childs was in ill health, the agent arranged for him to be treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Freyman managed to convice Childs that Josef Stalin had betrayed Marxist ideals. Actually, Kessler's report is not original research and he admits it, pointing out that in an earlier book, Operation SOLO -- released in 1996 -- author John Barron had described the FBI's Communist intrigue. Kessler noted: Childs reported for 27 years on party activities and strategy. In addition, he made 52 clandestine trips to the Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe and Cuba. The Soviets so trusted him that on his 75h birthday, Leonid Brezhnev gave childs a birthday party at the Kremlin. Meanwhile, on behalf of the Soviets, Childs and his brother Jack Childs distributed 28 millionin cash for ommunist activities in the United States. The FBI held the secret of SOLO so tightly that officials on the CIA, National Security Agency, Defense Department, Stae Department and National Security Council could only read reports of the operation while agents waited to return them to bureau headquarters. Not until 1975 did the FBI inform the President and Secretary of State of the true source of the information. The method wich Hoover and the FBI used to "turn" Childs into a secret agent for the FBI -- convicing him that Soviet leader Josef Stalin had abandoned Marxist ideals -- points towards the little understood "family fight" between the anti-Zionist STalinist elements in Soviet Russia and the Trotskyist foes. In fact, the FBI's argument is one of the arguments used against Stalin by the political heirs and disciples of Stalin's hated rival, Leon Trotsky, who had been murdered in exile in Mexico at Stalin's direction. At the time of Stalin's deth -- the circumstances of which suggest that he was probably "helped" to his death -- the Soviet leader was beoning openly hostile to political Zionism. According to a July 27, 1967 report published in the American Examiner, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that: Josef Stalin died 14 years ago of a rage caused when the Politburo opposed his proposal that all Russian Jews be expelled to Siberia, The Detroit News has report from Washington ... The story alleged that Stalin called a secret Politburo meeting to announc a campaign against the Jews. He said measures should be taken to deport Jews en masse to Biro Bidjan in Siberia ... Lazar Kaganovich, [the] only Jewish member of the Politburo and Stalin's brother-in-law, tore up his party card and thre the pieces in Stalin' face, said The News. The report said that Stalin then turned purple with rage ... Stalin rose from his chair, began screaming incoherently and fell unconscious. An hour later, physicians pronounced him dead. [LSN: Sounds pretty fanciful to us ...] That the FBI adopted Trotskyite rhetoric to influence Childs could add fuel to the fie of long held suspicions that certain "anti-communist" elements in the American "conservative" movement were, in fact, effectively deep-cover Trotskyites working to twist the anti-communist conservative movement from within. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright
[CTRL] FBI Checking Library Records
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:45:10 -0400 From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Law Policy of Computer Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FBI checking library records Ken Starr couldn't get the records, but now the FBI has a new law, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act and is using it. According to the San Francisco Chronical, about 8% of the libraries had been contacted for information about their patron's reading habits. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/23/MN75593.DTL Ann Brick, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in San Francisco, called Section 215 a stunning assault on . . . First Amendment freedoms and said it also appears to violate constitutional standards on searches. But she said it could be hard to challenge, because how can a target challenge government activity that they don't know about? ** For Listserv Instructions, see http://www.lawlists.net/cyberia Off-Topic threads: http://www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo/cyberia-ot Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Chief: 9/11 Surveillance Taxing Bureau
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2572-2002Jun5.html FBI Chief: 9/11 Surveillance Taxing Bureau By a Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 6, 2002; Page A01 The FBI has placed a substantial number of people suspected of ties to terror under constant surveillance, sending out special teams of agents to various parts of the United States roughly every two weeks in a mission that is seriously taxing the agency's resources, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday. Mueller would not specify how many possible terrorists the agency is tracking, but he said the bureau has been pushed, really pushed to keep up with them. And he acknowledged that agents have no choice but to monitor those people around the clock when they cannot be detained for immigration or other violations. Our biggest problem is we have people we think are terrorists. They are supporters of al Qaeda. . . . They may have sworn jihad, they may be here in the United States legitimately and they have committed no crime, Mueller said in a 90-minute lunch with Washington Post reporters and editors. And what do we do for the next five years? Do we surveil them? Some action has to be taken. Mueller's remarks are among the strongest government assertions that people with suspected connections to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network remain in the United States, and they reflect the FBI's consuming race to thwart another attack. They come a little more than two weeks after a succession of Bush administration officials, including Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mueller warned the public that another strike against the United States is likely. Even as Mueller moves to reorganize the FBI and substantially beef up its counterterrorism forces, the current solution to tracking possible terrorists is special squads -- surveillance teams that the FBI has been dispatching about every other week since Sept. 11, particularly to locations where its field offices lack agents or translators to do the tedious work. The surveillance can be done on the ground, by air or, in some cases, with court-approved wiretaps, he said. There are gradations of persons who we might look at and their affiliation with a terrorist, Mueller said, explaining they could range from someone who has called a number of a prominent terrorist overseas to a person distributing literature supporting bin Laden. There are all gradations along that spectrum, he said. Mueller declined to say what kinds of leads have been developed as a result of the surveillance work. In the months after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, authorities moved against possible terror suspects by detaining more than 1,200 people on minor immigration charges, such as overstaying their visas, and hundreds of others on state and local criminal charges. In some cases, federal prosecutors obtained material witness warrants to hold people suspected of having information related to the hijackings. Mueller said officials were looking at other options to root out terror suspects, including the Alien Terrorist Removal Act, a 1996 law that permits the deportation of suspected alien terrorists by a special court, based on classified information submitted in secret. No one has been deported under the law since its enactment. The FBI has come under intense criticism in recent weeks for mishandling clues to the attacks, including a July memo from a Phoenix agent that terrorists might be training at U.S. flight schools and the arrest in August of Zacarias Moussaoui, who aroused suspicions at a Minnesota flight school. Moussaoui was subsequently indicted as a conspirator in the attacks. Mueller, who took office Sept. 4, is scheduled to address those issues in testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate panel also is scheduled to hear today from Coleen Rowley, the chief legal counsel of the Minneapolis FBI office, who wrote a blistering memo to Mueller last month complaining that the Moussaoui investigation was stalled last summer by FBI headquarters. Mueller yesterday declined to provide details about the Moussaoui investigation, saying that to comment would be inappropriate because the criminal case is pending. A week after announcing plans to broadly reorganize the FBI to improve its ability to thwart terrorism, Mueller said yesterday that he would do whatever it takes to keep up surveillance and other efforts aimed at preventing another attack. Roughly one-fourth of the FBI's 11,500 agents will be devoted to counterterrorism work under reorganization plans, but Mueller said that many more will be added as the need arises. Mueller said the FBI will be better equipped to track terrorist activity because of changes made last week to guidelines governing the conduct of FBI investigations. For example, agents now will be able to observe activities in public places, including houses of worship, to develop
[CTRL] FBI Biting Hands
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.newsday.com/ }}}Begin http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybres042731219jun04.column COMMENTARY FBI Slaps Helping Hand Jimmy Breslin June 4, 2002 Sometime last fall, the FBI ran ads asking for people who could speak Middle Eastern languages. This was at least a scandal. We had just been attacked by Arabs and were going to wage war on an Arab country and hardly anybody on our side could speak Arabic or any other Middle Eastern language. Around the United Nations in New York everybody says that this bin Laden has the best translators anywhere and the United States is comical. When Rumsfeld announces that we have captured bin Laden's hard drives, he can't give you the names of the people who can read them. He can't because most of the time there isn't anybody. Forever, the FBI was afraid of anybody not milk-white Catholic. Fear of the least swarthiness was only normal. There was a day in 1960 when Robert F. Kennedy was named attorney general and asked immediately how many agents of color the FBI had, John Edgar Hoover came out of the building, looked at his black chauffeur and said, Report upstairs and get a special agent's badge. You're not driving anymore. He then could inform the attorney general's office that the FBI had at least one black agent in the home office. This time, the lack of people who speak the languages of the Middle East was worse. It got people killed. The day the ad asking for translators ran, I saw a woman I know at the corner newsstand and I told her about it. She was born in Iran, raised on the Farsi language and attended the University of Tehran. I'll look at it, she said. I want to do something. I saw her a couple of days later and she said that she was thinking of going to the FBI office and volunteering as a translator. I told her that I thought she'd be terrific. She had kids to worry about, but she thought that she and her husband could figure that out. That she had been raised in Farsi was a tremendous asset. Besides Iranians, people in the north of Afghanistan speak Farsi. She arrived in the morning at the FBI offices, ready to volunteer for her country. First, an agent escorted her to an office, where they let her sit. She got up and right away an agent wanted to know what she wanted. She said she wanted to go to the ladies' room. The agent escorted her there, waited in the hallway and escorted her back to the room. She was told that her background had to be checked. That was fine. She has been married forever to a guy who is in government law enforcement. The background check took a couple of months. She was called down there one day over some form or other and while she was there she said to the watchful agent: Can I get coffee? No. Then could you get me a cup of coffee? That's not going to happen. Good FBI language. It was a couple of months later when I saw her on the street and asked her how it was going and she said that she hadn't heard from their background check yet. Her husband is known in the law business and she wouldn't even tell me the building she went to for appointments with the FBI. We were talking on St. Patrick's Day. You go a couple of more months and then one day she told me that they had asked her to come down to the FBI office and take a language test. Couldn't they just talk to you and find out? Or don't they have anybody who can talk the language to give a test? The test turned out to be long and demanding, in that the language being used on the examination paper was a half notch removed from any Farsi she had used growing up and attending college. It was a test in Farsi put out by some professor in a college who never had been one foot off the North American continent. They told her that she had not passed. This was like failing a test on Queens if you're born in Elmhurst. But then a note came that they still wanted her to come to work. Her troubles with the FBI exam were similar to those of Geoff D. Porter, who teaches Middle Eastern studies at New York University. He writes, The Arabic language test - copyrighted in 1994 by the Defense Language institute - was solely in Modern Standard Arabic ... this is the form used for official speeches and in the news media in Arab countries - but almost never in conversation. It differs substantially from the spoken varieties of Arabic in vocabulary, syntax and idiom - enough so that a non- native speaker who learned only Modern Standard Arabic would not be able to understand Arabic speakers talking to one another. Now, it is at least seven months since she volunteered to help her country. It has taken so long because the FBI is lazy and inefficient and the more you see of them at work, the more you wonder how you can reorganize them. Finally, she was asked to come down for another test, and when she walked into the office, she knew things were different. No agent escorted her as she walked to the room. The test consisted of sitting
[CTRL] FBI {Freeh Be It}
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/4/190547.shtml }}}Begin Reprinted from NewsMax.com On 9-11, It Was Still Freehs FBI Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Wednesday, June 5, 2002 No matter what their politics, many will agree that on Sept. 11, it was still essentially Louis Freehs FBI. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Freeh has been almost an anonymous figure, as far as the media are concerned. Still, Freeh, a former bureau agent, prosecutor and federal judge, has been the most influential FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. And it was Freeh who had been at the helm of the nations premier law enforcement agency for more than eight years, compared to the mere days of tenure for newcomer Robert Mueller. But what kind of FBI was Louis Freehs? What might surprise some is that remember, this was after the first bombing of the World Trade Center it was well-funded and clearly understood terror pre-emption as job one. Bill Clinton's 'Best Possible Person' Freeh had been launched as director in 1993 as Bill Clintons golden boy, the best possible person to head the FBI as it faces new challenges and a new century. Clinton critics noted at the time of Freehs appointment that former U.S. attorney Robert Fiske had put forth Freehs name to Clinton legal counsel Bernard Nussbaum. Janet Reno Again That Fiske was later appointed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno as the special counsel to investigate Clinton, Nussbaum and the Clintons Whitewater dealings made some Republicans jittery about Fiskes and Freehs impartiality. At the time of Freehs 1993 installation, Clinton emphasized that the FBI operates in a new and challenging world. Terrorism once seemed far from our shores, an atrocity visited on people in other lands. Now, after the attack on the World Trade Center, we know that we, too, are vulnerable. Brave new beginnings for a brave new FBI, but a refrain that is now all too similar to the latest promised renaissance of the bureau. Today, Freeh heads personnel and security for the Delaware credit card company MBNA Corp., a prosaic position for the former top G-man. Spurned by New Jersey Surprisingly, Freeh missed the cut to be head of New Jerseys homeland security task force, a post made all the more sensitive because of the unhappy fact that some of the 9-11 plotting and recruiting went on in the Garden State. Despite Freehs infamous computer illiteracy (he never used e-mail) and the introduction of an expensive but faulty computer system on his watch that contributed to the Timothy McVeigh file debacle and a one-year backup at the FBIs crime lab, the bank security executive now sings the praises of those same magic computer boxes as the key tools of the anti-terror trade. Last month at a speech in Cleveland, for instance, Freeh chortled over the digital age, as if enthralled with a new toy. He noted with wonder that the Internet was an amazing resource for bomb recipes, some made with easily obtained ingredients. We know that the potential for use of these weapons is enormous, he confided. The Patriot Act is a mild response to the terrorist threat, considering the countrys mood, he added. Just a month after the Sept. 11 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, Freeh lamented in a speech to security industry executives that investigators lacked the ability to decipher encrypted messages on the Internet and needed legislation to compel software companies that manufactured encryption programs to unlock the messages secrets. Freeh and Zacarias Moussaoui In a choice of anecdotes now sublimely ironic because of the recent Zacarias Moussaoui laptop tale of bungled opportunities, Freeh described how Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the WTC, disclosed to the FBI a plot to place bombs aboard 11 U.S. air carriers flying over the Pacific Ocean, plans to assassinate the pope, and a terror attack scenario featuring poison-laced explosives planted in the WTC. Yousefs maniacal blueprints for the attacks were on an encrypted file left behind in a computer found in a Manila apartment, the director noted, decrying the fact that it had taken agents weeks to decrypt the plan. We dont have a computer, nobody has a computer, that will break it down in real time, he complained. Yet just months later, it was Freehs FBI that balked at examining the contents of Moussaouis laptop, that magic black box coveted by a guy whose keen interest was in learning to fly planes without the benefit of instruction in taking off and landing. Plenty of Money And if there was a dearth of hardware and software to swiftly crack the nettlesome Yousef code, was it for lack of funds or resources flowing to Freehs FBI? No, according to the agencys hefty receipt books. From 1994 to 2001, Congress increased the FBIs counterterrorism budget from $79 million to $372 million a nearly 500 percent windfall. And Freeh effectively lobbied for the largesse by
[CTRL] FBI Asking Dive Shops About Middle Eastern Customers, Students
-Caveat Lector- FBI Asking Dive Shops About Middle Eastern Customers, Students The Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - FBI agents have begun canvassing dive shops across Florida, inquiring specifically about customers and students of Middle Eastern descent. The bureau, concerned that future terrorist attacks might come by sea, also is compiling a database of all the country's certified scuba divers. It's another avenue for terrorists to pose a threat, said Terry W. Myers, the owner of Depthfinders Dive Center in Port Charlotte. The agent asked Myers whether he has had any Middle Eastern students. He said he had no suspicious patrons. On May 23, the FBI released a general warning that some terrorists had been seeking an offensive scuba diver capability. The Professional Association of Diving Instructors sent its members a message the following day, telling them it was working with the FBI to centralize the information the agents are seeking. PADI, which counts nearly 65 percent of the nation's dive shops as its affiliates, warned dive shops that their lists of students could be subpoenaed. I think it's a good idea, said Chuck Owen, manager at Bill Jackson Inc., scuba shop in Pinellas Park. He said the FBI visited his dive shop about a week ago. Owen has been in the diving business since the mid-70s, and this was the first time the FBI has asked about diving in the context of potential attacks, he said. Debbie Weierman, an FBI spokeswoman in Washington, said the warning wasn't prompted by a credible threat. It's just a general bit of information, Weierman said. It's very nebulous. Unfortunately we have nothing as far as time and location. We do know they are trying to pursue scuba diving capability. So FBI agents are scouring the country, talking with scuba shop owners and officials from diving organizations like PADI. Romy Hays, owner of Ocean Pro Dive Shop in Sarasota, said she explained to the agent who visited her that there are many certified divers. I told him scuba diving is not like learning how to fly, Hays said. Anyone can pick up a tank and regulator and go underwater. Scuba gear is available everywhere. Agents also visited the Divers Den of Pensacola last week, said the owner, who declined to give his name. The owner said he told agents he has no customers or students of Middle Eastern descent. Myers said he would be suspicious of a customer who acted strangely or spent thousands on elaborate equipment. But added, no one is going to give me a terrorist union card. ... That's why we try to get as much personal information as we can. In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI chiefs blocked investigation of '20th hijacker'
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related New Paradigms Posts at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html All, this is a report published yesterday on the UK's newspaper The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4421276,00.html). Now all conspiracy people have material to say I told you!. Subject: FBI chiefs blocked investigation of '20th hijacker' Oliver Burkeman in New York Guardian Saturday May 25, 2002 High-ranking FBI officials repeatedly obstructed efforts to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, in the days before September 11, a senior agent has claimed. Coleen Rowley, of the FBI's Minneapolis office, said the agents who arrested Mr Moussaoui there in August last year became so frustrated by their superiors' repeated refusal to grant warrants to search his computer and personal belongings that they alerted the CIA directly - a breach of protocol for which they were reprimanded. In a 13-page letter to the Senate intelligence committee and the FBI director, Robert Mueller, which was immediately classified, Ms Rowley rejected Mr Mueller's recent claim that the agency had no information on Mr Moussaoui that could have helped to predict or prevent the terrorist attacks. The FBI said it would open an internal investigation, and the Senate panel has begun its own inquiry. Mr Moussaoui is currently facing terrorism charges in Virginia. While I cannot comment on the specifics of the letter, I am convinced that a different approach is required, Mr Mueller said in a statement. New strategies, new technologies, new analytical capacities and a different culture make us an agency that is changing post-September 11. In part of the letter which was made public, Ms Rowley wrote: When, in a desperate eleventh-hour measure to bypass the FBI HQ roadblock, the Minneapolis division undertook directly to notify the CIA's counter-terrorist centre, FBI HQ personnel chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without approval. Even as Washington was digesting Ms Rowley's allegations, government documents emerged showing that the FBI agents investigating Mr Moussaoui were told hours after his arrest that he believed it was acceptable to kill civilians who harm Muslims, and that those who died executing such attacks were martyrs. The warning was backed up days later in a cable from a French intelligence agency saying that he held Islamic extremist beliefs. The classified documents, summarised in a leak to the New York Times, were based on interviews with Hussein al-Attas, a student who gave Mr Moussaoui a lift from Oklahoma to a Minnesota flying school, where his interest in Boeing-747s aroused the suspicion of instructors. This month it emerged that one agent speculated in the margins of his notes that he might be planning to hijack an aircraft and fly it into the World Trade Centre. US officials also hinted yesterday that they were looking into the possibility that Richard Reid, the alleged shoe-bomber, acted as part of a wider plot by an Islamic militant group, and that the group in question may have been Hamas or Hizbullah. They are damn sure he was part of a terrorist organisation, a federal law enforcement official told the Washington Post. One could reasonably assume that al-Qaida is not the only group that is being looked at. The official said connections between al-Qaida and Palestinian terrorist groups were a key focus of the investigation, not least because of Mr Reid's history of travels in Gaza. There is certainly evidence to indicate there are links and contacts between them. They are like-minded organisations that hate the US and are tapping into a broader pool of resources and people. But I wouldn't say the Palestinian rejectionist organisations are linking up with al-Qaida and going to war against us. We're not there yet. Newly released court documents show that prosecutors believe a human hair and palm-print found on the plastic explosive device which Mr Reid tried to detonate on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December last year did not belong to him. Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright
[CTRL] FBI Spying
-Caveat Lector- I wonder if the new FBI Internet spying regulations now in effect will cause a delay in certain messages due to caution in the part of ISPs who are afraid of retailation? I think the FBI needs to be redistributed into a thousand points of light. But then look what happened to JFK and his foes from the CIA. Guess that makes me marked as a terrorist. Welcome to the New AmeriKa. You thought communism was abolished. Welcome to the Fourth Reich of the New National Socialist Republic, otherwise known as the New World Order. The New World Odor smells bad, really bad, like the petrochemical pollution from it comes... If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI destroyed evidence in bin Laden case
-Caveat Lector- http://sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/05/28/national1704EDT0711.D TL Memo: FBI destroyed evidence in bin Laden case after glitch with e- mail surveillance system D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer Tuesday, May 28, 2002 (05-28) 17:38 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal FBI memo says agents destroyed evidence gathered in an investigation involving Osama bin Laden's network after its e- mail wiretap system mistakenly captured information to which the agency was not entitled. The FBI software not only picked up the e-mails of its target but also picked up e-mails on non-covered targets, said a March 2000 memo to agency headquarters in Washington. The FBI technical person was apparently so upset that he destroyed all the e-mail take, including the take on the suspect, the memo said. A Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday night that the e-mails were not destroyed. The official did not elaborate or try to reconcile the statement with the memo. The episode was described in documents made public through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington advocacy group. The material was not included in an original release but became public after a federal judge ordered the bureau to give out more documents. At issue was an investigation in Denver in which the FBI's bin Laden unit was using the bureau's Carnivore system to conduct electronic surveillance of a suspect under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant. The suspect's name and other information identifying details of the investigation were marked out of the letter. The memo surfaced as the FBI was addressing concerns it mishandled aspects of terrorism investigation prior to the Sept. 11 attacks. Those concerns include a warning from its Phoenix office about Arab pilots training in the United States last July. As an outgrowth of that and other much-criticized FBI actions before the attacks, the agency is to form a new office of intelligence and strengthen its oversight of counterterror investigations. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were expected to outline high-profile changes Wednesday at the FBI's headquarters, including closer ties to the CIA and an overhaul of the FBI's outdated computer systems. FBI officials refused on Tuesday to discuss the Carnivore memo or the investigation it referred to. They did, however, say that the bin Laden unit at FBI headquarters handles only investigations involving suspected activity by his terror network. The memo shows FBI agents were worried about the fallout in the Denver case. The Justice Department's Office of Intelligence and Policy Review was furious after learning the evidence captured by the e-mail wiretap system was destroyed because of the glitch, the memo states. To state that she was unhappy at ITOS (International Terrorism Operations Center) and the UBL (bin Laden) unit is an understatement, the memo stated, quoting a Justice official. The memo said Justice officials worried the destruction of the evidence would signal an inability on the part of the FBI to manage the warrants that are key tools in espionage and anti-terrorism cases. Privacy groups and some members of Congress have complained that Carnivore had the potential to collect more information than allowed by a warrant. Here's confirmation of the fact that not only did it do that, but it resulted in a loss of legitimately acquired intelligence, said David Sobel, general counsel of EPIC. To allay Congress's concerns, FBI General Counsel Larry Parkinson testified in July 2000, We do not deploy (Carnivore) in a way that exceeds the court order. The e-mail from an unnamed author to M.E. Spike Bowman, the FBI's associate general counsel for national security, said Denver agents installed the e-mail surveillance system in March 16, 2000, but the device did not work correctly. Henry Perritt, who led a team authorized by the FBI to review the surveillance system, said he was surprised the technician deleted the e-mails. The collection is supposed to be retained for judicial review, Perritt said. If an agent simply deleted a whole bunch of files without the court instructing, that's not the way it's supposed to work. Another document released through the privacy group's request explains the bureau's policy for overcollection on a surveillance warrant. The memo, dated just a week after the Denver e-mail, says the e-mails should be kept under seal so that senior FBI officials can figure out how the wiretap went wrong. The unintended targets of the FBI's snooping may have deserved notification that the mistake was made, the FBI memo said. Authorities have used Carnivore-type tools more than 25 times in all types of criminal cases, to catch fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists and suspected foreign intelligence agents. Carnivore is now called DCS-1000. On the Net:
[CTRL] FBI Pigeonholed Agent's Request
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53054-2002May21.html }}}Begin washingtonpost.com FBI Pigeonholed Agent's Request Canvassing of Flight Schools For Al Qaeda Was Rejected By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 22, 2002; Page A01 A Phoenix FBI agent's request for a canvass of U.S. flight schools for al Qaeda terrorists was formally rejected within several weeks of his July 10 memo, after mid- level officials at FBI headquarters determined they did not have the manpower to carry out the task, sources familiar with the memo said yesterday. The request was forwarded to counterterrorism chiefs at FBI headquarters and the New York field office, but one of the terrorism units in Washington decided by early August that the document's suggestions were largely unworkable in the midst of more immediate cases, sources said. Officials had previously been unclear about when and how the suggestion was abandoned. But officials now acknowledge that the request was quickly marked closed, and plans to pursue it were postponed indefinitely. The abrupt halt underscores the low priority that FBI officials assigned to thefive- page memo from Phoenix agent Kenneth Williams, which was not distributed beyond FBI middle management prior to the Sept. 11 terror attacks and was viewed as largely speculative by those who reviewed it. The Phoenix memo is now at the center of heated debate on Capitol Hill about whether the government misread warning signs about the intentions of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Williams, 41, a former SWAT team leader, joined FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III yesterday for a classified briefing on the memo before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is expected to offer similar testimony as early as today to a joint House-Senate intelligence committee investigating the events leading up to Sept. 11, officials said. The FBI has publicly released only one paragraph of Williams's electronic memo, which outlined his suggestion that the FBI should accumulate a listing of civil aviation universities/ colleges around the country and should discuss this matter with other elements of the U.S. intelligence community. The Phoenix memo was never shared with the CIA or any other agency, officials have said. Nor was it given in August to investigators in Minnesota, where alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was first detained after he raised suspicions at a flight school there. Even to this day, no one seems to know who knew what and where critical information went at FBI headquarters, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said after meeting with Mueller and Williams yesterday. They still don't have answers to . . . why things fell apart before September 11. The memo, which updated about a dozen counterterrorism cases that Williams was working, was approved by Williams's supervisor in Phoenix and transmitted to the Radical Fundamentalist Unit, or RFU, within the bureau's counterterrorism division. A copy was sent to the FBI's Osama bin Laden unit, because his name was mentioned, and an informational copy went to the New York field office, which has been the center of FBI expertise on terrorism, sources said. One paragraph in the summary said that eight Arabs who were the subjects of Williams's investigation were students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz., where they were enrolled in courses including pilot training, aircraft mechanics and security. Williams suggested that the men, who were under investigation for suspected ties to terrorists, might be a threat. He asked for an analysis of people coming into the United States for aviation training and suggested requesting help from the State Department and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. RFU analysts decided that resources were stretched too thin at the time to pursue such a plan. Officials said that the FBI counterterrorism division was swamped with urgent matters, including a large volume of intelligence reports indicating a possible attack, and the investigation into the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. When the memo's existence was revealed two weeks ago, one law enforcement official suggested that the FBI had been seriously considering a plan to pursue Williams's suggestions at the time of the attacks. But officials now acknowledge that was not the case. The decision was made that this would be taken up at a later time when they got through the crisis of the moment, one FBI official said. There had to be some closure, otherwise it just would remain pending. The memo was initially categorized as routine, several sources said, because there was no imminent threat or crime indicated in the document. The other possible category is urgent, officials said. Associates said Williams is surprised by the furor his memo created. FBI officials, including Mueller, have noted that none of the subjects named in the memo has been connected by
[CTRL] FBI Admits: No Evidence Links 'Hijackers' to 9-11
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related New Paradigms Posts at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html Subject: FBI Admits: No Evidence Links 'Hijackers' to 9-11 The possibility that 19 Muslim men accused of being the Sept. 11 hijackers w ere not, in fact, the hijackers, is not so extraordinary an idea as it might seem. Exclusive To American Free Press By Michael Collins Piper After seven months of non-stop declarations by U.S. government spokesmen that there exists solid proof tying 19 Muslim men to plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller has now admitted quite the opposite. That 19 Muslim men who have apparently disappeared have been named as the hijackers is not in doubt. What is in doubt is whether those 19 men were actually plotting anything, either individually or together. The amazing possibility remains that others carried out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, using the identities of the 19 Muslims who have been assigned guilt in the tragedy. In an April 19 speech delivered to the Common wealth Club in San Francisco, Mueller said that the purported hijackers, in his words, left no paper trial. The FBI director stated flatly: In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper-either here in the United States or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere-that mentioned any aspect of the Sept. 11 plot. In describing Muellers evidence fiasco, Los Angeles Times reporters Erich Lichtblau and Josh Meyer, whose article was reprinted in The Washington Post on April 30, note that: Law enforcement officials say that while they have been able to reconstruct the movements of the hijackers before the attacks-all legal except for a few speeding tickets-they have found no evidence of their actual plotting. The Times reporters acknowledge that Muellers comments offer the FBIs most comprehensive and detailed assessment to date of its investigation, remarkable as much for what investigators have not found as for what they have. The FBI director explained away the absence of evidence by making the disingenuous assertion that the hijackers used meticulous planning, extraordinary secrecy and extensive knowledge of how America works to conceal their scheme. Mueller made this claim despite the fact that in the immediate wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a variety of U.S. officials and media sources speciously announced, almost instantaneously, that there was firm evidence not only that these 19 Muslim men were agents of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda network but that they were indeed the individuals who hijacked the doomed flights on Sept. 11. Mueller seems to forget that early government and media reports loudly hyped discoveries-letters and other documents-in the luggage and personal belongings of the presumed hijackers which proved that they were on a mission for Allah, etc etc. Now Muellers comments seem to contradict everything thats been said. Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI raids pro-Republicans
-Caveat Lector- FBI raids pro-Republicans Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Monday March 25, 2002 The Guardian The target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the Republican party and the White House. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,673465,00.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Arrests Priests, Police for Internet Child Porn
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020318/ts/crime_pornography_dc_1.html Monday March 18 5:38 PM ET FBI Arrests Priests, Police for Internet Child Porn By James Vicini snip WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Catholic priests, a police officer, a nurse, a teacher's aide and a school bus driver were among those charged in a 14-month nationwide crackdown known as ''Operation Candyman'' that targeted child pornography on the Internet, the FBI said on Monday. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] FBI Pulls Raisethefist.com Yahoo Discussion List
---BeginMessage--- From: Lysander Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FBI Pulls Raisethefist.com Yahoo Discussion List Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 FBI Pulls Raisethefist.com Yahoo Discussion List. (english) by passing it on from June 6:40pm Wed Mar 6 '02 (Modified on 7:33pm Wed Mar 6 '02) [EMAIL PROTECTED] the raisethefist saga continues FBI Pulls Raisethefist.com Yahoo Discussion List. http://regenerationtv.net/pipermail/actionla/2002-March/001772.html Only after about a week of raisethefist.com being back up and moving, government agencies continue to monitor the site. Frequent hits from the U.S Department of Defense, US federal courts, and other government agencies continue to visit the site. But that's not all. The Raisethefist.com Yahoo Discussion List (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/raisethefist/) was just recently pulled off line. The list only grew to about 60 members until it was taken down. This is yet another COUNTLESS, DIRECT ATTACK on our 'freedom of speech'. Throughout these course of events, we have been raided, shut down, had our internet massager accounts hacked into, our DSL line packeted, the web site owner sent to federal prison, interrogated by Secret Service, we've been denied our remotely backed up files even after paying for them, thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment and networking equipment stolen by the FBI, and much more. Raisethefist asks How long will the oppression last. juneemoon.8m.net From: http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=145759group=webcast Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, ctrl@yahoogroups and [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl@yahoogroups has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Om Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] FBI reports threat to Liberty Bell
-Caveat Lector- Lessons from history in how the government has dealt with activists... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:29:09 -0500 From: preston peet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cia-drugs [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], rootsofteror [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Spy News] FBI reports threat to Liberty Bell On the topic of blowing up the Liberty Bell, once more I find myself feeling a bit suspicious of the FBI's alert of a supposed terrorist threat. I don't doubt terrorists are out there, but how many threats are we going to hear/be told about? I don't often read or hear about threats that drug dealers are going to be making a sale down the street, the cops simply move in, no? (or take money to look the other way, but I digress.) Keeping us, joe/jane public, tense and feeling threatened, thereby helping make many folk much more willing to unquestionably allow the US government to carry out its targetless, never ending war on terror, seems to be the only reason I can personally come up with for these continued alerts. Peace, Preston Peet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://howmanyroads.com/Chapter_3_Excerpt.htm snip- It was in the Black Liberation Front that Ray found ready acceptance. Once a member, Ray began proposing actions the group could undertake. Suggesting that the Black Liberation Front expose the nations hypocrisy by defacing the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument, he gave the members an old US-Army manual of his, which outlined the use of explosives. Everyone agreed that Rays suggestion was a good idea, but no one except Ray was willing to take any action. Ray led the Black Liberation Front on a reconnaissance trip to the Statue of Liberty. Having been an explosives expert in the military, he showed the members where to place their bombs in order to cause maximum damage. Since no one wanted to put up any money, Ray agreed to pay for the bomb materials himself. Next Ray convinced his Black Liberation Front girlfriend to accompany him to Montreal, Canada, to buy 30 sticks of dynamite. Upon returning, they hid the cache of explosives in a vacant lot in the Bronx. On February 17, 1965, the lead headline of the New York Times proclaimed: Four Held in Plot to Blast Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and Washington Monument. Under the bold headline were the pictures of the arrested Black Liberation Front members, along with a smaller headline, A Rookie Policemen Here Infiltrates a Group of Negro Extremists. The article went on to discuss how a loyal Negro hero cop had infiltrated the fanatical extremist Black Liberation Front. Besides major front-page coverage, an entire inside page was devoted to the story. Two additional reports discussed Rays heroic work for the NYPDs Bureau of Special Services. Although Ray had been in the department for less than a year, he was given an on-the-spot promotion from rookie to detective. The police fantasy that he had single-handedly uncovered and thwarted a horrendous terrorist plot was repeated on the front pages of all the US newspapers, and was the lead story on radio and television newscasts nationwide. The media portrayed this agent-provocateur as a bigger-than-life American hero who had put his life at risk by infiltrating a dangerous group of ruthless, fanatical Black nationalists bent on destroying America.13 When the trial of the Black Liberation Front members began in May of 1965, the evidence that the defense presented received no publicity in most newspapers. In what little was reported, defense claims were always preceded with the word alleged, while the testimony that Ray gave was presented as fact. Under cross-examination, Ray admitted that he had given the defendants US Army explosives books, and suggested the targets. Even more damning, he admitted that in order to purchase the explosives, he provided the money and the car, both of which had been supplied to him by the NYPD, and then drove to Canada to purchase the explosives. The only action the defendants could be accused of was agreeing with Ray. His girlfriend pleaded guilty to illegal transportation of explosives into the US, since she had ridden with Ray when he bought the dynamite. This was such a clear-cut case of police entrapment that I could not fathom how the jury would find the defendants guilty. However, the all-White jury was terrified by the prosecutor, who depicted the defendants as dangerous African-American-extremist terrorists committed to destroying the nation. Even this attempt at further biasing the jury did not remove the fact that the only thing the defendants ever did was to agree with Ray. Although the prosecutor was seeking a much longer prison sentence, the four defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison. After serving a few years, they were all paroled. Unfortunately, this case is but one example of the dirty tricks
[CTRL] FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/86256B51006BC7AB86256B6 C0074E61C?OpenDocumenthighlight=2%2Cfarmers%2Cfbi?opendocumentheadline=FBI+a gents+tells+Missouri+farmers+to+keep+alert+for+terrorism WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI agents tells Missouri farmers to keep alert for terrorism By Tim Higgins Associated Press Writer 02/26/2002 03:23 PM JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Farmers are the nation's first line of defense against terrorist attacks on the food supply through contamination of crops or livestock, an FBI agent told Missouri farmers Tuesday. David Cudmore, Kansas City coordinator of the FBI's unit in charge of fighting weapons of mass destruction, told a Missouri Farm Bureau conference that farmers must be alert to suspicious developments. ``If you suspect something, report it and tell them why: 'There's something weird with my crops. They're turning a color I've never seen before,''' Cudmore said. Beyond wiping out a herd, the deliberate exposure of animals to a biological agent such as foot-and-mouth disease would hurt the nation's economy and send waves of fear across the country, Cudmore said. He said it would be easy for a person to bring a piece of infected material into the United States and spread it to livestock. ``If a person takes a rag, puts it on the nose of a cow with foot-and-mouth disease, then puts it in his pocket, keeps it wet, gets on a plane, flies over to the Midwest -- if he just shook a farmer's hand, boom!'' Cudmore said. Cudmore said he was more worried about biological attacks against agriculture than anthrax attacks against people. Still, the FBI in Kansas City has responded to 45 anthrax scares, Cudmore said. No person has been charged with a crime. Anthrax was discovered last fall at a Kansas City postal facility. About 250 people were advised to take antibiotics as a precaution but no one became ill, and the facility reopened after two weeks. Authorities field a lot of calls about nothing more than a white powdery substance on a kitchen counter or garage floor, Cudmore said. He told farmers that if they detect something amiss, they should first try to gather information about it. ``If you can't figure out the explanation for why something is going on, you've got to report it,'' Cudmore said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI reports threat to Liberty Bell
-Caveat Lector- BFIt is interesting that just this summer we had an attack on the Liberty Bell and someone landing on the Statue of Liberty. Do we have messages from God that people are claiming to hear? Is there mind control, or some phenomenon? It sounds crazy, but then again there is much that is going on that may be for a purpose, and a great deal of technology we cannot understand. One possibility might be that there is an attempt to manipulate the public through the perception of threats to the national fabric. If the public reacts with fear, it is easier to control. Internal institutions would conceivably be behind this one. Governments, corporations, establishment religious institutions, and the like. That is one possibility. Another possibility might be that we see a low level attack on the United States by hostile foreign powers that are organizing psy-ops against symbols that Americans have clinged to. I will not name names, but some might include the Axis of Evil. This is not inconceivable. Yet another possibility is a very complex one. I do not believe that WWII ended. I believe that Nazis are still around, some having fled to the Middle East and others to South America. Some joined with our military and yet others the Soviets. They hate American symbolism with a vengeance that goes back to various internal civil wars between secret societies. They also hate democracy with an ideological passion that is not understood by reasonable human beings. They might be using some kind of patsies to attack America's symbols, perhaps even Bin Laden himself. If the planes alone did not collapse those buildings, as some allege, then Bin Laden had internal help. To me, this group is one likely scenerio. There are other scenerios that I believe are logical and yet are so extreme that I will not even sign off to them Whatever the truth is, we have an increase in absolute nuttiness that is impossible to fathom logically. One wonders what the ideologies of these strange attackers would be? God lives. Certainly. You don't need a sledge-hammer to prove that. Then again, religious fanatics might believe they are levelling the altars of Baal. If so, one wonders why these benighted fools believe they are doing the right thing? The media will not say, and perhaps at this time that is wise. Bates Jei wrote: -Caveat Lector- Lessons from history in how the government has dealt with activists... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:29:09 -0500 From: preston peet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cia-drugs [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], rootsofteror [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Spy News] FBI reports threat to Liberty Bell On the topic of blowing up the Liberty Bell, once more I find myself feeling a bit suspicious of the FBI's alert of a supposed terrorist threat. I don't doubt terrorists are out there, but how many threats are we going to hear/be told about? I don't often read or hear about threats that drug dealers are going to be making a sale down the street, the cops simply move in, no? (or take money to look the other way, but I digress.) Keeping us, joe/jane public, tense and feeling threatened, thereby helping make many folk much more willing to unquestionably allow the US government to carry out its targetless, never ending war on terror, seems to be the only reason I can personally come up with for these continued alerts. Peace, Preston Peet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://howmanyroads.com/Chapter_3_Excerpt.htm snip- It was in the Black Liberation Front that Ray found ready acceptance. Once a member, Ray began proposing actions the group could undertake. Suggesting that the Black Liberation Front expose the nations hypocrisy by defacing the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument, he gave the members an old US-Army manual of his, which outlined the use of explosives. Everyone agreed that Rays suggestion was a good idea, but no one except Ray was willing to take any action. Ray led the Black Liberation Front on a reconnaissance trip to the Statue of Liberty. Having been an explosives expert in the military, he showed the members where to place their bombs in order to cause maximum damage. Since no one wanted to put up any money, Ray agreed to pay for the bomb materials himself. Next Ray convinced his Black Liberation Front girlfriend to accompany him to Montreal, Canada, to buy 30 sticks of dynamite. Upon returning, they hid the cache of explosives in a vacant lot in the Bronx. On February 17, 1965, the lead headline of the New York Times proclaimed: Four Held in Plot to Blast Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and Washington Monument. Under the bold headline were the pictures of the arrested Black Liberation Front members, along with a smaller headline, A Rookie Policemen Here
[CTRL] FBI Dragging It's Feet In Anthrax Mailer Case
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=134396 FBI 'knows US scientist who made anthrax' By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 20 February 2002 The FBI has identified the man behind last year's series of fatal anthrax mailings but is "dragging its feet" over bringing charges because the suspect is a former government scientist, it was claimed yesterday. Barbara Rosenberg, of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), said many scientists working in the field were aware of the suspect, who she said had been questioned at least twice by the authorities. She said the FBI was reluctant to arrest him because he knew government secrets. She said the FBI had known of the suspect since October and added: "There are a number of insiders – government insiders – who know people in the anthrax field who have a common suspect. The FBI has questioned that person more than once. So it looks as though the FBI is taking that person very seriously." The FBI said the investigation had not been narrowed to one suspect. Five people died and 13 others were infected with anthrax after letters laced with the bacteria were sent to Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, another prominent politician and the media last autumn. Hoax letters were also sent. Among those who died were Bob Stevens, 63, a British-born picture editor It has long been believed that the anthrax came from a US government laboratory. But Dr Rosenberg's comments – made at Princeton University and reported by the Trenton Times newspaper – are the most specific yet. The accusations, many of which are repeated on the FAS website, says the man may have worked at the US military laboratory near Washington that tested the letters, Fort Detrick, Maryland. Most of the genuine and many of the hoax letters were posted from near Trenton, New Jersey. Dr Rosenberg, director of the FAS chemical and biological arms control programme, said: "We can draw a likely portrait of the perpetrator as a former Fort Detrick scientist who is now working for a contractor in the Washington DC area. "He had reason for travel to Florida, New Jersey and the United Kingdom. There is also the likelihood the perpetrator made the anthrax himself. He grew it ... and weaponised it at a private location where he had accumulated the equipment and the material. "We know that the FBI is looking at this person and it's likely that he participated in the past in secret activities that the government would not like to see disclosed. And this raises the question of whether the FBI may be dragging its feet somewhat and may not be so anxious to bring to public light the person who did this. "I know that there are insiders, working for the government, who know this person and who are worried that it could happen that some kind of quiet deal is made that he just disappears from view." In an analysis of the anthrax mailings posted on the FAS website, Dr Rosenberg speculates that the suspect must be "angry at some bio- defence agency or component, and he is driven to demonstrate, in a spectacular way, his capabilities and the government's inability to respond. "He is cocksure that he can get away with it. Does he know something that he believes to be sufficiently damaging to the United States to make him untouchable by the FBI? An FBI spokeswoman said yesterday that the bureau's investigation was still continuing. "We have not narrowed it down to one person," she said. "We have spoken to a lot of people."
[CTRL] FBI Issues New Terror Warning
-Caveat Lector- FBI Issues New Terror Warning By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer - Mon Feb 11, 9:16 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20020212/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe /fbi_terror_warning_4 WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) issued an extraordinary terrorist alert Monday night, asking law enforcement and the American public to be on the lookout for a Yemeni man and several associates who might be plotting a terrorist attack as early as Tuesday. The FBI scrambled to put the warning out after information emerged that one or more people were involved. Officials said the intelligence, while deemed credible, was not specific about possible targets. The alert identified one possible attacker as Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national born in Saudia Arabia in 1979. It listed about a dozen associates of al-Rabeei. The bureau planned to put photos and inform- ation on a Web site to help Americans identify the possible perpetrators. Recent information indicates a planned attack may occurred in the United States or against U.S. interests on or around Feb. 12, 2002. One or more operatives may be involved in the attack, the alert to 18,000 law enforcement agencies said. The alert asked police to stop and detain any of the named individuals in alert and that all should be considered extremely dangerous. Law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the alert was prompted by recent information from interviews of detainees in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where several al-Qaida operatives are being held. Law enforcement officials said there was no evidence that al-Rabeei had entered the United States. The alert did not say whether the attack was planned or involved Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al-Qaida network. Before Monday, FBI and Homeland Security officials had issued three general alerts urging all Americans to be cautious and on the lookout for possible terrorist activities. The last was issued Dec. 3 and was supposed to last through the holidays. It has since been extended through the Winter Olympics (news - web sites) in Salt Lake City and is supposed to expire around March 11. In addition, the FBI has issued numerous narrower alerts to specific industries when uncorroborated information about threats to their facilities emerges. In the last month, such alerts went to nuclear power plant operators and to operators of Internet sites cautioning about possible threats. On some occasions, local law enforcement officials have complained they learned from news media about the warnings before they saw the alerts over the FBI communications system. Monday's warning was carefully organized to ensure that police, news media and the public learned about them at the same time, officials said. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI launches Global Crossing accounting probe
-Caveat Lector- http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=Viewc=Articlecid=FT3SC1X7GXClive= truetagid=IXLT95DZ1BC WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI launches Global Crossing accounting probe By Richard Waters and Joshua Chaffin in New York Published: February 8 2002 16:10 | Last Updated: February 9 2002 11:26 Scrutiny of Global Crossing intensified on Friday when it emerged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had launched a probe into accounting practices at the bankrupt telecommunications group. The FBI's involvement came as the company said the Securities and Exchange Commission had also begun a formal investigation into the company's accounting methods. On February 4, Global Crossing received an inquiry from the SEC for the voluntary production of information in connection with issues raised in a letter from a former finance executive. The letter raised concerns that Global Crossing and its auditor, Andersen, were misleading investors about the accounting for certain long-term leases. The company refused to comment on the FBI investigation. The FBI also declined to comment. On the SEC probe, the company said: Our policy is, and always has been, to co-operate fully with any authorities. The company, which last week filed for the second-biggest bankruptcy after Enron, joins a growing list of former high-flying American companies whose accounting methods have come into question. It also emerged this week that Global Crossing had kept its auditors in the dark about a letter from a whistleblower claiming that the company had misled investors with its accounting. The letter, from Ray Olofson, its former vice-president of finance, was received in August. However, the company has now admitted that until last week it was kept from Andersen, as well as the directors of the company's own audit committee. Global Crossing has questioned Mr Olofson's motives, saying his letter was accompanied by demands for a multimillion-dollar severance agreement. The company disclosed earlier this week that the SEC had asked it to hand over information related to the whistleblower's allegations. Meanwhile, the company's auditor, which has already become embroiled in the Enron collapse, tried to distance itself from the accusations. It's a matter of serious concern that we were not informed in a timely manner, Andersen said on Friday. The audit firm added that it had insisted that Global Crossing appoint a special independent committee to review the accounting issues. The SEC's investigation centres on the way the company accounted for long-term wholesale contracts known as IRUs. Buyers of these contracts - normally other telecommunications companies - pay up-front for capacity on another company's network. Dan Cohrs, Global Crossing's chief financial officer, last week denied that the company had accounted for these transactions improperly, and said it had followed US accounting rules. He was unavailable for comment on Friday. Critics argue that Global Crossing and other telecoms companies acted improperly by taking the whole upfront payment under an IRU as revenue in the year it was received. However, Mr Cohrs said that this had been required under US rules until 1999, and that the company had adjusted its practices when the rules changed and required companies instead to spread the revenue gains over a number of years. Global Crossing also denied claims that it had engaged in clandestine swaps of network capacity with other telecoms companies. Accounting rules do not allow companies to include swaps as revenue in their accounts. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] FBI WANTS LEGAL AUTHORITY TO BEAT SUSPECTS (Just like Israel)
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-02-07/news_feature.php IS TORTURE A CRIME? FBI WANTS LEGAL AUTHORITY TO BEAT INFO OUT OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS BY ALEX ROSLIN Well before the first al qaeda suspects were sent to Guantanamo Bay, and long before the firestorm over the Geneva Conventions, official discussion in the U.S. had already begun on the use of legal torture on uncooperative terrorism detainees. Clue number one was a Washington Post report quoting FBI agents to the effect that they felt the time was coming when drugs and physical means would have to be used to obtain desperately needed information. Now the issue has been amplified by one of America's best-known civil liberties lawyers, Alan Dershowitz. And there's some evidence that it's beginning, in quieter corners, to be a consideration here in Canada. Before September 11, there was an international consensus that the right to be free of torture was absolute. The prohibition has been codified in numerous international treaties and agreements, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the 1987 Convention Against Torture, both signed by Canada and the United States. Constitutional guarantees also stand in the way. "It's one of the few rights that can't be suspended. It's always absolute," says Alex Neve, secretary-general of Amnesty International in Canada. Not so for Dershowitz. In comments on 60 Minutes recently, the man Time magazine once called "the top lawyer of last resort in the country, a sort of judicial St. Jude," opined that, since it's inevitable that U.S. security forces will torture some terrorism suspects, the U.S. might as well create legal mechanisms to at least regulate torturers and control excesses. Such torment, he said, might be legally justified in the case of a suspected terrorist believed to have knowledge of an imminent attack. "The analogy I would draw is shooting down a civilian airplane that's heading toward a building," Dershowitz tells NOW. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, he argued that "the suspect would be given immunity from prosecution based on information elicited by the torture. The warrant would limit the torture to non-lethal means, such as sterile needles being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain without endangering life," he wrote. The furor he created is clearly getting to him. In an interview, Dershowitz complains that his comments have been misunderstood. "People were accusing me of advocating torture, which wasn't the case," says the Harvard law prof. "Today a lot of people are telling the security forces to do it, "(but) just don't tell us.' I want the most extreme visibility and accountability." At the same time, he says, the U.S. is already complicit in torture in other countries. It knowingly receives lots of intelligence from foreign security agencies in this way. "Most democracies have played a cat-and-mouse game with it. They want to keep their hands clean but certainly don't want to discourage others from doing it. What I don't like is the hypocrisy, saying we don't do it, then doing it anyway." Ironically for those arguing to codify rules limiting but allowing torture, some of its strongest critics are the very same cops and spies who would be asked to beat, strangle and drug prisoners. A former CIA officer tells NOW the use of torture is "stupid, weak and despicable. Let me say this in clear and strong terms: torture is a cancer that does more damage to the interrogator and his cause than to the victim," says Robert Steele, a 25-year CIA and U.S. Marine Corps veteran and co-founder of the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Center. "In my humble opinion, people who recommend that the USA torture these suspects should not be allowed to serve in positions of public authority, and are in all likelihood armchair warriors who have never themselves been in serious danger," says Steele, author of On Intelligence: Spies And Secrecy In An Open World. Moreover, he says, torture is useless as an intelligence tool. "It is not now and never has been the best available means for obtaining information, especially in a time-sensitive situation. Very little intelligence comes from torture, even within those countries where it is widely practised, primarily as a punishment and deterrent more than as a serious intelligence method." Over at the RCMP, a spokesperson recoils from the idea of legalized torture. "That's something that really goes against the Charter of Rights," says Corporal Benoît Desjardins. "Canada is trying to stop torture around the world. Why would we want to do that? We're not looking for this. The RCMP will never go that avenue." But David Harris, former strategic planning chief at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, says, "It's a terrible thing to have to concede, (but torture) can and will be a tool for liberal democracies as the stakes go up. I look at it as something unavoidable that we will have to use." He agrees that a
[CTRL] FBI HAS DOSSIERS ON MOST ADULT AMERICANS
-Caveat Lector- FreeRepublic.com A Conservative News Forum [ Last | Latest Posts | Latest Articles | Self Search | Add Bookmark | Post | Abuse | Help! ] Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. FBI Spends Millions Buying Dossiers On Almost All American Adults Government Extended News News Keywords: CHOICEPOINT INC, FBI Source: privacyfoundation.org Published: 5-12-1 Author: By Richard Smith Posted on 05/12/2001 07:41:42 PDT by antonia FBI Spends Millions Buying Dossiers On Almost All American Adults By Richard Smith http://www.privacyfoundation.org/commentary/tipsheet.asp 5-12-1 I was a bit surprised to learn last month that I have an FBI file. You have one, too. The FBI spent $8 million last year with a company called ChoicePoint Inc. to buy dossiers on almost all adults who live in the United States. ChoicePoint, formerly a part of credit-reporting giant Equifax, is a publicly-held database firm with a market value of $2.25 billion, based in Alpharetta, Ga. Using our Social Security numbers as a key personal identifier, ChoicePoint compiles dossiers on citizens from credit reports, and from public records such as court files, property tax documents, business incorporations, and professional license applications. ChoicePoint bundles the information and resells it to business and government clients. The FBI is apparently such a good customer that they get their own website to access the database. The Wall Street Journal reported on the FBI's use of this database on April 13. After reading the article, I e-mailed ChoicePoint CEO Derek Smith asking to see the dossiers on my family. A couple weeks later, after paying $20 apiece for the privilege, I received by mail a packet of more than 60 pages of computer print-outs from ChoicePoint containing information about myself and my wife. Sixty pages seemed like a lot of information for one family. Looking through the first few pages of my dossier I saw that my credit card companies gave ChoicePoint my current address, plus my previous two addresses. My town gave them information about my house: when I bought it, how much I paid for it, and my property taxes. They even had the square footage for the house, which I've been curious to know ever since we moved in. Since my wife and I have the same phone number in the White Pages, ChoicePoint correctly deduced that she and I are related. The deeper I dove into my dossier, however, the weirder things got. A lot of misleading information is included, perhaps because my name is a common one. ChoicePoint noted, for example, that I might have been previously married to some lady named Mary, but that I had died in 1976. Yikes! They did a search of Texas criminal records and found nothing under my name. However, the report suggested a further search under names such as Ricky Smith and Rickie Smith because there were some bad guys in jail under these names. ChoicePoint touted me as a real estate agent in my town. They also thought I might be involved in more than 30 small businesses around the country simply because the name Richard Smith appears as a company officer. On my wife's dossier I learned with amazement that she had a son named Kyle three years before we met. It was unclear from the report how ChoicePoint made this connection and where Kyle is today. Pretty funny how they missed our two real daughters. They did list one of my daughters as a neighbor, but she actually hasn't lived at home for the last eight years since she went away to college. Memo to the FBI: The ChoicePoint dossier for my household contains more misinformation than correct information. I'm not sure how someone looking over these reports could use them in any meaningful way without already knowing a good deal about myself and my wife. After seeing these reports, I wanted to opt-out. Guess what? Just as with credit reporting agencies, you can't. They choose to have a relationship with you, but you have no choice in your relationship with them. In my original e-mail message to the ChoicePoint CEO, I asked about opting out. I got a nice letter back from the ChoicePoint chief privacy officer saying No. Here was the reason given: Our individual reference products are used by legitimate businesses and government agencies to identify and locate individuals to make society a safer place, including detecting and preventing fraud, locating and apprehending fugitives, and finding missing children and reuniting them with their families. Given these uses and the adverse effect opt-out would have on our ability to provide quality information for these decisions that matter, I am unable to remove your information from these
[CTRL] FBI Data Mining with trojans, worms and warez
-Caveat Lector- http://hacktivism.ca/article.pl?sid=02/01/17/1037219mode=thread FBI Data Mining with trojans, worms and warez posted Thursday January 17, @12:21AM There have been lots of submissions related to three developments with the FBI recently: The confirmation of the Magic Lantern project, which is a trojan the FBI wish to use to log individual's passwords and other such information; their desire to hijack a worm, Badtrans, to gether the information it found; and the FBI expanding on their war against warez by using crackers to gather data on other crackers. So now they have Carnivore, Echelon, Magic Lantern and Badtrans. For more information read on... Magic Lantern The controversy surrounding this one is endless, not only because of the nature of the eavesdropping, but because of the rumoured involvement of major computer software companies like Microsoft, and the infamous cracker group the Cult of the dead Cow (CdC). The project itself would involve letting loose a complex Trojan Horse virus on the Internet, which would get on people's computers and log their keystrokes, finding information such as passwords and encryption keys, without ever needing physical access to the machine. They claim it will be invaluable to criminal investigations. Of course if they did get the cooperation of Microsoft and anti-virus companies, mainstream users would be left helpless, whereas the underground crackers would probably find ways around it. That is in doubt now that the FBI have the cooperation of the CdC however. More information at the following URLS: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127639 http://cultdeadcow.com/details.php3?listing_id=425 The Badtrans Worm The Badtrans worm spread like wildfire over the Internet from November 24th 2001, using the usual security flaws in Microsoft Outlook to spread via attachments. Since it's inception it has gathered a massive database of the most sensitive information, even penetrating government web sites. Now the FBI want to tap into the database to help with their criminal investigations. For more information go to the following URL: http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html Warez The FBI recently carried out a series of large-scale raids against warez operations, arresting over 90 senior members of cracking rings in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, Norway and Poland. They found most of these people by requesting that the efnet servers used run in debug mode, so that all private communications are transparently logged (these were then filtered and sent to the FBI). It would seem as though the FBI is starting to learn how to catch the crackers. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Security Review
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FBI security review team to meet next month
By Kellie Lunney
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A group of former government leaders tapped to review FBI security
policies will meet for the first time next month, according to a
notice published in the Federal Register Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Attorney General John Ashcroft authorized the
creation of a commission to study security policies for sensitive and
classified information at the FBI. The commission, which will be
chaired by William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and CIA,
includes seven former government leaders and one designated federal
officer.
The commission will review the quality of the FBIs current security policies and
programs and recommend how the agency can improve its handling of classified
information.
Members of the commission include: William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense in the
Clinton administration; former Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash.; and
Carla Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in
the Ford administration.
The commission will receive administrative support from the Justice Department and
funding from the FBI. According to the Justice Department, the commission will need
about $1.2 million to cover its costs.
The commission must complete its work by March 31, but the Justice Department can
extend its term, according to the groups charter.
All of the commissions meetings will be closed to the public to protect sensitive
information and the safety of intelligence personnel, according to a July 16 memo from
the Justice Department.
The potential release of this information could seriously jeopardize the integrity of
our internal security programs and of ongoing intelligence and counterintelligence
investigations, wrote Janis Sposate, acting assist
ant attorney general for administration at Justice, in the memo.
In July, Justice and FBI officials revealed that more than 400
weapons and 180 laptop computers--including some holding sensitive
and classified information--were missing from the agency. The FBI has
faced harsh criticism over the last few months, most notably for its
failure to turn over all documents to lawyers for Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh, a controversy that resulted in a temporary
postponement of McVeighs execution.
The consulting firm Arthur Andersen LLP is currently conducting a
review of the FBIs management practices, including recordkeeping,
technology and human resources issues.
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[CTRL] FBI May Use Keystroke-Recording Device Without Wiretap Order
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/Viewc=Articlecid=ZZZDRC3TZVClive=truecst=1pc=0pa=0s=NewsExpIgnore=trueshowsummary=0 FBI May Use Keystroke-Recording Device Without Wiretap Order Government doesn't have to explain technology's specifics Mary P. Gallagher New Jersey Law Journal January 3, 2002 In a case of first impression, a federal judge ruled Dec. 26 that the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not need a wiretap order to attach a keystroke-recording device to a reputed mobster's computer in order to learn the password to an encrypted file. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan in Newark, N.J., also allowed prosecutors to keep secret the specifics of the technology, saying disclosure "would cause identifiable damage to the national security of the United States." Politan denied a motion by lawyers for Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who was indicted on gambling and loan-sharking charges in June 2000, to suppress the gambling file obtained from his computer. The lawyers argued that the "key-logger system" violated the Fourth Amendment, by collecting more information than needed, and the federal wiretap statute, 18 U.S.C. 2510, by picking up modem transmissions without a wiretap order. Scarfo lawyers Norris Gelman and Vincent Scoca argued that they needed a detailed explanation of the logger technology to determine whether its use was improper. If the logger accessed wire transmissions, the FBI would have needed a wiretap order rather than the search warrants used, they argued. Politan originally seemed receptive. In an Aug. 7 letter opinion, he expressed concern that the FBI might have violated the wiretap statute if the logger picked up keystrokes while the computer modem was operating. He ordered the government to fully explain the device's workings. But prosecutors invoked the 1980 Classified Information Procedures Act, which establishes procedures for handling classified information in criminal cases. They contended that disclosure of the system's specifics would jeopardize ongoing and future criminal investigations and undermine national security. Politan held an in camera hearing on Sept. 26 to review what the opinion described as "top-secret, classified information" about how the logger operates in connection with a modem and how it affects national security. Only those with top-secret security clearance were allowed to attend. On Oct. 2, Politan issued a protective order, finding the classified-information act applied. He sealed the transcript of the Sept. 26 hearing but ordered the government to provide Scarfo's lawyers with an unclassified summary of the logger system, which he said gave them enough information to argue their suppression motion. Politan's opinion last week explains the reasons for his Oct. 2 ruling. "The Congress has spoken through CIPA and determined that certain classified pieces of information implicate national security concerns to such a degree that disclosure ... would seriously compromise United States' national security interests," he wrote. "CIPA strikes a balance between national security interests and a criminal defendant's right to discovery by allowing for a summary which meets the defendant's discovery needs." In rejecting Scarfo's argument that denial of more detailed information about the logger would cripple his defense, Politan wrote that the government's duty to disclose is not absolute and that CIPA creates an exception to that obligation. Politan also ruled that no special wiretap order was needed because the logger intercepted no telephonic communications. He based that finding on FBI evidence that it configured the logger so it would only record keystrokes when the modem was not transmitting. He also spurned the defense lawyers' contention that the warrants were, in effect, impermissible general warrants because they collected more data than necessary to crack the password code. Scoca, a Bloomfield solo practitioner, is troubled by the Sept. 26 closed-door hearing and by the fact that his expert witness was never heard. David Farber, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, would have testified that it was unclear whether the key logger can distinguish between online and offline work, Scoca says. Scoca calls it "overkill" for the FBI to use a classified device like the logger in a "run-of-the-mill bookmaking case," like the one against Scarfo, when there are commercially available alternatives that could have broken the password. "If the government's device doesn't encroach on our rights, there is no reason to keep that from the defense," he comments. Gelman, a Philadelphia solo practitioner, thinks the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks influenced Politan's receptiveness to the government's arguments. He points to Politan's referring to the key logger issue as being of "added importance in light of recent events and potential national security implications." "I hope this is not the
[CTRL] FBI Implicated in Anthrax Mailings Cover-up
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:10:25 From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ParanoidTimes] FBI Implicated in Anthrax Mailings Cover-up Tetrahedron Publishing Group Health Science Communications for People Around the World 206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147 Sandpoint, ID 83864 208-265-2575 FAX: 208-265-2775 NEWS RELEASE Release: No. DITA-909 Date Mailed: January 2, 2002 For Immediate Release Contact: Elaine Zacky208/265-2575; 800/336-9266 FBI Implicated in Anthrax Mailings Cover-up: Mueller Reports No Intention to Investigate Chief Suspect Sandpoint, ID FBI officials may be implicated in a conspiracy to impede justice in the anthrax mailings case, if not treasonous dereliction of duty, according to a growing number of scientists and consumer advocates. After officials cited the likeliest origin of the powdered anthrax was the U.S. Armys Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, or its Ohio-based supplier and CIA-contractor, Battelle Memorial Instititue (BMI), FBI Director Robert Mueller announced the bureau has no intention of investigating anyone with, or formerly with, their chief suspectBMI. Just weeks ago, major progress in the FBIs investigation seemed forthcoming. The New York Times and Washington Post revealed that BMI, Dugways anthrax facility supplier and chief administrator had contracted with the CIA (in project Clear Vision) to produce, albeit illegally, the 1 trillion spore-per- gram strain of anthrax under investigation. BMI, while heading the U.S. militarys Joint Vaccine Acquisitions Program worth more than $1 billion in vaccine contracts, commissioned Americas top anthrax expert, William C. Patrick, III, to deliver a report on the powdered anthraxs prospects for being spread through the mail. Thus, by mid-December, the public, including health scientists urged to help federal officials identify suspects, realized that someone with high level security clearance, a black-op budget, access to the BMI/Dugway anthrax labs, and vaccine sales incentive, most likely took BMIs powdered anthrax, and prepared it for mailing from Trenton, NJ; St. Petersburg, FL; Atlanta, GA; and Malaysia. For the first time since the 1975 Frank Church congressional investigation of the CIA for illegally stockpiling anthrax and other biological weapons, the public learned that the CIA had been violating the international Geneva Accord moratorium on biological weapons developmenta revelation somewhat embarrassing to American diplomats engaged in the global War on Terrorism. The day before Christmas, an Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal additionally implicated BMI, and potentially the FBI, along with rogue elements within the CIA, in an international conspiracy to commit and cover-up the anthrax mailings crime. BMI and Bioport, a Michigan-based offshoot of Britains leading biological weapons organization at Porton Down, were previously reported to be collaborating on the manufacture and supply of Americas only anthrax vaccine. Dr. Robert C. Myers, Chief Operating Officer of BioPort, told a Senate Appropriations Committee in 1996 that he was part of a team of organizations, led by Battelle Memorial Institute . . . The Journal writer Edward Jay Epstein cited the testimony of U.S. Army bioweapons official David Franz concerning Americas reliance on British intelligence provided by Porton Down officials regarding the development and use of the powdered Ames strain of anthrax. Thus, the FBIs disregard of foreign suspects, especially Porton Down, with direct links to Bioport and BMIs anthrax vaccine, vaccine contracts, and BMIs and Dugways anthrax experiments, was criticized by Epstein as it was days earlier in the Washington Post. More evidence of the FBIs intentional ineptitude came from the Columbus Dispatch. Though the Washington Post reported that the FBI was allegedly pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the anthrax mailings, and that two laboratories were especially implicated, that is, BMI and Dugway, a contradictory announcement was relayed the same day (Dec. 21, 2001) by Ohio Senator Mike DeWine. Based on an ABC News report concerning a BMI employee who had been under FBI investigation for an anthrax threat, FBI Director Robert Mueller had, according to The Dispatch, assured Senator DeWine that the bureau was not investigating, nor intending to investigate, anyone with, or formerly with, BMI. Currently then, the FBI has no intention of investigating its chief suspect, despite the grave likelihood that the remaining mystery will continue to exact massive economic and socio-political tolls. These proceedings have bewildered and even outraged many scientists and public health professionals from whom the FBI requested assistance. If Senator DeWines statements accurately reflect director Muellers intention to disregard all of the most damning
[CTRL] FBI Probe of Al Qaeda Implies Wide Presence
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40010-2001Dec29.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI Probe of Al Qaeda Implies Wide Presence Agency Investigating 150 U.S. Groups, Individuals By Dan Eggen and Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 30, 2001; Page A01 The FBI is conducting more than 150 separate investigations into groups and individuals in the United States with possible ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization, according to senior U.S. officials. The domestic targets include dozens of people who are under electronic surveillance through national security warrants, and others who are being watched by undercover agents attempting to learn more about their activities and associates, officials said. Until now, law enforcement authorities had not disclosed the number of active al Qaeda investigations in the United States. The large number of cases suggests the FBI's efforts against the terrorist network have gone well beyond the widely publicized dragnet that has ensnared hundreds of people in the United States and overseas. U.S. counterterrorism investigators are unsure exactly how many al Qaeda operatives and sympathizers are in the United States, although in the days after Sept. 11 they identified four or five active cells that they put under intensive surveillance. Many of the active investigations involve people with marginal or unclear ties to al Qaeda, and are unlikely to result in criminal charges, officials said. But the sheer number of active FBI investigations suggests the al Qaeda presence is far broader than previously known, several terrorism experts and law enforcement officials said. It is a good indicator of the depth of al Qaeda presence here, said Robert Blitzer, a former FBI counterterrorism official. Hopefully working these cases will lead to many more, and you'll have a better sense of the infrastructure at work here. . . . The idea is to figure out what these individuals or groups are doing, what they might be planning and to try to penetrate the group and get closer to them. The presence of al Qaeda members in the United States is of grave concern to senior Bush administration officials, who have issued several alerts since Sept. 11 warning of the possibility of another attack. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III have repeatedly said they view preventing another terror attack as their main priority, rather than securing criminal convictions. The two men meet regularly with President Bush, who has told both that preventing another attack must be their foremost concern. The president routinely asks the FBI director the status of the important al Qaeda investigations and wants to ensure they are getting top priority, according to a senior official. That concern has helped fuel the massive domestic and foreign dragnet aimed in large measure at disrupting the operations of al Qaeda. Although more than 1,200 people have been detained in the United States, only a handful are believed to have ties to al Qaeda. Only one man -- accused hijacking conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui -- has been charged so far in connection with the Sept. 11 plot. In addition to the domestic detentions, the CIA has passed information to foreign intelligence services, which have had more than 500 suspected terrorists arrested or detained abroad. The domestic dragnet has prompted criticism from civil libertarians, as well as concern from some former law enforcement officials and terrorism experts that the Justice Department is not effectively pursuing al Qaeda. But sources said the government is expanding its battle against terrorism with new tools and is focused on a variety of new leads. For instance, an initiative to interview more than 5,200 young male visitors who entered the United States within the past two years has resulted in an increase in the number of ongoing domestic investigations related to bin Laden, according to law enforcement officials. Another factor has been the recent anti-terrorism bill approved by Congress, which has given federal prosecutors and FBI agents an expanded ability to open criminal investigations based on information gathered for intelligence purposes. FBI and Justice officials said the law prompted an almost immediate surge in criminal terrorism investigations, especially those related to al Qaeda and bin Laden. We have gotten a great deal of new information that has led to new cases since 9-11, one official said. The numbers have increased substantially. The officials declined to offer details of the roughly 150 open investigations, or to name their targets. Some of the cases revolve around suspects already in U.S. custody, such as Moussaoui, but most involve individuals who have been questioned and released or who have never been detained, officials said. They are hoping both to build possible criminal cases and
[CTRL] FBI Investigating Vaccine-Makers' Motives in Anthrax Mailings
http://www.centrexnews.com/opinion/2001/12/27.horowitz.html Washington Post Reports FBI Investigating Vaccine-Makers' Motives in Anthrax Mailings Dear Friends of Dr. Horowitz, Tetrahedron Publishing, Health Freedoms, Vaccination Liberation and Vaccine Awareness: Together we have been making unprecedented progress in recent weeks "wagging the mainstream" media and FBI anthrax investigation forward toward the truth. We continue to need your help in circulating, as widely as possible, this latest press release, which presents the next step in the investigation. Please print it out and/or e-mail this information to as many people (friends, family, police, fire, and emergency response personnel, as well as members of your local press, radio talk show hosts and legislators) as possible. Thank you, Ingri Cassel PR Department, Tetrahedron Publishing Group Tetrahedron Publishing Group Health Science Communications for People Around the World 206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147 Sandpoint, ID 83864 208-265-2575 FAX: 208-265-2775 NEWS RELEASE Release: No. DITA-906 Date Mailed: Dec. 24, 2001 For Immediate Release Contact: Ingri Cassel—208/265-2575; 800/336-9266 Washington Post Reports FBI Investigating Vaccine-Makers’ Motives in Anthrax Mailings Sandpoint, ID — More than two months after Harvard-trained public health professional Dr. Leonard Horowitz urged the FBI to investigate drug companies for anthrax related mischief, including frightening the public for profit, the Washington Post has reported the bureau is pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the primary motive behind the deadly anthrax mailings. Dr. Horowitz, director of a government watch-dog group that published Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare months before the September 11 attacks, petitioned the FBI on October 1 to investigate pharmaceutical companies the Washington Post has reported are finally being investigated. Washington Post writers Susan Schmidt and Joby Warrick reported (on December 21) that the FBI was probing at least two military-industrial contractors that stocked the specific mailed anthrax powder. The first is the Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds (DPG), and the second is the intimately related Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI). BMI is a reputed “nonprofit” CIA and military contractor involved in vaccine acquisitions and development. It also administers and supplies the aerosolized bioweapons “Life Sciences” facilities at DPG. It is believed to be the sole source of the mailed anthrax according to a report sent to 1,500 FBI personnel, 8,700 news producers, and more than 400,000 Americans beginning December 11, 2001, by Dr. Horowitz. The doctor’s FBI communiqués, along with other related articles, are archived at http://www.tetrahedron.org. Much incriminating evidence points to the Ohio-based anthrax vaccine developer, BMI, and collaborators at a Michigan laboratory named Bioport. According to evidence pieced together by Dr. Horowitz, BMI developed the specific Ames strain of powdered anthrax for a top-secret CIA bioweapons program an anonymous Pentagon official called “Project Jefferson.” A subsequent article by William Broad in the New York Times (December 13, 2001) referred to the project as “Clear Vision.” Dr. Horowitz first reported on December 11 that BMI, in West Jefferson, Ohio, also directs a consortium of smallpox and anthrax vaccine makers, including Bioport, for the U.S. military’s “Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program” (JVAP)—a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Bioport, widely reported to be the sole supplier of anthrax vaccine in the U.S., is less known for its evolution from England’s Porton Down through for-profit subsidiaries. Porton Down is the chief biological weapons research and development organization for the U.K. According to the Washington Post article, the FBI has failed, to date, to investigate Porton Down, allegedly due to evidence suggesting a domestic origin of the anthrax powder. “I wouldn’t underestimate the involvement of multinational military-industrialists in this largely transparent conspiracy,” Dr. Horowitz said. “Contrary to the Washington Post report, the field of suspects has been effectively narrowed to principally two—Battelle and Bioport. Dugway’s bioweapons program, reported to have placed Battelle under contract, is really administered and supplied by Battelle. BMI is also contracted by the CIA, and the U.S. and U.K. militaries. Bioport is primarily directed by the U.K.’s military bioweapons consortium from Porton Down, and is linked to BMI through the JVAC as well as in the co-development of America’s anthrax vaccine.” Administrative ties between BMI and Porton Down developers are suspected. The Washington Post reported that the FBI only learned of a BMI-administered CIA “defensive” biowarfare contract involving the Ames-strain of anthrax in recent weeks. “The CIA program was [allegedly] designed to develop defenses to a vaccine-resistant strain
[CTRL] FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9523-2001Dec20.html FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks By Susan Schmidt and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, December 21, 2001; Page A21 The FBI is pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the mailing of letters containing deadly anthrax bacteria and has conducted extensive interviews of personnel at two laboratories and possibly more, according to government officials. Although investigators have not ruled out other possible motives, they have conducted dozens of interviews in at least two labs to determine whether potential profit from the sale of anthrax medications or cleanup efforts may have motivated the bioterrorist believed responsible for the attacks, the officials said. The current line of inquiry represents a deepening interest in one possible motive for investigators, who have examined a range of scenarios since the anthrax attacks on media and government representatives began this fall. Authorities have probed whether foreign terrorists or homegrown extremists are responsible for the attacks but have come to favor the theory that the bioterrorism is likely the work of an individual operating in this country. Investigators are still looking at a wide range of possible motives, including revenge and an attempt to implicate Iraq. Although authorities believe the person who mailed the anthrax spores may have some scientific expertise, they are not convinced the person necessarily produced it. The material could have been stolen, officials have said. The focus on a profit motive may help explain why the FBI has yet to seek samples of anthrax spores from two foreign laboratories known to possess Ames-strain anthrax microbes that genetically match the material sent to Sens. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). Those labs are the Canadian armed forces' Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) and Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratories at Porton Down. Spokesmen for the two foreign laboratories said they have not been contacted by the FBI or asked for samples of their germ stocks. Neither lab ever processed the Ames strain of anthrax in the powdered form found in the two letters, which readily becomes airborne and is easily inhaled. Porton Down has received no request from the FBI for information on its security arrangements, but if we were contacted, we would cooperate fully, said Sue Ellison, spokeswoman for the British lab. Kent Harding, chief scientist for DRES, said the institute has only been contacted by media at this point. But a senior law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said there are reasons the FBI has not yet asked those labs for the samples. He said the bureau is looking at its most important leads first. He also noted that it will be some time before there is anything meaningful to compare with samples from other labs, because the anthrax spores in the Leahy letter are still undergoing chemical analysis. That process may take weeks to complete. The letter to Leahy, found among quarantined mail, was unopened, leaving a substantial quantity of material inside for the FBI to test. The letter is seen as the FBI's best hope for forensic clues in the attacks that have killed five people and sickened 13. A possible profit motive for the attacks has been the subject of speculation among scientists. Richard Ebright, a microbiologist with Rutgers University's Waksman Institute, said the list of possible scenarios and perpetrators would be quite long -- ranging from drug manufacturers to companies specializing in decontamination and cleanup. There are numerous mid-Atlantic regional links to all of these possibilities, said Ebright. Doesn't narrow the field much, does it? DNA tests have confirmed that the spores used in the terrorist attacks are genetically identical to a strain obtained by researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md., in about 1980. The Army has acknowledged distributing the strain to five other agencies, and some of the strain was in turn shared with other researchers. The five labs that received the Ames strain from USAMRIID are the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in central Utah; Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio; the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque; the Canadian DRES; and Porton Down. Battelle, a private contractor that has worked with the Pentagon in developing defenses against biological attacks, is one of several labs visited by FBI agents investigating the anthrax attacks. Katy Delaney, a Battelle spokeswoman, said the company has cooperated fully with the government's investigation. FBI agents have interviewed people on our staff, Delaney said, but she declined to provide information about the nature of the interviews or how many Battelle
[CTRL] FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House
-Caveat Lector- http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detailstoryid=125356 FBI Probed Israeli White House Espionage During Clinton Term By J. Michael Waller and Paul M. Rodriguez InsightMagazine.com Archive (5-29-00) 12-15-1 A foreign spy service appears to have penetrated secret communications in the Clinton administration, which has discounted security and intelligence threats. The FBI is probing an explosive foreign-espionage operation that could dwarf the other spy scandals plaguing the U.S. government. Insight has learned that FBI counterintelligence is tracking a daring operation to spy on high-level U.S. officials by hacking into supposedly secure telephone networks. The espionage was facilitated, federal officials say, by lax telephone-security procedures at the White House, State Department and other high-level government offices and by a Justice Department unwillingness to seek an indictment against a suspect. The espionage operation may have serious ramifications because the FBI has identified Israel as the culprit. It risks undermining U.S. public support for the Jewish state at a time Israel is seeking billions of tax dollars for the return of land to Syria. It certainly will add to perceptions that the Clinton-Gore administration is not serious about national security. Most important, it could further erode international confidence in the ability of the United States to keep secrets and effectively lead as the world's only superpower. More than two dozen U.S. intelligence, counterintelligence, law-enforcement and other officials have told Insight that the FBI believes Israel has intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most sensitive lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis. The worst penetrations are believed to be in the State Department. But others say the supposedly secure telephone systems in the White House, Defense Department and Justice Department may have been compromised as well. The problem for FBI agents in the famed Division 5, however, isn't just what they have uncovered, which is substantial, but what they don't yet know, according to Insight's sources interviewed during a year-long investigation by the magazine. Of special concern is how to confirm and deal with the potentially sweeping espionage penetration of key U.S. government telecommunications systems allowing foreign eavesdropping on calls to and from the White House, the National Security Council, or NSC, the Pentagon and the State Department. The directors of the FBI and the CIA have been kept informed of the ongoing counterintelligence operation, as have the president and top officials at the departments of Defense, State and Justice and the NSC. A heads up has been given to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, but no government official would speak for the record. It's a huge security nightmare, says a senior U.S. official familiar with the super-secret counterintelligence operation. The implications are severe, confirms a second with direct knowledge. We're not even sure we know the extent of it, says a third high-ranking intelligence official. All I can tell you is that we think we know how it was done, this third intelligence executive tells Insight. That alone is serious enough, but it's the unknown that has such deep consequences. A senior government official who would go no further than to admit awareness of the FBI probe, says: It is a politically sensitive matter. I can't comment on it beyond telling you that anything involving Israel on this particular matter is off-limits. It's that hot. It is very hot indeed. For nearly a year, FBI agents had been tracking an Israeli businessman working for a local phone company. The man's wife is alleged to be a Mossad officer under diplomatic cover at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Mossad - the Israeli intelligence service - is known to station husband-and-wife teams abroad, but it was not known whether the husband is a full-fledged officer, an agent or something else. When federal agents made a search of his work area they found a list of the FBI's most sensitive telephone numbers, including the Bureau's black lines used for wiretapping. Some of the listed numbers were lines that FBI counterintelligence used to keep track of the suspected Israeli spy operation. The hunted were tracking the hunters. It was a shock, says an intelligence professional familiar with the FBI phone list. It called into question the entire operation. We had been compromised. But for how long? This discovery by Division 5 should have come as no surprise, given what its agents had been tracking for many months. But the FBI discovered enough information to make it believe that, somehow, the highest levels of the State Department were compromised, as well as the White House and the NSC. According to Insight's sources with direct knowledge, other secure government telephone systems and/or phones to which government officials called also
[CTRL] FBI narrows anthrax suspects down to 200 biologists
-Caveat Lector- An estimated 200 U.S. scientists dealt with the anthrax program over the last five years and federal authorities have told ABCNEWS they are now investigating the activities of a senior research scientist who FBI sources say was twice fired from Battelle and who allegedly made a threat to use anthrax in the days after Sept. 11. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/US_ANTHRAX.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23438.html FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 18/12/2001 at 05:51 GMT Millions of Outlook and Outlook Express users have been infected by the BadTrans.B worm, which logs keystrokes in every open window and periodically sends the log files to one of several e-mail dumps, presumably for later retrieval by nosey hackers. Or Feds. According to a story from Rotten.com, an ISP which hosts one of the e-mail dumps, MonkeyBrains, has received a request from the FBI to turn over all the relevant log files. MonkeyBrains has instead turned the tables on the FBI by making part of the database available to everyone on their Web site here. https://badtrans.monkeybrains.net/ If the story is true, then the FBI's intention is clear. They plan to assemble the data and grep for various key words and names in hopes of stumbling upon the passphrases of known and suspected evildoers. It's Magic Lantern on steroids, and yet it's just a dumb accident -- but one which could dump an absolute mother lode of otherwise forbidden data in the Feds' laps. While it's inconceivable that the FBI could get a search warrant for such a giant bonanza, there's nothing in the law which prevents the ISPs concerned from turning over the spoils voluntarily. At press time, MonkeyBrains claimed to have logged 5,857,277 BadTrans messages; and they host only one of a score of dumps. We've been unable to confirm the story due to temporal difficulties; but we will be checking with DoJ flacks, MonkeyBrains and several other ISPs believed to be hosting BadTrans mail dumps. We'll post a follow-up to this intriguing story as soon as we get the straight dope. ® Related Story BadTrans virus bites Windows users hard ~~~ http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. Victims of Badtrans are infected when they receive an email containing the worm in an attachment and either run the program by clicking on it, or use an email reader like Microsoft Outlook which may automatically run it without user intervention. Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to all other email addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke-logger capable of stealing passwords including those used for telnet, email, ftp, and the web. Also captured is anything else the user may be typing, including personal documents or private emails. Coincidentally, just four days before the breakout of Badtrans it was revealed that the FBI was developing their own keystroke-logging virus, called Magic Lantern. Made to complement the Carnivore spy system, Magic Lantern would allow them to obtain target's passwords as they type them. This is a significant improvement over Carnivore, which can only see data after it has been transmitted over the Internet, at which point the passwords may have been encrypted. After Badtrans pilfers keystrokes the data is sent back to one of twenty-two email addresses (this is according to the FBI-- leading anti-virus vendors have only reported seventeen email addresses). Among these are free email addresses at Excite, Yahoo, and IJustGotFired.com. IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco based independent Internet Service Provider. In particular, [EMAIL PROTECTED] began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the suck_my_prick alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., and requested a cloned copy of the password database and keylogged data. The database includes only information stolen from the victims of the virus, not information about the perpetrator. The FBI wants indiscriminant access to the illegally extracted passwords and keystrokes of over two million people without so much as a warrant. Even with a warrant they would have to specify exactly what information they are after, on whom, and what they expect to find. Instead, they want it all and for no justifiable
[CTRL] FBI reportedly wants Badtrans worm's pilfered data --Rotten.com
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. Victims of Badtrans are infected when they receive an email containing the worm in an attachment and either run the program by clicking on it, or use an email reader like Microsoft Outlook which may automatically run it without user intervention. Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to all other email addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke-logger capable of stealing passwords including those used for telnet, email, ftp, and the web. Also captured is anything else the user may be typing, including personal documents or private emails. Coincidentally, just four days before the breakout of Badtrans it was revealed that the FBI was developing their own keystroke-logging virus, called Magic Lantern. Made to complement the Carnivore spy system, Magic Lantern would allow them to obtain target's passwords as they type them. This is a significant improvement over Carnivore, which can only see data after it has been transmitted over the Internet, at which point the passwords may have been encrypted. After Badtrans pilfers keystrokes the data is sent back to one of twenty-two email addresses (this is according to the FBI-- leading anti-virus vendors have only reported seventeen email addresses). Among these are free email addresses at Excite, Yahoo, and IJustGotFired.com. IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco based independent Internet Service Provider. In particular, [EMAIL PROTECTED] began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the suck_my_prick alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., and requested a cloned copy of the password database and keylogged data. The database includes only information stolen from the victims of the virus, not information about the perpetrator. The FBI wants indiscriminant access to the illegally extracted passwords and keystrokes of over two million people without so much as a warrant. Even with a warrant they would have to specify exactly what information they are after, on whom, and what they expect to find. Instead, they want it all and for no justifiable reason. One of the most basic tenets of an authoritarian state is one that claims rights for itself that it denies its citizens. Surveillance is perhaps one of the most glaring examples of this in our society. Accordingly, rather than hand over the entire database to the FBI, MonkeyBrains has decided to open the database to the public. Now everyone (including the FBI) will be able query which accounts have been compromised and search for their hostnames. Password and keylogged data will not be made available, for obvious legal reasons. The implications of complying with the FBI's request, absent any legal authority, are staggering. This is information that no one, not even the FBI, could legally gather themselves. The fact that they seek to take advantage of this worm and benefit from its illicit spoils, demonstrates the FBI's complete and utter contempt for constitutionally mandated due process and protection from unreasonable search and seizure. It defies reason that the FBI expects the American people to trust them to only look at certain permissible nuggets of data and ignore the rest of what they collect. One need only imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would do with today's expansive surveillance system, coupled with the new powers granted by the Patriot Act, to appreciate the Orwellian nightmare that the United States is becoming. The last thing the FBI should have is a spying Internet worm, and it looks like they've found one. Welcome to the Magic Lantern.
[CTRL] FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates
-Caveat Lector- http://www.vaspnet.com/News/1127637 Microsoft, cDc and FBI Cut a Deal: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates By John Robbington 13-12-2001 The controversy, rumours and speculation surrounding the FBI's Magic Lantern tool has attracted ridicule from the internet underground. Not so any more. Now both the infamous hacker group the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) and Microsoft have offered a helping hand to the Feds and are preparing to include the surveillance software in all future editions and updates of the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system. This Magic Langern could easily become a part of Windows XP Dynamic Updates, or even become a standard part of the operating system. Microsoft spokesperson Bob Null said. We are really looking forward to experimenting this on a large scale. Our direct Marketing department was jumping out of their pants when they heard we would be doing this. As well they should. - The dream of both direct marketers and FBI coming both true at the same time. Also to be included in the future Microsoft Windows XP (R) are Microsoft's trademark profiling software meant for tracking individual users: See: Microsoft licenses profiling software for digital TV [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/23318.html] Microsoft's New Technology enables the FBI to profile individuals through their viewing habits and so provide FBI with useful information about potential terrorists and other criminals. Both Microsoft and FBI point out that individual profiles are not given a name and that the information is stored on the FBI government computers only and not on public computers. But this holds little sway with privacy advocates. Predictive, a Microsoft partner in this venture, has also filed a patent for a biometric system which identifies different individuals within the same household. The system works on recognising people's keystroke, mouse or remote-control usage patterns. It says that it generates random, perfect IDs each time, which have the effect of identifying all the household's PC users, even if they didn't write anything that would otherwise indicate to FBI and Microsoft who is using the computer. Andy Beers, senior product manager for Microsoft said of the deal: Predictive Networks' solutions will provide customers of Microsoft with state-of-the-art software to understand suspected terrorists' characteristics and interests. The result will be the technology and expertise needed to make thought police operation a seamless reality for the consumer, while enabling incrementally criminalizing various aspects of file swapping terrorist hunts within the United States and abroad. [ meaning more targetted marketing and spam - rf] Evidently still grizzled about the fact that their security is too bad to afford any real protection, Microsoft has withheld the publishing of a notorious security track record, that of Microsoft being the most often penetrated OS of the Millennium. Reid Fleming, a cDc member and now a secret Microsoft employee, said: Never before has the US faced a more troublesome enemy. To meet this growing challenge, the FBI has announced an ongoing effort to create and deploy best-of-breed electronic surveillance software. While we applaud the innovation and drive of the federal law enforcement agency, those of us who are US citizens would be remiss if we did not offer our expertise in this area. A tongue in cheek announcement from the group claims that cDc has more targeted experience than anyone else in this field. And they're right. Their Back Orifice would do the Magic Lantern job beautifully. Although the hackers are quite confident that the Microsoft and FBI's Engineering Research Facility is more than capable, cDc intends to re-architect Back Orifice from the ground up. There will be absolutely no shared code between the two projects, in order to skirt detection by commercial antivirus packages. The code will remain totally secret. The software will never surface publicly. And it will be far more stealthy than anything we have ever released, demonstrated or publicly discussed, the group said. Indeed, the central design principle of Magic Lantern and this new breed of Back Orifice could easily be interpreted as an artificial witness which is capable of intercepting any and all relevant activity during, after and even leading up to the commission of a computer crime, it added. The cDc concluded that the project would deliver the ultimate intelligence gathering tool to the govenrment. And we intend to construct it, at no cost, exclusively for the use of Microsoft and the federal government, said Fleming. We are confident that Microsoft and the government will limit the use of this technology only to targets relevant to legitimate investigations, he added, further underscoring the cult's faith in federal law enforcement organisations. The FBI has a long history of following Title 18 to the letter. A
[CTRL] FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates
-Caveat Lector- http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127639 Microsoft, cDc and FBI Cut a Deal: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates By John Robbington 13-12-2001 The controversy, rumours and speculation surrounding the FBI's Magic Lantern tool has attracted ridicule from the internet underground. Not so any more. Now both the infamous hacker group the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) and Microsoft have offered a helping hand to the Feds and are preparing to include the surveillance software in all future editions and updates of the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system. This Magic Lantern could easily become a part of Windows XP Dynamic Updates, or even become a standard part of the operating system. Microsoft spokesperson Bob Null said. We are really looking forward to experimenting this on a large scale. Our direct Marketing department was jumping out of their pants when they heard we would be doing this. As well they should. - The dreams of both direct marketers and FBI agents coming true at the same time. Also to be included in the future Microsoft Windows XP (R) are Microsoft's trademark profiling software meant for tracking individual users: See: Microsoft licenses profiling software for digital TV [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/23318.html] Microsoft's New Technology enables the FBI to profile individuals through their browsing and typing habits and so provide FBI with useful information about potential terrorists and other criminals. Both Microsoft and FBI point out that individual profiles are not given a name and that the information is stored on the FBI government computers only and not on public computers. But this holds little sway with privacy advocates. Predictive, a Microsoft partner in this venture, has also filed a patent for a biometric system which identifies different individuals within the same household. The system works on recognising people's keystroke, mouse or remote-control usage patterns. It says that it generates random, perfect IDs each time, which have the effect of identifying all the household's PC users, even if they didn't write anything that would otherwise indicate to FBI and Microsoft who is using the computer. Andy Beers, senior product manager for Microsoft said of the deal: Predictive Networks' solutions will provide customers of Microsoft with state-of-the-art software to understand suspected terrorists' characteristics and interests. The result will be the technology and expertise needed to make thought police operation a seamless reality for the consumer, while enabling the incremental criminalization and hunts for file swapping terrorist within the United States and abroad. Evidently still grizzled about the fact that their security is too bad to afford any real protection, Microsoft has withheld the publishing of a notorious security track record, that of Microsoft being the most often penetrated OS of the Millennium. Reid Fleming, a cDc member and now a secret Microsoft employee, said: Never before has the US faced a more troublesome enemy. To meet this growing challenge of fileswap terrorism, the FBI has announced an ongoing effort to create and deploy best-of-breed electronic surveillance software. While we applaud the innovation and drive of the federal law enforcement agency, those of us who are US citizens would be remiss if we did not offer our expertise in this area. A tongue in cheek announcement from the group claims that cDc has more targeted experience than anyone else in this field. And they're right. Their Back Orifice would do the Magic Lantern job beautifully. Although the hackers are quite confident that the Microsoft and FBI's Engineering Research Facility is more than capable, cDc intends to re-architect Back Orifice from the ground up. There will be absolutely no shared code between the two projects, in order to skirt detection by commercial antivirus packages. The code will remain totally secret. The software will never surface publicly. And it will be far more stealthy than anything we have ever released, demonstrated or publicly discussed, the group said. Indeed, the central design principle of Magic Lantern and this new breed of Back Orifice could easily be interpreted as an artificial witness which is capable of intercepting any and all relevant activity during, after and even leading up to the commission of a computer crime, it added. The cDc concluded that the project would deliver the ultimate intelligence gathering tool to the govenrment. And we intend to construct it, at no cost, exclusively for the use of Microsoft and the federal government, said Fleming. We are confident that Microsoft and the government will limit the use of this technology only to targets relevant to legitimate investigations, he added, further underscoring the cult's faith in federal law enforcement organisations. The FBI has a long history of following Title 18 to the letter. A
[CTRL] FBI Bomb School, and Other Atrocities
-Caveat Lector- http://www.judibari.org/bomb-school.html FBI Bomb School, and Other Atrocities by Judi Bari October 19, 1994 For the past ten months, I've been spending a lot of time down in the city sitting across the table from Oakland cops and FBI agents, questioning them under oath in depositions to gather testimony for our false arrest lawsuit against them. This has been, to say the least, an interesting experience. These guys are professional liars, who have raised selective memory loss to an art form. There is also a draconian set of rules about what we're allowed to ask and how we're allowed to ask it. Nonetheless, between the police photos and written reports, the FBI files, and the sworn testimony of these cops and FBI agents, we have managed to gather quite a bit of information to begin to piece together what really happened when I was bombed on May 24, 1990. Of course the most dramatic of the information we have uncovered, and the one that has caused so much stir in the pages of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, is the FBI Bomb School. Four weeks before I was car-bombed, according to both the testimony and the written files, the FBI sponsored a Bomb Investigators' training course at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, in the heart of the redwood region, on the eve of Redwood Summer. During this week-long course, which was open to law enforcement only, the FBI actually blew up cars with pipe bombs to practice responding. The place where they blew up these cars was (where else?) at a Louisiana- Pacific logging site north of Eureka The teacher at Bomb School was Special Agent Frank Doyle, the FBI Terrorist Squad bomb expert who showed up at the scene when I was bombed in Oakland, and directed the collection of evidence. It was Frank Doyle who concocted the lie that the bomb was on the back seat floorboard, where we would have seen it. Among the students at Bomb School were several of the responding Oakland Police officers and FBI agents who collected the evidence under Frank Doyle's supervision at the Oakland bomb scene. The FBI claims that they have lost the roster of students in the class, even though the FBI Bomb School memo that we received from them refers to this roster and says it is attached. But even without this roster, from the documents that we have, I have been able to place at least four 1990 Bomb School participants as being among the first responding to the Oakland bombing. They are, Special Agent (SA) Frank Doyle, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Patrick Webb, SA John F. Holford, and Oakland Police Sgt. Myron Hanson. In addition, SA Stockton Buck, who played a key role at the Oakland bombing scene, has testified that he attended Bomb School in Eureka, where they blew up cars with Frank Doyle, but he doesn't recall if it was 1990 or one of the years before. Stockton Buck also testified that he found the assignment of collecting evidence at the Oakland bomb scene pleasant, because it was a nice day and they had pavement under their feet. Which makes me think he may have been contrasting it to the dust and mud of the L-P clearcut where they had blown up the cars in Bomb School. Of course the FBI claims that Bomb School is merely routine police training, and this is all just a bizarre coincidence. But the more we have learned about Bomb School, the more bizarre the coincidence has become. Oakland Police Sgt. Hanson has testified that they were told at Bomb School that it is unusual for a car-bomber to place the bomb inside the passenger compartment of his victim's car, because of the supposed difficulty of breaking into a locked car. Instead, he said, they were told that bombers normally place their bombs under the car frame or in the engine compartment. However, Hanson also testified that several of the cars that were blown up in Bomb School (and, according to the FBI memo, there were only three cars in all) did indeed have the bomb placed in the passenger compartment. In other words, at the 1990 Bomb School, they created virtually the same crime scene that was about to happen in Oakland, and practiced responding to it. Further, they were told that this scenario was unlikely to represent a case where the person in the car was the target of the bombing. In fact, Sgt. Hanson testified that one of the reasons he says he believed the bomb in my car belonged to me was that it was in the passenger compartment. So even if you can swallow that this was all coincidental, it definitely had the effect of prejudicing the respondents to the Oakland bombing. When we asked Sgt. Hanson how he could have thought the bomb in my car was in the back seat, considering that the hole was blown in the front seat, Hanson replied that he deferred to Frank Doyle because Doyle was his instructor in Bomb School. If he was my instructor, said Sgt. Hanson, I don't think I'd sit there and tell him that much. According to Frank Doyle's testimony, Bomb School was held once a year in Eureka for nine or ten
Re: [CTRL] FBI Bomb School, and Other Atrocities
-Caveat Lector- Wonder if this individual has all the details re the FBI and its paid informer/agent, who built the bomb that blew up portion of the World Trade Center in 1993? The FBI knew he had made the bomb and it was a live one - they did this deliberately maybe, for this Hannsen wasn't he in counterintelligence at the time and working also for KGB? And O'Neill..lost briefcase with secrets to New York Tunnels etc., and no doubt storage areas for all that gold? This looks so much like Brinks jobs with dual purposes. Anyway thanks Smiley - interesting item. Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Names Constitutionalists as Terrorists
-Caveat Lector- FBI Flyer Names Constitution Defenders As Terror Suspects 11-19-1 http://www.rense.com/general17/fly.htm - -THe eXTReMiST God, The Bible, The Constitution, Liberty, and Justice. Ohh. How eXTReMe!!! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI Issues 2nd Global Attack Alert
-Caveat Lector- (What good is issuing credible threat statements without specifics? This is all so psyops. -- Samantha) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7816-2001Oct29.html FBI Issues 2nd Global Attack Alert Credible Reports Indicate Strikes on U.S. Possible In Next Week, Agency Says By Dan Eggen and Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, October 30, 2001; Page A01 The FBI issued a second global alert yesterday, warning that more terrorist attacks may be carried out in the next week against U.S. targets at home or abroad. But officials said again that they did not know how or where the attacks might occur. The warning, which came in the wake of a similarly vague FBI bulletin on Oct. 11, was prompted in part by big and very credible intelligence reports from abroad in recent days that seem to forecast new attacks, a senior U.S. official said. Other intelligence has been gathered indicating that Osama bin Laden and some of his top lieutenants have essentially delegated authority to order and conduct new attacks down the chain of command, perhaps even to individual cells of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, senior officials said. The FBI has identified at least a half dozen such cells in the United States. Some members have been detained in the government's roundup of nearly 1,000 people since the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Several officials said the apparent instructions from bin Laden mean that al Qaeda terrorists could strike even if the group's leadership has been eliminated, further increasing the difficulty of detecting and preventing attacks. Capturing or killing bin Laden is one of the primary goals of the U.S. military action in Afghanistan, where the Saudi-born fugitive is believed to be hiding. In a nation still jittery from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the alert came on the same day as new reports of anthrax contamination in Washington, more confirmed cases of infection in New Jersey, a suspected case in New York and the emergency landing of American Airlines Flight 785 at Dulles International Airport after a report of a threatening note aboard the New York-to-Dallas flight. Four of the plane's 141 passengers received minor injuries while exiting the plane from emergency chutes. [Details, Page A7.] The national alert set off another round of alarms among local and state law enforcement agencies, most of which have already been on their highest state of alert since the suicide hijackings that left about 4,800 people dead seven weeks ago. Administration officials have struggled since Sept. 11 to balance the desire to ease Americans back into their daily routines with the need to keep them alert to the possibility of more terrorist incidents. The effort has led to competing messages from different parts of the government, causing some local and state officials to complain that they have been kept uninformed by the FBI and other federal agencies. With the new Homeland Security Council meeting for the first time yesterday, the federal government tried to offer a more unified message. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who declined to discuss specifically why the government issued the alert, said at an evening news conference that we believe this threat to be credible, and for that reason it should be taken seriously. President Bush was informed of the new threats early yesterday, and Ashcroft canceled a trip to Toronto that had been scheduled for today, officials said. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said that the new threats were serious enough to prompt another general warning. He said he believed the previous alert may have averted a terrorist attack, but he provided no details. I know how difficult it is for . . . state and local officers out there to respond without greater detail, said Mueller, who returned yesterday from a police chiefs' conference in Toronto. Even given that, I believe it is advisable to alert law enforcement and local authorities as to what knowledge we have received. . . . Doing so gives us a force multiplier that could well prevent another terrorist attack. Assistant D.C. police chief Terrance W. Gainer expressed annoyance last night, saying he had learned of the high state of alert through telephone calls from reporters about the announcement. Being told to turn on CNN or CNBC doesn't seem to be the best way to communicate what law enforcement ought to know, Gainer said. Having one more breathless announcement with absolutely no or little substance is not terribly helpful. Bush and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge were informed of the latest threats during the president's daily intelligence briefing. That prompted meetings about whether to issue the warning. The decision to do so was made around noon, despite objections from some within the administration, according to White House aides. Trying to improve on the last alert, which was criticized by some officials as overly vague and
Re: [CTRL] FBI Issues 2nd Global Attack Alert
-Caveat Lector- From: Samantha L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (What good is issuing credible threat statements without specifics? This is all so psyops. -- Samantha) And I don't think it's a coincidence that this story is being floated right after the stories regarding the U.S. being ready to invade Pakistan and steal their nukes is it is deemed that the current Pakistani gov't is about to fall, and also the story about a ground force invasion of Afghanistan being in the works for this week...both stories, if true and nothing more than what was reported, should have been highly classified information...so the fact that they are being so widely touted in the mainstream press suggests that all the stories are disinformation and part of a coordinated psyop campaign... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Missed White Powder in Atta's Car
-Caveat Lector- NewsMax.com Monday, Oct. 29, 2001 12:57 p.m. EST FBI Missed White Powder in Atta's Car FBI investigators performing anthrax tests on vehicles used by kamikaze terror pilot Mohamed Atta failed to discover a suspicious spot of white powder in a rental car he used just two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. A Pompano Beach rent-a-car company owner told the Miami Herald Monday that Atta had rented the 1995 Ford Escort twice - once in August and again in September. When the kamikaze terror pilot returned the vehicle, its trunk contained a teaspoon of unidentified powder, he told the paper. I don't know what [the powder] is, said Bradley G. Warrick, 48, owner of Warrick Rent-A-Car and Budget Truck Rental. I don't know if it's anything I need to be concerned about. The 1995 Escort had been in FBI custody for two weeks after the attacks, but went unchecked for anthrax during that time. Warrick told the Herald he hadn't alerted the bureau to the white powder in Atta's vehicle earlier because he assumed they had discovered it on their own and analyzed it. But FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela was surprised to hear about the white powder. We were not called out on that, she told the paper. I find it hard to believe. Over the weekend the FBI examined two cars owned by Atta and another hijacker after reports surfaced revealing investigators had failed to do so. Both vehicles tested negative for presence of the deadly bacterium. Based on the negative test results for the two vehicles, investigators had decided not to test Atta's Florida residence for anthrax. But that decision is expected to change in the wake of news of the suspicious powder in Atta's rental car. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -- Ayn Rand A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] Officials Doubt Any Links to Bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/27/01 6:46:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: including associates of right-wing hate groups and U.S. residents sympathetic to the causes of Islamic extremists. Why does it have to be a right wing hate group?Why couldn't it be a left wing hate group, or a middle of the road hate group? For that matter, why couldn't it be an alphabet agency of the government? A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] Officials Doubt...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/28/01 8:27:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does it have to be a right wing hate group? Doesn't it seem that it's the right wing hate groups that have always felt it was their right to kill people to save them? Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] Officials Doubt...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/28/01 6:09:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't it seem that it's the right wing hate groups that have always felt it was their right to kill people to save them? Prudy No, the church held, and still does hold, the patent on that idea. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] Officials Doubt...
-Caveat Lector- Well Prudy way back in 1972 I was in the hospital and returned home to find my home had been broken into and partially wrecked. The police delivered a letter to me (this guy was supposedly a friend) and I found it strange they had my mail and noted the postage was not cancelled? So it was from this Jon Christian and Bill Turner, the former FBI guy and they were into the assassination stuff. They had read a reference to my manuscript in the Los Angeles Times (said enclosed find same, but forgot to enclose same and I never did bother to ask for it) - anyway they wanted permission to send me stuff on one Jerry Owen, a Preacher called the Shepard of the Hills - the stuff was three large booklets entitled 7 Sermons by Jerry Owen.there were pictures of this guy in the publication and one picture, he was with Bob Hope (and Hope had connections to this House of the Sun in Florida) and another with this onld time Mike Muzurka - a huge guy who did lots of B movies playing dumb gangsters.. but these 7 sermons I was to look for my code..but there is no code such as this horrible numerical thing which is there and can be manipulated to fit anything - these were sermons and the one sermon in particulara, was of all things, the story of Legion? My name is Legion, for we are manyand the disease enters into the swine who panic, and like who was that West Point bastard - Sherman? Who drove people into the ocean so you this this is also West Point stuff for even during Civil war hey used the bible for a code.the southern masons turned KKK and the other masons stayed with this thing called a terrorist union these days. So I went over the sermons but not for a code - but for link to murder of RFK for hwich they too were looking. My manuscript - who had copies? This Bob Woodward and he would not return it - and Robert Blair Kaiser had one, and he sent it onto Christian and Turner, and when they read the story in the Los Angeles Times, they contacted me - for they realized then what they had I guess. So this Jerry Owen had Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in his van, the night before he murdered Bobby Kenned (and John Glenn whom I had the pleasure to meet and talk to over 45 minutes, the poor guy - reminded me he was with Bobby when he was shot)so it goes on. Noted story from Job that is part of a Masonic ritualand it was obvious to me what this was, for it was reading linked to RFK murdernow swine flu did not appear until FEBRUARY of 1976.then in July, on he 21st - the Legionnaires that day met in a hotel in Philadelphia, and came down with Legionaires Disease - new stuff but it is like a pneumonia also and the older and weaker often die and is so misdiagnozed by all these doctors and even labs give phoney or false reports, hard to tell who sabotages what. I do know this.Anthrax..they do not know for sure who has what, for as in story of Legion many die in fear of this diseasein 90 period the Russians put out a few volumes on anthrax telling you how to raise, and make the stuff..and we do have this Russian Mafia here with us always and we do have the Mossad with their prostitutues in the White House and also chasing elderly Congressmenmaybe even xeroxing lots of files at the Bureau of Prisons - where certain information would be held? So in 1976 up comes the Swine Flu vaccine and many became ill from this vaccine and some died..Gerald Ford had his picture taken getting a shot - we were as usual fighting around the world, but this Legionaires stuff was not the work of Right Wing Extremists. so in those days when I communicated with Christian who seemed to be the letter writer - I took a good look at this Jerry Owen and saw this look on his face and had seen this look on the face of this MI6 Colonel who just happened to drop by my office - six foot seven, had been on tour for UN in India (need I say more) but he tried to give me this powerful mafiaso look but on him didn't work, for he had those Irish blue eyes which are not powerful enough to send me a message. Besides, I liked him he was MI6 and also sat in bars getting paid $300 a month drinking beer for the CIA and I guess I was his pigeon. Wondered why he would be interested in our little rinky dink town (duh???) So it gets worse but will drop it there. Keep in mind later down the road we had King Tuts stuff here and two Rockefellers died, and two popes died - one said he ate like canary (like the little silver and golden bird in the 68th psalm)..and even the controlled press probably died squelching this one for the had a Borgia in the Vatican? Evenutually though, going back a few years to the 1972 hook up to this Jon Christian and Turner I decided they were two grade A idios and that Jerry Owen who wanted to come and visit me according to his wife - was a set up for after all - how did this man get to know Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian? Well Sirhan was brought to
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] OfficialsDoubt...
-Caveat Lector- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't it seem that it's the right wing hate groups that have always felt it was their right to kill people to save them? Prudy Oh, I don't know...I've known a few left-wingers, esp. 'environmentalists', who felt killing people to save them was the proper course of action... Try reading the Unibomber's Manifesto, for instance... Jun A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] OfficialsDoubt...
-Caveat Lector- I read this Unibomber's Manifesto before they caught him and he always wrote we rather than I.. But what really gets me is this woman and this man who profiled the Unibomber - stating he was self educated man which means no formal education and the guy was a Harvard Professor. Into other things too for that guy looked like something who lived in a cave - in fact think he did live in a cave? Saba Strange though - he would go into town and stay at this hotel for a period of time - and maybe his only link to the outside world was possibly a Gideon Bible at the bedside.like McVeigh and Unibomber got to be friends in prison along with this guy who was in on first WTC bombing.. Now I wonder, was there a Judas, a Brutus and a Spy involved here and was McVeigh really what he claimed to be? Imagine McVeigh at Waco when they flew the Fiery Flying Serpent Flag? But McVeigh leaving messages in a Gideon Bible?Oh so - doubt he had my calendar, for only the big boys have copy of that one. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
-Caveat Lector- Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic surveillance kl FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html AP Friday, October 26, 2001 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to broaden considerably its ability to tap into Internet traffic in its quest to root out terrorists, going beyond even the new measures afforded in anti-terror legislation signed by President Bush Friday, according to lawyers familiar with the FBIs plans. Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington D.C.-based Steptoe Johnson and a former general consul to National Security Agency, said the FBI has plans to change the architecture of the Internet and route traffic through central servers that it would be able to monitor e-mail more easily. The plans goes well beyond the Carnivore e-mail-sniffing system which allows the FBI to search for and extract specific e-mails off the Internet and generated so much controversy among privacy advocates and civil libertarians before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. From the work Ive been doing, Ive seen the efforts the FBI has been making and it suggests that they are going to unveil this in the next few months, Baker said of the plan. FBI Spokesman Paul Bresson said he was unaware of any development in the e-mail surveillance arena that would require major architectural changes in the Internet, but acknowledged that such a plan is possible. Any new efforts would would be in compliance with wiretapping statutes, Bresson said. We would be remiss if we didnt. Such a move might have been unthinkable before Sept. 11. Last year, privacy groups and civil libertarians howled in protest when the FBI trotted out plans to start using the Carnivore system. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington was ready to go full rounds with the government in court over Carnivore, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to take another look at its constitutionality. Now, though, the country is asking for more, not less, law enforcement on the Internet, and even those who once complained are coming around. I have two minds on this, says Fred Peterson, vice president of government affairs for the Xybernaut Corporation, which manufactures computer technology for military and law enforcement. The past six weeks have left little doubt in most peoples mind, he said, that new measures must be taken. I think that the threat has increased and while (FBI) demands were unreasonable at a time when the threat was less immediate and less fatal its just not the same story anymore, he said. Others are still skeptical, though not as much. I dont think (FBI) motives are bad, but I do think theyre using peoples current state of mind theyre using it to their advantage, said Mikal Condon, staff attorney for EPIC. The new FBI plans would give the agency a technical backdoor to the networks of Internet service providers like AOL and Earthlink and Web hosting companies, Baker said. It would concentrate Internet traffic in several central locations where e-mail and other web activity could be wiretapped. Baker said he expects the agency will approach the Internet companies on an individual basis to ask for their help in the endeavor. But Jim Harper, staff counsel for privacy advocate Privacilla.org said the FBI may have a hard time convincing some companies to redesign the Internet on its behalf. Its not really surprising, but I would be shocked to see if it gets done, he said. Restructuring the Internet? I dont think so. Others say the Internet companies will not put up much of a fight. Sue Ashdown, executive director of the Washington-based American ISP Association, an Internet company trade group, said most Internet companies arent healthy enough financially to take on the government in court to protect their subscribers privacy rights. And no one, she says, wants to appear hostile to law enforcement right now. I know there are a lot of members in the association with feelings on both sides, said Ashdown. In the current patriotic climate, enterprises of all types will likely play along with the FBI in order to avoid a public relations disaster, said Gene Riccoboni, an Internet attorney with the Stamford, Connecticut-based Grimes Battersby. -- Best wishes F.B.I. - Fellowship of Baby Incinerators -??? A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always
[CTRL] FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists [anthrax] Officials Doubt Any Links to Bin Laden
-Caveat Lector- http://www.truthout.com/10.28A.Anthrax.US.htm FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists Officials Doubt Any Links to Bin Laden By Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, October 27, 2001; Page A01 Top FBI and CIA officials believe that the anthrax attacks on Washington, New York and Florida are likely the work of one or more extremists in the United States who are probably not connected to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist organization, government officials said yesterday. Senior officials also are increasingly concerned that the bioterrorism is diverting public attention from the larger threat posed by bin Laden and his network, who are believed to be planning a second wave of attacks against U.S. interests here or abroad that could come at any time, officials said. None of the 60 to 80 threat reports gathered daily by U.S. intelligence agencies has connected the envelopes containing anthrax spores to al Qaeda or other known organized terrorist groups, and the evidence gleaned from the spore samples so far provides no solid link to a foreign government or laboratory, several officials said. Everything seems to lean toward a domestic source, one senior official said. Nothing seems to fit with an overseas terrorist type operation. The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are considering a wide range of domestic possibilities, including associates of right-wing hate groups and U.S. residents sympathetic to the causes of Islamic extremists. But investigators have no clear suspects, and are not even certain whether there are other undetected letters that contained the deadly microbe. But federal health officials said yesterday that a new case of pulmonary anthrax in a man who worked at a State Department mail facility in Northern Virginia has persuaded them that more than one contaminated letter may have been sent to the Washington area. Health experts previously believed that a single letter, sent to the office of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), likely caused all the anthrax reports in the Washington area as it came in contact with other pieces of mail in the system. Now the working hypothesis would be that this is not cross-contamination, said Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is not enough infectious material from cross-contamination to do that. However, ongoing searches of truckloads of undelivered mail to the U.S. Capitol and other government buildings has turned up no other letters laced with anthrax bacteria, leading FBI officials to assume that the Daschle letter may still be the only local source. Two employees at the U.S. Postal Service's Brentwood facility in Washington have died from inhaling the lethal bacteria, and three other local postal workers have contracted inhalational anthrax. This envelope, Daschle's envelope, is not watertight or airtight or anything like that, one law enforcement official said. It's porous. At one or two microns, there's plenty of room for the spores to escape. Although there is consensus at the FBI and CIA that al Qaeda associates are planning more serious attacks, nobody believes the anthrax scare we are going through is the next wave of terrorism, one senior official said. There is no intelligence on it and it does not fit any [al Qaeda] pattern. No links between known foreign terrorist groups and the anthrax letters have shown up on the daily Top Secret Threat Matrix, which includes the latest raw intelligence on potential bombings, hijackings or other terrorist attacks, one official said. Though lots of things are alarming on the list, there is little agreement on how, when or where an attack might be launched, officials said. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned earlier this week that additional terror attacks are a distinct possibility. President Bush and other top U.S. officials have publicly voiced their suspicion that bin Laden and al Qaeda -- accused of carrying out the Sept. 11 suicide assaults on the World Trade Center and Pentagon -- may be responsible for the anthrax mailings. But Mueller, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and other law enforcement officials have said they have discovered no links between the mailings and bin Laden. Authorities, speaking on condition of anonymity yesterday, said they are increasingly doubtful that any connections will be found. One official said the only significant clue raising the possibility of foreign terrorist involvement is the conclusion of FBI behavioral scientists, who believe that whoever wrote the three letters delivered to Daschle, NBC News and the New York Post did not learn English as a first language. But the writer could have lived in this country for some time, and the other evidence gathered so far points away from a foreign source, several officials said. The anti-Israel message in the anthrax letters and bin Laden's statements are echoed by U.S. extremist groups, said Rabbi
Re: [CTRL] FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent
-Caveat Lector- Another source for FBI Considers Torture info: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350021-2001364909,00.html MONDAY OCTOBER 22 2001 FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON excerpt: However, a warning that torture should be avoided came from Robert Blitzer, a former head of the FBIâs counter-terrorism section. He said that the practice âgoes against every grain in my body. Chances are you are going to get the wrong person and risk damage or killing them.â In all, about 800 people have been rounded up since the attacks, most of whom are expected to be found to be innocent. Investigators believe there could be hundreds of people linked to al-Qaeda living in the US, and the Bush Administration has issued a warning that more attacks are probably being planned. -- Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI deepen probe as doubts grow over terrorists' identities (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Assalamu'alaikum, FBI deepen probe as doubts grow over terrorists' identities WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (AFP) - http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010921/world/afp/FBI_deepen_probe_as_doubts_grow_over_terrorists__identities.html FBI agents across the United States were Friday deepening their probe into the men who hijacked the planes in September 11's terrorist attacks after worrying doubts emerged over their true identities. As US allies rallied to help trace the attackers as well as their sources of finance, FBI Director Robert Mueller conceded Thursday that the names of some of the 19 men earlier identified by Washington as the hijackers had been called into question. FBI investigators in Chicago were questioning 34-year-old Nabil Marabh, who was picked up Wednesday on suspicion of having aided the men who commandeered four jetliners and flew three of them into New York's World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon on September 11. President George W. Bush late Thursday singled out a militant Islamic group led by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born exile believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, as the chief culprit. The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda, Bush told a joint session of Congress. They are the same murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole. But, despite the detention of four other people considered material suspects -- individuals believed to have information vital to the probe -- US officials have produced no public evidence linking the hijackers to bin Laden. Part of the problem facing investigators is the emerging belief that at least some of the 19 hijackers used stolen identification. In Washington, the Saudi embassy said Thursday that two Saudi citizens identified by the FBI as hijackers were alive and had their passports stolen years ago. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, who was visiting Washington, said at least five Saudis on the FBI list had no connection at all with what happened. The New York Times said Marabh was believed to be a close associate of bin Laden, and could provide the first formal link between the illusive millionaire and the attack. But the head of the FBI's Chicago office, Kathleen McChesney, said they were still trying to establish his identity, adding: We still have a lot of work to do. Agents searching for Marabh had 48 hours earlier arrested at his home in Detroit three men of Arab descent and found false documents, maps of the city's international airport and documents on a US base in Turkey. They were Ahmed Hannan, 33, Karim Kubriti, 23, and Faruk Ali-Halmud, 21, the FBI said. According to the spokeswoman, investigators found a notebook with notes in Arabic about a US base in Turkey, about the US Secretary of State, about Jordan's Alia airport, its runways and air corridors above it. But just as the worldwide probe into atrocities which left more than 6,800 people feared dead appeared to get a fillip, FBI Director Mueller admitted that there were doubts over the true identities of the hijackers. We have several hijackers whose identities were those on the manifests, we have several others (who) are still in question, Mueller said in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the site of the crash of one of four passenger jets hijacked in the terror blitz. Mueller had said last week that his bureau had a fairly high level of confidence its list of 19 names reflected those of the attackers. Doubts over the identities of at least some of the men first emerged from news reports. One Arabic newspaper said Abdulaziz Alomari, identified as one of the suicide hijackers on the first plane to slam into the World Trade Center on September 11, is alive and in Saudi Arabia and that his passport was stolen several years ago. Saudi officials have reportedly warned that the terrorists may have been using stolen identity documents when they boarded the doomed aircraft. The reports prompted US officials to begin investigating whether some or all of the 19 suspects had used stolen identities, possibly seriously complicating efforts to link them to Osama bin Laden. The use of false identities is standard in terrorism, but it certainly makes it much harder to trace the act back to its leader and to establish links between terrorist cells, said expert Professor Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Investigators are sifting through more than 96,000 leads and searched for nearly 200 people wanted for questioning about the attack, as tentacles of the probe spread across the globe and Washington's war on terror gathered pace. In Yemen, dozens of suspected followers of bin Laden were arrested while Lebanese police opened an investigation into Ziad Samir Jarrah, a suspect in the terror attacks, at
[CTRL] FBI probes 5th flight for hijackers
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI probes 5th flight for hijackers Plane grounded on day of attack Also available E-mail this story Printer-friendly format By Stephen J. Hedges and Naftali Bendavid Washington Bureau Published September 18, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The FBI is investigating the possibility that suicide hijackers were on board a fifth transcontinental airline flight last Tuesday, one that was cancelled just minutes before its scheduled 8:10 a.m. departure from Boston due to a mechanical problem, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Federal agents are searching for an undetermined number of passengers who were on board American Airlines Flight 43, according to one source familiar with the passenger manifest. The flight was to have departed Boston 25 minutes after American Flight 11, which struck New York's World Trade Center, this source said. In addition, one of the sources said that the FBI was very interested in passengers whose names appeared on the manifests of several other American flights that were in the air when the first attacks occurred. Those planes landed prematurely when air traffic controllers, responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, ordered all flights in the U.S. to touch down as soon as possible. None of the passengers in whom the FBI has expressed interest reappeared to continue their journeys after commercial flights resumed late last week, one of the sources said. On Thursday, the FBI sent a list of several dozen Arabic-sounding names to state and local police with the request that those on the list be located for questioning. At least some of the passengers being sought are believed to be among those listed, according to one of the sources. An American Airlines spokesman said he was not immediately able to confirm the sources' accounts. About 35 minutes after Flight 43 was due to depart, American Flight 11, which was bound for Los Angeles, struck the Trade Center's north tower. A hijacked United flight from Boston hit the center's south tower about 20 minutes later. A third American flight that left Washington's Dulles International Airport struck the Pentagon at 9:39 a.m. A fourth plane, United Flight 93, crashed in a field southeast of Pittsburgh at 10:10 a.m. Urgent request for help Federal authorities were holding 49 individuals in connection with last week's terrorist attacks, nearly twice as many as two days ago, and the FBI sent out an urgent request Monday for Arabic and Farsi speakers to help with its investigation of the hijackings. French government officials confirmed Monday that one of the people being held by the FBI for questioning in connection with last week's attack is considered a dangerous, well-known militant associate of Osama bin Laden. Habib Zacarias Moussaoui, a dual French-Algerian national, was detained last month after instructors at a flight school he attended in Minnesota grew suspicious that Moussaoui, an inexperienced pilot, wanted to learn only how to steer and turn passenger jets, not take off or land. Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the hijackings were intended by their perpetrators to be the first in a multiday series of attacks. That suggests that other would-be perpetrators remain at large, and the FBI continued its massive effort Monday to track them down. The FBI has 4,000 agents and 3,000 support personnel working on the case, making it the largest FBI investigation ever, but Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft assigned 300 deputy U.S. marshals to help. The investigation has reached a fever pitch, with 500 people from 32 agencies working at the FBI's special investigation center around the clock in 12-hour shifts. Authorities have taken databases from various government agencies, such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service, into the FBI center in New York to speed up their work. But FBI officials acknowledged that the bureau is being hampered by a severe shortage of investigators fluent in Arabic or Farsi, which is spoken in Iran. This has been a perpetual problem for everybody, said FBI spokesman John Collingwood. Although no one has yet been charged in last week's attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller said some of those being detained are helping the investigation. There are individuals cooperating, Mueller said. There are a number of individuals that are not cooperating. While the FBI is seeking anyone who aided the hijackers, agents are even more urgently hunting for anyone who might still be planning other attacks. Graham suggested the nation may have been fortunate to avoid further tragedies last week. There has been credible evidence gathered since Tuesday that Tuesday's attacks were not designed to be a one-day event, Graham told the Orlando Sentinel. There were other acts of terrorism in the United States and elsewhere that were
[CTRL] FBI Probe Leads to Four Arrests
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI Probe Leads to Four Arrests By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001; 1:25 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON ââ The FBI investigation of last week's terrorist attacks has led to the arrest of four people as material witnesses, and aided by a federal grand jury is seeking more people who may have information about the plot, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. One of the four material witnesses is Albader Alhamzi, 34, a Saudi national and Saudi-trained doctor who was doing a medical residency in radiology at University of Texas Health Science Center, said one of the government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. He was being held in New York. Authorities also detained a man in San Diego, Calif., who was linked through financial transactions to two of the 19 hijackers, officials said. They declined to say whether he was arrested as a material witness. As U.S. law enforcement officials pull in more people for questioning, a federal grand jury has been convened to investigate the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, The Associated Press has learned. The grand jury in White Plains, a suburb north of New York, will review evidence and issue subpoenas, according to a law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Attorney General John Ashcroft stressed the urgency of the moment Monday by saying that associates of the hijackers may be a continuing presence in the United States. It's very likely there was significant ground support and reinforcement assistance from collaborators for last Tuesday's four teams of terrorists, Ashcroft said on CNN's Larry King Live program. As of Monday, the FBI had detained 49 people for questioning, holding them on immigration violations, double the number of several days ago. Some have asked for lawyers, and none have been charged in the attacks that may have killed more than 5,000 people. In addition, authorities are looking for nearly 200 other people to question in last Tuesday's attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The FBI is keeping a tight hold on its witnesses, jailing an unspecified number of them because they might otherwise flee. The Justice Department previously confirmed two people were arrested on such warrants. Courts have sealed all information about those arrested. Asked to characterize whether those in custody were talking, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that there are individuals cooperating, yes, while adding that others were not. Federal agencies were being asked to contribute armed plainclothes security officials while the Federal Aviation Administration begins to train a new generation of marshals to provide security on airplanes. Four jetliners were hijacked in last week's attacks. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania after passengers apparently struggled with hijackers. U.S. officials have said Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization are the prime suspects in the attacks. Bin Laden has denied any responsibility. Ashcroft outlined the sky marshals plan along with additional details of the legislative package he asked Congress to pass immediately. It would include use of the money-laundering statutes to prosecute people who provide resources to a terrorist organization. The package also included nationwide wiretap authorization so that when a suspected terrorist moved around the country, law enforcement agencies wouldn't have to get additional court approval for a wiretap in a different jurisdiction. Additional detail emerged about one of the hijackers and possible associates. Hani Hanjour, suspected of crashing American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, trained at a flight school in Bowie, Md., flying small planes over the Washington area at least three times in the six weeks prior to last Tuesday's attack. Chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard said Monday that Hanjour wanted to demonstrate his flying competency. But the airport used by the flight school wouldn't rent planes to Hanjour for solo flights because of doubts about his flying skills and his refusal to provide an address and phone number. FBI agents pressed to learn whether any of those already in custody may have assisted the hijackings, were thwarted in their own efforts to hijack other planes or planned to carry out other attacks against Americans. Among those being detained were two men who left on a plane from Newark, N.J., around the time of the attacks, and then took an Amtrak train to Texas from St. Louis after their plane was grounded as part of the government-ordered shutdown of the U.S. aviation system. Ayub Ali Khan, 51, and Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, were removed from an Amtrak train during a routine drug search Wednesday night. No drugs were found, but the men had
[CTRL] FBI Ignored Warning
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/09/14/FFXGYVFVKRC.html Reports of attempts to warn US of impending attacks Source: DPA| Published: Friday September 14, 10:15 AM HANOVER, Germany - An Iranian man awaiting deportation in Germany tried to warn the United States that terrorist attacks were immienent, according to a press report. The Hanover daily Neue Presse, in a report published in its Friday edition, said the man, being held in detention near this northern German city, had told US intelligence officials by telephone that attacks would take place this week. However, they had hung up the phone when the 29-year-old man said he was being detained. Just hours before the kamikaze plane attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington he had asked in vain to be allowed to send a fax to US President George W Bush. The man had for the past month insisted he had important information for the United States and must urgently pass it on by telephone. The German authorities had eventually allowed him to make the call, the paper wrote. The report said that the man had been interrogated today by German and US justice and intelligence officials. There was no immediate confirmation available from the German prosecutor-general's office.
[CTRL] FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Penn. Airplane
-Caveat Lector- (Now that the flight data recorder has been found...) Thursday September 13 12:01 PM ET FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Penn. Airplane SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Thursday they could not rule out the possibility that a United Airlines jetliner that crashed in rural western Pennsylvania during this week's attacks on New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites) was shot down. ``We have not ruled out that,'' FBI (news - web sites) agent Bill Crowley told a news conference when asked about reports that a U.S. fighter jet may have fired on the hijacked Boeing 757. ``We haven't ruled out anything yet.'' ``It's kind of a loaded question. We're basically at the infancy (of the investigation),'' Crowley added. ``We haven't certainly come to that conclusion either.'' The Defense Department on Tuesday vigorously denied reports suggesting the U.S. military could have downed the hijacked flight in an effort to prevent it from reaching a target, perhaps in Washington. United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed with 45 people on board, had been en route to San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey, when it veered off course over northeastern Ohio and headed back southeast toward Pittsburgh. It crashed 80 miles southeast of that city. Pennsylvania state police officials said on Thursday debris from the plane had been found up to 8 miles away in a residential community where local media have quoted residents as speaking of a second plane in the area and burning debris falling from the sky. Crowley said authorities have not yet found the plane's crucial voice and flight data recorders, but that teams were still searching. ``We've not located the black box,'' he said. ''We're confident and we will keep working on it.'' The wooded crash scene was likely to provide investigators of Tuesday's deadly airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with their best chance of recovering working data recorders. The data recorders could provide an invaluable account of what occurred in the plane's cockpit after the flight turned southeast on Tuesday morning. Flight 93, which crashed near a strip mine, was the only one of four hijacked aircraft not to hit a U.S. landmark. Federal officials believe hijackers planned to crash the plane into the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or a target in Washington. But passengers who managed to call out on cellular phones and on-board airphones suggested they were about to thwart any such plan. ``I know we're all going to die -- there's three of us who are going to do something about it,'' passenger Thomas Burnett told his wife Deena just before the crash, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. ``He then said, 'I love you, honey,' and that was the end of conversation,'' the Burnett family's priest, Rev. Frank Colacicco, told the newspaper. The National Transportation Safety Board (news - web sites) was expected to conduct a flyover of the scene to verify the full extent of the debris field, which was sealed off to outsiders and the media by an army of Pennsylvania state troopers. UAL Corp Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Penn. Airplane
-Caveat Lector- ``We haven't ruled out anything yet.'' I wouldn't take that for a confession just yet. They knew the flight recorder would be found. If they had shot it down, they would demand praise for 'saving' the White House. This is very frustrating and a sad commentary because we do not know whom or what to believe. And it gets worse instead of better. Of course there have been threats for years and the Conference on Racism was laying the groundwork for this. We should have paid more attention to that. IMHO. ~Amelia~ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Storms Hotel in Boston
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FBI Storms Hotel in Boston BOSTON (AP) - A heavily armed FBI (news - web sites) team searching for suspects in the terrorism attacks in New York and Washington stormed a Boston hotel Wednesday. In nearby Providence, R.I., a train was searched and one man was led away in handcuffs. Guests were ordered to evacuate the 36-story Westin Hotel in the Back Bay section, according to a guest leaving the hotel who declined to give his name. Agents wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shields were seen bringing fiber-optic equipment into the hotel. As a large crowd gathered outside, one person was seen taken out of the hotel and put in a van, but a law enforcement official said said no one connected to the terror attacks had been arrested. ``SWAT teams were all around holding machine guns,'' said witness R.J. Ryan, who joined hundreds of other onlookers. ``They put somebody in the van. Then they started moving everybody.'' Meanwhile, other officers converged on the Park Inn at Chestnut Hill in Newton, a Boston suburb. Newton police officer Russ Adam said the FBI was conducting an investigation at the hotel. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said two hotel rooms in the Boston area believed to have been used in the attacks were searched. While no arrests were made in connection with the attacks, searchers did find information with a link to a name on the manifest of one of the hijacked flights, the source said. In Providence, R.I., authorities stopped an Amtrak train that had come from Boston, ordered off passengers, and went on board. WJAR-TV said three people were taken off the train and questioned. An Associated Press reporter saw a man taken in handcuffs from the train station at about 3:20 p.m. Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. said police told him they were looking for up to four suspects who had eluded authorities in Boston, some 40 miles from Providence. It was not immediately clear that the train sweep was connected to the terrorist attacks. Two of the planes that were hijacked and crashed Tuesday had taken off from Boston. An answering machine at the FBI office said officials would be offering no comment on the investigation. Three ambulances and a police car were stationed outside the Westin hotel as a crowd of onlookers gathered there. WHDH-TV reported that police officers returned repeatedly to a police truck outside to retrieve fiber-optic equipment, which can be slipped under doors to see inside rooms. WHDH reported the officers used the equipment to check under room doors on the hotel's 16th floor. The hotel has more than 800 rooms, according to a Web site. - Associated Press Writer John Solomon in Washington contributed to this report. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI denies bias as raid shuts Arabic Web sites
-Caveat Lector- FBI denies bias as raid shuts Arabic Web sites from REUTERS in Dallas Friday, September 7, 2001 A United States terrorism task force raided the Texas-based host of Arabic Web sites, including that of the Arab world's leading independent news channel, prompting charges on Thursday of an anti-Muslim witchhunt. But the FBI, which took part in the raid on Wednesday at privately held InfoCom Corp, in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, denied any anti-Arab bias and said it was executing an unspecified federal search warrant. The FBI declined to specify the target of the search warrant, which is under seal in a federal court, except to say in a statement that the search was one aspect of a more than two-year investigation that is ongoing. InfoCom's owners said the raid resulted in a temporary shutdown of Web sites it hosts for about 500 customers, including that run by Al-Jazeera television and the newspaper Al-Sharq, both based in the Gulf state of Qatar. Al-Jazeera is a major regional news source for Arabic speakers. Often dubbed the Arab CNN, it has emerged as a major force in a region where most broadcasters operate under direct state control. The Web sites were shut down while about 80 agents copied information from InfoCom's Internet servers, said Ghassan Elashi, brother of owner Bayan Elashi. He said many of the sites were able to start up again on other servers, while the task force continued to copy computerised information on Thursday. The office remained sealed off by FBI agents. We have nothing to hide. We are co-operating 110 per cent with the FBI, InfoCom's lawyer Mark Enoch said. Mr Enoch said whatever tips had led to the search was bad information. If they think they're going to find that InfoCom is associated with terrorism, they're wrong. It's not, he said. Mr Elashi said InfoCom's customers were not solely Arabic or Muslim. They are across the board, from Dallas to California to other places around the world, he said. Several American Islamic groups condemned the search as an anti-Muslim witchhunt promoted by the pro-Israel lobby in America, according to a statement from 10 organisations, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council. We are deeply concerned that there is a pattern of stereotyping that permeates all these types of investigations. There is a marginalisation of the American-Muslim population, Mahdi Bray of the Los Angeles-based council said at a news conference outside the closed InfoCom office. The FBI denied the raid was any kind of witchhunt. We were executing a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation. It had nothing to do with anti-Islamic or anti-Palestinian or anti-Middle East issues or anything like that, said special agent Lori Bailey, spokeswoman for the Dallas FBI office. The search was conducted by the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force, a multi-agency federal and local grouping which includes the FBI, Secret Service and the US Customs Service. It also includes the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, an arm of the Treasury Department empowered to freeze or seize the assets of individuals or organisations that have been designated by the government as terrorist. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique
-Caveat Lector- FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge Updated: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 http://news.excite.com/news/r/010807/18/news-crime-surveillance-dc NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to reveal the high-tech computer snooping technique used by the FBI to gather evidence against an alleged mobster. In a case that privacy advocates say smacks of Big Brother, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan ruled that the government must reveal the details of the computer monitoring system it used to gather evidence against Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who is charged with running illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations for the Gambino crime family. Scarfo is the son of imprisoned mobster Nicodemo Little Nicky Scarfo. The case is believed to be the first in the nation in which federal agents installed a secret surveillance system in a personal computer system under search warrant, and the first to be tested in U.S. courts. The FBI recorded virtually every keystroke made on Scarfo's computer at his Belleville, New Jersey, business, including passwords, using a key logger device. Whether the system is hardware or software is unknown, prompting a motion by Scarfo's attorneys to reveal its makeup so they could have it analyzed and make a case to suppress the evidence it gathered. Politan ruled that in order to decide the lawfulness of the government surveillance, he must see a full report on how the device works, imposing an Aug. 31 deadline. In this new age of rapidly evolving technology, the court cannot make a determination as to the lawfulness of the government's search ... without knowing specifically how the search was effectuated, he wrote. This requires an understanding of how the key logger device functions. In most, if not all search and seizure cases, the court ... understands the particular method by which the search is executed. ... Because of the advanced technology used the court does not have the benefit of such an understanding. The government argued that revealing the workings of the system might jeopardize national security and endanger FBI personnel and those working with them. Politan gave the government 10 days to provide additional evidence as to why revealing the technology would endanger ongoing investigations and later national security operations. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique
-Caveat Lector- One hope the evidence collected will be thrown out since the search was indiscriminate and barred under the constitution, God forbid though it should go to the Supreme Court Lord only knows what they would rule on the subject considering their willy nilly al over the field rulings. On Wed, 08 August 2001, radtimes wrote: -Caveat Lector- FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge Updated: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 http://news.excite.com/news/r/010807/18/news-crime-surveillance-dc NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to reveal the high-tech computer snooping technique used by the FBI to gather evidence against an alleged mobster. In a case that privacy advocates say smacks of Big Brother, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan ruled that the government must reveal the details of the computer monitoring system it used to gather evidence against Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who is charged with running illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations for the Gambino crime family. Scarfo is the son of imprisoned mobster Nicodemo Little Nicky Scarfo. The case is believed to be the first in the nation in which federal agents installed a secret surveillance system in a personal computer system under search warrant, and the first to be tested in U.S. courts. The FBI recorded virtually every keystroke made on Scarfo's computer at his Belleville, New Jersey, business, including passwords, using a key logger device. Whether the system is hardware or software is unknown, prompting a motion by Scarfo's attorneys to reveal its makeup so they could have it analyzed and make a case to suppress the evidence it gathered. Politan ruled that in order to decide the lawfulness of the government surveillance, he must see a full report on how the device works, imposing an Aug. 31 deadline. In this new age of rapidly evolving technology, the court cannot make a determination as to the lawfulness of the government's search ... without knowing specifically how the search was effectuated, he wrote. This requires an understanding of how the key logger device functions. In most, if not all search and seizure cases, the court ... understands the particular method by which the search is executed. ... Because of the advanced technology used the court does not have the benefit of such an understanding. The government argued that revealing the workings of the system might jeopardize national security and endanger FBI personnel and those working with them. Politan gave the government 10 days to provide additional evidence as to why revealing the technology would endanger ongoing investigations and later national security operations. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Welcome to the desert of the real. Morpheus, in The Matrix My God it's full of stars! Dave Bowman, in 2001: A Space Odyssey Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] FBI wants PC surveillance method kept quiet
-Caveat Lector- 08/07/2001 FBI wants PC surveillance method kept quiet www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-08-07-fbi-surveillance-trial.htm NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Justice Department claims that revealing details about how it bugged the computer of an accused bookie could threaten national security. Disclosing material about the key logger system the FBI installed on the computer of Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. would hurt ongoing investigations of foreign intelligence agents and endanger the lives of U.S. agents, according to court documents filed by the government. The Justice Department claims the system must remain secret to keep hostile intelligence officers from employing counter-surveillance tactics to thwart law enforcement. The case is being watched by privacy experts concerned over the government use of spy technology. Lawyers for Scarfo, the son of a jailed mob boss, say they need the information to determine if the intrusion violated his constitutional rights. If it did, none of the evidence from the computer could be used at his trial. U.S. District Judge Nicholas H. Politan has not said when he would rule on the motion. At a hearing last week, the judge said the matter should not delay the Sept. 11 trial date for Scarfo, 36, and Frank Paolercio, 32, who are accused of loansharking and running a gambling racket. Scarfo's father, Nicodemo Little Nicky Scarfo, is serving a life term for running the Philadelphia-Atlantic City mob in the 1980s. Politan has barred attorneys in the case from talking to reporters. In an affidavit filed Friday, Donald Kerr, the assistant director of the FBI lab, said that there are only a limited number of effective techniques available to the FBI to cope with encrypted data, one of which is the 'key logger system.' If criminals learn how the logger works, they can circumvent it, he said. Scarfo used software called PGP - Pretty Good Privacy - to encode gambling records, authorities maintain. PGP is a strong, free encryption program that can be used for e-mail or individual files. FBI agents installed the key logger system on Scarfo's computer after getting a search warrant allowing them to break into his Essex County business and look for a password that would unlock files they believed contained records of the illegal enterprise. The system, which recorded every keystroke, eventually captured the password they needed. A three-count indictment was returned in June 2000 against Scarfo and Paolercio. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Using High-Tech Gadgets
-Caveat Lector- FBI Using High-Tech Gadgets Sat, Jul 28, 2001 By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - By bugging a keyboard or using special software, FBI agents can remotely capture a computer user's every keystroke. With a black box, they can intercept e-mail from miles away. In a van parked outside, they secretly can recreate the pictures on a computer screen from its electromagnetic energy. The legal limits for these new investigative tools will get a test Monday when a federal court in New Jersey examines a mob case in which agents, without a wiretap order, recorded a suspect's computer keystrokes. Privacy experts are watching the case of Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. with great interest because it could bring major changes to investigative tactics in the online age. It's the idea of secret government surveillance technology being installed with very little oversight or accountability, David Sobel of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center said. It gets about as close to the common perception of Big Brother as anything I could really imagine. Armed only with a search warrant, the FBI broke into Scarfo's business and put either a program on his computer or an electronic bug in his keyboard - officials will not say which - and recorded everything typed by the son of the jailed former boss of the Philadelphia mob. The FBI says it needed a password in order to decrypt coded files that allegedly contained records of illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations. Scarfo used the software PGP - Pretty Good Privacy - to encode his records. PGP is a strong, free encryption program that can be used for e-mail or individual files. The FBI tried to break the encryption without the password, but failed. So agents surreptitiously bugged the computer to capture it from Scarfo himself. Scarfo's lawyer wants a Newark, N.J., federal court to suppress the evidence and make the FBI say how the bug worked. The lawyer says that because the FBI recorded everything Scarfo typed, they got private e-mails that were not part of the investigation. U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary has told the court that the surveillance device is a highly sensitive law enforcement search and seizure technique and should not be made public. Mark Rasch, former head of the Justice Department's computer crimes section, said that if the device transmitted the captured keystrokes back to the police via e-mail, or emitted them through radio signals, then it might be considered a wiretap. You really need to understand at what point it captured things, and how it got it back to the government, in order to figure out what the Fourth Amendment concerns are, Rasch said. Authorities have to meet a much higher standard for a full wiretap, which includes filtering out nonrelevant communications and having stronger proof that a crime is taking place. The government argues it only needed a search warrant for Scarfo's computer because the captured keystrokes were not immediately being transmitted on the phone line or on the Internet, and should not be considered the products of a wiretap. There are many tools the FBI can use for secretly capturing computer information. Earlier this year, the FBI used a keystroke bug to nab two Russians suspected of hacking into U.S. Internet companies. The Russians have not yet gone to trial. In addition to the keystroke logger, technicians can sneak in a program that will take intermittent snapshots of the monitor, or install a hidden camera pointed at the computer. There is even a system called TEMPEST that detects electromagnetic emanations from a computer monitor. Agents in a van parked outside can then reconstruct the desktop. The FBI also has received widespread attention for a device - formerly known as Carnivore and now called DCS 1000 - that can follow suspects' Web browsing, e-mail and instant messages. If they can find a way to read your mail or peek in your bedroom and find a way for a judge to authorize them to do it, they will do it, Rasch said. The Supreme Court recently reined in one high-tech tactic when it ruled police needed a warrant to use a special heat-sensing device to discover that a man was growing marijuana in his home. However the Scarfo case ends, Sobel said, the high-tech crime landscape is bound to change. I think it has significant implications for future law enforcement investigations, he said. This type of investigation is the wave of the future. -- On the Net: PGP: http://www.pgp.com Federal Bureau of Investigation: http://www.fbi.gov Electronic Privacy Information Center: http://www.epic.org A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used
