-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 12:17:56 -0500 From: Toni Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps more efficiently, Clinton used Echelon to get the goods on his opposition. Witness Newt Gingrinch’s sorry demise. – Toni (It may be that the following article should be taken with a grain of salt.) Ekstra Bladet http://www1.ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID =43236 ECHELON WAS MY BABY http://www1.ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID =43054 Ekstra Bladet meets former Echelon spy. In spite of illness and angst, she now reveals how illegal political surveillance was carried out LAS VEGAS (Ekstra Bladet): "Even though I felt bad about what we were doing, I was very pleased with the professional part of my job. I don’t mean to brag, but I was very good at what I did, and I actually felt like Echelon was my baby." Printed in Ekstra Bladet nov. 17. 1999 Ekstra Bladet meets Margaret Newsham in her home in a sleepy Las Vegas suburb. For obvious reasons we are omitting the name of the town where Margaret Newsham is trying to lead a normal life. She has never mentioned her past to her neighbors. A past in which Margaret Newsham has been in close contact with the very core of the most secretive world of all worlds. Margaret Newsham helped build the electronic surveillance system known as Echelon. Today she has broken off connection with the world of espionage and lives in constant fear that ‘certain elements’ in the NSA or CIA will try to silence her. As a result, she sleeps with a loaded pistol under her mattress, and her best friend is Mr. Gunther - a 120-pound German shepherd that was trained to be a guard and attack dog by a good friend in the Nevada State Police. She sent the dog to a ‘babysitter’ before we arrived, since "he doesn’t let strangers come in to my house," she says with a faint smile. Only once before has Newsham told anybody about her work as an Echelon spy: during closed, top-secret hearings held by the US Congress in 1988. Today, Margaret breaks eleven years of silence by telling the press for the very first time about her work for the most extensive espionage network in the world. Margaret Newsham decided to talk with Ekstra Bladet even though her doctor advised her not to meet with us. "Since I have high blood pressure, my doctor thinks it’s risky for me to talk with you, but it’s a chance I ’m willing to take." DEATH SENTENCE Newsham has gone through hell ever since she was fired from her job at Lockheed Martin where she designed programs for Echelon’s global surveillance network. When asked to work on a project in 1984, she refused because she believed it could harm the US government. Shortly after, Echelon’s wirepullers in the National Security Agency (NSA) made sure that she was fired by Lockheed Martin. Immediately afterward, she sued her former employer for wrongful dismissal and contacted the internal security commission, DCAA, which arranged the closed hearings. "Ever since, I have felt like I was under so much pressure that it has had a fatal influence on my health," says Margaret Newsham, who up to now has survived a seizure which left her totally paralyzed. All she had left was her sense of hearing when she was admitted to the hospital. "I could hear the doctor pronouncing my death sentence, while my husband and three children stood by my side. The only thing that kept me going was the thought that if I died, I would lose my case. That thought was what brought me back to life." After regaining her mobility, Newsham suffered a cardiac arrest, and two years ago she underwent surgery for a malignant tumor. Today, she dryly states that she is living on borrowed time, which perhaps explains why she chooses to stand forward at this time. SPYING ON POLITICIANS "To me, there are only two issues at stake here: right or wrong. And the longer I worked on the clandestine surveillance projects, the more I could see that they were not only illegal, but also unconstitutional." Margaret Newsham is not pleased with herself for participating in spying on ordinary people, politicians, interest groups and private companies, which is exactly what she did for 10 years, from 1974 to 1984. Both the satellites and the computer programs were developed at Lockheed’s headquarters in Sunnyvale California, and in 1977, she was stationed at the largest listening post in the world at Menwith Hill, England. "On the day at Menwith Hill when I realized in earnest how utterly wrong it was, I was sitting with one of the many “translators”. He was an expert in languages like Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Suddenly he asked me if I wanted to listen in on a conversation taking place in the US at an office in the US Senate Building. Then I clearly heard a southern American dialect I thought I had heard before." "Who is that?" I asked the translator who told me that it was Republican senator Strom Thurmond. ‘Oh my gosh!’ I thought. We’re not only spying on other countries, but also on our own citizens. That’s when I realized in earnest that what we were doing had nothing to do with national security interests of the US." KNOWLEDGE IS POWER In all its complicated simplicity, the American intelligence agency, NSA, together with intelligence agencies in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, has established a system of satellites and computer systems that can monitor by and large all electronic communication in the world: phone conversations, e-mails, telexes and telefaxes. A number of other countries are affiliated as third or fourth party participants, including Denmark. The fundamental concept of the system is to get access to all important political movements in hostile and allied countries alike and to keep an eye on all important economic movements. Knowledge is power, and the NSA knows it. Furthermore, NSA’s spies function as the only primary authority to supervise who receives what information and what it is used for. "Even then, Echelon was very big and sophisticated. As early as 1979 we could track a specific person and zoom in on his phone conversation while he was communicating. Since our satellites could in 1984 film a postage stamp lying on the ground, it is almost impossible to imagine how all-encompassing the system must be today." ECHELON WAS NSA’S IDEA Who came up with the name Echelon? "The NSA. Lockheed Martin’s alphanumeric code was P415." What did you actually do? "Unfortunately, I can’t tell you all my duties. I am still bound by professional secrecy, and I would hate to go to prison or get involved in any trouble, if you know what I mean. In general, I can tell you that I was responsible for compiling the various systems and programs, configuring the whole thing and making it operational on main frames [large computers, ed.]." Which part of the system is named Echelon? "The computer network itself. The software programs are known as SILKWORTH and SIRE, and one of the most important surveillance satellites is named VORTEX. It intercepts things like phone conversations." APPROVED BY THE CIA You worked as an agent for the NSA, but were employed by private company? "Yes, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between NSA agents and civilians employed by Lockheed Martin, Ford and IBM. The borderlines are very vague. I had one of the highest security classifications which required the approval of the CIA, the NSA, the Navy and the Air Force. The approval included both a lie detector test, and an expanded personal history test in which my family and acquaintances were discretely checked by the security agency." The sky darkens over the cascading neon lights of Las Vegas when Margaret Newsham tells of countless infringements of security regulations and about her colleague who suffered brain damage when she partipated in the development of the Stealth bomber. Though Margaret Newsham is totally exhausted, she also seems relieved. "This is the first time I have ever told anyone some of the things I told you today. But now I want to get Mr. Gunther soon so I feel safe again". She measures her blood pressure and looks very alarmed. "I had better go to the doctor tomorrow morning, so maybe we should meet later on in the day." When she returns with Mr. Gunther an hour later, the dog inspects every room before Margaret goes in. The last thing she does before falling asleep on her king size bed is to check her pistol to make sure it is still loaded. Facts: Lockheed Martin is the largest supplier of munitions to the US military services and to their intelligence agencies, the NSA and the CIA. During the eighties, Lockheed Martin took over LORAL Space Systems and Ford Aerospace which also deliver monitoring equipment to the espionage agencies. Margaret Newsham worked for the NSA through her employment at Ford and Lockheed from 1974 to 1984. In 1977 and 1978, Newsham was stationed at the largest listening post in the world at Menwith Hill, England. She received on-the-job training at NSA headquarters at Fort George Meade in Maryland, USA. Ekstra Bladet has Margaret Newsham’s stationing orders from the US Department of Defense. She possessed the high security classification TOP SECRET CRYPTO. According to information found by Ekstra Bladet in the Pentagon’s databases, the NSA had 38,613 employees in 1995. This figure does not include the many employees at private companies who work for the NSA. Ekstra Bladet has documented the existence of Echelon in a long series of articles over the last months. Denmark is affiliated with the Echelon network as a third party, and the most important Danish listening post is located at Aflandshage on the island of Amager. By Bo Elkjaer and Kenan Seeberg Clinton aides accused of snooping in files Jerry Seper Washington Times 1-8-00 A former White House employee said in a sworn statement yesterday that she saw high-ranking Clinton administration officials looking through top-secret personnel files in 1993 in the office of the CIA liason to the National Security Council. Deborah Perroy, a member of the NSC support staff, said the classified files included documents kept in the safe of the CIA's liason office intended for use by CIA officials to evaluate the suitability of security clearances for White House officials. Mrs. Perroy, who worked at the White House from 1988 to 1993, said the files included copies of FBI background reports and other FBI information on persons who worked for the NSC and in the West Wing during the Reagan and Bush administrations. She said the files included those for persons who no longer required either access to the White House or security clearances. Mrs. Perroy, who helped run the offices associated with the White House Situation Support Staff and the NSC, said she witnessed Robert Manzanares, director of NSC administration, and his assistant, Marcia Dimel, looking through the files in an office on the third floor of the Old Executive Office Building. In an affidavit taken as part of a pending lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm, Mrs. Perry said she resigned after the incident and that White House officials threatened to "come after me with false charges and allegations in order to smear my good name" if she did not return. "I then informed the Clinton White House that I would sue them if they did something so egregious and that I would go public with information about, what I believed to be improper, activities I witnessed while working at the White House," she said in the affidavit. Mrs. Perry, also said she has since learned that her FBI file was requested by the White House Office of Personnel and Security in March 1994, six months after she left her post and no longer required access or a security clearance. "Based on my experience working for the Clinton administration, I believe my FBI file was obtained and repeatedly sought in part because of fear I would divulge information about improper activities I witnessed at the Clinton White House and so, if I did go public...confidential information about me from my FBI file could be used against me," she said. Mrs. Perroy is the second former administration employee to come forward in the past month with complaints of impropriety at the White House. Sheryl Hall, a former White House computer specialist who left her job four months ago, said in legal papers filed Dec. 15 that the Clinton administration was trying to "stall" the "Filegate" lawsuit until after President Clinton left office with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Hall said Michelle Peterson of the White House Counsel's Office told her in late May or early June "that 'our strategy' for the Filegate lawsuit was to 'stall' because 'we had just a couple of more years to go.'" The Judicial Watch suit claims the White House "willfully and intentionally" violated employees' rights under the Privacy Act by receiving more than 900 classified FBI files at the White House. White House officials have called the accusations "baseless." Mrs. Hall, in a separate lawsuit against Mrs. Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, said she was forced to quit her job because of actions "undertaken at the direction of Mrs. Clinton and in retaliation" for her "challenging the unlawfulness" of the White House database. In the suit, she said when she complained that the database violated the Hatch Act, her duties were withdrawn until they were eliminated altogether. She said in November 1993 she "was assigned responsibility for developing the software for a new, taxpayer-financed master database that Mrs. Clinton and the DNC sought to establish for partisan, political purposes, including campaign fund raising for the DNC and the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign." When she complained about it to Marsha Scott, then the White House Correspondence Office director, Miss Scott told her she "should 'use her imagination' to circumvent any legal restrictions." Mrs. Hall said that after Miss Scott sent a memo to Mrs. Clinton and senior presidential advisor Bruce Lindsey on Jan. 26, 1994, describing her as disloyal, her staff was cut by 10 and she was relieved of any further responsibility for the development of the database. She left the White House on Sept. 10 and moved to a computer management job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. In the Perroy affidavit, the former White House employee said that when she "came across Manzanares and Dimel in the CIA liason office," the safe where the files were kept was open and that Mr. Manzanares was "pulling files out of the safe, looking through them and handing them to Dimel." "They also were keeping some sort of list...They clearly reacted as if they did not expect me and had been caught doing something improper," the affidavit said. Mrs. Perroy said the FBI files contained information on "virtually every top political and NSC aide to Presidents Reagan and Bush," including those of retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, Vice Adm. John Poindexter "and other prior administration officials." She said Mr. Manzanares had obtained the combination to all the safes in the office. although the CIA liason office had been "off-limits" before the arrival of the Clinton administration. Mrs. Perroy said she had not come forward because she was unaware until recently that her FBI file had been "compromised" by the Clinton administration. She said recent news reports about Mrs. Hall "inspired" her to tell "the court and the American people about the activities I witnessed at the Clinton White House." > > http://www.newaus.com.au/USReport.html > > The New Australian > 21-27 February 2000 > > US Report - No. 145, 21-27 F > > Blackmail and the Clintons' pervasive corruption > > By James Henry > > Blackmail is an ugly deed, especially when used to conceal > crimes, political wrong-doing and abuse of power. > Nevertheless, the reek of blackmail coming from the White > House and enveloping the Beltway is unmistakable. No one in > Washington's public arena privately disputes that Clinton > aides copied from 900 misappropriated FBI files enough > damaging material to silence most of their Republican > critics. Recall how the White House attempted to destroy the > reputations and credibility of Senators Hyde and Burton by > releasing information revealing their indiscretions. > > No wonder George Stephanopoulos confidently bragged the > "long-term strategy" of the White House could be "explosive". > The idea that blackmail is at the heart of White House > strategy was strengthened by rumours that Clinton aides held > very private meetings with Barney Frank, Democratic > representative from Massachusetts and expert blackmailer. > > Frank brought his expertise in to play when he found his > career threatened by the scandal of putting Steve Gobie on > his payroll. Answering a personal ad in the homosexual > Washington Blade, Frank met with Gobie, a male prostitute > with convictions for theft, drug trafficking and sodomising a > child. They certainly must have hit it off on their first > meeting because shortly afterwards Gobie moved in to Frank's > house, from where he ran a male prostitute business among > other things. To cut this squalid tale short, Frank escaped > the consequences of his action by threatening to reveal the > identities of closet homosexuals. What Frank knows is what > some Clinton aides wanted to combine with the information > they stole from the FBI. They had hopeed that this > information would have given them the "explosive" they needed > to get their boss off the impeachment hook. > > Anyone who thinks the above is far fetched does not know > Clinton. This is the man who made Patsy Thomasson — chief > lietenant of convicted cocaine dealer Dan Lasater — White > House chief of personnel. This appointment did not surprise > those who knew of the Clinton/Lasater drug connection that > many believe existed before Clinton became governor. The > connection might also explain the extraordinary expansion of > mob activity that occurred after Clinton became governor. > That the FBI was concerned about the rise of the 'Arkansas > mafia' under Clinton and its drug running operations and > prostitution rackets is no big secret. > > That Clinton 'was' a frequent cocaine user is a well known > fact that the media chooses to ignore, even though his > brother, Roger, a convicted dealer,was taped during an > anti-drug operation saying: "Got to get some for my brother. > He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner". That Clinton was > linked to cocaine smuggling in the 1980s is already part of > sworn testimony. That his association with the > drug-trafficking Lasater is connected with the gunning down > in 1993 of Clinton's chief of security (the man who knew too > much?) in Little Rock is assumed as given by many of that > city's good citizens. > > So bad is the situation that it was immediately assumed that > the killers would never be arrested. They never were. How > could they be, whispered critics, when one of the first acts > of the Clintons was to replace all US Attorneys "with our > people." An unprecedented and dictatorial act that gave the > Clintons control over the prosecutorial machinery of the > federal government in every judicial district in the country. > To top this off, the Clintons even maneuvered to get Webster > Hubbel installed as Attorney General — before he went to jail > where he threatened to cooperate with Starr. However, > $US700,000 plus in hush money, clumsily disguised as > consultancy fees. > > To strengthen their control further they had William > Sessions, Director of the FBI, removed. Sessions was noted > for his integrity and opposition to political interference in > the Bureau's affairs. (No wonder he had to go.) Clinton > groupie Louis Freeh was made Director of the FBI. Rumour now > has it that FBI agents have withheld sensitive information > from Freeh in the belief, rightly or wrongly, that it would > be passed on to the White House which is now considered, to > put it mildly, a security risk. > > The irony and added danger for the Clintons is that Freeh > might start taking his job seriously, unless they have > something on him too. That this may be so is why some people > believe Freeh refused in May 1998 to prevent the New York > Times blowing an FBI operation that centered on Johnny Chung, > a Clinton fundraiser, thus endangering his life. Any wonder > it is now thought that the White House fed the details of the > undercover operation to so-called hot-shot NYT reporters Don > Vanatta, Jeff Gerth and David Johnston, confident in the > knowledge that Freeh would not intervene. No wonder the NYT > was able to smugly claim it would have postponed the story > for a couple of days if only Freeh had asked it to do so. > Yep, there’s one hell of smell round there. > > What is really shocking is how the media, with a few brave > exceptions, literally covers for the Clintons, even > enthusiastically assassinating the characters of his critics, > impugning their motives and smearing their reputations. These > media storm troopers subjected the likes of Tripp and Jones > to the most appalling abuse and constantly vilified Starr > while defending the Clintons’ corrupt practises. > > There is literally no arm of government that has not been > infected by this morally diseased administration. However, > the Democratic Party and the mainstream media only remain > untouched by Clinton’s corruption because their moral > collapse had take place decades ago. It was this collapse > that made the Clinton administration possible. > > Editor: Australia’s media, particularly the Murdoch press, > has stood four square behind the Clinton presidency, making a > mockery out of the media’s public’s-right-to-know doctrine. > > #### ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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