Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Grapes of Wrath Convention
ROTFLMAO. At least chuckling. peace, k On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:20 PM, muckblit wrote: > --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> when are you gonna start writing books, bob? > > When the line is longer than one. One is not a line; it's a point. You > aren't ready for Alice unless you know the diff there. Of course a > moving point does make trails down in the hole, but that's just the > beginning. Ya gotta know something for sure when Condy spreads her > legs, dates, or it's all up to you. > > > > Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ > > Please let us stay on topic and be civil. > > OM > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
[cia-drugs] Fwd: "What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out!" (Guillotines, Anyone?)
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 22, 2007 9:03:23 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out!" (Guillotines, Anyone?) Impeachment -- and an ominous Executive Order Sunday, July 22, 2007 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ This post expands upon the previous one, which discusses John Conyers statement that he'll begin impeachment proceedings against Cheney after three more Representatives sign on to Dennis Kucinich's call for impeachment. In the post below this one, I give the names of those congressfolk most likely to join with the fourteen who have already signed up for impeachment. Now we learn this: "What are we waiting for? Let's take these two guys out," Conyers reportedly told the enthusiastic crowd at a Progressive Democrats of America event in San Diego. He later repeated the same line according to the caller, "KPete," who wrote more about the event at Democratic Underground yesterday. She reported that the comment was met by "huge cheers." A similar account of Conyers's statement was offered by progressive talk show host Bree Walker who also attended the same event. Conyers reportedly urged patience in the process, and asked for everyone's support as things moved forward first with Cheney, and then with Bush. By the way, some people have said that the Judiciary Committee cannot look into impeachment without a directive to do so by the House Leadership. Not true. The Constitution does not so mandate, and the 1998 precedent should not apply to the current situation. 1998 did not involve the Vice President or the line of succession, and thus could not be construed as a coup by the Speaker. Russ Feingold has renewed his call for censure in the Senate. A terrific idea, that: A censure motion will give us an idea as to whether any Republicans in the Senate can be turned against Bush and Cheney. Impeachment is one thing; removal another. You cannot ask Bush to go back to Texas without cooperation from at least some senatorial Republicans. Unfortunately -- and I know that this viewpoint conflicts with common wisdom -- there is far more disunity among Democrats than among Republicans right now. Note, for example, the hate vibes some Dem rank-and-filers have directed at Feingold for his censure suggestion, because it does not go "far enough." (Yes, I know that he said he does not support impeachment at this time. He's a Senator, not a House member. If he had said "Impeach now!" his censure call would be even less palatable to Republicans. These things must be handled with some delicacy.) Wonkette has published an incredibly daring column which asks: How to stage a revolt? http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-revolution-for-dummies/what- next-for-the-bushcheney-administration-maybe-guillotines-280860.php The piece discusses all options from military coup to attacks on the home offices of congress members. Needless to say, I do not condone violence or illegal activity. But can you believe that we are actually discussing such matters? Dark response: If Bush feels power slipping away, how will HE react? We see increasing signs that he is considering the "false flag" terror option, under which he will assume dictatorial powers. Consider this executive order, which allows the President to take away the property of any United States "persons" who "threaten stabilization in Iraq." Please note that this order is not directed against insurgents in Iraq -- we are already firing bullets at those fellows, as you may have noticed. No, this EO is directed at unnamed people in the United States... determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of: (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or (B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order... I need not point out how vaguely worded this is. We know how aggressive the President's lawyers are, and we know that they are quite capable of of construing any anti-war protester (or blogger) as a threat to the stability of Iraq. Most people reading these words could be considered broadly guilty of undermining Bush's efforts. Conservative zealots will argue (have argued) that anyone who writes a web ar
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 8:02:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a Police State Is INEVITABLE Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state Muriel Kane Published: Thursday July 19, 2007 http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the "strong words" which open Roberts' latest column: "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran." "I don't actually think they're very strong," said Roberts of his words. "I get a lot of flak that this understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face." Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why "the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election." However, Roberts emphasized, "the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling." Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place. "The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," Roberts continued. "Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11." Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't about to happen. "If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it," Roberts replied. However, he added, "I don't think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective," pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media. "Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that." Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. "It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power," he said. "There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything." Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, "the only constraints on what's going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it." The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts can be found here. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Congressional Democrat w/ CLEARANCE Can't Read Bush C.O.G. Plan: "TOO SECRET"!
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 1:34:59 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Congressional Democrat w/ CLEARANCE Can't Read Bush C.O.G. Plan: "TOO SECRET"! "Maybe the people who think it's a conspiracy are right." DeFazio asks, but he's denied access Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/ 118489654058910.xml&coll=7 WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. "I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee- jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said. Jeff Kosseff: 202-383-7814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Cheney-ite Warhawk Eric Edelman PERSONALLY Involved w/ Libby in PLAME Leak
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 8:16:35 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cheney-ite Warhawk Eric Edelman PERSONALLY Involved w/ Libby in PLAME Leak http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/search?q=edelman "There’s an organization called the American Turkish Council (ATC) which is the prime body that has been investigated by the FBI and the CIA for years, going back to 1996. In the Vanity Fair article about Sibel [Edmond]'s case, she says that the ATC is a front for criminal activity -- the ATC is the main one, but Sibel’s case also touches very heavily on AIPAC, the Israeli lobby. Sibel intimates that AIPAC and the ATC are both essentially front groups for a larger [neocon/Israeli] network that [profits from] the black- market nuclear arms trade, illegal arm exports, and heroin- trafficking. " eric edelman bio. part one http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/11/eric-edelman-bio-part- one.html OK -- I've been promising my piece on Eric Edelman for a week - I've somewhat failed again. My primary interest is understanding whether Eric Edelman is involved in: a) the outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings b) any of the conspiracies suggested by Sibel Edmonds, c) whether a) and b) are related I've largely finished the first installment on his background - so i'll post this now even though it's long, and a bit messy, and somewhat incomplete - but at least i'll be able to say that i've at least partially met my promise. First, lets take a look at his background - from RightWeb we learn the following: "During his government career, Edelman has shuttled back and forth between the State Department and DOD. His latest assignment was as ambassador to Turkey, where he gained a reputation as a meddlesome critic of the Turkish government at a time when anti-Americanism began flaring up throughout the country. President Bush named Edelman ambassador to Turkey a few months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003... Serving at the time as Vice President Cheney's national security adviser, Edelman assumed the ambassadorship in Ankara in July 2003. ... [snip] Like many other top officials of the Bush administration's foreign policy team, Edelman began his government career in the Reagan administration. While completing his doctorate in history at Yale University, Edelman joined the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks. He then became a special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz. In 1990 Edelman moved from the State Department to the Pentagon, where he officially served as assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for Soviet and East European affairs. Edelman served under Cheney during the administration of Bush pere. At that time he worked as part of a team headed by Paul Wolfowitz that was charged with formulating a Defense Policy Guidance that would serve as the post-Cold War framework for U.S. military strategy. Others working on the draft grand strategy were Zalmay Khalilzad and I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. [snip] During the Clinton administration, Edelman moved back to the State Department. As ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state on the Newly Independent States, Edelman oversaw defense, security, and space issues. Vice President Cheney brought Edelman back under his wing as principal deputy assistant for national security affairs. As an assistant to Cheney, he was part of the foreign policy network that hurriedly established the "intelligence" rationales for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Edelman, who is close to such leading neocons as Michael Ledeen and Richard Perle, worked closely in the vice president's office with Scooter Libby in establishing a policy network of hawks and neocons that was based at the Pentagon and Cheney's office but extended through key figures into State, the various intelligence agencies, and the National Security Council." Edelman's full bio can be seen here I'll discuss Edelman's more recent history in a moment, but first let me demonstrate the extent of his 'entanglement' with the neocon neocrazies who currently run the planet. Here's one from the NewYorker in 2002: "After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense, set up a "shop," as they say, to think about American foreign policy after the Cold War, at the grand strategic level. The project, whose existence was kept quiet, included people who are now back in the game, at a higher level: among them, Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff; and Eric Edelman, a senior foreign-policy adviser to Cheney" or there's this article describing the incoming Bush administration in 2001: "Wolfowitz reportedly brings with him, and has sprinkled th
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Richard Nixon and the Man Who Silenced Lee Harvey Oswald
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 21, 2007 12:14:38 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Richard Nixon and the Man Who Silenced Lee Harvey Oswald http://crimemagazine.com/03/richardnixon,1014.htm A 1947 memo, found in 1975 by a scholar going through a pile of recently released FBI documents, supports Giancana's contention. In the memo, addressed to a congressional committee investigating organized crime, an FBI assistant states: "It is my sworn testimony that one Jack Rubenstein of Chicago ... is performing information functions for the staff of Congressman Richard Nixon, Republican of California. It is requested Rubenstein not be called for open testimony in the aforementioned hearings." (Later in 1947, Rubenstein moved to Dallas and shortened his last name [to JACK RUBY].) The FBI subsequently called the memo a fake, but the reference service Facts on File considers it authentic. Undercover work for the young Congressman Nixon would have been in keeping with Ruby's history as a police tipster and government informant. In 1950, Ruby gave closed-door testimony to Estes Kefauver's special Senate committee investigating organized crime. Committee staffer Luis Kutner later described Ruby as "a syndicate lieutenant who had been sent to Dallas to serve as a liaison for Chicago mobsters." In exchange for Ruby's testimony, the FBI is said to have eased up on its probe of organized crime in Dallas. In 1959, Ruby became an informant for the FBI. - Seared into the memories of all Americans who lived through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is exactly where they were on November 22, 1963. Yet private citizen Richard Nixon, who — believe it or not — was in Dallas, could not recall this fact in a post-assassination interview with the FBI. The interview dealt with an apparently false claim by Marina Oswald that her husband —alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald — had targeted Nixon for death during an earlier trip to Dallas. A Feb. 28, 1964 FBI report on the interview said Nixon "advised that the only time he was in Dallas, Texas, during 1963 was two days prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." While Nixon eventually came clean regarding his whereabouts on that fateful day, he seemed touchy whenever the matter was raised. For example, in a 1992 interview with CNN's Larry King, Nixon interjected he was in Dallas "In the morning!" when King cited the presumed geographical coincidence. Nixon left Dallas on a flight to New York several hours before Kennedy's noontime arrival at Love Field. Not only did Nixon misremember where he was on November 22nd, he made at least two conflicting statements about how he first learned his arch-rival had been shot. In a 1964 Reader's Digest article, he recalled hailing a cab after his Dallas-New York flight: "We were waiting for a light to change when a man ran over from the street corner and said that the President had just been shot in Dallas." In November of 1973, however, Nixon said in Esquire that his cabbie "missed a turn somewhere and we were off the highway...a woman came out of her house screaming and crying. I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas." In yet another curious twist, a November 22nd wire service photo of Nixon indicates he might even have learned of the shooting before his cab ride. In the photo, a glum-looking Nixon, hat in lap, is sitting in what appears to be an airline terminal. The caption on the United Press International photo reads: "Shocked Richard Nixon, the former vice president who lost the presidential election to President Kennedy in 1960, is shown Friday after he arrived at Idlewild Airport in New York following a flight from Dallas, Tex., where he had been on a business trip." In the 1992 King interview, Nixon maintained he'd never had any interest in digging into the JFK assassination: "I don't see a useful purpose in getting into that and I don't think it's frankly useful for the Kennedy family to constantly raise that up again." Nixon's professed disinterest doesn't ring true, however, for it came from one of our snoopiest chief executives — a politician who just relished investigations, spying, secrets, and conspiracies. As Nixon aide John Ehrlichman once observed: "He was a conspiracy buff. He liked intrigue, and he liked secret maneuverings of the FBI, and he liked to hear about what the CIA did, and so on. He just couldn't leave that stuff alone." As for Nixon's stated compassion for the Kennedys, let's not forget that he deeply despised them. So much so that, as president, he ordered chief White House spy E. Howard Hunt to forge diplomatic
[cia-drugs] Fwd: No-Bid Government Contractors' Fringe Benefits
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2007 5:27:03 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No-Bid Government Contractors' Fringe Benefits Bechtel Jacobs contractor accused of stealing nuclear secrets National lab worker allegedly stole classified information, tried to sell it 19 Jul 2007 Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused a low-level Bechtel contract worker at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — birthplace of the nuclear bomb — with stealing highly classified information about how to make enriched uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. The suspect was allegedly caught trying to sell it to someone he thought was representing another country, who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. --- No one claims $500,000 stash in truck By Cindi Lash Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 2006 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06110/683609-57.stm When security guards at the Beaver Valley Power Station discovered a bag containing thousands of dollars in a tractor-trailer cab, one of the vehicle's occupants told them his boss planned to use the cash to buy a truck. It must have been some truck. State police said the bag, which guards spotted on Tuesday while conducting a routine search of the tractor-trailer at the entrance to the nuclear power plant, contained 10 plastic-wrapped bundles of cash totaling $504,230. Police later seized the money and bag after a dog trained to detect drugs sniffed and reacted to the bag, indicating contact with controlled substances. The truck driver and passenger, whose names were withheld but who are from Texas, were released without charges because no apparent crime had been committed. State police were investigating to determine who owns the money and how it got into the tractor-trailer. If no one comes forward to claim legitimate ownership of the money, police said, they will begin proceedings for forfeit of the cash to the government. "I wanted to know, why is somebody running around with that amount of money when they're not in a Brink's truck?" said Shippingport police Sgt. R.N. Davis Jr., who pulled the truck over after it left the power plant in Beaver County. Investigators also notified the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, but said they do not believe the money or truckers are linked to workers or activities at the plant. "Most likely, they were just between runs," said Trooper Jonathan Bayer. "The investigation is continuing, but there is no indication that there is any connection to the power plant." The truckers worked for a company hired by San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., which is performing construction work and replacing equipment at the plant, said Richard Wilkins, spokesman for plant owner First Energy Nuclear Operating Co. The name of the company was not released, but police said the truckers had come from Chicago and were making a scheduled stop to pick up and transport containers of tools to Youngstown, Ohio. The white semi-truck and empty flatbed trailer pulled up to the plant entrance about 4:15 p.m. Plant security officers told them every vehicle entering the plant must be searched and obtained permission to do so, police said. In the search, the officers found a green, blue and black duffel bag with a padlock in the sleeper berth of the cab, Trooper Bayer said. The truckers didn't have a key for the lock, so guards cut it off and spotted cash inside, he said. The truckers said the money wasn't theirs and they didn't know how it got there, Trooper Bayer said. In court papers filed to obtain a search warrant, state police said one of the truckers told security officers that "it was their [boss's] money and he was going to buy a truck with it." But when the security workers called the truckers' boss in Houston, he also said he knew nothing about the money. The security officers called police, but the truckers backed out of the plant and drove off. "There's nothing [in the law] that says you can't carry a lot of cash around with you. It's just a little unusual," Mr. Wilkins said. "Any kind of unusual or suspicious activity, or even a person who's acting a little suspiciously, whether they've broken a law or tried to do something that was against the regulations on site, would be reported." Police broadcast a description of the truck and Sgt. Davis pulled it over after spotting it on Route 168 south, near the Shippingport Bridge. He said the truckers were polite, but the passenger had no identification and said it had been stolen from the truck the night before. "Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash? Red flags were popping up all over," Sgt. Davis said. State police also arrived and obtained a warrant to search the truck. They said the cash was packed in bundles of $50,000, each containing 10 packets
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Natl Defense U./War College Ex-Official: "Bush Might 'Postpone' 2008 Elections"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 5:18:09 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Natl Defense U./War College Ex-Official: "Bush Might 'Postpone' 2008 Elections" http://www.correntewire.com/ us_ambassador_concern_that_united_states_2008_elections_will_be_postpo ned US Ambassador "concerned" that 2008 election will be postponed Submitted by lambert on Wed, 2007-07-18 11:55. Republicans vs. the Constitution So we're not the only ones to think this way. Former US Ambassador** Dan Simpson writes for the Toledo Blade: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/ OPINION04/707180321 I thought that by now the White House would have decided that the strains of the job on his health were too much for Mr. Cheney to continue as vice president, that he would then have stepped down for valid health reasons, and the Republicans would have plugged into the position a viable 2008 presidential candidate. I can think of several reasons why they didn’t do that (I will give them credit for enough intelligence to at least realize they had a problem). First, Mr. Bush felt he couldn’t live without Mr. Cheney around. Second -- and I suspect this is probably the truth of the matter -- Mr. Cheney didn’t want to step down, and Mr. Bush decided he didn’t care what happened to the Republican Party after he was out of the White House. There is also the late-at-night, eerie concern that Mr. Bush has in his head some sort of scenario where, for reasons of national security -- real or drummed-up -- the 2008 elections will have to be postponed and he will get to stay on. My suspicions [are based on] the feeling I have that, given their operating style NOW, this bunch will NOT leave the White House EASILY in 2009. Nice to see this mainstreamed at last. Because when the going gets tough, the tough get foily. Because, really, when do monarchs ever voluntarily surrender power? ** http://www.globalsolutionspgh.org/unreformpanel.html Simpson is "a career diplomat who worked for every American administration from Lyndon Johnson through George W. Bush. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to several African nations including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Somalia. "[He] has also served as vice president of the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and as the Deputy Commandant for International Affairs of the U.S. Army War College." Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: CIA Mutiny Against Bush?
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 18, 2007 4:33:55 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CIA Mutiny Against Bush? Fox News claims CIA 'sabotaging War on Terror' When you've lost a war, start a witch-hunt for "the enemy within" http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Fox_CIA_undermining_War_on_Terror_0717.html Fox News on Tuesday interviewed veteran Pentagon reporter Rowan Scarborough about his "startling allegation" that "elements within the CIA are sabotaging our own War on Terror." Scarborough, a former columnist for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times, is the author of Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA, which claims that "CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage." Angry CIA Operatives Torpedoed Rumsfeld http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/17/100703.shtml?s=ic Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday. "The Americans themselves admitted there were secret prisons, that they abducted people from the streets, that people were handed over to countries like Syria, Yemen, Egypt where they were tortured," he said. Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Impeachment: The Time Has Finally Come
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 16, 2007 7:05:18 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Impeachment: The Time Has Finally Come http://www.opednews.com/articles/ opedne_andrew_b_070716_impeachment_3a__the_ti.htm Op Ed News, July 16, 2007 Andrew Bard Schmookler Impeachment: The Time Has Come! From other people on the anti-Bushite blogosphere, hearing the idea that it's time to impeach Bush and Cheney would hardly be noteworthy. A great many commentators have been saying that for some time. I think they've been mistaken -- UNTIL NOW. While I've agreed that Bush and Cheney deserve impeachment --have said, indeed, that no one in American history has deserved it more-- I've never considered that to be a sufficient basis for making such a judgment about what should be done. My approach has always been more strategic than that. I'm concerned not only with the rightness of an action, but with its impact. And a premature effort to move toward impeachment, I thought, might actually have strengthened the Bushites by weaking their opponents. When many were condemning Nancy Pelosi for declaring impeachment to be "off the table," I did not join in the criticism. I thought it a politically prudent statement to make, given the apparent skittishness of the American electorate at that time about impeachment and, more generally, about so-called "partisanship." For that time, it was probably reassuring to many in the public and it in no way impaired the ability to put impeachment back onto the table when circumstances changed. Well, now they've changed. And now it is time to begin the drumbeat and the march toward impeachment. (Pelosi's situation does remain delicate, however: if Bush and Cheney are both impeached, guess who is next in the line of succession.) There have been three important changes since last November's election. First, in the first half year of this Congress, after years of virtually no congressional oversight, the investigative hearings conducted by the Democratic Congress have brought a whole stream of administration wrong-doing to the attention of the American people. Second, and likely at least partially as a result of the first, the proportion of the American public now favoring movement toward impeachment has reached a stunning level. Almost half of the public (46%) favors the impeachment of the president, and more than half (54%) favors the impeachment of the vice president. These are already numbers that greatly limit the political risk to the Democrats in pressing forward with impeachment. And it can be assumed that the actual impeachment process --if it is conducted with reasonable political and prosecutorial skill- would raise those numbers considerably. It looks as though about 30% of the public will support Bush regardless of any facts presented about any high crimes he has committed, but there remains an additional quarter of the public whose support might still be won over to supporting impeachment. Then there's the third important change --and in some respects it might be the most important one. And that is that the Bushites --by their arrogance, their stonewalling, their imperial usurpations-- have quite blatantly and publicly blocked every other recourse. Just in the past month: **Their indefensible assertions of "executive privilege" are thwarting the other, lesser forms of congressional investigation into the wrongdoings of the Bush presidency. Battling these issues out in the courts would drag on for so long as to give this lawless regime a victory by default. **Meanwhile the vice president's machinations have compounded the message of contempt for the public's right to oversee what is being done by their elected leaders with the power entrusted to them. **The president's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence has made a mockery of the ability of the justice system to deal with criminal activity on the part of this cabal and, moreover, has blocked the ability of prosecutors to get to the root of the crimes committed. With all these maneuvers, the Bush administration has laid down the gauntlet. It has precipitated the ultimate in constitutional crises --will America be ruled by an all-powerful president, accountable neither to Congress, nor to the courts, nor to the American public? The answer to that question must be "No!" For the sake of future generations, American cannot afford to allow this profound constitutional challenge to go unmet. And it is the Bushite regime, by blocking every other recourse -- for oversight, for accountability, for checks and balances-- that has finally made impeachment the sole remaining way to defend the integrity of America's constitutional system and the rule of law. So, the impeachment solution is now necessary
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Has Already Lost Interest in Iraq; Now He's Obsessed with War on IRAN
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 16, 2007 12:41:41 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Has Already Lost Interest in Iraq; Now He's Obsessed with War on IRAN Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran · Military solution back in favour as Rice loses out · President 'not prepared to leave conflict unresolved' Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger The Guardian, July 16, 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2127343,00.html While Dick Cheney, left, favours military threats, Condoleezza Rice, centre, prefers diplomacy. George Bush, right, has sided with Cheney. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although the Bush administration is in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed source in Washington said: "Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo." The White House claims that Iran, whose influence in the Middle East has increased significantly over the last six years, is intent on building a nuclear weapon and is arming insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. The vice-president, Dick Cheney, has long favoured upping the threat of military action against Iran. He is being resisted by the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates. Last year Mr Bush came down in favour of Ms Rice, who along with Britain, France and Germany has been putting a diplomatic squeeze on Iran. But at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. "The balance has tilted. There is cause for concern," the source said this week. Nick Burns, the undersecretary of state responsible for Iran and a career diplomat who is one of the main advocates of negotiation, told the meeting it was likely that diplomatic manoeuvring would still be continuing in January 2009. That assessment went down badly with Mr Cheney and Mr Bush. "Cheney has limited capital left, but if he wanted to use all his capital on this one issue, he could still have an impact," said Patrick Cronin, the director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Washington source said Mr Bush and Mr Cheney did not trust any potential successors in the White House, Republican or Democratic, to deal with Iran decisively. They are also reluctant for Israel to carry out any strikes because the US would get the blame in the region anyway. "The red line is not in Iran. The red line is in Israel. If Israel is adamant it will attack, the US will have to take decisive action," Mr Cronin said. "The choices are: tell Israel no, let Israel do the job, or do the job yourself." Almost half of the US's 277 warships are stationed close to Iran, including two aircraft carrier groups. The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise left Virginia last week for the Gulf. A Pentagon spokesman said it was to replace the USS Nimitz and there would be no overlap that would mean three carriers in Gulf at the same time. Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: "We the People," Mad as Hell and *SOON* Not Going to Take It Anymore
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 16, 2007 5:24:08 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "We the People," Mad as Hell and *SOON* Not Going to Take It Anymore [Written as an exasperated gut-level response to lame-ass posts in an "impeachment, pro or con?" forum] You folks just don't get it, do you? Conducting a lawyerly discussion of impeachment at this point, with the participants still dewy-eyed with high school civics naivete, is like trading platitudes about the need for an annual medical checkup in the coroner's office during an autopsy, the corpse on the table already reeking. Wake up and smell the formaldehyde: Our system of government, defined by these theoretical protocols and legal technicalities, is already dead. The corruption of the Republicans is the simply the putrefaction of the body politic. The inaction of the Democrats is predictable under the circumstances -- it's rigor mortis. The two-party system we invoke in our references to nice-on-paper but pragmatically unattainable "checks and balances" lies in state. We are governed by a de facto ONE-party system whose infrastructure was already in its final stages of construction long before we even began a debate about whether it could be done, and if it could, whether it would "really," or just "potentially," pose a threat to the democratic process. And now that we have begun to open our eyes, stil timidly, to survey only a fraction of the damage already done, that one-party system we seem to have overlooked is racing at breakneck speed to consolidate its power as a NO-party system dictated by a "president for life" during a national "state of emergency." So, NOW, you're discussing whether impeachment is PRACTICAL, even debating if it's DESIRABLE? Talk about being "behind the curve"! Wake up and smell the burning flesh, folks -- it's FAR TOO LATE. There is NO "democratic process" by which, through "representatives" whom we have "fairly elected," the American people can have ANY IMPACT WHATSOEVER on the nation's "free fall" toward totalitarianism. You're gassing up for nothing if you're hoping to drive your BMW across the raging waves of the Atlantic. There is no Constitution anymore; Bush & Co has shredded it, and now they're just burning the shards. There is no Supreme Court you can appeal to; Bush & Co (through the Federalists) has succeeded in "stacking the courts," and the entire legal system --the so-called "independent judiciary branch" of our "Constitutional" system of government-- is populated by legal nazis who seig-heil our glorious Fuehrer. Congress exists in name only -- it's just "political theatre," ideological bread & circuses for the yokels. No one you can trust will ever succeed in getting elected -- or if they somehow miraculously do, they will not survive in the toxic atmosphere of Capitol Hill without being bribed or threatened into towing the line. In our bogus "two-party" system, both parties are self-serving, and a "third party" will not be permitted. (Besides which, our "unitary executive" knows the legislative and judiciary branches are superfluous -- he and he alone has the authority to decide what legislation will be implemented and what laws enforced.) So, my naive friends, when you don't have a legitimate federal government (or a state government, more often than not) to turn to, when the Blackstone SS is "securing" Main Street USA, who ya gonna call? You don't like that? You're scared? Try "working within the system" THEN to IMPEACH Der Fuehrer. To sum up, impeachment is a joke. It's no longer a realistic option -- it won't happen because it CAN'T, it's impossible in practical terms. The nuts and bolts of WHY it's impossible reveals how seriously, irrevocably damaged our system of government is, and how few REAL options are left for us in defense of our liberty. Putting your hopes on a majority Democratic Congress and a Democratic president being elected in 2008 is likewise a joke -- one in even worse taste, because that proves you're even FURTHER behind the curve. In the next 18 months, we've been warned, "something" will happen that, like 9/11, will "change everything." It doesn't matter WHAT that event, as portrayed by our mass-media, will be. All that matters is that it will be USED to "justify" consolidation of extra-Constitutional executive power in a de facto dictatorship. The Constitution, in practice, is already null and void; its guardians, by default, have allowed it to lapse. Habeas Corpus has been suspended, not just in specific instances but, as the need arises, generally. Posse Comitatus is virtually of no effect, likewise by applying "the letter of the law" of radical NEW laws which, despite being unconstitutional, were allowed to stand, unchallenged, by judicial co-conspi
[cia-drugs] Fwd: April 2007: Saudi "Special Forces" ("Al Qaeda"?) Called Up for Active Duty
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Subject: April 2007: Saudi "Special Forces" ("Al Qaeda"?) Called Up
for Active Duty
http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2007/05/cheney-lines-up-middle-
east-arab-allies.html
In the last two weeks, Washington has marginally trimmed down the
US buildup opposite Iran’s shores. Shortly before Cheney arrived,
the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike group reached the Gulf
with 6,000 men -- not to augment the US naval presence, but to
relieve the USS Boxer Strike group which is returning to base.
While no Bush administration official has publicly admitted to a
timeline for the US pull-out from Iraq - and has in fact fought one
tooth and nail through Congress - DEBKAfile’s sources in
Washington, the Gulf and Baghdad report that Cheney is bringing the
news to the Middle East rulers that Washington will make its
decision in the second half of August and an evacuation will begin
shortly thereafter.
...
Tens of thousands of U.S. troops, finally leaving Iraq, with
nowhere else to go ...
...
On April 1, the Saudi monarch met Adm. William J. Fallon, US
Central Command chief. April 16, he received defense secretary
Gates and, two days later, on April 18, he held a long conversation
with the US state department Iraq coordinator, David Satterfield.
These talks led to a decision to make the Saudi air force the
biggest in the Middle East, on a par with Israel’s air might, by an
infusion of sophisticated aircraft equipped with the most advanced
avionics, electronic warfare instruments and missiles.
In a war contingency, the boosted Saudi air force will undertake
the key function of immobilizing the antiquated Iranian air force,
preventing it from posing a threat to the Gulf or providing air
cover for sabotage squads or marines seeking to attack oil
installations, disrupt oil tanker passage through the Gulf or seize
territory in Gulf emirates.
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: First It's "Eco-Terrorists," Then Anti-War "Terrorists" ... and Now, POTHEADS?
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 16, 2007 12:53:36 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: First It's "Eco-Terrorists," Then Anti-War "Terrorists" ... and Now, POTHEADS? Drug czar gives warning Federal official calls marijuana growers dangerous terrorists By Dylan Darling Friday, July 13, 2007 http://redding.com/news/2007/jul/13/drug-czar-gives-warning/ The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment. John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort. "Don't buy drugs. They fund violence and terror," he said. After touring gardens raided this week in Shasta County, Walters said the officers who are destroying the gardens are performing hard, dangerous work in rough terrain. He said growers have been known to have weapons, including assault rifles. "These people are armed; they're dangerous," he said. He called them "violent criminal terrorists." Walters, whose official title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said too many people write off marijuana as harmless. "We have kind of a reefer blindness,' " he said. No arrests have been made so far in the four days of raids, the opening leg of what Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has promised will be at least two straight weeks of daily raids. He said suspects have been hard to find because their familiarity with their terrain makes it easy for them to flee quickly. Although crews doing the raids are using Black Hawk and other helicopters to drop in on some of the gardens, Bosenko said they don't want to give the growers any warning of a raid. "We try to move in under stealth," he said. As of Thursday morning, Operation Alesia raids had resulted in the yanking of 68,237 young marijuana plants from public lands in Shasta County. Raids already have been conducted in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, as well as on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service north of Lake Shasta and other public land near Manton. The operation is being led by the sheriff's office and has involved 17 agencies, including the California National Guard and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It's believed to be the largest campaign of its kind in the state, Bosenko said. The operation is named after the last major battle between the Roman Empire and the Gauls in 52 B.C. That battle was won by the Romans. With the blitz of marijuana gardens around Shasta County, Bosenko said officials hope to not only get rid of the pot, but also win back the land for the public that owns it. "These organizations are destroying our lands and wildlife," he said. Bernie Weingardt, regional forester for the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region, said the 28,000 acres believed to house illegal marijuana grows on national forest land throughout the state would cost more than $300 million to revive. "These lands must be cleaned and restored," he said. His estimate is based on a National Park Service study that found it costs $11,000 per acre to pull the plants, clear irrigation systems, reshape any terracing and replant native vegetation, said Mike Odle, Forest Service spokesman. While Walters didn't give specific goals for Operation Alesia, he said anti-drug agencies aim to cripple the organized crime groups that he said are behind the marijuana cultivation. "This business we intend to put into recession, depression and put its leaders into jail," Walters said. Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Gambit Weekly : Missing Links : July 17, 2007
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 16, 2007 3:23:20 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Gambit Weekly : Missing Links : July 17, 2007 You can see this page at: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/ current/cover_story.php
[cia-drugs] Fwd: National News Conference: New Orleans, Friday, July 20
Begin forwarded message: From: "Kris Millegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 16, 2007 9:00:17 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: National News Conference: New Orleans, Friday, July 20 Release Date 7/16/07 National News Conference: New Orleans Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam • The public was never told the truth about the Dr. Mary Sherman murder. • J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to conduct “no active investigation” into the murder. • The Warren Commission was in New Orleans interviewing people of interest the day the doctor's burned and stabbed body was found. • Eyewitness confirms New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's critical assertion of a Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald acquaintance. • DA Garrison did not comprehend the implications of the underground medical laboratory that he had uncovered. Friday, July 20, 2007 11:00 -11:45 a.m. The Whitney Hotel Commerce Room 610 Poydras St 504 581-4222 Contact: Kris Millegan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1 800 556 2012 for interviews & additional info July 17-21 — Hotel Whitney 504 581 4222 http://www.DrMarysMonkey.com/ http://www.TheMonkeyVirus.com/ PRESS CONFERENCE — DR. MARY'S MONKEY: HOTTEST COLD CASE IN AMERICA The sensational unsolved murder of a prominent New Orleans doctor, cancer-causing monkey viruses, governmental secrecy and cover-ups, along with intrigues swirling around the assassination of President Kennedy, are some of the elements of a controversial new book from TrineDay, Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward Haslam. TrineDay is presenting the author to the national press in New Orleans on the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dr. Mary Sherman, because Mr. Haslam’s personal investigation of that horrific cold- case murder in that city has led him to information that should be known by all Americans — especially those of the boomer generation. Her grisly killing was front-page news in the two city dailies for over a week, and then the coverage suddenly stopped. The hidden backdrop of the murder was Dr. Sherman’s involvement in top-secret government research, and, as is now becoming more widely known, the fact that the polio vaccine inoculated into millions of schoolchildren between 1954 and 1963 had been unwittingly contaminated with dangerous monkey viruses. At the time, some brave souls in the medical research community (who soon lost their jobs) predicted this would give rise to soft-tissue cancer rates far exceeding those of previous generations … a prediction that has sadly come true. Dr. Sherman had been enlisted in a secret effort attempting to develop new vaccines, using radiation from a linear particle accelerator, hopefully heading off that impending epidemic. By the time of her death at the height of the Cold War, these efforts had also been directed toward biological weapons development. When Haslam first explored these subjects in his 1998 book, Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus, many questioned his speculations. Now, Dr. Mary’s Monkey includes further revelations showing him to have been, tragically, correct. Most crucially, an actual participant in the research has stepped forward. As Dr. Sherman’s lab assistant in the summer of 1963, a young woman from Florida was drawn into a network linking prominent New Orleans physician Alton Ochsner with figures who have been the focus of investigations into the JFK assassination, including David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald. She has now come forward, to corroborate—and illuminate—Haslam’s account. Documentation of her narrative, and of other historical “anomalies,” will be provided at the press conference: 1. That the public was never told the truth about the Mary Sherman murder. Concealed was the fact that Dr. Sherman’s right arm and the right side of her rib cage were completely “missing” with nothing left but a “charred fragment.” This was revealed in a carefully guarded Orleans Parish autopsy report. Nothing in her apartment, the alleged crime scene, could have caused such damage, which is a key forensic fact that has never been publicly investigated. 2. The Warren Commission did interview witnesses in New Orleans to gather information about the JFK assassination on July 21, 1964, the day Dr. Mary Sherman’s burned and stabbed body was found in her apartment. Was Mary Sherman’s murder somehow connected to the Warren Commission investigation? 3. That J. Edgar Hoover himself ordered the FBI to conduct “no active investigation” of the “murder of Dr. Mary Stutlz Sherman.” The justification was essentially jurisdiction, though other issues were mentioned. Haslam questions the very jurisdiction of the case. 4. That Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison’s association of Clay Shaw with Lee Harvey Oswald was, in fact, accurate, as supported by testimony to the U.S. Congress, which was then withheld from public knowledge for 16 years, and also, more directly, by th
Re: [cia-drugs] kesey, wolfe
No, Kesey wasn't at SRI. He went to Stanford Univ. on a writer's program. I have spoken to Kesey directly about this. His words were hijack. Kesey was no agent. He was uncontrollable. After Woodstock, the bands wanted to do a train tour, the "labels" were fine with that until the bands wanted Kesey as conductor. No money if kesey was aboard, they labels wanted Wavy Gravy. Kesey signed up for drug trials. from his wrestling training he could tell how long a minute was by counting his pulse. He performed after given psychedelics, this feat impressed the doctors so they gave him more and more and more. So he had a pretty good idea of the experience. He felt that it shouldn't be locked up in a hospital and hijacked it for his friends. One thing led to another. The hippies weren't social engineered, they are more of a reaction ... Peace, Kris Millegan On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: were kesey and thomas wolfe cointelpro type "social engineers?" teammates with timothy leary? kesey was at STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, was he not? and thomas wolfe came out of... YALE.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Scroll & Key membership list -- 1842-1980 PDF - 5.6MB
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 15, 2007 11:47:49 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Scroll & Key membership list -- 1842-1980 PDF - 5.6MB http://ctrl.org/boodleboys/index.html Scroll & Key 1842-1980 PDF - 5.6MB
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] A scathing critique of the Central Ineptitude Agency
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 15, 2007 6:46:32 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] A scathing critique of the Central Ineptitude Agency Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/ entertainment/1184108120119680.xml&coll=7 A scathing critique of the Central Ineptitude Agency Sunday, July 15, 2007 ELIZABETH GROSSMAN Special to The Oregonian "H ow do you run a secret intelligence service in an open democracy? How do you serve the truth by lying? How do you spread democracy by deceit?" These questions, posed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner in "Legacy of Ashes," his absorbing, voluminous and scathing history of the Central Intelligence Agency, remain unanswered. As Weiner, a reporter for The New York Times who has covered U.S. intelligence agencies for 20 years, amply illustrates in his troubling book, this dilemma has plagued the CIA since its inception. Filled with fascinating and appalling details -- all on the record and compiled from primary sources -- Weiner's book describes "how the most powerful country in the history of Western civilization has failed to create a first-rate spy service." This account of the Central Intelligence Agency's 60-year history should be read by anyone wishing to understand the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy from the end of World War II through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Created in the wake of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime intelligence agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CIA was troubled from the start. Throughout its history, the agency has been strained by a tug of war between the FBI, the Pentagon and the State Department. From the Cold War, through Korea and Vietnam and into the war on terror, the CIA has struggled to achieve its mission: to gather credible and credibly used intelligence. Repeatedly, it has failed miserably. Established without a clear chain of command, the CIA was initially without official authority, inadequately funded and staffed by men known for excessive alcohol consumption. It would grow to be unwieldy and out of control. Richard Helms described his early days overseeing CIA espionage in Eastern Europe as like being "an apprentice juggler trying to keep an inflated beach ball, an open milk bottle and a loaded machine gun in the air." This metaphor of inept high jinks aptly characterizes the mismanagement of information and human resources that resulted in thousands of lives lost and billions of dollars squandered. Adopting a policy that Weiner calls "deliberate amnesia," those at the helm of the CIA routinely buried any records of its spectacular failures and equally routinely fabricated a gloss of success for one botched covert operation after another. Among the accounts buried for decades -- many only recently released -- were those of fictional intelligence reports, hundreds of operatives captured and killed, and experiments with heroin and LSD to extract confessions. In this history lie sparks of the wars in which we are now embroiled. The CIA-created precursors of the shocking practices used by the Bush administration in Afghanistan and Iraq include extraordinary rendition, secret overseas prisons and the brutal interrogation techniques of Guantanamo. Here, too, are the alliances pursued in the Middle East that have led to the war now in progress and, decades later, the policy that armed Afghan rebels who, with Saudis, formed a force that came to be called al-Qaida. Weiner chronicles the CIA's willful ignorance, arrogance and so- called intelligence measured in quantity rather than quality, and poor judgment with anecdotes that often sound like plots invented by an evilly comic John le Carre. Even the footnotes make for good reading. While unsparing in his criticism of the CIA, Weiner also believes firmly in the United States' need for an intelligence agency. "For the war in which we are now engaged," he concludes soberly, will be won or lost "by virtue of our intelligence." The solutions remain elusive but acknowledging past mistakes seems a place to start. Elizabeth Grossman's most recent book is "High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health." -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collected by Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy News for OSINT purposes - it should be a seriou
[cia-drugs] CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture
http://www.ctka.net/zapata.html A Real News Exclusive CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project January 8, 2007 NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.' But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush's oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency. According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush's original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The '75 memo describes Devine as an "oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush." The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963. "Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil," the memo reads. In fact, early Zapata corporate filings do not seem to reflect Devine's role in the company, suggesting that it may have been covert. Yet other documents do show Thomas Devine on the board of an affiliated Bush company, Zapata Offshore, in January, 1965, more than a year after he had resumed work for the spy agency. It was while Devine was in his new CIA capacity as a commercial cover officer that he accompanied Bush to Vietnam the day after Christmas in 1967, remaining in the country with the newly elected congressman from Texas until January 11, 1968. Whatever information the duo was seeking, they left just in the nick of time. Only three weeks after the two men departed Saigon, the North Vietnamese and their Communist allies launched the Tet offensive with seventy thousand troops pre- positioned in more than 100 cities and towns. While the elder Bush was in Vietnam with Devine, George W. Bush was making contact with representatives of the Texas Air National Guard, using his father's connections to join up with an elite, Houston- based Guard unit - thus avoiding overseas combat service in a war that the Bushes strongly supported. The new revelation about George H.W. Bush's CIA friend and fellow Zapata Offshore board member will surely fuel further speculation that Bush himself had his own associations with the agency. Indeed, Zapata's annual reports portray a bewildering range of global activities, in the Mideast, Asia and the Caribbean (including off Cuba) that seem outsized for the company's modest bottom line. In his autobiography, Bush declares that "I'd come to the CIA with some general knowledge of how it operated' and that his 'overseas contacts as a businessman' justified President Nixon's appointing him as UN ambassador, a decision that at the time was highly controversial. Previously disclosed FBI files include a memo from bureau director J. Edgar Hoover, noting that his organization had given a briefing to two men in the intelligence community on November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The memo refers to one as "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" and the other as "Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency." When Nation magazine contributor Joseph McBride first uncovered this document in 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush, then vice president and seeking the presidency, insisted through a spokesman that he was not the man mentioned in the memo: "I was in Houston, Texas, at the time and involved in the independent oil drilling business. And I was running for the Senate in late '63. I don't have any idea of what he's talking about." The spokesman added, "Must be another George Bush." When McBride approached the CIA at that time, it initially invoked a policy of neither confirming nor denying anyone's involvement with the agency. But it soon took the unusual step of asserting that the correct individual was a George William Bush, a one-time Virginia staffer whom the agency claimed it could no longer locate. But that George Bush, discovered in his office in the Social Security Administration by McBride, noted that he was a low-ranked coast and landing-beach analyst and that he most certainly never received such an FBI briefing. It was perhaps to help lay to rest the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Mexico Declares War on American Journalists Reporting on War with Mexico
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 14, 2007 4:55:09 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mexico Declares War on American Journalists Reporting on War with Mexico Mexican Drug Traffickers Threaten U.S. Journalists By VOA News 14 July 2007 http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-14-voa11.cfm A Texas newspaper has pulled a reporter out of the border city of Laredo following reports that Mexican drug traffickers are planning to kill foreign journalists along the U.S.-Mexico border. The San Antonio Express-News said Friday it did not know if the threat is true, but that it will err on the side of caution. Laredo is across the border from the crime-ridden Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, which has seen numerous killings and shootouts between drug smuggling gangs. Journalists covering the drug- related violence are constantly threatened and attacked. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said in a statement Friday that U.S and Mexican authorities will do everything possible to ensure the safety of American reporters working on both sides of the border. Garza said threats against journalists must be condemned by all who understand the importance of a free press in a democratic society. Separately, Reporters Without Borders urged Mexico's government to stop the violations of press freedom it says are coming from local politicians and criminal gangs. The press freedom group said recent threats and advertising boycotts against journalists and media have taken place in the states of Puebla, Guanajuato and Yucatan. The rights group said the violations are typical of the kind of pressure to which Mexican media are constantly subjected. Reporters Without Borders said it considers Mexico one of the world's most dangerous places for the press, with two journalists killed and two missing since January. Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: More US Government 'Psychic Warfare'
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 13, 2007 7:42:04 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: More US Government 'Psychic Warfare' More US Government'Psychic Warfare'By Michael Goodspeed[EMAIL PROTECTED]7-13-7 Everyone knows that our government has long been interested in obtaining a better understanding of the human mind's psychic potentials. The most famous of their endeavors has been "remote viewing," or the attempt to gather strategically significant data through controlled psychic clairvoyance. More recently, it was widely reported that an Air Force report called for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments. The study's author stated that teleportation "is quite real and can be controlled." But mainstream news media in this country are zealotous pseudoskeptics of the paranormal. A USA Today story on the above report begins with a cynical attempt at wit: "Star Trek fans may be happy to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation." And like virtually all mainstream media reports on paranormal phenomena, the "journalist" defers to the judgment of an orthodox scientist, who sneers at paranormal claims and hurls perjoratives: "'It is in large part crackpot physics,' says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University. This latest revelation of tax-payer funded research into the paranormal incited some curiosity in me. I decided to do some simple word searches of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific & Technical Information Network (STINET), a branch of the DOD, utilizing terms such as "psychic," "electromagnetic," and "psychological warfare." I found some intriguing documents that to my knowledge have not previously been broadly distributed. A particularly telling excerpt can be found in a report by author Col. Dolan M. McKelvy, USAF, entitled "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier," 1988. McKelvy warns of the inherent dangers of a cynical, pseudoskeptical attitude toward psychic phenomena: "Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies..." Below are a handful of documents from DTIC's Public STINET, at http://stinet.dtic.mil: From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA202099 Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number : ADA202099 Title : Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier. Descriptive Note : Research rept., Corporate Author : AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL Personal Author(s) : McKelvy, Dolan M. Report Date : MAY 1988 Pagination or Media Count : 59 Abstract : Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies. The Soviets, on the other hand, take psychic research very seriously at all levels, particularly for its military application. Exploring the mind frontier is essential and the key to successful exploration is a greater psychic awareness. The mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe for exploration, a limitless source of treasures for advancing all mankind, and a serious threat to those who ignore its potential. We must overcome our psychic inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events, and start trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena. We must shed the super secret cloaks and educate our leaders at all levels on the real psi military potentials and threats so we can adequately focus and prioritize national resources. (sdw) Descriptors : *STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY), *PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, AWARENESS, BATTLEFIELDS, HUMANS, LEADERSHIP, MENTAL ABILITY, MILITARY APPLICATIONS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PRISONERS, RESOURCES, MENTAL DISORDERS. Subject Categories : PSYCHOLOGY MILITARY OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND TACTICS Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE >From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0422218 Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number : AD0422218 Title : ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA WHICH RADIATE FROM THE HUMAN BRAIN DURING INTENSE PSYCHOSENSORIAL ACTIVITY FROM DREAMY, HALLUCINATORY AND TELEPSYCHIC STATES, Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS FORT BELVOIR VA Personal Author(s) : Cazzamalli, Ferdinando Report Date : 1943 Pagination or Media Count : 42 Abstract : The experi
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [PEPIS] PEPIS#90 Explosive - The Bilderberg/Al Qaeda Connection
Begin forwarded message: From: Tony Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 13, 2007 4:19:43 AM PDT To: PEPIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PEPIS] PEPIS#90 Explosive - The Bilderberg/Al Qaeda Connection What a lie-cracking weblog. Why not make it your homepage? http://thetruthproject.us/ Bilderberg - Al-Qaeda Connection 4 06 2007 JonesReport | June 2, 2007 | Aaron Dykes See here for original article with lots of pix http://thetruthproject.us/2007/06/04/bilderberg-al-qaeda-connection/ http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=10316 http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2188 As we reported yesterday , an FBI investigation led to charges for two high level Pakistani financiers on multiple counts of conspiracy and fraud. The FBI has announced it is now investigating further links to Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz , as well as Salman Shah , the Prime Minister's financial advisor, Ali Raza , the president of the National Bank of Pakistan and a significant list of other Pakistani financial heads. The Times of India reported that FBI investigators believe the criminal operation may also be tied to allegations of money-laundering operations for Al Qaeda. The alleged insider trading took place on knowledge of the TxU buyout , a largest-ever $45 billion leverage deal brokered by Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Goldman Sachs, two key firms inside the Bilderberg group, who dominate the investment banking world, and are shown to be very closely linked . Credit Suisse First Boston, who served as advisors on the TxU buyout and are also represented annually at Bilderberg, are named in the FBI insider trading case that has so far charged Hafiz Naseem, a Credit Suisse FB investment banker , with criminal counts of conspiracy and fraud. Is there a link between elite Pakistani bankers who brokered the TxU leveraged buyout with Bilderberg firms KKR, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse and the alleged Pakistani role in a laundering scheme for Al- Qaeda? Civil charges have been filed against Ajaz Rahim , the head of investment banking at Faysal Bank in Pakistan, on conspiracy and 25 counts of securities fraud. The high levels of investigation are interesting- given the close relationship with Western banking, as well as the pivotal role Pakistan plays in the intelligence community and the so-called War on Terror . Pakistan is well known for harboring Al Qaeda, though the government does not officially support the terrorist group. It was from Pakistan that former ISI chief General Mahmud Ahmad wired $100,000 to supposed lead-hijacker Mohammad Atta , a known CIA-asset, to fund the 9/11 attacks. Of course, the ISI is largely an extension of the CIA and other western intelligence agencies, and works as base of operations for intelligence in the Middle East. Just north of Pakistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski funded, armed and created the Taliban- headed by bin Laden- to offset expected aggression by Soviet forces into Afghanistan in 1979 while Brzezinski was National Security Adviser to President Carter- proving directly the U.S. link to bin Laden. "I told the President, about six months before the Soviets entered Afghanistan, that in my judgment I thought they would be going into Afghanistan. And I decided then, and I recommended to the President, that we shouldn't be passive...We weren't passive," Brzezinski told CNN during a 1997 interview. Brzezinski, of course, helped David Rockefeller found the Trilateral Commission, and is also involved in the Council on Foreign Relations, both of which bleed over into the Bilderberg group, all of which serve an agenda working towards world government. When Osama bin Laden and his Taliban became a red herring in the War on Terror, they simply moved south to Pakistan, leaving American forces to seize control of Afghanistan (as well as its land, oil, Caspian trade route, and opium crop) while fighting a non-existent enemy. Despite the fact that the phony War on Terror is supposedly fought globally, neither American, Pakistani or U.N. troops have gone after the Taliban forces residing in Pakistan. The reason for this is not Pakistan's duplicity, but that the terrorist group was simply a pretense to control Afghanistan, as its governing forces were perhaps not as accessible as Rick Perry has been in selling out Texas. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has also been accessible to the globalists- he is basically a controlled asset, after all. While he is currently under investigation in the related cases of insider trading over Texas asset deals and Al Qaeda money laundering operations, he was Citigroup's Chairman- a New York-based investment group operating in the top echelon of the financial world. Aziz spent approximately 30 years with the company. Citigroup, obviously well established in the banking web, has several Bilderberg ties, including notorious former chair Walter Bigelow Wriston (who transformed Citigroup into one of the biggest co
[cia-drugs] "Loyal Bushie" US Judge who jailed former Alabama Democratic Gov. involved in drug running w/ Karl Rove
waynemadsenreport.com July 12, 2007 -- "Loyal Bushie" US Judge who jailed former Alabama Democratic Gov. involved in drug running publication date: Jul 12, 2007 Download Print Previous | Next July 12, 2007 -- "Loyal Bushie" US Judge who jailed former Alabama Democratic Gov. involved in drug smuggling. SPECIAL AND EXCLUSIVE WMR REPORT. The former Democratic Governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman, convicted last year on federal corruption charges and ordered directly to prison for over seven years by U.S. Judge Mark Fuller, was the target of a Bush Justice Department intent on taking Siegelman out of circulation because of his knowledge of the involvement of Fuller and former President George H. W. Bush in running cocaine and heroin through Alabama during the Iran-contra years. Yesterday, Siegelman was moved from the federal prison in Atlanta to a federal prison in Texas, where his activities will be strictly controlled by the Bush crime family and its friends. The prison is reportedly in Texarkana, Texas, not far from the Mena Airfield in Arkansas, a major hub of drug smuggling activity during the 1980s. An Alabama attorney, Jill Simpson, has sworn out an affidavit claiming that Siegelman was set up in a coordinated conspiracy by leading GOP politicians and prosecutors in Alabama who were working closely with White House adviser Karl Rove and the Justice Department to "take care" of Siegelman. In her affidavit, Simpson said the conspiracy to imprison Siegelman involved Gov. Bob Riley, Riley's son Rob Riley, Terry Butts, GOP operative Bill Canary, his wife U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, U.S. Attorney Alice H. Martin, U.S. Acting Attorney, Louis Franklin, U.S. Attorney Stephen P. Feaga, former Bob Riley chief of staff Toby Roth, and Karl Rove. Simpson recounted a conversation in which Bill Canary stated that his "girls" would "take care" of Siegelman. Simpson identified the "girls" as his wife, Leura Canary, a U.S. Attorney, and her colleague Alice Martin. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers holding hearings on the prosecutorial, as well as White House and federal judicial misconduct and criminal conspiracy in the case of Siegelman. WMR has obtained records from our colleague John Caylor in Alabama that show Judge Mark E. Fuller, a longtime GOP operative and friend of Rove, was deeply involved in the transport of cocaine and other contraband during the Iran-contra days of the 1980s. Fuller's name shows up as a corporate officer of Doss Aviation of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a company that has been linked by Caylor, a one time Drug Enforcement Administration investigator, to drug smuggling by top GOP official in Alabama and Florida. 1990 Annual Report Reporting Address...: DOSS AVIATION INC 116 S MAIN ST STE 205A PO BOX 838 ENTERPRISE, AL 36331 Agent As Reported..: BARR, BERT SUITE 205A 115 S MAIN ST ENTERPRISE, AL 36330 President Of Corp...: FULLER, MARK E 300 CANDLEWOOD DR ENTERPRISE, AL 36330 Secretary Of Corp...: BARR, HERBERT A 309 WILLOW DR ENTERPRISE, AL 36330 Alabama Business..: GOVT CONTRACTING 116 S MAIN ST STE 205A ENTERPRISE, AL 36330 General Business..: GOVT CONTRACTING PO BOX 1393 HWY 59 N SHEPHERD, TX 77371 Telephone Number: 205-347-2626 Processed By Revenue: 03-29-1990 Siegelman served as Alabama's Secretary of State from 1979 to 1987 and as Attorney General from 1987 to 1991. In his roles of registering corporations in Alabama and overseeing criminal investigations by the state, Siegelman had obtained evidence linking Fuller, Bush, and other top Alabama and Florida Republicans to drug trafficking and the beginning of election manipulation in Alabama favoring the GOP. Caylor claims that Mark E. Fuller, listed as Doss official in Montgomery, is the same person as Mark J. Fuller of Enterprise. Judge Mark Fuller's Enterprise residence was 10 Indigo Place. Bert Barr, listed as Doss' registered agent, was Fuller's law firm partner in Enterprise. Fuller also inherited Cargo International, another drug running firm, from Wentworth. Siegelman ran for Governor to go after the GOP mobsters who had bought their way into practically every state office, including the commissions that oversee and regulate dog and horse tracks, real estate, trucking, and business practices. What we have discovered is that Judge Fuller inherited an extensive aircraft and money laundering network from one Clifford Wentworth who was busted for drug trafficking in the Drug Enforcement Administration's 1981-1984 Operation Sunburn in 1984. In a deal worked out between then-Vice President
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 12, 2007 2:37:17 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=6622933 Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad By Alissa J. Rubin Wednesday, July 11, 2007 BAGHDAD: In an astonishing heist, guards at a bank here made off with more than a quarter-billion dollars on Wednesday, according to an official at the Interior Ministry. The robbery, of $282 million from the Dar Es Salaam bank, a private financial institution, raised more questions than it answered, and officials were tight-lipped about the crime. The local police said two guards engineered the robbery, but an official at the Interior Ministry said three guards were involved. Both confirmed that the stolen money was in American dollars, not Iraqi dinars. It was unclear why the bank had that much money on hand in dollars, or how the robbers managed to move such a large amount without being detected. Several officials speculated that the robbers had connections to the militias, because it would be difficult for them to move without being searched through many checkpoints in Baghdad. Otherwise on Wednesday, there was only scattered violence in the city, although 18 bodies were found by the police in different neighborhoods, signaling that sectarian killing had not ebbed. In a village just north of Falluja, however, extremists in two vehicles, possibly in an act of revenge, forced the residents of a house inside, locked the doors and blew up the building. Eleven people died, according to a report by United States marines who operate in the area. The house is owned by a member of the local provincial security forces, which are fighting Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni Arab insurgent group that includes some foreigners. In Mosul, an American helicopter returned fire after being shot at, but hit civilians, according to Brigadier General Abd al-Kareem Khalaf Juboori of the Mosul police. Two people were killed and 14 wounded, including two children. The killing continued in Diyala Province, where American operations are under way to try to reduce the influence of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Three bodies were found with signs of torture near the town of Khalis; an army checkpoint was attacked with mortars; a local police station was attacked; and a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi Army soldier and wounded four others in Khan Beni Sa'ad, about 50 miles from Baghdad. Iraqi solders at a checkpoint near the Syrian border seized a truck carrying 200 suicide vests. While the vests had not yet been loaded with explosives, a car filled with explosives was found nearby. The police suspect that the two were traveling together, said Major General Abdul Kareem Khalaf, an official at the checkpoint. The government announced several measures to help repair the damage from the enormous truck bomb earlier this week in Amirli in northern Diyala Province. Families who lost one or more relatives will receive a payout of $2,400, and families that had a relative wounded will be awarded $800, said Abbas al-Bayati, a member of Parliament designated by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to oversee the area's reconstruction. Maliki also allocated $10 million to rebuild the remote village. The Ministry of Trade announced it had begun a coordinated effort with the Defense and Interior Ministries to ship food to areas that insurgents had cut off, and was making Amirli a special priority, along with Rutba in western Iraq and Tal Afar in the north near Mosul. The German Foreign Ministry announced the release of Hannelore Krause, who had been held hostage for 155 days by Iraqi insurgents calling themselves the Arrows of Righteousness. But her son, who is 20, was still being held, and in an interview on the Arabiya satellite television network she asked the German government to comply with the kidnappers' demands that her country withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. "If they do not withdraw, they will slaughter my son," she said. Meanwhile, the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said Wednesday that the number of refugees worldwide increased by almost two million in 2006, pushing the total to nearly 14 million, the highest level since 2001, The Associated Press reported. Iraqis accounted for more than a third of the increase. The committee, a nongovernmental group in Washington, said that of the 790,000 people who left Iraq last year, 449,000 went to Syria and 250,000 to Jordan. About 80,000 went to Egypt and 202 to the United States. Cleric Flees After Death Threats BAGHDAD, July 11 (AP) - An Anglican vicar who may have received a cryptic warning about the recent failed ca
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Buns Include Cardboard
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 12, 2007 2:37:17 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Buns Include Cardboard Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Beijing Steam Buns Include Cardboard http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6774425,00.html Thursday July 12, 2007 10:01 AM BEIJING (AP) - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation. Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate. China Central Television's undercover investigation features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns, called baozi, explaining the contents of the product sold in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district. The hidden camera follows the man, whose face is not shown, into a ramshackle building where steamers are filled with the fluffy white buns, traditionally stuffed with minced pork. The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground. ``What's in the recipe?'' the reporter asks. ``Six to four,'' the man says. ``You mean 60 percent cardboard? What is the other 40 percent?'' asks the reporter. ``Fatty meat,'' the man replies. The bun maker and his assistants then give a demonstration on how the product is made. Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda - a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap - then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in. Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on-screen. The reporter takes a bite. ``This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste,'' he says. ``Can other people taste the difference?'' ``Most people can't. It fools the average person,'' the maker says. ``I don't eat them myself.'' The police eventually show up and shut down the operation. Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: National News Conference: New Orleans, Friday, July 20
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:33 AM Subject: National News Conference: New Orleans, Friday, July 20 Release Date 7/11/07 National News Conference: New Orleans Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam • The public was never told the truth about the Dr. Mary Sherman murder. • J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to conduct “no active investigation” into the murder. • The Warren Commission was in New Orleans interviewing people of interest the day the doctor's burned and stabbed body was found. • Eyewitness confirms New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's critical assertion of a Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald acquaintance. • DA Garrison did not comprehend the implications of the underground medical laboratory that he had uncovered. Friday, July 20, 2007 11:00 -11:45 a.m. The Whitney Hotel Commerce Room 610 Poydras St 504 581-4222 Contact: Kris Millegan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1 800 556 2012 for interviews & additional info July 17-21 — Hotel Whitney 504 581 4222 http://www.DrMarysMonkey.com / http://www.TheMonkeyVirus.com/ PRESS CONFERENCE — DR. MARY'S MONKEY: HOTTEST COLD CASE IN AMERICA The sensational unsolved murder of a prominent New Orleans doctor, cancer-causing monkey viruses, governmental secrecy and cover-ups, along with intrigues swirling around the assassination of President Kennedy, are some of the elements of a controversial new book from TrineDay, Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward Haslam. TrineDay is presenting the author to the national press in New Orleans on the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dr. Mary Sherman, because Mr. Haslam’s personal investigation of that horrific cold- case murder in that city has led him to information that should be known by all Americans — especially those of the boomer generation. Her grisly killing was front-page news in the two city dailies for over a week, and then the coverage suddenly stopped. The hidden backdrop of the murder was Dr. Sherman’s involvement in top-secret government research, and, as is now becoming more widely known, the fact that the polio vaccine inoculated into millions of schoolchildren between 1954 and 1963 had been unwittingly contaminated with dangerous monkey viruses. At the time, some brave souls in the medical research community (who soon lost their jobs) predicted this would give rise to soft-tissue cancer rates far exceeding those of previous generations … a prediction that has sadly come true. Dr. Sherman had been enlisted in a secret effort attempting to develop new vaccines, using radiation from a linear particle accelerator, hopefully heading off that impending epidemic. By the time of her death at the height of the Cold War, these efforts had also been directed toward biological weapons development. When Haslam first explored these subjects in his 1998 book, Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus, many questioned his speculations. Now, Dr. Mary’s Monkey includes further revelations showing him to have been, tragically, correct. Most crucially, an actual participant in the research has stepped forward. As Dr. Sherman’s lab assistant in the summer of 1963, a young woman from Florida was drawn into a network linking prominent New Orleans physician Alton Ochsner with figures who have been the focus of investigations into the JFK assassination, including David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald. She has now come forward, to corroborate—and illuminate—Haslam’s account. Documentation of her narrative, and of other historical “anomalies,” will be provided at the press conference: 1. That the public was never told the truth about the Mary Sherman murder. Concealed was the fact that Dr. Sherman’s right arm and the right side of her rib cage were completely “missing” with nothing left but a “charred fragment.” This was revealed in a carefully guarded Orleans Parish autopsy report. Nothing in her apartment, the alleged crime scene, could have caused such damage, which is a key forensic fact that has never been publicly investigated. 2. The Warren Commission did interview witnesses in New Orleans to gather information about the JFK assassination on July 21, 1964, the day Dr. Mary Sherman’s burned and stabbed body was found in her apartment. Was Mary Sherman’s murder somehow connected to the Warren Commission investigation? 3. That J. Edgar Hoover himself ordered the FBI to conduct “no active investigation” of the “murder of Dr. Mary Stutlz Sherman.” The justification was essentially jurisdiction, though other issues were mentioned. Haslam questions the very jurisdiction of the case. 4. That Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison’s association of Clay Shaw with Lee Harvey Oswald was, in fact, accurate, as supported by testimony to the U.S. Congress, which was then withheld from public knowledge for 16 years, and also, more directly, by the new witness that Haslam presents. 5. That Jim Garrison did not understand the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Stink-Finger-Pointing
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 9, 2007 8:27:27 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stink-Finger-Pointing If we really MEANT it when we vowed to stop at nothing to punish the people behind Al-Qaeda, George Bush (father & son), Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld would all be wearing hoods and sporting electrodes on their testicles in a secret CIA torture chamber in Eastern Europe ... Al Qaeda in Iraq: Bush's Creation by Bill Gallagher Global Research, July 7, 2007 niagarafallsreporter.com http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6240 President George W. Bush's political capital is about as low as it can go, with only dead-end Bushists clinging to his failed regime. The erosion of support, however, can actually make the madman even more isolated from reality, arrogant and impetuous. The final 18 months of his presidency will be an increasingly dangerous time for the world. Bush is wrapping himself in his messianic blanket, still bound to convince the infidels at home and abroad that he is a gifted visionary who can reshape the Middle East. Vice President Dick Cheney makes Dr. Strangelove seem like Gandhi. Cheney operates above the Congress, the Constitution, the law and human decency -- at times, above the presidency. He does as he pleases and is answerable to no one. Bush is not nearly clever enough to sort through or keep up with Cheney's Machiavellian machinations. The president is so lazy and incurious, he's more than willing to let Cheney do his dirty work. Whether it is approving torture, illegal wiretapping, concentration camps and kidnappings, or coddling corporate polluters, Cheney is ready to nod OK. The poll numbers are encouraging, as Americans see through the lies and conclude -- tragically, too late -- what a mess we are in. The percentage of Americans who believe the war in Iraq was a mistake is at an all-time high, as is the percentage of those who say continued U.S. military action there is not morally justified. A CBS/New York Times poll shows 23 percent of Americans believe the war is going well, 76 percent say the war is going "badly." The critical question politicians carefully watch: "Do you believe the country is heading in the right direction?" The nation is on the wrong track, according to 72 percent of respondents. That's the highest number since the poll started asking that question in 1983. The numbers show people are generally gaining a better understanding of the disastrous course our nation is on and the serial failures of the Bush administration. There are exceptions, which seem baffling at first but find explanation in the administration's talking points -- invariably lies and distortions -- dutifully echoed in the mainstream media. A "Newsweek" magazine poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International posed the question, "Do you think Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?" A staggering 41 percent answered yes. That's actually a 5 percentage point increase over the same question asked in 2004. It's hard to image that 4 out of 10 Americans could be that uninformed or flat-out stupid. Another poll shows 3 out of 10 Americans still approve of Bush's job performance and his handling of the war in Iraq. The growth in the number of sorry souls buying the Saddam-Sept. 11 lie may be the result of the word games the White House and Pentagon use to sell the failed surge and the futile occupation of Iraq. When people hear "al-Qaeda," it's natural that they think of Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks. The insurgency, sectarian violence and opposition to the U.S. occupation in Iraq are not about fighting al-Qaeda, but that's how Bush's fiasco there is being branded. McClatchy Newspapers' Baghdad correspondent Mike Drummond exposed the sinister rhetorical shift, noting in a recent report, "U.S. forces continue to battle Shiite militia in the south, as well as Shiite militia and Sunni insurgents in Baghdad. Yet America's most wanted enemy at the moment is Sunni al-Qaeda in Iraq. The Bush administration's recent shift toward calling the enemy in Iraq 'al- Qaeda' rather than an insurgency may reflect the difficulty in maintaining support for the war at home more than it does the nature of the enemy in Iraq." In a major speech at the National War College last week, Bush mentioned al-Qaeda 27 times. McClatchy's Jonathan Landley reports, "Bush called al-Qaeda in Iraq the perpetrator of the worst violence racking that country and said it was the same group that carried out the 9/11 attacks." Pure crap. Al-Qaeda has become a generic name, in many cases a self- proclaimed label for foes of the U.S. invasion. Since some of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: No Use Crying Over Spilled Blood
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 9, 2007 8:00:03 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: No Use Crying Over Spilled BloodBush considers gradual Iraq withdrawalBy Alex Spillius, Washington Correspondent Last Updated: 12:45pm BST 09/07/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/09/wbush109.xml George W Bush is considering a gradual withdrawal of troops from Iraq in order to prevent further desertions by members of the Republican party, it has been reported. George W Bush sheds a tear during a ceremony in honour of a dead US soldierGeorge HW Bush crying over Dubya's legacy, which deprived Jeb ("the SMART one") of any chance of becoming President Bush III. "Thanks to him, my own son," he sobbed, "we'll never work in this town again." Officials and advisors to the US president are alarmed that political support for his war strategy among senators belonging to Mr Bush’s party is "collapsing around them", according to the New York Times. The president and his aides had thought they could wait to begin discussions about any change in strategy until after Sept 15, when the US commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, and US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, are due to present a highly anticipated report on Iraq's security and political progress. But Mr Bush's aides have acknowledged he may well be forced to present a compromise plan before the report is issued. The Senate will this week begin what promises to be a contentious debate on the war's future, while the administration will deliver an interim report on Iraq to Congress by July 15. Over the past few day four Republican senators have called for a rethink on the war. Though not advocating a complete withdrawal, most contend that Mr Bush's 'surge' strategy that has sent 38,000 reinforcements has not worked. They favour a gradual pull-out that would leave troops to perform anti-terror and consultative roles. That strategy was proposed by the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group late last year, but the president rejected it. The New York Times said Robert Gates, the defence secretary, has been quietly pressing for halving the number of brigades patrolling the most violent sections of Baghdad and surrounding provinces by early next year. Officials describe Stephen Hadley, the national security advisor, and Mr Bush's longtime strategist Karl Rove as concerned the loss of Republicans could accelerate this week. That would boost the Democrats, who control Congress and have been pushing the president to set a deadline for withdrawal. -- Iraqis warn of consequences of U.S. troop drawdown By Waleed Ibrahim ReutersBAGHDADhttp://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3358005 After the New York Times said debate was growing inside the White House over a gradual drawdown, Iraqi officials warned that an early withdrawal of U.S. troops could tip the country into all-out civil war . The comments followed a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq over the weekend that killed 250 people. The carnage prompted Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to say Iraqis had the right to take up arms to defend themselves.Citing administration officials and consultants, the New York Times said these officials feared the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy were "collapsing around them."It said debate was intensifying over whether Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty areas.More than 330 American soldiers were killed in Iraq during the April-June quarter, making it the deadliest three months for U.S. troops since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Overall, 3,606 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have died.Iraqi officials warned of a security vacuum if some of the 157,000 American troops in Iraq withdrew prematurely, saying the country's own security forces were not ready."We in Iraq believe, not just the government, but all political parties, that the presence of these forces is necessary to prevent increasing violence and to stop the country sliding into civil war," Sadiq al-Rikabi, a senior adviser to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told Reuters.Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of a Sunni Arab party, said those pushing for a pullout did not understand how fragile Iraq was."Any withdrawal of American forces, whether it's partial or total, would lead to major chaos," Dulaimi said.Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters a week ago that Iraq would disintegrate if U.S. troops left too soon.The mounting pressure on Bush from within his Republican Party comes only weeks after the last of the 28,000 troop reinforcements he sent to Iraq for a major security crackdown arrived in the country.The push, launched in February,
Re: [cia-drugs] On Radio w/ Cele Castillo now ...
thanks, Peace, K On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: > he's on weekly. archived too. > www.wtprn.com > > > > - Original Message - > From: "RoadsEnd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Cia-drugs Cia-drugs" > Cc: "RoadsEnd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:12 PM > Subject: [cia-drugs] On Radio w/ Cele Castillo now ... > > >> Sorry, thought was next week. >> >> No matte. >> >> Cele's got a show >> >> google >> >> Peace, >> K >> >> >> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ >> >> Please let us stay on topic and be civil. >> >> OM >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/890 - Release Date: >> 7/7/2007 >> 3:26 PM >> >> > > > > Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ > > Please let us stay on topic and be civil. > > OM > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
[cia-drugs] On Radio w/ Cele Castillo now ...
Sorry, thought was next week. No matte. Cele's got a show google Peace, K
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/
AR2007070601993.html?nav=rss_print/outlook
Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.
By R.J. Hillhouse
Sunday, July 8, 2007; B05
Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.
The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do
with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth
private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations
today.
Surprised? No wonder. In April, Director of National Intelligence Mike
McConnell was poised to publicize a year-long examination of
outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But the report was
inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national secret.
What McConnell doesn't want you to know is that the private spy
industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has
penetrated the CIA and is running the show.
Over the past five years (some say almost a decade), there has been a
revolution in the intelligence community toward wide-scale
outsourcing. Private companies now perform key intelligence-agency
functions, to the tune, I'm told, of more than $42 billion a year.
Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50 percent of the
National Clandestine Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and soul of
the CIA -- has been outsourced to private firms such as Abraxas, Booz
Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
These firms recruit spies, create non-official cover identities and
control the movements of CIA case officers. They also provide case
officers and watch officers at crisis centers and regional desk
officers who control clandestine operations worldwide. As the Los
Angeles Times first reported last October, more than half the
workforce in two key CIA stations in the fight against terrorism --
Baghdad and Islamabad, Pakistan -- is made up of industrial
contractors, or "green badgers," in CIA parlance.
Intelligence insiders say that entire branches of the NCS have been
outsourced to private industry. These branches are still managed by
U.S. government employees ("blue badgers") who are accountable to the
agency's chain of command. But beneath them, insiders say, is a
supervisory structure that's controlled entirely by contractors; in
some cases, green badgers are managing green badgers from other
corporations.
Sensing problems -- and possibly fearing congressional action -- the
CIA recently conducted a hasty review of all of its job
classifications to determine which perform "essential government
functions" that should not be outsourced. But it's highly doubtful
that such a short-term exercise can comprehensively identify the
proper "blue/green" mix, especially because contractors' work
statements have long been carefully formulated to blur the distinction
between approvable and debatable functions.
Although the contracting system is Byzantine, there's no question that
the private sector delivers high-quality professional intelligence
services. Outsourcing has provided solutions to personnel-management
problems that have always plagued the CIA's operations side. Rather
than tying agents up in the kind of office politics that government
employees have to engage in to advance their careers, outsourcing
permits them to focus on what they do best, which boosts morale and
performance. Privatization also immediately increased the number of
trained, experienced agents in the field after the terrorist attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.
Even though wide-scale outsourcing may not immediately endanger
national security, it's worrisome. The contractors in charge of
espionage are still chiefly CIA alumni who have absorbed its public
service values. But as the center of gravity shifts from the public
sector to the private, more than one independent intelligence firm has
developed plans to "raise" succeeding generations of officers within
its own training systems. These corporate-grown agents will be
inculcated with corporate values and ethics, not those of public
service.
And the current piecemeal system has introduced some vulnerabilities.
Historically, the system offered members of the intelligence community
the kind of stability that ensured that they would keep its secrets.
That dynamic is now being eroded. Contracts come and go. So do
workforces. The spies of the past came of age professionally in a
strong extended family, but the spies of the future will be more like
children raised in multiple foster homes -- at risk.
Today, when Booz Allen Hamilton loses a contract to SAIC, people rush
from one to the other in a game of musical chairs, with not enough
chairs for all the workers who possess both the highest security
clearances and expertise in the art of espionage. Some inevitably lose
out. Any good counterintelligence
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Pentagon Understates War Casualties, Says Veterans Group -- by quite a lot
Begin forwarded message:From: Ronni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 7, 2007 10:45:09 PM PDTTo: Friends in Service to Truth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: FW: Pentagon Understates War Casualties, Says Veterans Group -- by quite a lot This is about how the Bush regime counts votes... RB God's Spirit is moving across America looking for Faith ... Pentagon Understates War Casualties, Says Veterans Group By Joel Wendland http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5530/1/32/click here for related stories: Democracy matters 7-05-07, 10:43 amThe Pentagon is intentionally underreporting US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recent report by veterans' advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense. The Pentagon's most recent public reports, which can be found in the media, say that 3,587 US troops have been killed and 26,350 have been wounded in Iraq. In Afghanistan, says the Pentagon, 403 US troops have been killed since 2001, and 1,342 have been wounded. Thus, the Pentagon's public accounting gives the impression that there have been less than 32,000 casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. But documents obtained by Veterans for Common Sense through Freedom of Information Act requests reveal the number of casualties to be much higher. According to these documents, as of June 30, 2007, US casualties in Afghanistan totaled closer to 7,500 (killed, wounded, injured, and medically evacuated). In Iraq, the total is almost 58,000. Altogether, the report shows that US casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, between 2001 and June 30, 2007, total 65,278. There is a difference between the Pentagon's publicized casualty reports and reality of almost 34,000. In the month of June alone, despite a surge ordered by President Bush last January to crack down on the civil war in Iraq, total US casualties mounted to over 1,660 killed, wounded, and medically evacuated. Veterans for Common Sense attributes the discrepancy to the Pentagon's refusal to include medically evacuated troops for injuries and illnesses in its "wounded" reports. The purpose of this new distinction is to lower the numbers in Pentagon casualties reports in order to give the impression that "progress" in the war is being made and that harm to US forces inflicted in the war zone is far lower than reality, states Veterans for Common Sense. These revelations come on the heels of another recent Veterans for Common Sense report indicating that about 180,000 war veterans have filed disability claims with the Department of Veterans' Affairs since 2001. --Joel Wendland can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: (2) Don't Point Fingers, You Might Poke [Israel's] Eye Out
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 7, 2007 1:29:29 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (2) Don't Point Fingers, You Might Poke [Israel's] Eye Out Saturday, July 07, 2007 Getting Rich http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/07/getting-rich.html Eleanor Clift (accessed by way of Josh Marshall) has offered the wisest "take" on Libby. Remember when we all expected Scooter to sing a song implicating Cheney and/or Rove? Instead, his lawyers barely put up a defense. Libby must have known all along that he would never do one day behind bars. The President's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence has caused W's defenders to dredge up Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. We have already taken one retrospective look at the Rich affair (scroll down or go here), and we have noted a delicious irony: Clinton's thinking was swayed, in part, by Rich's lawyer -- Scooter Libby. Sofla, one of our readers, offered a comment that deserves wider attention, hence this post. She places the Rich affair in context -- and that context has a name: Rudolph Giuliani. Two other companies, large oil concerns with names you know, were charged with doing the same thing as Marc Rich's company did. Their offenses were treated as technical tax code violations, and therefore civil matters, not crimes at all; they paid the back taxes and some fines, and that was it. In the case of Marc Rich, however, a politically ambitious NY/ southern district US Attorney decided he would invent a novel application of the RICO laws in a civil matter as had never been done before, and which results devolved into such a travesty of justice that now DOJ guidelines for prosecutors forbid them from similarly pursuing civil RICO charges against anybody. (That US Attorney? One Rudy Giuliani, and this provides an excellent window into his bullying character and why he should never be allowed near the Oval Office). Rich did not 'flee' the country as a fugitive from indictment-- he maintained a residence and business HQ in Switzerland at all times, and left the country to return there as per his normal travel patterns before any indictments were returned. (Note, this was a civil matter involving no criminal indictments at all for the other two companies). Rich wasn't additionally charged with being a fugitive, because the terms of that charge didn't apply to his situation because it was as described above, despite how these terms are loosely thrown around to describe what he did. The Marc Rich case went through all the normal procedural hurdles for presidential pardons, including review by the special DOJ pardon section, seeking the comments pro or con of the original prosecutor, and etc. The complete 'regular order' of things was honored, including, most importantly perhaps, that the aggrieved party actually submit a pardon request, but all the rest of it as well. Additionally, Marc Rich's company PAID IN FULL ALL THE TAXES OWED, AND THE FINES, amounting to several hundred million dollars. (To be sure, normally, such a petitioner could not remain 'at large,' sought by authorities, and must instead have surrendered himself to the authorities. And normally, the president would require a positive recommendation from the DOJ pardon officer and whatever other panels he consulted, and in Rich's case, those parties recommended no pardon. But the situation was unique, unprecedented, and the DOJ and the prosecutor were loathe to admit they'd badly abused their authority in the first place to get these indictments, although that was exactly what they had done.) But the Libby case featured no such formalities whatsoever. Libby didn't apply for any presidential relief. He hadn't begun serving his time, nor cease pursuing his appeals. He didn't repent or express remorse. He didn't pledge on-going cooperation with the prosecutor, still less deliver on such a proffer. And Bush didn't go through ANY DOJ process, ask ANY official opinion of anyone -- he simply trashed the system for this, and rashly substituted his opinion for any due process as it exists in DOJ guidelines. In assuring that Libby served less time than the original time Paris Hilton did before she was prematurely released, Bush appears to be saying that ANY JAIL TIME more than ZERO was excessive, and his slap-dash lightening quick 'review' of this matter has more the appearance of a heavy-handed obstruction of justice, accessory after the fact kind of thing, rather than a righting of any injustice. I would add this. It is well known that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak begged Bill Clinton to pardon Rich. It is also well-known that Rich forged ties with Iran's leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, at a time when Khomeini was considered by America to be public enemy number one. Ri
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Rewritiing History with "Merchandizing" -- Putting a Happy Face on Pure Evil
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Subject: Rewritiing History with "Merchandizing" -- Putting a Happy
Face on Pure Evil
"Political theatre," you gotta love it ... Good ol' "super-patriot"
Charlie Wilson (played by lovable Tom Hanks) -- in reality a
defender of the brutal Somoza regime in Nicaragua and doubtless a
sub-rosa moneybags in the Iran-Contra scandal -- and his seductive
partner in "freedom-fighting," Joanne Herring (the winsome Julia
Roberts) -- in actuality a multiply-facelifted "steel magnolia" and
serial widow of Big Oilmen, whose "toga parties" for ultra-rich
rightwing Texans toasted the likes of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos,
the Shah of Iran, and corrupt Middle Eastern dictators ...
Conspicuously absent from the cast lined up by Hollywood's
revisionist propaganda mill, are the real players like Herring-pal
James Baker (global fixer for Big Oil), Dick Cheney, George HW Bush
(CIA head when Wilson arrived), Bill Casey, Ollie North, Mossad
spies, and the entire Iran-Contra crew.
Keep in mind the fact that "Charlie Wilson's War" (in which Charlie
himself made millions that got stuffed into Swiss banks) was just
ONE battle in a larger war that generated "black budget" profits
from drug- and arms-smuggling between Israel and Iran, Israel and
Central America, Israel (via the Russian-Jewish Mafia) and the
collapsing Soviet Union, and even between South America and Europe
(P-2 Lodge, Vatican Bank) -- profits that bankrolled neocon
Fascism's "strategy of terror" worldwide. The proceeds were
laundered by the BCCI, a "trust fund" originally used to finance
"Al Qaeda" but also the preferred bank of Bush's "rogue CIA" cum
global crime org, the "Octopus."
The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History
By Chalmers Johnson
The History News Network
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/19/1024
09 June 2003
The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record
of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever undertook.
From the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953 through the
Bay of Pigs, the failed attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro of
Cuba and Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo, the Phoenix
Program in Vietnam, the "secret war" in Laos, aid to the Greek
colonels who seized power in 1967, the 1973 killing of Salvador
Allende in Chile and Ronald Reagan's Iran-contra war against
Nicaragua, there is not a single instance in which the agency's
activities did not prove acutely embarrassing to the United States.
The CIA continues to get away with this primarily because its
budget and operations have always been secret and Congress is
normally too indifferent to its constitutional functions to rein in
a rogue bureaucracy. Therefore the tale of a purported CIA success
story should be of some interest.
According to the author of the newly released Charlie Wilson's
War, the exception to CIA incompetence was the arming between 1979
and 1988 of thousands of Afghan moujahedeen ("freedom fighters").
The agency flooded Afghanistan with an astonishing array of
extremely dangerous weapons and "unapologetically mov[ed] to equip
and train cadres of high tech holy warriors in the art of waging a
war of urban terror against a modern superpower," in this case, the
USSR.
The author of this glowing account, George Crile, is a veteran
producer for the CBS television news show "60 Minutes" and an
exuberant Tom Clancy-type enthusiast for the Afghan caper. He
argues that the U.S. clandestine involvement in Afghanistan was
"the largest and most successful CIA operation in history" and "the
one morally unambiguous crusade of our time." He adds that "there
was nothing so romantic and exciting as this war against the Evil
Empire." Crile's sole measure of success is the number of Soviet
soldiers killed (about 15,000), which undermined Soviet morale and
contributed to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the period
from 1989 to 1991. That's the successful part.
However, he never mentions that the "tens of thousands of
fanatical Muslim fundamentalists" the CIA armed are some of the
same people who in 1996 killed 19 American airmen at Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia; bombed our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; blew a
hole in the side of the U.S. destroyer Cole in Aden harbor in 2000;
and on Sept. 11, 2001, flew hijacked airliners into New York's
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Today, the world awaits what
is almost certain to happen soon at some airport -- a terrorist
firing a U.S. Stinger low-level surface-to-air missile
(manufactured at one time by General Dynamics in Rancho Cucamonga)
into an American jumbo jet. The CIA supplied thousands of them to
the moujahedeen and trained them to be experts in their
[cia-drugs] Fwd: As Halliburton Goes, So Goes the World -- Goodbye USA, Hello Persian Gulf
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 6, 2007 3:11:57 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: As Halliburton Goes, So Goes the World -- Goodbye USA, Hello Persian Gulf Emirates aims to redraw world aviation map by Leslie Wayne Published: July 5, 2007http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/05/ business/emirates.php PARIS: The chairman of Emirates Airlines -- Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum of the ruling family of Dubai -- has grand ambitions, and a bankroll to match. He has a huge pot of money to spend, $82 billion from his government, the airline and other financiers. He loves large planes and has ordered 55 super-jumbo A380s to create the biggest fleet of these double-decker planes in the world. And he wants to make Dubai, a sheikhdom by the sea, the busiest airport in the world, overtaking London, New York, and Singapore. Some may consider Maktoum's goals overreaching, but he has delivered so far on all his promises. He built Emirates Airlines from a two-plane operation, started with $10 million in 1985, into one of the world's largest international carriers, with 105 planes. Emirates is the world's fastest-growing airline -- it will take delivery of one new Boeing or Airbus plane a month for the next five years -- and Maktoum said he would like to see it become, some day, the world's biggest. "We've never seen anything like it before," said Robert Cullemore, a consultant at Aviation Economics, a London-based aerospace advisory firm. "We've never seen growth at this rate." Of course, success for Maktoum is not just a simple matter of buying airplanes. He must still compete with well-established carriers plying many of the same routes as Emirates, attract enough passengers to fill his vast fleet profitably and hope that the economies of the Middle East, including Dubai, and emerging markets in Asia and the Indian subcontinent, continue to expand to justify the Emirates' massive investment. But at the recent Paris Air Show, Maktoum seemed unfazed by those concerns. He met with the Louis Gallois, the Airbus chief executive, to sign a deal that added eight more A380s, with a list price of $2.6 billion, to his fleet. He held a news conference to tout Dubai's plan to spend $82 billion over the next decade on aviation, including building a new $33 billion Dubai World Central International Airport, which is to have six runways and to become the world's largest airport. "What we are witnessing today," Maktoum said at the time, "is the rewriting of the world's aviation history and the beginning of a new era of global aviation." Being oil-rich helps. Emirates Airlines, said Howard Rubel, an aerospace analyst with Jefferies and Company, "has got cash, clout and cache." "What's surprising is the rapid emergence of the Emirates as a player," Rubel added. "The economies of the Middle East are the fastest growing in the world. So what do they do? They buy planes. But five years ago it was like, 'Who are these guys?' " Aviation has helped transform Dubai, which was a desert trading post with hardly a paved road just 50 years ago, from being fly- over country to a place where people are flying in. About 25.6 million passengers landed there last year. The plan to develop Dubai was created by Maktoum's late older brother and is now overseen by the current ruler, Maktoum's nephew, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. Once a pearl-diving outpost that grew rich with oil revenues in the 1970s and 1980s, modern Dubai seems built on hyperbole. Oil revenues have been declining as a percentage of Dubai's economy prepares for the day that its reserves dwindle. Today, oil represents only 5 percent of Dubai's economy, which increasingly relies on revenue from superluxurious hotels, a growing financial center and on serving as the regional headquarters for global brands. For instance, Halliburton, the oil services company, is moving its headquarters from Houston to Dubai, and such American companies as Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Microsoft and Cisco are also setting up offices. Dubai is on a $365 billion building spree, and more development means more flights for the carrier. Construction projects include the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, and the Mall of Arabia, the world's largest shopping mall. The 1,500-square-mile, or almost 4000-square-kilometer, emirate is also building "Dubailand" - a leisure park bigger than Monaco - and the Dubai Waterfront, a development of condos and stores that will be the size of Barbados. At the center of this development spree is the Maktoum family and Maktoum, 49, who exudes a quiet confidence. In an interview at the luxurious Bristol Hotel here, where he was about to host a reception, Maktoum said that "when we started talking about expanding our
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Signs of the Times
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http://rigint.blogspot.com/
>>Much of corporate media, including "alternative" corporate media,
became co-conspirators after the fact simply by habit, because they
inhabit and thrive within that outer circle. To acknowledge the
possibility of a high crime of the magnitude of Kennedy's
assassination or 9/11 would be an invitation, not to gentle reform,
but to revolution. And institutional power sends out such
invitations only when it sees how it can come out on top again.<<
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Signs of the Times
Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign.
A sign is everything which can be taken as significantly
substituting for something else...thus semiotics is in principle
the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to
lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it
cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to
tell" at all. - Umberto Eco, Theory of Semiotics
I think the only people entitled to be shocked by the commuting of
Scooter Libby's sentence are those who were shocked that Libby was
sentenced in the first place. Or rather, that it was a second-tier
player like Libby and not Rove or Cheney who appeared trussed and
basted as the suckling pig of Democrats' scandalously disappointing
Fitzmas. It's those constantly incredulous types who deserve the
saucepan eyes at Libby's predictable catch and release.
Even so, the Internet reaction is as rich as it is predictable, and
ineffectual. Instead of America's streets, America's chatrooms are
filled, because its citizens have been given them for the
appearance of a commons, and clatter with indignant typing. But 10
million people posting We're not gonna take it anymore! isn't a
revolution. It isn't even a Twisted Sister song.
That's the bad news. The good news is it's a Leonard Cohen song.
What hath Bush wrought? If nothing else, he's made semiotics
everybody's business, whether everybody realizes it or not. Under
the Bush years, the signs by which Americans and much of the
Western world have lived have become so evidently estranged from
what they allegedly signify that they now suggest little more than
the lies told by Power to maintain itself. "Freedom," "democracy,"
"justice": Everybody knows. Among other things, Bush is the
Deconstruction President.
In The Trickster and the Paranormal, George Hansen has this to say:
It is commonly assumed that there is a simple, objective
correspondence between the signifier and the signified even thought
they are separate entities. It is assumed that language is only a
set of names for things, events, and concepts. These assumptions
are incorrect, but few recognize the extent of the implications.
This lies at the heart of deconstructionism, and magic.
There is power in the act of naming, because it imbues meaning to a
thing - or to an event or a concept - that has no necessary
correspondence to the thing itself. This was evident even on the
morning of September 11, when the event of the attacks receded
behind their purported meaning even as they were still under way.
And then soon after, the breathless reporting of Bush's
confirmation that this means war, albeit against an abstract noun
which would nevertheless cost at least hundreds of thousands of
actual lives.
[Carrying On, Tues PM:]
From the start there was an institutional incuriousness about the
attacks, as there so often is when the institutions themselves
benefit by them ("Blair rejects 7/7 inquiry calls"; "Putin rejects
public Beslan inquiry"). Naturally any circle of high conspirators
would be reluctant to have any light shed on the criminal events
they enabled, but there's a far broader circle of reluctance, that
partakes of the Power that is enabled by the meaning of the crime.
That is, those who stood to benefit by 9/11 were not limited to the
relatively small number of perpetrators within the institutions of
public life, because the perpetrators themselves partook of the
larger circle of institutional power. Much of corporate media,
including "alternative" corporate media, became co-conspirators
after the fact simply by habit, because they inhabit and thrive
within that outer circle. To acknowledge the possibility of a high
crime of the magnitude of Kennedy's assassination or 9/11 would be
an invitation, not to gentle reform, but to revolution. And
institutional power sends out such invitations only when it sees
how it can come out on top a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: "Big Con"-servatives and "Al CIAda" Terrorists
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 6, 2007 2:11:05 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Big Con"-servatives and "Al CIAda" Terrorists Thursday, July 05, 2007 -- http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/ Is Fred Thompson on the Downlow? Lots and lots of rumors. I’ve heard them myself -- I’ve even talked to someone who has witnessed some interesting behavior. I noticed when the Washington Post recently profiled him, several of the local commenters reacted along the lines of “I thought he was gay?” Let me put it this way: I heard about this after [Fred Thompson] was out of the Senate, and LONG before anyone even dreamed he’d run for President. Update from Down with Tyranny: I asked a friend of mine who knows all the Republican closet cases in DC --and who is never wrong-- and his comment: "I've heard that for a while." The Andrew Sullivan comment that started it all: "Outside the extremist, activist base, regular GOP voters turn out to be relatively tolerant when it comes to sexual minorities and private sex lives. They're not well represented by their party leaders, as far as policy is concerned. This is good news for Fred Thompson. The man has had a colorful and wide-ranging sex life, as I'm sure we will soon find out." Was Fred Thompson a White House Mole During Watergate? Thompson tipped off the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir, "At That Point in Time," Thompson said he acted with "no authority" in divulging the committee's knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence that led to Nixon's resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee, Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson's actions. "Thompson was a mole for the White House," Armstrong said in an interview. "Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was." Update: he's also gay. --- Lisa Pease on Osama bin Laden We had pinpointed OBL's location by radio. We could absolutely have picked him up. Several friends of mine in the black ops world have told me repeatedly that we've known where OBL was at all times. A man in Hollywood was approached by a CIA operative to do a documentary on the secret tailing of OBL. So it's not like we can't find him. And if we weren't picking him up, why? Could it be because ties between his actions and those of our intelligence community might raise disturbing questions about 9/11? An intelligence asset told me of a friend of his that had just come back from handing OBL a wad of cash. "For attacking us, or so he wouldn't attack us again," I asked but (predictably) got no response. See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: (2) Backstory: Why Pakistan Is A US "Ally" in "War Against Terror"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 5, 2007 5:36:42 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (2) Backstory: Why Pakistan Is A US "Ally" in "War Against Terror" Profile: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp? entity=gulbuddin_hekmatyar 1973-1979: The US Starts to Provide Support to Islamists Opposing the Soviets in Afghanistan In 1973 Afghan Prince Muhammad Daoud ousts the king with help from the Soviet Union, and establishes an Afghan republic. The CIA in turn begins funding Islamist extremists, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, as a resistance movement opposing the Soviets. US allies, the Shah of Iran’s intelligence agency, SAVAK, and Pakistan’s Interservices Intelligence Directorate (ISI) play an important role in funneling weapons and other forms of assistance to the Afghan Islamist militants. After the pro-Soviet coup in April 1978, the Islamic militants with the support of the ISI carry out a massive campaign of terrorism, assassinating hundreds of teachers and civil servants. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 260 - 263] 1982-1991: Afghan Opium Production Skyrockets Afghan opium production rises from 250 tons in 1982 to 2,000 tons in 1991, coinciding with CIA support and funding of the mujaheddin. Alfred McCoy, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin, says US and Pakistani intelligence officials sanctioned the rebels’ drug trafficking because of their fierce opposition to the Soviets: “If their local allies were involved in narcotics trafficking, it didn’t trouble [the] CIA. They were willing to keep working with people who were heavily involved in narcotics.” For instance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a rebel leader who received about half of all the CIA’s covert weapons, was known to be a major heroin trafficker. Charles Cogan, who directs the CIA’s operation in Afghanistan, later claims he was unaware of the drug trade: “We found out about it later on.” [Atlantic Monthly, 5/1996; Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 9/30/2001] 1983: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Emerges as Most Powerful ISI Client A young Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. [Source: Public domain] [NOTE SIMILARITY IN APPEARANCE TO INDIVIDUAL CALLED "OSAMA BIN LADEN" IN PHOTO TAKEN WITH BRZEZINSKI) Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar emerges as the most powerful of ISI’s mujaheddin clients, just as Rep. Charlie Wilson (D) and CIA Director William Casey, along with Saudi Intelligence Minister Prince Turki al-Faisal, are pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new and more lethal supplies into ISI warehouses.” Hekmatyar is among the most ruthless and extreme of the Afghan Islamic warlords. [Coll, 2004, pp. 119] He receives about half of all the CIA’s covert weapons directed at Afghanistan despite being a known major drug trafficker (see 1982-1991). He develops close ties with bin Laden by 1984 while continuing to recieve large amounts of assistance from the CIA and ISI (see 1984). 1984: Bin Laden Develops Ties with Pakistani ISI and Afghan Warlord Bin Laden moves to Peshawar, a Pakistani town bordering Afghanistan, and helps run a front organization for the mujaheddin known as Maktab al-Khidamar (MAK), which funnels money, arms, and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war. [New Yorker, 1/24/2000] “MAK [is] nurtured by Pakistan’s state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA’s primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow’s occupation.” [MSNBC, 8/24/1998] Bin Laden becomes closely tied to the warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and greatly strengthens Hekmatyar’s opium smuggling operations. [Le Monde (Paris), 9/14/2001] Hekmatyar, who also has ties with bin Laden, the CIA, and drug running, has been called “an ISI stooge and creation.” [Asia Times, 11/15/2001] February 1992: Soviet Puppet Government Ousted in Afghanistan Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah, a Soviet puppet in power since 1988, is finally ousted by Ahmed Shah Massoud in February 1992. US aid to the mujaheddin continues during this period, but at a lower level. There are disagreements about which leaders should be receiving support. The CIA favors Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an extreme Islamist closely associated with bin Laden (see 1983), while the State Department favors the much more Westernized and well educated Massoud. [Coll, 2004, pp. 205-207, 225] January 24, 1994: CIA Concludes It Is ‘Partly Culpable’ for WTC Bombing The Boston Herald reports that an internal CIA report has concluded that the agency is “partially culpable” for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (see February 26, 1993) because it helped train and support some of the bombers. One source with knowledge of the report says, “It was determined that a significant amount of blowback appeared to have occurred.”
[cia-drugs] Fwd: John Perkins: Jerk, Con-man, Shill
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 5, 2007 9:56:17 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: John Perkins: Jerk, Con-man, Shill In "Secret History," Perkins, from the inside, gives the details of the weird moral emptiness and pitilessness of men who waylay the riches of the planet from the people to whom it rightly belongs. In New England, the pain imposed by the clients of the economic hit men were financial; but, as Perkins wants us never to forget, in much of the planet, the slick sales pitch of the economic hit man is enforced by squads of hit men with less subtle weaponry. Perkins writes: "Three men toting AK-47s stood at attention outside. They saluted as we drove past. One of the three opened the front door opposite the driver. Leather Jacket and I climbed in. He spoke into a walkie talkie. Tinted windows made it impossible to see inside." See what's free at AOL.com. From: Greg Palast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 5, 2007 4:13:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: John Perkins: Jerk, Con-man, Shill Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Perkins: Jerk, Con-man, Shill by Greg Palast 5 July 2007 I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A gold-plated, super- slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake- oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers, a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full of high-blown bullshit. This was two decades ago. The early 1980s. I wore sandals, uncombed hair down to my cheap collar and carried a busted ring- binder filled with honest calculations and sincere analysis. It was Economic Hit Man Perkins vs. Economic Long-Hair Palast. I didn't stand a chance. The EHM was about to put a political bullet hole through me wider than a silver dollar. Hit Men have "clients." Perkins' was a giant power company, Public Service of New Hampshire. PSNH was trying to sell New England lobstermen and potato farmers on the idea that they desperately needed a multi-billion dollar nuclear plant. The fact that this bloated atomic water kettle, called "Seabrook," would produce enough electricity for everyone in the Granite State to smelt iron didn't matter. That the beast could add a surcharge to electric bills equal to home mortgages was simply smiled over by Perkins and his team of economic con artists. To steal millions, you need a top team of armed robbers. But to steal billions, you need PhD's with color charts and economic projections made of fairy dust and eye of newt. Perkins had it all - including a magical thing called a computer-generated spreadsheet (this was well before Excel). I was an expert witness for some consumer groups, trying to explain to state officials that Perkins' numbers were bogus as a bubble-gum bagel and his financial projections were from some New Hampshire on another planet. But this was the key point: Perkins slept in a suite at the Omni. I had truck-rumble insomnia at the motel off exit 68. He glared and grinned and glad-handed. I tried to keep my eyes open. Here's how it ended. The local Joe's jumped head-first into the Perkins fantasy and bought his client's power plant boondoggle. Within a couple years, the local electric companies had all gone bankrupt, the state treasury was drained, electric bills went from lowest to highest in the nation causing factories to close and dump, I figure, about 11,000 jobs. Perkins' clients walked away with barrelfuls of billions. And Dr. Perkins pocketed plenty for his mortal soul. But, as in every moral tale, Perkins, the modern Dr. Faust, found redemption in confession. And we're lucky he did. Because, in Perkins', "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," and his latest, the just-released "Secret History of the American Empire," we find out what makes these guys tick. By "these guys" I mean the vultures who suck up development aide, the sharks who use the World Bank as their enforcers, the corporate marauders, power pirates and hedge fund hogs with their snouts in the economic trough. In "Secret History," Perkins, from the inside, gives the details of the weird moral emptiness and pitilessness of men who waylay the riches of the planet from the people to whom it rightly belongs. In New England, the pain imposed by the clients of the economic hit men were financial; but, as Perkins wants us never to forget, in much of the planet, the slick sales pitch of the economic hit man is enforced by squads of hit men with less subtle weaponry. Perkins writes: "Three men toting AK-47s stood at attention outside. They saluted as we drove past. One of the three opened the front door opposite the driver. Leather Jacket and I climbed in. He spoke into a walkie talkie. Tinted windows made it impossible to see inside." In lines heavy with
[cia-drugs] Fwd: "The CIA Created Bin Laden": The Middle Ground
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 5, 2007 5:21:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "The CIA Created Bin Laden": The Middle Ground REAPING WHAT WE SOWED IN AFGHANISTAN No Regrets for the CIA? http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ 200110/msg00290.html David Corn is the Washington editor of the Nation. His first novel, Deep Background, a political thriller, was published recently by St. Martin's Press. As I write, I am trying to hold my breath. My office is across the street from the Senate Hart Office Building. Through yellowing leaves, I can see the corner of the building that was closed after an letter containing anthrax spores was opened by a staffer for Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. From the roof of Hart, bright white puffs of steam pop out of vents, and in a reverie of paranoia I envision hardy anthrax bacteria lofting over Capitol Hill and bouncing against my window. A former director of the Soviet bioweapons program told the Financial Times that he invented a variation of anthrax that could travel several miles. Yet experts quoted in The New York Times say that if the spores were expelled by the building’s exhaust system, the concentration of the bacteria would be too low to cause infection. Which Times should I heed? Lets go with New York. But who wants to work a football field away from anthrax? And why has the index finger of my left hand been itching since yesterday? At this point, law enforcement authorities cannot say whether the anthrax attacks are the work of the September 11 plotters. Perhaps the mayhem of that day inspired and unleashed others. I find it convenient to believe it is Osama bin Laden or his associates who are going postal, for of late I've been wondering how the politicians, policy advocates, and intelligence personnel who championed and supported the fundamentalist-dominated Afghanistan resistance in the 1980s are reacting to the recent turmoil and horror. Do they have reason to experience dark, nagging stabs of regrets? As many of us know by now, bin Laden received his start in the destroy-a-superpower game by raising funds and recruiting volunteers for the mujaheddin, the faction-ridden force that waged a guerilla war in Afghanistan against Soviet invaders. The CIA poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this effort, as did Saudi Arabia, and the Pakistani intelligence service disseminated the weapons and money supplied by Uncle Sam. So do the American godmothers of the mujaheddin now lose sleep over having bolstered the resistance in which bin Laden first developed a following and in which some of his present crew learned their chops? A few weeks back, I was at a conference on terrorism, and in the hallway I spotted Charles Cogan, a former senior CIA official who oversaw the Afghanistan project. What do you say, I asked him, to the criticism that the CIA helped create the bin Laden monster? Very curtly, he replied, "We had nothing to do with him, we never had any direct contact with him. It's a canard." Before I could query him further, Cogan uneasily shuffled away. That is the CIA line these days. Osama bin Laden? He was never one of ours. In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Milton Bearden, CIA station chief in Pakistan in the 1980s, says the same: "Despite what has been often written, the CIA never recruited, trained or otherwise used the Arab volunteers who arrived in Pakistan As fundraisers, however, Arabs from the Persian Gulf played a positive, often critical role in the background of the war Among the more prominent of these Arab fundraisers was one Osama bin Laden." (Bearden acknowledged that in 1987 bin Laden did participate in key battles and "the military legend of Osama bin Laden was born.") There is no evidence that the CIA actually shook hands with bin Laden. But the story's not that simple. Michael Pillsbury, a congressional aide in the 1980s, was one of the fiercest champions of the mujaheddin. Largely because of his efforts, the Reagan administration decided to send Stinger surface- to-air missiles to the resistance. He now says, "I think it is factually false that the U.S. in any way backed Osama and his group of Arabs. I was there. I know who we backed. No reliable official source has ever confirmed that the U.S. program included Osama and his Arabs. They were quite distinct, and at a separate location from the Afghan fundamentalists It has been sad for me to see this falsehood spread on several TV magazine shows." There is no evidence that contradicts these assertions, no proof the CIA actually shook hands with bin Laden. But the story's not that simple. The CIA supported the mujaheddin with money and guns. So did bin Laden -- with no objection from the CIA. Did some of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Red-Scare Herring (Cropped from the Photo: James Baker, OIL, CIA/Mossad)
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SOCIETY MEETS POLITICS;
The belle, the politician and the CIA
Joanne Herring played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War
CLAUDIA FELDMAN, STAFF
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Joanne Herring has been compared to Scarlett O'Hara, Marilyn Monroe
and Dolly Parton. She is all of them and more as she waits for a
photographer in her River Oaks condominium. The place is great - an
elevator delivers guests right into the French-style living room -
but it's a step down from the mansions she's shared in the past.
In midafternoon Herring wears a foamy white evening gown, form-
fitting and strapless, with her faithful poodle, Chulo, by her
side. She has an hourglass figure, taut skin - she cheerfully
admits she's had some surgical help - and blond hair. When she
entered middle age, she says, she dyed her hair a color she
actually likes.
Herring is funny and charming and smart. And she hopes actress
Julia Roberts portrays her just that way in the movie Charlie
Wilson's War, which opens in theaters across the country on
Christmas Day.
The movie is about two civilians and a CIA agent who helped fuel a
semisecret war in Afghanistan in the '80s. The unlikely trio,
Herring, former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson and Gust Avrakotos, may
have changed the course of history by helping bring down the Soviet
Union and end the Cold War.
Herring is flattered that the lovely and talented Roberts is
playing her character, and she's happy to be back in the spotlight.
At least she was happy until she read the script and nearly passed
out.
In the old days, Herring played to the Southern belle stereotype.
In fact, she used it to her advantage. These days, she finds it
less amusing.
"In one scene I'd seem really intelligent," she says, "and in the
next I was a hypocritical, bipolar tart."
Herring, ultraconservative and a born-again Christian, found the
tart parts so insulting she hired attorney Dick DeGuerin. Perhaps,
she thought, DeGuerin could persuade veteran Hollywood director
Mike Nichols to clean up her character in the script.
Nichols doesn't scare, but he did cut the bad language from
Roberts' lines because Herring really doesn't curse. At least not
often and not much. Meanwhile, Houston-Hollywood relations have
thawed a bit.
Herring was invited to the movie set, where she met Nichols,
Roberts, and Tom Hanks, who plays Wilson.
Hanks, Herring says, "is the nicest man. He came up to me and said,
`I've been in love with you for six months. Let me kiss you.' "
That day it was nice to be a Southern belle.
"It was very muddy," Herring remembers, "and he said, `Oh, the
queen can't get her feet wet,' and he scooped me up and carried me
to the car."
The early years
Herring wants to know: Is the reporter who is drinking her hot
cocoa and petting her dog a liberal?
She hates labels and likes liberals, she says. It's just that
sometimes they see her more as a caricature than a real flesh-and-
blood person. With brains. And feelings.
Joanne's maiden name is Johnson. She was born July 3, 1929 ("my
mother and I couldn't wait") into a family that valued beauty,
charm, good works and good manners.
They also valued intelligence but worried about Joanne. Clearly she
was bright, but she couldn't do math.
"I have dyslexia," Herring says. "But back then, they thought I was
not only unattractive but dumb."
"How," she wonders to this day, "can you add numbers that seem to
be jumping around on the page?"
Herring, an only child, grew up in elite, clubby River Oaks. If she
ever was an ugly duckling, she morphed into a swan in junior high.
That's what James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state,
remembers, as does his cousin Annie Baker Horton.
"Dances were always held in the school gymnasiums," Horton says.
"There'd be girls on one side and boys on the other. All the girls
would watch their dates line up to dance with Joanne. She was so
much prettier than we were, we couldn't possibly be jealous."
Horton can tick off countless favors that Herring has done for her
over the years -- from bringing her vegetable soup when she was
feeling poorly to lending her French designer fashions.
"I have so many nice things to say about her," Horton says. "She's
just so darn good-looking people have the wrong impression."
Herring says her parents were very comfortable, but not like some
of their neighbors, who were very rich. And while the Johnsons
spoiled their only child, there was a dab of tough love mixed in.
She was 11 or 12, for example, when she looked down and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Zeitgeist... What is the Spirit of this Age?
Begin forwarded message:From: galen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 3, 2007 2:13:36 PM PDTTo: 9-11 Truth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 9-11 NeXuS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: galen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Zeitgeist... What is the Spirit of this Age? Friends of Truth, i just finished watching a movie called “Zeitgeist”, a feature-length film you can view in three parts at: http://www.everythingburns.com/wordpress/?p=65 . The home page of the movie is: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ . Regardless of your socio-political, spiritual persuasion, i think you will find Zeitgeist educational and provocative. For Truth -- galen -=-=-=-=-=- From emails I receive it’s clear we all know diehard skeptics out there who’ll continue to deny 9/11 was an inside job no matter what. May I suggest you forward the following article to these individuals, wish them well, and move on... 9/11 Wasn't that Hard. http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/ The 9/11 attack has been getting a lot of windshield time lately in my day to day. I’m not thinking about it any more than usual, it just seems to come up. One of the objections I hear a lot from people who haven’t done any research, or are prone to ‘not want to know’, is that the ‘inside job’ perspective of the attack and ensuing cover-up would be impossible without thousands of people being aware of it. I’d like to address that feature today and provide some links that will clarify so many other questions that may be out there. First some links. Here is a movie called “Zeitgeist”. It is a feature length film and at this site http://www.everythingburns.com/wordpress/?p=65 you can view it in 3 parts or any sequence you like. If you still aren’t clear whether 9/11 was an inside Job after you see this film then, you really don’t want to know or lack the capacity to. Here is the home page of the movie, http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ and here is a little something from England that dovetails into the mix http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1882365905982811133&hl=en Now to my point. First off, in order for the attacks to have been carried out with a minimum of notice all that had to be accomplished was controlling the access points into the planes; that’s all. It should be noted here that the same security firm was in charge at all of the 9/11 airports, The London Tube and Madrid train station on the days of the attacks. That’s one hell of a coincidence isn’t it? That security firm is ICTS. You can do the background check on them. It’s more effective for you that way. Just stick ‘ICTS’ and ‘911’ into Google and see what you come up with. Once whomever is on those planes is on those planes then it doesn’t matter any more because no one is getting off any of those planes to do any interviews and no one who isn’t on those planes has any idea who is on those planes, especially when all the communications from those planes are under control. Most of us now know that at least 7 of the hijackers purported to be on those planes were discovered later, by ABC News, among others, to be alive and well in their home countries. You can check this out as well if you are of a mind to. Concerning the actual attacks and who was involved, all that has to be done is to control the access points to the planes. That’s it…. because there was no remaining evidence (that wasn’t planted) and that brings me to the cover-up. Everything, at all the sites where an attack occurred, or a plane hit a government building, or crashed into a field, was carted away and kept away from the curious. There are some site photos, here and there and before and after and they tell us a great deal but all that evidence, black boxes, melted steel, surgically cut girders, parts of planes, bodies, etc. they’re gone. All the evidence is gone. Whenever a crime is committed in America there is a very heavy emphasis upon physical evidence and the chain of evidence. This time… nada. That alone should tell you a lot. Also what should tell you a lot is what evidence was found; the absurd presence of Mohammed Atta’s undamaged passport on a New York Street, Koran’s and flight simulation training DVD’s in a car at Logan airport, certain eyewitness reports and alleged cell-phone conversations… a casual watcher of network TV dramas should be savvy enough to see through that BS. Then comes the media. Let’s talk about the media a little. A majority of the American people believe that either 9/11 was an Inside Job or that the government knew it was coming and stood back and let it happen. To what degree do you see this vast public perception addressed on TV? When you do see it addressed it is done in a dismissive manner or involves a media attack dog going after some occasional expert trotted out for humiliation. That’s rare enough but it does happen. The media has shut down on the matter and focuses instead on the constant occurrence of terrorist activity that is the constant focus of the leaders who have brought you all of the repressive i
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Founding Fathers Discussed How to Handle a President Like Bush
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 3, 2007 3:35:25 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Founding Fathers Discussed How to Handle a President Like Bush Obstruction of Justice, Continued By Dan Froomkin Washington Post, July 3, 2007; 3:22 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/07/03/ BL2007070301366.html?hpid=moreheadlines During the course of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial for obstruction of justice and perjury, we learned a lot about his bosses. Incremental discoveries that didn't garner major headlines nevertheless added to what we know -- and can reasonably surmise -- about Vice President Cheney and President Bush's role in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, which was revealed during the course of the administration's defense of its decision to go to war in Iraq. We know, for instance, that Cheney was the first person to tell Libby about Plame's identity. We know that Cheney told Libby to leak Plame's identity to the New York Times in an attempt to discredit her husband, who had accused the administration of manipulating prewar intelligence. We know that Cheney wrote talking points that may have encouraged Libby and others to mention Plame to reporters. We know that Cheney once talked to Bush about Libby's assignment, and got permission from the president for Libby to leak hitherto classified information to the Times. We don't know why Libby decided to lie to federal investigators about his role in the leak. But it's reasonable to conclude -- or at least strongly suspect -- that he was doing it to protect Cheney, and maybe even Bush himself. ... Bush's decision yesterday to commute Libby's prison sentence isn't just a matter of unequal justice. It is also a potentially self-serving and corrupt act. Was there a quid pro quo at work? Was Libby being repaid for falling on his sword and protecting his bosses from further scrutiny? Alternately, was he being repaid for his defense team's abrupt decision in mid-trial not to drag Cheney into court, where he would have faced cross-examination by Fitzgerald? Bush and Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning continued to stonewall when it comes to any of the important questions about this case, Cheney and Bush's involvement, and the commutation itself. Bush said he wouldn't rule out a future pardon for Libby -- but didn't have much else new to say. Snow was simply ducking questions while asserting repeatedly that the president is entitled to exercise his clemency power however he sees fit. It's true that the Constitution grants the president unlimited clemency and pardon power. But presidents have generally used that power to show mercy or, in rare cases, make political amends -- not to protect themselves from exposure. The Framers, ever sensitive to the need for checks and balances, recognized the potential for abuse of the pardon power. According to a Judiciary Committee report drafted in the aftermath of the Watergate crisis: "In the [Constitutional] convention George Mason argued that the President might use his pardoning power to 'pardon crimes which were advised by himself' or, before indictment or conviction, 'to stop inquiry and prevent detection.' "James Madison responded: 'If the President be connected, in ANY SUSPICIOUS MANNER, with any person, and there be grounds [to] believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can IMPEACH him; they can remove him if found guilty.' "Madison went on to [say] that the President could be suspended [from office] WHEN[EVER] SUSPECTED, and his powers would devolve on the Vice President, who could likewise be suspended [from office] until impeached and convicted, IF HE WERE ALSO SUSPECTED." See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [eugenecannabistv] ACTION ALERT!
Begin forwarded message: From: "Perry Stripling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 3, 2007 7:08:50 AM PDT To: "eugenecannabistv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [eugenecannabistv] ACTION ALERT! Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACTION ALERT! Prohibitionists have filed an initiative that would repeal the OMMA here in Oregon and replace it with an synthetic-marijuana system. This terrible initiative has national implications because if the right-wing Republicans, insurance companies, and Big Pharma manage to dismantle the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, they will be emboldened to kill the programs of all of the other medical marijuana states. This is an important time for our movement and all of us, especially sick patients, need us to move forward, not back to a time where grandmothers stricken with glaucoma and cancer are treated as drug dealers. The details can be read at: http://www.mercycenters.org/action/alert.html It has a preliminary ballot title that fails to mention the repeal of the OMMA. With an I-104 Comment Deadline of July 9, every OMMA supporter should write or fax comments to the Secretary of State's office challenging the Ballot Measure title and description. The Secretary of State Elections Division won't take e-mail comments but said fax is OK: (Salem) 503-373-7414 is their fax number. (Salem) 503-986-1518 is voice and a human will answer. The snail mail taken from the SOS stationery is: Office of the Secretary of State, Elections Division 141 State Capitol Salem, OR 97310-0722 Would those of you who already sent comments please share them with us so we may learn from you? Visit - http://www.mercycenters.org/action/alert.html - and Print off a Flyer & Spread it About! And let everybody know if you or your group has any Web pages, Links, Flyers, Blogs or any Tip, Tool or Item of Interest related to this Alert. We will make our web page a dedicated node in a web-ring to combat this attack and all like it on OMMA. Many Thanx to AE, Lee, Dr. Rick and the other activists and citizens who contributed to our web page content. Everybody, PLS Spread the Word! Write On! Per MercyCenters.org
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Unimpeachably Impeachable
Begin forwarded message: From: "Consortiumnews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 2, 2007 6:40:16 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unimpeachably Impeachable Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The evidence has now grown beyond a reasonable doubt: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have committed impeachable offenses. In this guest essay, former CIA officer Ray McGovern writes that any lingering doubts in his mind were dispelled by a series in The Washington Post detailing Vice President Cheney's disdain for the law and the Constitution, with the buck also stopping on President Bush's desk. For the full story on why Bush and Cheney deserve removal from office, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com. We are less than one-third of the way toward our mid-year fundraising goal of $25,000, far short of what's needed to keep this 11-year-old investigative Web site alive. To help, please consider making a tax-deductible donation by credit card at the Web site or by sending a check to Consortium for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. To remove yourself from this list, click here: http:// www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/ unsubscribe.jsp?remove
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Cheney Described by Old (Ex-)Friend as a "Paranoid Megalomaniac"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 1, 2007 11:19:36 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cheney Described by Old (Ex-)Friend as a "Paranoid Megalomaniac" A longtime confidant of the Bush and Cheney families describes the dangerous influence of the vice president By Eleanor Clift Newsweek, June 29, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19507575/site/newsweek/page/0/ #storyContinued ... I had lunch with Vic Gold, an old friend of the Cheney’s, on the third day of the Post series. I asked him how he felt reading about Dick’s dark adventures. “A tremendous feeling of validation,” he said. In a recent book, Gold described Cheney as a “megalomaniacal paranoid” whose secret empire within the government had captured the Bush presidency and helped bring the Republican Party to the brink of ruin. Gold’s book, published in April, is titled: “Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP.” (It was originally titled “How the Neo-Cons Took Over the GOP,” but midway through the process, Gold got so angry he changed the verb to “Destroyed.” ) This is a huge turnabout for Gold, 78, a veteran Republican operative. Close to the Bushes and the Cheneys, he once shared office space with Lynne Cheney and in 1996 was prepared to support Dick Cheney for president. When he decided not to run, Cheney told Gold, “I don’t want to spend three quarters of my time running around raising money.” That sounded rational to Gold, who’d been kicking around politics for a long time, having worked for a string of Republicans from Barry Goldwater, his hero, to the disgraced Spiro Agnew and finally “the old man,” George H.W. Bush. Unlike others who’ve known Cheney for 30 years, Gold doesn’t think his erstwhile friend has changed. “Men do not change, they unmask themselves,” he says, quoting a Swiss writer. What happened to Cheney is “opportunity,” says Gold. Pushed forward by George and Barbara Bush, who had no confidence in their eldest son, Cheney was supposed to serve as the ghost of Bush Senior hovering around the White House. Cheney took on the job and with, George W.’s acquiescence, made himself the locus of power. What nobody anticipated is the extent to which the quiet man with the lopsided mouth would insinuate himself into everything -- and the devastating consequences of his influence, particularly the Iraq War. Gold, a slight man with wispy white hair and a hair-trigger temperament calls Bush “President Dodo.” He’s known Bush since the ’80 campaign, and while he doesn’t really think he’s dumb, he knows he can be manipulated. “He’s playing the role of president, strutting around,” says Gold. “He’s the weakest president in my memory.” The Bushes prize loyalty, but Gold reached a point where his respect for the elder Bush, whose autobiography he had helped write, was not enough for him to keep quiet. The administration in his view had become a danger to the Constitution and what America stands for in the world. He wrote to tell 41 about the book he was writing, and he got a letter back saying, “We’ve been friends a long time and we’ll continue to be friends. I am sure I will not like what you say about our son.” And then in a grace note typical of the old man, “but I don’t think too much of the neocons myself.” Cheney’s great selling point was that he did not plan to run for president, setting him apart from most vice presidents who harbor personal ambition. He didn’t have to worry about being popular. But the idea was flawed. In the end, Cheney’s lack of viability as a political figure became his license to do whatever he wants, an outcome nobody foresaw, least of all his unsuspecting patron, George H.W. Bush. See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Rabbi Lieberman, Big Brother's Little Brother
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 1, 2007 11:03:15 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Rabbi Lieberman, Big Brother's Little Brother Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/01/lieberman-domestic-spying/Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States. Lieberman said, “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about…electronic surveillance,” in apparent reference to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas for documents related to Bush’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program.Lieberman claimed, “We’re at a partisan gridlock over the question of whether the American government can listen into conversations or follow email trails of non-American citizens.” This is false; the NSA spying program covered the surveillance of American citizens. The “gridlock” exists over whether the administration will cooperate with Congress by explaining why it feels current law is inadequate and why President Bush decided to ignore the law in authorizing a spying program that almost led to mass resignations at the Department of Justice.Liebermen went further in his calls for greater domestic spying. “The Brits have got something smart going. … They have have cameras all over London. … I think it’s just common sense to do that here much more widely.” Watch it:In the same interview, Lieberman said of the situation in Iraq, “The surge is working.” He refused to say whether he would back a withdrawal if Gen. Petraeus reports in September that progress is not being made.Also, Lieberman reaffirmed his previous statements that Democratic candidates do not have “strong and muscular” approaches to foreign policy. Today, he said, “I would say that Democratic candidates, in the larger questions of American security, have been disappointing.”UPDATE: In Aug. 2006, Lieberman seized on a terror plot in Britain to criticize Ned Lamont’s opposition to the war in Iraq.See what's free at AOL.com. =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: No Surprises: We WILL Have Another 9-11, and Then War with Iran, in WEEKS
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 1, 2007 10:45:35 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Surprises: We WILL Have Another 9-11, and Then War with Iran, in WEEKS Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11 By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and RICHARD ESPOSITO http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3336148 July 1, 2007 — A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document. "This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com. U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point." As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft." The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow might be a target. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa." Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001. Copyright © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: King George (Bush) Will Not Tolerate Freedom of Speech or Freedom of the Press
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 30, 2007 5:17:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: King George (Bush) Will Not Tolerate Freedom of Speech or Freedom of the Press Friday, June 29, 2007 Reporter sanctioned for approaching Bush http://thephoenix.com/notfornothing/PermaLink,guid, 3b14052a-3c5d-4777-9bb8-73c7a1ec1ffb.aspx We already know that the Bush White House is the most secretive administration since that of President Nixon. But here's some news for those chatting on talk-radio yesterday about President Bush's sincerity or how he's "keeping us safe" -- a viewpoint at odds with that of our own federal government: In the run-up to the Fourth of July, you can't ask the leader of the free world even an innocuous question without having your press credential quickly taken away. As Katie Mulvaney reports in today's ProJo: http://www.projo.com/news/content/ PRESLANDING_06-29-07_6G66P32.327bfc4.html WPRI-TV, Channel 12 reporter Jarrod Holbrook had his White House press pass snatched after he shouted “Mr. President!” twice as President Bush greeted Air and Army National Guardsmen gathered on the tarmac at the Air National Guard base in Quonset. A member of the president’s entourage pointed at Holbrook after he first tried to get Mr. Bush’s attention. The man then ripped the pass from Holbrook’s belt after he shouted again to the president, who was about 10 feet away. Holbrook said afterward that he just wanted to ask Mr. Bush how he enjoyed his visit to Rhode Island. Members of the media were not told they could not ask the president questions. See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [PEPIS] PEPIS#89 - Al-Qaeda car bomb false flag MI6 garbage
Begin forwarded message: From: Tony Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 30, 2007 4:14:57 AM PDT To: PEPIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEPIS] PEPIS#89 - Al-Qaeda car bomb false flag MI6 garbage Al-Qaeda car bomb false flag MI6 garbage http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374728.html http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=10027 dh | 29.06.2007 23:21 More propaganda bullshit from the propaganda mill. Operation Gladio writ large once again over the streets of the capital. A compilation of views from the far seers Its amazing how Gordon Brown comes into power and all of sudden there's a terror threat, coincidence?? Wonder what policies Gordon wants to introduce?? I'm just glad he had the brains not to explode the device and save innocent lives for a change. Maybe I'm completely off the mark too early to say have to wait and see the aftermath and investigation. But false flag terror is the sea on which the Brown ship sails. The PM has very little say any more. One of the NWO's weakest arguments is that Al-CIAda's political aims can be furthered by killing innocent civilians. Of course that has the opposite effect. As any real freedom fighter knows well. So here we have another attempt by nasty Asian types to get white Londoners to hate them even more. It's the weakest and most farcical aspect to apparent 'meme' incidents like this. What a surreal, nightmare these little Hitlers are ushering in. Could it be the Brown leadership will be characterised by even more fear- mongering mind control than before? If so we have to highlight the fundamental illogic in killing those who are their potential anti-NWO allies. These racist anti-terror police have elbowed their way in to a monopoly on public fear incidents. They are trusted absolutely by the press but never accountable for even one of the lies that they tell. If anyone hasn't already seen it get hold of a DVD of Troy Kennedy- Martin's BBC drama "The Edge of Darkness" which goes about as far as anyone has into this subject. Maybe we should have a report by the Health and Safety Executive into how many medals those who defuse pretend bombs should be awarded? All I can find myself thinking this morning is "double the MI5 budget!" they are our saviours!! Who can stand up to these creatures? A real terrorist would hit the centres of corrupt power and/or the pockets of the city slickers and merchant bankers, such as the Bishopsgate, Stock Exchange and Canary Wharf bombs in the 1990s. Perhaps the unseen forces are testing their new underling, maybe they have sent a little shot across his bows and keep him on his toes. Come on PM sort out this awful mess before we are overrun with terrorists. Chop Chop. Any bets, there will be no chain of custody for this car, no insurance, no road tax, and it will have been brought with cash from a second hand car dealer months ago, possibly being resold privately in a newspaper by an Asian who is arrested and then released after months of interrogation. MI5 can congratulate themselves because they have found their own bomb, just remember the bearded SAS soldiers arrested in Iraq, driving around in a car full of explosives dressed as Arabs. Say no more except there is nothing like a FALSE FLAG or the threat of a FALSE FLAG to launch the new prime minister into power. These people are sick and evil. What a shame, with all those hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras in London, we don't seem to have captured any decent image of the Gladio operatives, er.. I mean Islamic maniacs who are doing it because they hate my freedom. What happened to those high tech CCTV cams, linked to those 'secret' underground bunkers that beep beep when a dodgy car enters its zone of stalking? does that mean the car was legitimate, papers tax etc? or if it wasn't legitimate where were those stealth keystones cops? When you have these cameras primed and some thug waiting to pounce and follow your every move for miles for dropping a cigarette end or MacDonald's carton, surely, surely this incident in the heart of London aroused a teeny weenie bit of suspicion? Will we have another De Menezes bout of lies about a, dark skinned man seen hurdling obstacles in a thick coat fleeing the scene, with a box of wires protruding as he disappeared into the night, and this is a clear indication that one of the 200 al qaedaers cells are now busily reverting to plan B. All that's missing is the boot was filled with jerry cans full of kerosene that would have melted surrounding buildings causing instant ''building falling into its own footprints''. Still this is an ideal team for my new protector and man of truth and honour Brown, to show us all what a great shepherd he is. 2 gas bottles and 6oz of roundhead nails, al qaedas are certainly not the outfit they used to be, from single handedly standing the whole USA air force to stand down, and bypassing the pentagons anti missile defence from a cave, and being the most sophisticated ter
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Lockerbie Ruling Revisited
Begin forwarded message: From: "Consortiumnews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 29, 2007 8:06:59 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lockerbie Ruling Revisited Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Scottish judicial review panel says the guilty verdict against a former Libyan intelligence officer for the 1988 mid-air bombing of Pan Am 103 may have been "a miscarriage of justice" based on flimsy evidence. A critique published at Consortiumnews.com just after the conviction in 2001 made the same point, even as the U.S. government and the major news media hailed the politically popular verdict. To read the full story of what should have been obvious six years ago, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com. We are just over one-fifth of the way toward our mid-year fundraising goal of $25,000, far short of what's needed to keep this 11-year-old investigative Web site alive. To help, please consider making a tax-deductible donation by credit card at the Web site or by sending a check to Consortium for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. To remove yourself from this list, click here: http:// www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/ unsubscribe.jsp?remove
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Late Cuban activist linked to plot to kill Castro
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 7:42:13 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Late Cuban activist linked to plot to kill Castro Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/153753.html MIAMI Late Cuban activist linked to plot to kill Castro A Cuban activist offered to help in a 1960 operation to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro with poison pills, according to Central Intelligence Agency documents. BY GERARDO REYES El Nuevo Herald Tony de Varona, the late and legendary Cuban activist in Miami, offered to cooperate with the Central Intelligence Agency in an operation intended to kill Fidel Castro with poison pills, according to documents declassified Tuesday by the CIA. ''I can't picture Manuel Antonio de Varona in that plan, because he was an honorable and brave man who sought political or military solutions that were head-on, not tortuous,'' said Cuban historian Enrique Ros when he heard of the account. De Varona died in 1992. A summary of the failed operation, where De Varona is identified as ''Dr. Anthony Verona, one of the principal officers in the Cuban Exile Junta,'' is part of a voluminous package of much-censored information the agency released in an unusual gesture of openness. Known as ''The Family Jewels,'' the collection is composed of replies given by high-ranking U.S. officials to a 1973 request from the agency's director, James Schlesinger, asking that any illegal activities by the agency be reported. A second collection, also declassified Tuesday, contains 147 documents and about 11,000 pages of analysis on the ruling hierarchies in the Soviet Union and China, from 1957 to 1973. The content of the first package, which totals 693 pages, reflects the nervous obsession of the intelligence services to confront communism at all levels, from domestic details to international conspiracies. Journalists like Jack Anderson, student movements at Columbia University, and artists such as Jane Fonda and John Lennon were the constant targets of surveillance, according to these Cold War memoranda. ''This is the first voluntary CIA declassification of controversial material since George Tenet in 1998 reneged on the 1990s promises of greater openness at the agency,'' commented Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a private foundation that advocates the opening of official archives. Tenet was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 to 2004. Much of the package is devoted to CIA activities during the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. However, this first box of ''jewels'' contains information about other topics that, in their time, raised all kinds of suspicion. Among them: • The CIA's defense to media reports in June 1973 that the agency may have been involved in a plan to assassinate Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos before the United States could turn over control of the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama. • The agency's reaction to complaints of its alleged implication in a break-in at the Chilean Embassy in Washington in 1972, during the administration of leftist President Salvador Allende. Two radios and an electric shaver were stolen from the Embassy during the break-in. • The wiretapping of telephone communications between Miami and South America, under the excuse of detecting conversations regarding drug trafficking. As to the attempt against Castro -- one of many previously reported -- the documents casts light on the CIA's permeability when any sector opposed to the Cuban leader proposed eliminating him. In this case, the document says, the operation was planned beginning in August 1960, with the cooperation of Mafia personnel. Robert A. Maheu, a well-known CIA collaborator, offered to speak with Johnny Roselli, a Mafia leader with whom he had had previous contact in Las Vegas, to propose an elimination plan. Maheu introduced himself to Roselli as the envoy of a group of international investors in Cuba who were furious because of the economic losses they had suffered as a result of Castro's takeover. ''They were convinced that Castro's removal was the answer to their problem and were willing to pay a price of $150,000 for its successful accomplishment,'' Maheu told Roselli during a meeting on Sept. 14, 1960, at the Hilton Plaza Hotel in New York City. Present at the meeting was James O'Connell, chief of the CIA's Office of Security, who was introduced to Roselli as ``an employee of Maheu.'' Roselli declined to participate but put Maheu in touch with two men, ''Sam'' and ''Joe,'' who described themselves as ''couriers'' operating between Miami and Havana. The men looked familiar to Maheu but he couldn't place them. Weeks later, when he saw their pictures in a magazine, he reali
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Unveiling US Intel Spending And Contractors
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 7:40:48 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Unveiling US Intel Spending And Contractors Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spacewar.com/reports/ Unveiling_US_Intel_Spending_And_Contractors_999.html Unveiling US Intel Spending And Contractors by Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor Washington (UPI) June 27, 2007 A series of recent presentations by senior procurement officials in U.S. intelligence agencies shows that the proportion of their secret budget spent in the private sector has ballooned after Sept. 11, 2001 -- and could rise as high as 70 percent. One presentation was made by Terri Everett, the senior procurement executive for the director of national intelligence, at a Defense Intelligence Agency conference in May and later posted on the agency's Web site. A slide in the presentation included a pie chart showing that 70 percent of the budget for the U.S. intelligence community -- as insiders call the sprawling collection of 16 U.S. federal agencies managed by the Director of National Intelligence -- was currently spent on contract awards. However, that number was contested by two people with knowledge of the classified intelligence budget, neither of whom would agree to be identified discussing it. "It is wrong," one of them said. DNI spokesman Stephen Shaw told United Press International that the 70 percent figure provided "only a very rough order of magnitude." It was an estimate, he said, "designed to be illustrative of general trends in contracting" by U.S. intelligence agencies. He said that the figure indicated the universe of potential spending on private sector contracts. "Basically is it everything except U.S. government personnel costs," he said. That definition would make 70 percent the size of what federal market analysts call the "addressable market" -- the part of the budget potentially available for private sector contracts, rather than that actually spent on them. But it is still shockingly high, according to Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, who monitors U.S. intelligence agencies. "It's a very high number," he told UPI, especially given that it was an average across the 16 agencies and that for some of them, like the National Reconnaissance Office, which buys the nation's spy satellites, it is likely to be much higher. "It indicates that contractors are not only significant in (the) intelligence activities (of the U.S. government), but that they are dominant." he said. "It is shocking." Other recent presentations by senior procurement officials give weight to the notion that there has been a huge growth in intelligence community spending in the private sector. Deborah Walker, head of outreach for the senior acquisition executive of the National Security Agency, gave a talk last month at the same contractor conference at which Everett spoke. Walker said the number of contractors who had registered as interested in doing business with the agency rose eight-fold between October 2001 and October 2002, from 144 to 1,165. Between October 2002 and October 2006 the number rose more than four-fold again, from 1,165 to 5,425. Of course, not all of these companies actually get to do business with the NSA, which as the agency responsible for U.S. eavesdropping and electronic surveillance operations worldwide is one of the largest government buyers of high technology. But Walker also reported that the number of contractor facilities cleared by the NSA -- meaning that classified work can go on there -- has grown 30-fold from 41 in 2002 to 1,265 in 2006. While any business can apply to go on the register of those interested in working with the NSA, intelligence professionals tell UPI that other agencies generally do not go to the trouble and expense of getting a clearance for a contractor facility unless classified government work will actually be taking place there. Moreover, most analysts looking at the marketplace for government contractors see intelligence agencies as one of the few areas where spending will continue to grow robustly. INPUT, a research group that analyzes government contract markets, said last week in its annual forecast of federal information- technology spending that the addressable market from U.S. intelligence agencies purchasing in the field will increase from $9.4 billion in 2007 to $14 billion by 2012 -- a compound annual growth rate of 8.4 percent. Their forecast covered the three intelligence agencies with the biggest spending on information technology: the CIA, the NSA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which produces maps and analyzes satellite imagery. John Slye, INPUT's top federal analyst, told UPI he based his estimates on unclassified procurement do
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Warnings in Egyptian Press: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Is Going the Way of Hamas
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 8:15:08 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Warnings in Egyptian Press: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Is Going the Way of Hamas Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD163807 Special Dispatch-Egypt/Palestinian Authority/Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project June 28, 2007 No. 1638 Warnings in the Egyptian Press: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Is Going the Way of Hamas in Gaza In the wake of Hamas' takeover of Gaza, some in the Egyptian press have expressed fears that the Muslim Brotherhood may seize power in Egypt. They expressed concern at the similarities between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and said that lessons should be learned from the Palestinian experience in Gaza. The following are excerpts of articles from the Egyptian press: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is Trying to Reproduce Hamas' Experience in Gaza Tariq Hasan, a columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al- Ahram, wrote: "In Egypt there are those who are trying to reproduce what Hamas did in Gaza... For anyone who has the slightest doubt about this and wants proof, it is sufficient to consider statements by Brotherhood representatives in parliament... They said that Egypt waved the Zionist flag, despite the people's opposition to this. This means that Egypt, like the Palestinian Authority, deserves that a revolution should take place in it. "The Brotherhood, like Hamas, does not recognize the legitimacy of the parliament that ratified the peace treaty with Israel, nor the legitimacy of the state that ratified these agreements, since [in its view] it is a traitorous state that works for foreign interests and that does not represent its people. From these statements we understand that the Hamas problem is not [limited to] just Gaza, but it is also in Egypt, and that the Brotherhood holds the same positions and uses the same ideas and statements with which Hamas conducted a putsch against the [legitimate] government, and through which it declared Gaza a rebel region under its rule. "Here in Egypt the Brotherhood brought out the masked militias in Al-Azhar University, and there in Gaza Hamas put them to use. Here they changed the Egyptian flag and removed the eagle of the Republic from it, and there they took down the Palestinian flag and waved the green flag of Hamas. What can we expect?... "In light of this severe threat, it is not enough for us to say to people 'look at what Hamas did in Gaza' in order to warn them about the Brotherhood in Egypt. We must learn the lessons without delay. "Hamas won the game it was playing, and the Brotherhood is doing the [same] thing. There, there was a government that allowed them to take part in elections without their recognizing the legitimacy of that Authority [i.e. the PA] and without their being made to accept the state's constitution and its laws. Hamas used the elections and democracy as an instrument [in order to take power], and then they turned the matter over to the armed militias in order to conduct a putsch against everyone. "Here, there are [Muslim] Brothers who do not recognize the legitimacy of the state and oppose the constitution and the law, and despite this, we find people who say that [the Brotherhood] represents them and speaks in their name in parliament... Whoever ignores this [matter] will bring us into the gates of hell that we saw in Gaza..."(1) The Egyptian People Feel There is a Danger From Within Chairman of the executive council of the Egyptian weekly Roz Al- Yousef, Karam Gabar, wrote in his column: "Hamas is the Brotherhood of Palestine – the Palestine branch [of the Brotherhood]. They hold a place at the top of the list of members of the international organization of the banned group [i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood]. This means that this is a worldwide movement that does not recognize national identity, the flag, or the anthem. They do not recognize a homeland that must be defended and for which one must give one's life. The homeland for them includes any plot of land on Earth on which the flag of the Brotherhood may be flown... Hamas is the same thing. Whoever does not share their faith is [considered] outside of Islam, and he is treated like one of the infidels... "For Hamas and the Brotherhood, democracy is just dancing with Satan. The people who harbor the most enmity for democracy are those same groups who think that they have a divine mandate to rule and to implement the shari'a they see fit, and not Allah's shari'a. Democracy for them is just a means to take power; afterwards, they whip democracy with lashes and behead it with the sword... No one can raise their head and speak up without becoming an infidel who must be punished. Their democracy is worse than dictatorship... "In the history of Hamas
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The CIA releases censored internal misconduct reports that set off a domestic spying scandal
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 8:12:35 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] The CIA releases censored internal misconduct reports that set off a domestic spying scandal Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/6901 The CIA releases censored internal misconduct reports that set off a domestic spying scandal MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN - Associated Press Writer Wednesday June 27th, 2007 Comment on this Story | Read Comments WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA released hundreds of heavily censored documents Tuesday about its spying on Americans, foreign assassination plots and other misdeeds that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s. Known inside the CIA as the "family jewels," the documents were released with vast sections blocked out by agency censors. As a result, they were far less revealing than the reports issued in the mid-1970s by the three investigations which obtained unedited versions of these internal CIA documents a generation ago. The ensuing scandal sullied the reputation of the intelligence community and led to new rules for the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies and new permanent committees in Congress to oversee them. The 693 pages, mostly drawn from the memories of active CIA officers in 1973, were turned over at that time to three different investigative panels, President Ford's Rockefeller Commission, the Senate's Church committee and the House's Pike committee. The panels spent years investigating and amplifying on these documents. And their public reports in the mid-1970s filled tens of thousands of pages. In early 1975, CIA Director William Colby told the Justice Department that these documents detailed assassination plots against foreign leaders such as Fidel Castro, the testing of behavior-altering drugs on unwitting citizens, wiretapping of U.S. journalists, spying on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters, opening of mail between the United States and the Soviet Union and China and break-ins at the homes of ex-CIA employees and others. But as censored by the CIA, many of the most sensational events were mentioned in little more than one, sketchy paragraph apiece. The new documents devoted two paragraphs to the programs that opened mail between U.S. citizens and the Soviet Union and China. One paragraph said "Project WESTPOINTER," from the fall of 1969 through October 1971, was based in the San Francisco area and the "target was mail to the United States from Mainland China." The other paragraph said a program, begun in 1953 but dormant by 1973, intercepted incoming and outgoing Russian mail, and occasionally other types of mail, at New York's Kennedy Airport. By contrast, the Senate committee headed by Frank Church, D-Idaho, which spent two years investigating these documents, produced a book-length study of 12 CIA and FBI mail opening programs from 1940 to 1973. It found that the CIA alone had opened and photographed almost 250,000 first class letters in the United States and produced a computerized CIA index of nearly 1.5 million names. The agency's new documents contained an unsigned three-page memo that described CIA's program code named Operation CHAOS as a worldwide effort to collect information "on foreign efforts to manipulate U.S. extremism." It said some American extremists had been recruited by the CIA and sent abroad as contract agents, but asserts that CHAOS "has not and is not conducting efforts domestically for internal domestic collection purposes." Another 1973 memo to Colby from the CIA inspector general expressed concern over CHAOS "because of the high degree of resentment we found among many agency employees at their being expected to participate in it." But the Church committee reported in 1976 that CHAOS compiled a computerized index of 300,000 individuals, including 7,200 Americans and more than 100 domestic groups between 1967-1973 as it examined civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters. One of the most detailed descriptions in the newly released documents concerned one of the plots to kill the Cuban dictator Castro. A memo by CIA security chief Howard Osborn said in August 1960 the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu, who was a top aide to Howard Hughes in Las Vegas, to approach mobster Johnny Roselli and pass himself off as the representative of international corporations who wanted Castro killed. Roselli introduced Maheu to "Sam Gold" and "Joe," who were actually 10-most wanted mobsters Sam "Momo" Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago, and Santos Trafficante. The mobsters worked for free, turning down a $150,000 offer. The CIA gave them six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in the Cuban leader's food. This particular plot was dropped after the failed CIA
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] PACE endorses Marty Report on secret CIA detentions in Europe
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 7:56:43 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] PACE endorses Marty Report on secret CIA detentions in Europe Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php? page=detalii&categorie=homenews&id=20070627-6995 PACE endorses Marty Report on secret CIA detentions in Europe The Romanian amendments were turned down. PACE also said European governments should look into the need for democratic oversight of military intelligence services and foreign intelligence services operating on their territory. published in issue 3963 page 3 at 2007-06-28 The “Marty Report” was endorsed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 124 votes in favour, 37 against and eight abstentions. The same number of votes was cast on the draft Resolution, too. The document notes, with respect to Romania, that while its parliamentary delegation proved its firm will to cooperate with PACE, governmental authorities were rather reluctant to shedding full light on the CIA operations in Romania. “Most European governments did not prove transparency on the illegal detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states,” Dick Marty (Switzerland) mentioned on the third day of the PACE summer session works. Senator Marty also pointed out, in his address, that a condemnation of Romania and Poland was out of the question, given that their political communities as a whole had not been aware of the respective practices, except for a “number of leaders.” According to the Rapporteur, the role of his endeavour is to establish the right of the public opinion in all countries to learn the truth, but also to try to eliminate the resort to State secret in such cases, which infringe upon human rights. Dick Marty emphasised that he had been authorised by the Committee for legal affairs of the Council of Europe to guarantee complete confidentiality on the sources used in drawing up the report, a strategy which “has yielded fruit.” Representatives of Romania emphasised the absence of concrete evidence and reiterated that Romanian authorities in their turn carried out investigations which failed to prove that the events referred to by the document in question, namely the fact that CIA detainees were held in Romania, are real. Radu Berceanu emphasised that the Marty Report seems to deliberately violate the presumption of innocence, given that the Swiss MP had turned down the invitation of Romanian authorities to come to Romania and investigate allegations, and the data made available by Romanian institutions were not taken into account. Most MPs having taken the floor during the debate focused on the importance of the Marty Report in relation to the need to respect democratic principles and human rights in the war against terrorism. All amendments submitted by the Romanian delegation were turned down in the PACE plenary meeting, but another eight out of the total 19 amendments were accepted. Towards the end of the debates, the author of the report combated allegations that his paper was ‘a spy novel’, stating that all the evidence presented was sustainable given the fact that ‘anonymous testimonies are also accepted in court’. He further said that he had not traveled to Poland or Romania because he wouldn’t have got the expected answer from the authorities of those states anyway. According to Dick Marty, ‘there are people in some countries who try to stop the truth from being found’ but did not say who those people were. The resolution calls the members of Parliament and the member states of the Council of Europe ‘to shed light by lowering to a reasonable minimum level all barriers against transparency founded on concepts such as state secret and nationals security, on the abuse of the intelligence services in their territory or in the area of secret detention or illegal transfer of prisoners’. The resolution also requires that the victims of such illegal practices should be rehabilitated and restored dignity. The European mass- media are, in turn, called ‘to play their plenary role’ of defenders of transparency, of searchers of the truth, of tolerance in keeping with human rights and dignity. by Vasile Nicola -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collected by Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy News for OSINT purposes - it should
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Flash: CIA Family Jewel # 1 missing
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 28, 2007 8:02:24 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Flash: CIA Family Jewel # 1 missing Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=111676 Ed Haslam Flash: CIA Family Jewel # 1 missing. Wed Jun 27, 2007 13:34 72.201.70.108 Flash: CIA Family Jewel # 1 missing. http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/ View all web results for CIA Family Jewel On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 the CIA released a memo from the CIA Director of Security to the CIA Management Committee ( CIA Director, Deputy Director, etc.) The memo lists “illegal operations” conducted by the CIA from March 1959 to June 1964. These projects are what the CIA considers the “skeletons” in the CIA closet. The memo entitled the list “FAMILY JEWELS.” JEWEL # 1 is presumably the most important and egregious on the list. Yet, it is still completely censored 35+ years after the memo was written. Given the other items on the list include CIA-Mafia plots against Fidel Castro and the role of Attorney General Robert Kennedy is planning assassinations, why is JEWEL #1 still censored? To see this page, click JEWEL # 1. Following the summary list are explanations of each item. Every single word of the 3 page description of JEWEL # 1 is completely censored. Every single word. What are they hiding 35 years later? To see the whole document, click FAMILY JEWELS. My thanks to the National Security Archives for helping to make these documents available to the public. Is FAMILY JEWEL # 1 the bio-weapon discussed in Dr. Mary’s Monkey? If they will disclose it, I will stop speculating. In the meantime, I think it is a fair question. >>> Ed Haslam http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/ INTERVIEW TODAY6/27/7 Thom Hartmann - author, Air America progressive liberal talk radio ... The Thom Hartmann author and progressive liberal talk radio program home page - progressive and liberal talk show and writings and books by author Tom ... http://www.thomhartmann.com/ Amazon.com: Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor ... Amazon.com: Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee ... http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Marys-Monkey-Cancer-Causing-Assassination/ dp/0977795306 View all web results for CIA Family Jewel Cong. Dr. Ron Paul, America's only hope! http://www.apfn.org/apfn/ronpaul.htm Posted 06/26/2007 @ 5:25pm Where's the CIA's Missing Jewel http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=208296 What's the missing jewel? Today, the CIA released its infamous "Family Jewels" file. This is a set of internal memos compiled in the mid-1970s after press reports revealed numerous CIA dirty tricks. In 1973, CIA director James Schlessinger, having learned that Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and James McCord (each a CIA veteran) had been in contact with the Agency while carrying out illegal activities for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, ordered divisions within the CIA to report any activities they had engaged in since 1959 that might be outside the CIA's authority. Deputy Director William Colby then assembled a loose-leaf notebook of the memos that poured in. The whole package totaled 700 pages. And though its existence has been known for years--congressional investigators of the 1970s had access to these documents--this secret file has never before been made public. It was considered to hold the agency's darkest secrets. Many of these secrets did emerge during the congressional investigations of the 1970s: the joint CIA-Mafia attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro; CIA surveillance of American reporters and political dissidents; the CIA's secret jailing for three years of a suspected Soviet agent (who was not a Soviet agent). The newly- released documents are full of fresh details about some of these notorious episodes. But at least one of the "Family Jewels" seems to be missing. The first document in the packet is a 1973 memo from Howard Osborn, then the CIA's director of security, to the CIA top management, and it summarizes the "jewels" compiled by his office. It lists eight problems--including the recruitment of mobster Johnny Roselli for the Castro hit. But blacked out from this document is the first item on Osborn's list. And a two-and-a-half page description of this operation is also redacted from the "Family Jewels" file. In a recent speech, General Michael Hayden, the CIA's director, hailed the declassification of the "Family Jewels." He remarked, "The documents provide a glimpse of a very different time and very different Agency." Yet the very first secret in these papers has been deleted. "The No. 1 jewel of the CIA's Office of Security is probably a pretty good one--especially since the second jewel in this
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Sheiks on a Plane: FBI Docs Expose Anatomy of a Cover-Up
Begin forwarded message: From: Madcow News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 27, 2007 9:21:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sheiks on a Plane: FBI Docs Expose Anatomy of a Cover-Up Sheiks on a Plane: FBI Docs Expose Anatomy of a Cover-Up now up at: http://www.madcowprod.com/06282007.html WORLD EXCLUSIVE June 28, 2007 by Daniel Hopsicker The MadCowMorningNews has obtained the first photo ever published of the never-before-seen Learjet that flew the so-called Saudi "phantom flight" from Tampa Florida... a flight FBI and Bush Administration officials for more than three years denied ever took place. Last week's newly-released FBI documents on flights out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack by Saudi Princes and bin Laden family members generated headlines about the FBI's admission that Osama bin Laden may himself have chartered one of the planes. But the documents contain an even-more startling revelation: The Bush Administration, the FBI, the FAA, and even defense contractor Raytheon knowingly lied in repeated denials of newspaper and magazine accounts of the "phantom flight." The documents show that FBI agents and analysts, to buttress what was then the official government position, misstated, misrepresented, and even intimidated witnesses (an FBI specialty) into silence. They illustrate the inside anatomy of an FBI cover-up, using the same tactics which eyewitnesses in Florida reported the FBI used after the 9/11 attack. Reading them, you can watch a cover-up being born. read the whole story at: www.madcowprod.com The MadCowMorningNews
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Cabal: Blackstone/ Bear Stearns Conspiracy
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: June 27, 2007 8:00:53 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Bush Cabal: Blackstone/ Bear Stearns Conspiracy Bush Cabal: Blackstone/ Bear Stearns Conspiracy by AL MARTIN (6-25-07) Is the Blackstone Group IPO, the usual Republican pump and dump stock fraud scheme like they were back in the 1980s? No. These are slow-burn deals. A company like Blackstone is a quintessential example of a company that is literally the offspring of the great and all-powerful Bush Cabal. There’s no better example than Blackstone -- perhaps Carlisle Group being its twin sibling from the womb of Washington Bilk and Money. In other words, this is a stock that’s meant to be pumped slowly and dumped more slowly over time. Some people have read into this deal that sharp players, like Pete Peterson and his pals, who are the majority insider shareholders of Blackstone, would not be selling unless the Private Equity Fund management fervor was close to reaching a climax. Is it true? I don’t think it’s as close as some people think it is. It’s just a matter of timing then. That’s what they’re saying. I think we’re still a couple of years away from that. Because, although central banks are now acting to raise interest rates globally and, by extension, to contract liquidity on the yen-carry trade, the planet is still awash in cheap money. More-- Other Top Stories Mineta: Cheney Ordered 9/11 NORAD Stand Down by AARON DYKE(JONESREPORT) Prouty Refutes 'Peak Oil Scam' Conspiracy by L. FLETCHER PROUTY CIA Conspiracy: Intro to Assassination Business by L. FLETCHER PROUTY Shorting the Fake Market Rallies by AL MARTIN Mysteries of the Tarot by E. E. RHEMUS Barbara Bush: Aleister Crowley'sThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/index.cfmNote: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = <> index.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: No. 2 Man in Bush's Dept of the Interior Goes to Prison
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 27, 2007 12:14:24 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No. 2 Man in Bush's Dept of the Interior Goes to Prison During Senate confirmation hearings, it emerged that Grilles had had some "domestic altercations" which led to the following charges: Breaking and Entering (Richmond, VA 9-Jul-1975), charge reduced; and Trespassing (Richmond, VA 9-Jul-1975), convicted. Divorcing that wife, Grilles shacked up with his boss in the Bush Administration, while handing out goodies to lobbyists and getting goodies for himself and his gal pal (now his wife). Ain't life grand for second-tier Cabinet members in the banana republic AKA "F*ck-America." Judge Orders Prison Time for Ex-Interior Deputy By James V. Grimaldi Washington Post, June 27, 2007; A02 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/ AR2007062601472.html?hpid=moreheadlines A federal judge rejected the tearful pleas of the former second- ranking official in the Interior Department yesterday and sentenced him to 10 months in prison for a felony conviction of obstructing a Senate investigation into corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff. "You are not above the law," U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle told former deputy interior secretary J. Steven Griles as he asked for forgiveness. Griles pleaded guilty in March to lying to the Senate about his relationship with Abramoff. In the plea agreement, prosecutors recommended a sentence of five months of house arrest and five months in prison. But Huvelle imposed a sterner penalty of 10 months in prison and a $30,000 fine. She said she wanted to send a message to deter wrongdoing by high-ranking government officials. Defense attorneys had asked for three months of home detention, community service and a "reasonable fine." Griles, 59, the highest-ranking federal official convicted in the Abramoff scandal, apologized for his actions and cited 24 years of public service. "This has been the most difficult time," Griles said, pausing to break down in tears, "in my life. My guilty plea has brought me great shame and embarrassment. I have lost my business, my income and, most importantly, my reputation." The judge said that years of public service were no cause for leniency. "You held a position of trust as number two in the Department of Interior, and I will hold you to a higher standard," Huvelle told Griles. "I find that, even now, you continue to minimize and try to excuse your conduct and the nature of your misstatements." After the judge left the packed courtroom, Griles sought comfort from his wife, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, a former Interior Department solicitor and former assistant attorney general. Griles, who is not cooperating with the federal investigation, was introduced to the now-convicted lobbyist by a girlfriend who ran an advocacy group co-founded by former interior secretary Gale Norton and financed by Abramoff's Indian tribal clients. The government contended that Abramoff thought that if he and his tribal clients contributed money to the group, then he would gain special access to Griles through the girlfriend, Italia Federici. Federici pleaded guilty this month to tax and perjury charges and agreed to cooperate with the government. She admitted to acting as a go-between, shuttling information and lobbying requests from Abramoff to Griles. The government alleged that Abramoff raised thousands of dollars for Federici's group -- the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA) -- just before Griles became deputy secretary. The government said that Griles had asked for $100,000 for CREA and Abramoff solicited the funds from his tribal clients. Griles said that while he helped raise money earlier, he was unaware of those 2001 contributions to CREA on eve of his joining the Interior Department. He said he learned of them later when Federici stopped acting as a conduit between the lobbyist and Griles. With her brow furrowed, Huvelle expressed disbelief several times that Griles did not know that Abramoff was funding CREA at a time he was romantically involved with Federici. Griles stood in the front of the courtroom and said Abramoff was no different from any lobbyist who came before him as the top deputy to then-Secretary Norton. "I had more contact with many, many lobbyists -- more than Jack Abramoff," Griles said. Barry M. Hartman, attorney for Griles, told the court that the actions Griles took involved "normal, appropriate contacts with lobbyists," and that his only offense was not being truthful to the Senate about his relationship with Federici. Griles's attorneys disputed as "inaccurate inferences" government assertions that Griles pushed Abramoff's lobbying requests as he urged the lobbyist to hire
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Borat, Dick Cheney's Bastard Son
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 27, 2007 12:00:12 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Borat, Dick Cheney's Bastard Son http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment Ken Silverstein’s article in the current Harper’s, “Their Men in Washington” reminds us that the obstacles put in the path of influence peddlers representing corrupt and repressive regimes are impressive – on paper at least. On August 10, 2006, the White House released its “National Strategy to Internationalize Efforts Against Kleptocracy.” In doing so, the Bush Administration publicly embraced efforts to target corrupt foreign government officials as enemies of democracy and progress. The strategy committed the United States to take a number of approaches to counter corruption, including promises to: Vigorously Prosecute Foreign Corruption Offenses and Seize Illicitly Acquired Assets. In its continuing efforts against bribery of foreign officials, the United States Government will expand its capacity to investigate and prosecute criminal violations associated with high-level foreign official corruption and related money laundering, as well as to seize the proceeds of such crimes. Deny Physical Safe Haven. We will work closely with international partners to identify kleptocrats and those who corrupt them, and deny such persons entry and safe haven. It follows, then, that the last thing the Bush Administration would do following such an announcement is invite a “kleptocratic foreign public official” to Washington for a White House visit. Right? Well, maybe not. And indeed, on September 29, 2006, President Bush hosted the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, at the White House. How did the Kazakhs pull it off? We understand that the State Department firmly opposed the visit, as did staffers at the National Security Council. But our sources tell us that Kazakhstan turned to one of Washington’s most connected lobbying firms, Cassidy & Associates, to pave the way for this visit. And that made all the difference. Ken Silverstein’s piece makes clear what a powerhouse Cassidy & Associates is, and their ties to Kazakhstan could hardly come as a surprise. Moreover, Nazarbayev has a closely guarded relationship with the power behind the throne in Washington: Vice President Dick Cheney. During the Clinton years, as Cheney was serving as CEO of Halliburton, a leading oil and gas industry service provider with an enormous position in Kazakhstan, Cheney also served Nazarbayev as a member of Kazakhstan’s Oil Advisory Board, and the two are said to have formed a lasting rapport. The relationship continued when Cheney came to the White House, and Nazarbayev sought Cheney’s advice and intervention in connection with a Justice Department corruption investigation, according to a New York Times report by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Jeff Gerth. There has been lingering suspicion in Congress that Cheney intervened to slow down the Justice Department’s management of the Kazakh corruption investigation. In any event, following the Cheney- Nazarbayev contacts, the Justice Department’s actions slowed to a glacial pace. President Bush had only words of praise for his Kazakh guest. He spoke glowingly of Nazarbayev’s commitment to democracy in Afghanistan. Curiously, Bush remained silent on the status of freedom in Kazakhstan itself. The truth is that Kazakhstan, for all its economic accomplishment, is anything but a burgeoning democracy. This past May, Nazarbayev secured passage of a bill allowing him to run for as many presidential terms as he likes. Yes, that was literally meant. The bill gave the right only to Nazarbayev. All other candidates only get two presidential terms at most. Nazarbayev’s intelligence service frequently finds cause to harass and intimidate the opposition. In recent elections, opposition parties have won one seat in Parliament. Western observers like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have accused Nazarbayev of rigging elections. Indeed, at a press conference I attended in Almaty, after an election in which opponents achieved roughly 20% of the vote, Nazarbayev stated: “Well, I suppose you could say we’ve made 20% progress towards democracy.” The room erupted into laughter. But for many Kazakhs it was no laughing matter. The recent “Kazakhgate” trial here in the U.S. demonstrates that the Justice Department believes there is a pervasive culture of corruption within Nazarbayev’s regime. The trial centers on James Giffen, an American businessman with ties to the Western oil companies, who stands accused of funneling millions of dollars in bribes to Kazakh officials. Giffen ran Mercator Corporation, a small New York merchant bank. Mercator’s business consisted of represen
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Secret State, Bad State
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 27, 2007 11:49:17 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Secret State, Bad State Remember Checks And Balances? Sharon Bradford Franklin June 25, 2007 Sharon Bradford Franklin serves as senior counsel at the Constitution Project, an independent think tank in Washington, D.C. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/25/ remember_checks_and_balances.php Khaled El-Masri, a German car salesman and father, was on vacation in Macedonia when he was detained by local authorities. According to his sworn declaration, he was later transferred to U.S. authorities, and then beaten, sexually assaulted, drugged and transported to a CIA-run “black site” in Afghanistan. For almost five months, Mr. El-Masri was interrogated and held in a squalid cell without charges. Then, he was abandoned, blindfolded and alone, on a desolate Albanian hilltop more than a month after the CIA realized they had been holding the wrong man. Although Mr. El-Masri subsequently filed suit seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for their actions, thus far the U.S. government has refused either to confirm or deny any of his allegations. Rather, his case against the U.S. government was dismissed after the government asserted the “state secrets privilege,” suppressing any evidence or testimony that might have been used to litigate his claim. He is now seeking to appeal his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The executive branch has relied upon the state secrets privilege to claim that the disclosure of certain evidence in court would jeopardize national security, and therefore cannot be reviewed by private parties, the attorneys or even the judge. As one might expect, without this evidence cases are usually dismissed. The Supreme Court first recognized this privilege in 1953 in United States v. Reynolds, when it denied the widows of three civilian Air Force contractors access to an accident report. The Air Force had claimed that the report was confidential, noting that the personnel aboard the plane “were engaged in a highly secret mission of the Air Force.” When the report surfaced decades later, it became clear that the only sensitive information therein was evidence of negligence by the Air Force that may have caused the men’s deaths. The lower courts in Reynolds had ordered that the government submit the accident report to the trial court, so it could assess whether the document in fact contained state secrets that could not be disclosed. But the Supreme Court overruled this determination. Sadly, this Supreme Court precedent permitting the executive branch to assert the state secrets privilege without any independent review of the evidence still stands, and judges continue to give the Executive an alarming degree of deference when this privilege is invoked. The Constitution Project recently brought together a broad, bipartisan coalition of political leaders, policy experts and legal scholars in calling for reform of the privilege. Our Report on the State Secrets Privilege urges Congress or the Supreme Court to clarify the narrow and qualified scope of this privilege so that cases like Mr. El-Masri’s can be litigated. A court’s acceptance of an executive branch claim of privilege without question undermines the established practices and role of an independent judiciary. Dismissing challenges to executive branch policies outright in the name of national security is unnecessary and erodes individual rights. Although there is a role for the state secrets privilege to prevent disclosure of genuine state secrets to private parties, it is critical that our independent judiciary review such claims and determine when the privilege properly applies. Either the Supreme Court or Congress can cure this problem. Since the state secrets privilege was first recognized in the Supreme Court’s decision in Reynolds, the Court could revisit this issue to correct and clarify the proper scope of the privilege. As of this writing, Khaled El-Masri is seeking review of his case in the Supreme Court. Hopefully, the Court will accept review of the case, reexamine the scope and meaning of its decision in Reynolds and allow Mr. El-Masri’s case to proceed. Alternatively, since privileges are often created by statute, Congress can and should take steps to make clear that the state secrets privilege is not a license for Executive overreaching. Congress should craft legislation which clarifies that judges, not the executive branch, have the final say as to whether disputed evidence is subject to the state secrets privilege. Further, the Supreme Court or Congress should make it clear that instead of accepting executive claims as valid on their face, judges can and should privately review evidence allegedly s
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Domestic Special Ops -- Closing the Barn Door
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William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/
special_operations_prepared_fo.html#more
The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for
"homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its
own special operations command for domestic missions. The request,
reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent
sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as
well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on
American soil.
The establishment of a domestic special operations mission, and the
preparation of contingency plans to employ commandos in the United
States, would upend decades of tradition. Military actions within
the United States are the responsibility of state militias (the
National Guard), and federal law enforcement is a function of the FBI.
Employing special operations for domestic missions sounds very
ominous, and NORTHCOM's request earlier this year should receive
the closest possible Pentagon and congressional scrutiny.
There's only one problem: NORTHCOM is already doing what it has
requested permission to do.
When NORTHCOM was established after 9/11 to be the military
counterpart to the Department of Homeland Security, within its
headquarters staff it established a Compartmented Planning and
Operations Cell (CPOC) responsible for planning and directing a set
of "compartmented" and "sensitive" operations on U.S., Canadian and
Mexican soil.
In other words, these are the [same, formerly secret] special
operations that NORTHCOM is now formally asking the Pentagon to
beef up into a public and acknowledged sub-command.
NORTHCOM's compartmented and sensitive operations fall under the
Joint Chiefs of Staff "Focal Point" program, a separate
communications and planning network used to hide special operations
undertaken by the Joint Special Operations Command, headquartered
in North Carolina, and by CIA and other domestic compartmented
activities.
Since 2003, the CPOC has had a small core of permanent members
drawn from the operations, intelligence and planning directorates.
In an emergency, the staff can be expanded. According to NORTHCOM
documents, CPOC is involved in planning for a number of domestic
missions, including:
-- Non-conventional assisted recovery
-- Integrated survey programs
-- Information operations/"special technical operations"
-- "Special activities"
What are all of these programs? CPOC's basic missions include
responding to incidents of weapons of mass destruction, support for
Continuity of Government (COG), protection of the President,
response to domestic terrorism and insurrection and (presumably)
domestic intelligence collection. ("Special activities" is a
euphemism for covert operations.)
A number of operations plans have been associated with these
domestic operations:
-- CONPLAN 0300 is the basic contingency plan for combating
domestic terrorism (and may have been folded into newer such plans
now under the control of U.S. Special Operations Command).
-- "Power Geyser" is the contingency plan for incidents of weapons
of mass destruction in the Washington area. This includes both
recovery of a stolen nuclear weapon or disabling of an improvised
weapon or dirty bomb.
-- USNORTHCOM Antiterrorism Operations Order 05-01 deals with
domestic counterterrorism and domestic intelligence against groups
intent on attacking military interests.
With all this going on, for NORTHCOM to ask permission now seems
beside the point. Still, it's always better to ask. Isn't it?
See what's free at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: CIA MIND CONTROL EXPERIMENTS
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: CIA Contributes To The Creation Of The Crack Epidemic
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: TERROR FLIGHT SCHOOL OWNER'S NEW PARTNER
Begin forwarded message: From: Madcow News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 25, 2007 6:39:30 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TERROR FLIGHT SCHOOL OWNER'S NEW PARTNER TERROR FLIGHT SCHOOL OWNER'S NEW PARTNER: Drug Smuggler Caught in O.J. Simpson Sting Read the whole story at madcowprod.com WORLD EXCLUSIVE June 25 2007 by Daniel Hopsicker The owner of the flight school in Venice FL where the two hijackers who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center took flight lessons launched a new aviation company with a partner who was convicted in a 2002 drug sting in Miami whose target was O.J. Simpson, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Former owner of Huffman Aviation Wallace J. Hilliard filed articles of incorporation for PRESTIGE AIRWAYS,LLC with the State of Florida on June 8th, 2006, government records reveal. In a mysterious move, six months later he surreptitiously removed his name from company records. He is partners with convicted drug smuggler Philippe Gornail, who pled guilty to selling 37,000 'hits' of ecstasy in February 2002 in a drug case which involved a highly-publicized raid on O.J. Simpson's house in Miami by the combined forces of the FBI, DEA and Miami-Dade police. Between August and December of 2006 Prestige Airways flew an enormous number of flights (419!), records at the U.S. Dept of Transportation reveal, between Florida and Haiti. Nor is Philippe Gornail the only current Hilliard partner with a highly-checkered past. Read the whole story at madcowprod.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Tomgram: Roger Morris, The Gates Inheritance
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 20, 2007 12:13:50 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Tomgram: Roger Morris, The Gates Inheritance Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Tom Dispatch posted 2007-06-19 14:25:48 Tomgram: Roger Morris, The Gates Inheritance http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174812/ roger_morris_the_gates_inheritance Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Geronimo's Great-Grandson Wants Bones Returned
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 19, 2007 4:11:43 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Geronimo's Great-Grandson Wants Bones Returned http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/19/472.aspx "He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war because his remains were not returned to his homeland," Harlyn Geronimo said. "Presently, we are looking for a proper consecrated burial." Geronimo's great-grandson wants bones returned June 17, 2007 SANTA FE, N.M. --Legend has it that Yale University's ultrasecret Skull and Bones society swiped the remains of American Indian leader Geronimo nearly a century ago from an Army outpost in Oklahoma. Now, Geronimo's great-grandson wants the remains returned. Harlyn Geronimo, 59, of Mescalero, N.M., wants to prove the skull and bones purportedly taken from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., are indeed those of his great-grandfather. They're now said to be in a stone tomb that serves as the club's headquarters. If they are proven to be those of Geronimo, his great-grandson wants them buried near the Indian leader's birthplace in southern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. "He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war because his remains were not returned to his homeland," Harlyn Geronimo said. "Presently, we are looking for a proper consecrated burial." Harlyn Geronimo grew up hearing stories about his great-grandfather and other Apache warriors who fought the Mexican and U.S. armies. After their families were captured and sent to Florida, Geronimo and 35 warriors surrendered to Gen. Nelson A. Miles near the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1886. Geronimo was eventually sent to Fort Sill, where he died of pneumonia in 1909. If the bones at Yale aren't those of Geronimo, Harlyn Geronimo believes they belonged to one of the Apache prisoners who died at Fort Sill. He said they should still be returned. Harlyn Geronimo wrote last year to President Bush, seeking his help in recovering the bones. He thought that since the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was allegedly one of those who helped steal the bones in 1918, the president would want to help return them. But, Harlyn Geronimo said, "I haven't heard a word." The White House did not respond to messages seeking comment. President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both attended Yale and joined the elite club. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, is also a Bonesman, as are many other men in powerful government and industry positions. Members are sworn to secrecy -- and that's one reason they won't say whether the club has Geronimo's bones. "The reason there's all these conspiracy theories around Skull and Bones is because their loyalty to one another goes beyond their public differences," said historian and former Yale Alumni Magazine editor Marc Wortman. Skull and Bones is one of a dozen secret Yale societies, according to Yale spokeswoman Gila Reinstein. "If it's true about the bones, that's disrespectful and disturbing," she said. John Fryar, a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent in antiquities recovery and a member of Acoma Pueblo, said if the secret society does have remains, they should be returned to Fort Sill. "To ignore a request like this for the return of human remains is totally uncalled for. Look at our guys going to Vietnam to recover remains. It's the same thing," he said. * Juxtaposeur http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Closing In on Turd-Blossom
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Palast Exclusive: The Tears of a Clone
Conyers Closes in on Karl and his Rove-bots...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4696
*** Special to The BRAD BLOG by Greg Palast
Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry.
He cried. Then he lied.
You remember Tim. Karl Rove's right hand (right claw?) man. The
GOP's ragin' cagin' man.
Griffin is the Rove-bot exposed by our BBC Newsnight investigations
team as the man who gathered and sent out the infamous 'caging'
lists to Republican state chairmen during the 2004 election.
Caging lists, BBC discovered, were used secretly as a basis to
challenge the right to vote of thousands of citizens - including
the homeless, students and soldiers sent overseas. The day after
BBC broadcast that the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, John
Conyers, sought our evidence on Griffin, Tim resigned his post as
US Attorney for Arkansas. That job was a little gift from Karl Rove
who made room for his man Griffin by demanding the firing of US
prosecutor Bud Cummins.
Last week, our cameras captured Griffin, all teary-eyed, in his
humiliating kiss-off speech delivered in Little Rock at the
University of Arkansas where he moaned that, "public service isn't
worth it."
True. In the old Jim Crow days in Arkansas, you could get yourself
elected by blocking African-Americans. (The voters his caging game
targeted are - quelle surprise! - disproportionately Black citizens.)
But today, Griffin can't even get an unemployment check. When he
resigned two weeks ago following our broadcast, the cover story was
that the voter persecutor-turned-prosecutor had resigned to work
for Presidential wannabe Fred Thompson. But when Thompson's staff
was asked by a reporter why they would hire the 'cagin' man,'
suddenly, the 'Law and Order' star decided associating with Griffin
might take the shine off Thompson's badge, even if it is from the
props department.
Griffin, instead of saying that public service "isn't worth it,"
should have said, "Crime doesn't pay." Because, according to
experts such as law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 'caging,' when
used to target Black voters' rights, is a go-to-prison crime.
By resigning, Tim may not avoid the hard questions about caging -
or the hard time that might result. When I passed the first set of
documents to Conyers (a real film noir moment, in a New York hotel
room near midnight), the soft-spoken Congressman said that,
resignation or not, "We aren't done with Mr. Griffin yet..."
Tears Not Truth
Back in Little Rock, when asked about caging, Rove's guy linked a
few fibs to a few whoppers to some malefactious mendacity. That is,
he lied.
"I didn't cage votes. I didn't cage mail," Griffin asserted.
At the risk of making you cry again, Tim, may I point you to an
email dated August 26, 2004. It says, "Subject: Re: Caging." And it
says, "From: Tim Griffin - Research/Communications" with the email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] RNCHQ is the Republican National Committee
Headquarters, is it not, Mr. Griffin? Now do you remember caging mail?
If that doesn't ring a bell, please note that at the bottom is
this: "ATTACHMENT: Caging-1.xls". And that attachment was a list of
voters.
In last week's pathetic farewell, Mr. Griffin averred that the
accusation he was involved in caging voters, "Goes back to one guy
- whose name I won't mention." (FYI, Mr. Griffin: My mother calls
me, "Gregory.")
Yes, I first reported the story for BBC London - back in 2004
which, as Griffin correctly noted, it was ignored by my US press
colleagues until, as Tim put it, "I became embroiled in the US
Attorney thing." By 'the US Attorney thing,' I assume you are
referring to your involvement in firing and smearing honest
prosecutors and grabbing one of their salaries for yourself.
You say, Mr. Griffin, that the unmentionable reporter, "Made [it]
up out of whole cloth." You flatter me, Mr. Griffin. We could not
possibly be so creative at The Beeb as to construct the thousands
of names of voters on your caging lists.
And by the way, we don't have just one of your "caging" emails, but
scores of them.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for sending them to us
- even if that was not your intent. You copied your caging missives
to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Mr. Doster was Chairman of the
Florida Bush campaign - but that address was not his but John
Wooden's pretending to be the Bush campaigners. Wooden then sent
your notes to me.
Rove in Range
By the way, Mr. Griffin, if you want an explanation of 'caging
voters,' just read an email dated February 5, 2007 by...Tim Griffin.
In that email, Griffin references the Bush campaigns mailing out
thousands of letters. The letters returned ('caged
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The corporate takeover of US intelligence
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 19, 2007 2:49:37 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] The corporate takeover of US intelligence Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/ index.html The corporate takeover of US intelligence The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability. The Salon / by Tim Shorrock / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [He is writing a book about the privatization of U.S. intelligence, which will be published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster] Jun 2 2007 More than five years into the global "war on terror," spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business. On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year’s estimated budget of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least $34 billion in contracts. The figure was disclosed by Terri Everett, a senior procurement executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the agency established by Congress in 2004 to oversee the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence infrastructure. A copy of Everett's unclassified PowerPoint slide presentation, titled "Procuring the Future" and dated May 25, was obtained by Salon. (It has since become available on the DIA's Web site.) "We can't spy ... If we can't buy!" one of the slides proclaims, underscoring the enormous dependence of U.S. intelligence agencies on private sector contracts. The DNI figures show that the aggregate number of private contracts awarded by intelligence agencies rose by about 38 percent from the mid-1990s to 2005. But the surge in outsourcing has been far more dramatic measured in dollars: Over the same period of time, the total value of intelligence contracts more than doubled, from about $18 billion in 1995 to about $42 billion in 2005. "Those numbers are startling," said Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. "They represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy into something new and different that is literally dominated by contractor interests." Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing with it, or how effectively they are using it. The explosion in outsourcing has taken place against a backdrop of intelligence failures for which the Bush administration has been hammered by critics, from Saddam Hussein's fictional weapons of mass destruction to abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Aftergood and other experts also warn that the lack of transparency creates conditions ripe for corruption. Trey Brown, a DNI press officer, told Salon that the 70 percent figure disclosed by Everett refers to everything that U.S. intelligence agencies buy, from pencils to buildings to "whatever devices we use to collect intelligence." Asked how much of the money doled out goes toward big-ticket items like military spy satellites, he replied, "We can't really talk about those kinds of things." The media has reported on some contracting figures for individual agencies, but never before for the entire U.S. intelligence enterprise. In 2006, the Washington Post reported that a "significant majority" of the employees at two key agencies, the National Counterterrrorism Center and the Pentagon's Counter- Intelligence Field Activity office, were contractors (at CIFA, the number was more than 70 percent). More recently, former officers with the Central Intelligence Agency have said the CIA's workforce is about 60 percent contractors. But the statistics alone don't even show the degree to which outsourcing has penetrated U.S. intelligence -- many tasks and services once reserved exclusively for government employees are being handled by civilians. For example, private contractors analyze much of the intelligence collected by satellites and low- flying unmanned aerial vehicles, and they write reports that are passed up to the line to high-ranking gov
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] New agency IARPA develops Spy Tools
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 19, 2007 2:56:36 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] New agency IARPA develops Spy Tools Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW AGENCY IARPA DEVELOPS SPY TOOLS AP / by Katherine Shrader Using a new laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia. Intelligence officials are running documents in languages such as Arabic through a new computer program called "English Now." It converts the foreign characters into the Roman alphabet and makes words such as Baghdad, President Bush or Osama bin Laden jump out to spies who can't read Arabic. The language software and the fingerprint-recognition system are examples of new spy gear that the national intelligence director's office bought last year. They may seem like tools that should have been available years ago, but the government isn't noted for its ability to quickly develop new technology. A fledging center called IARPA is hoping to change that. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will try to develop groundbreaking technology for the 16 spy agencies. One potential tool sounds like it comes from an episode of Star Trek: "cloaking" technology that can bend radar around an object to make it appear it's not there. Others include power sources shrunk using nano-technology and quantum computers that can speed code- breaking, says IARPA acting director Steve Nixon. "The world has changed in dramatic ways with globalization of technology," Nixon said in an interview. "These are the things that might not get done otherwise." But not everyone is convinced this is the right way to make new spy tools. The House Intelligence Committee has questions about whether the government truly needs it. "Much of this research is already going on," said Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee's panel on technical intelligence. She said IARPA raises questions about the role of new National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who was supposed to coordinate U.S. intelligence agencies _ not get into their daily operations. "Is it to fund these things and pull them into the DNI's office and give itself its own turf and projects and pet rocks?" she asked. There is even resistance within the CIA itself, according to officials who spoke about the concerns privately. The agency gets money that is supposed to go for spy tools that can be shared across the government. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano denied any friction, saying the agency welcomes ideas that promote collaboration on new technology. In the last half-century, U.S. spy agencies have made technical breakthroughs large and small. In the 1970s, the CIA shared its lithium-iodine batteries with the medical field, which now uses them in pacemakers. Its scientists developed microdot cameras that can produce images so small that they can be hidden in the period of this sentence. They also built a life-size robotic dragonfly that could have been used for surveillance, if only it could have handled crosswinds. If IARPA can clear some crucial hurdles, including convincing its congressional skeptics, the new office will be modeled after a similar agency that develops gee-whiz toys for the Pentagon. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was created after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, driving home the U.S. competitive disadvantage in space. Since then, DARPA researchers have brought the United States much-heralded advances including stealth technology, global positioning systems and the Internet. But it also brought controversy. The agency's Total Information Awareness data-mining program was launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to use technology to find terrorists; critics saw it as a step toward Big Brother-style mass government surveillance. Congress eliminated the program's funding at DARPA in 2003, but portions were moved to secret accounts at other agencies. The new intelligence organization will be significantly smaller than DARPA, which has a $3 billion annual budget. It will be based at the University of Maryland and staffed with 56 intelligence professionals from the CIA and from McConnell's organization. Rather than funding IARPA in the House intelligence budget bill passed this month, lawmakers directed technology dollars to centers developing tools that can be shared across government, including offices within the CIA, National Security Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The measure included criticism of McConnell's office for failing to provide details on how IARPA will work and raised questions about whether it would harm existing research for spy tools. Nixon says IARPA won't have labs and electron mi
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] [B]iggest mob trial since Al Capone
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 19, 2007 12:11:27 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] [B]iggest mob trial since Al Capone Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2106235,00.html The 78-year-old wiseguy at the centre of biggest mob trial since Al Capone · Ex-head of Chicago 'Outfit' accused of dozen murders · Prosecutors hope to lift lid on two decades of crime Richard Luscombe in Miami Tuesday June 19, 2007 Guardian Frail, wizened, in a wheelchair and with a heart complaint, 78-year- old Joey Lombardo hardly cuts the figure of a ruthless mafia godfather allegedly behind more than a dozen Chicago murders in the 1970s and 80s. But to the authorities in the Windy City, the gangster nicknamed "the Clown" for his wisecracks and sharp wit is perhaps their biggest catch since Al Capone almost 80 years ago. Mr Lombardo and a handful of senior associates will appear in a federal court this morning on conspiracy to murder and racketeering charges, at the start of a four-month trial that promises more intrigue than an entire series of the recently ended gangland drama The Sopranos. At its heart is Lombardo, the reputed former head of the powerful Chicago "Outfit" whose alleged victims include the underworld rival Tony Spilotro, buried alive in an Indiana cornfield in 1986, and whose murder was later recreated in the film Casino. Mr Lombardo, who was on the run for almost a year before his capture by FBI agents last January, joked to a judge at his pre-trial hearing that he had been, "what do they call it, unavailable", when asked if he had seen a doctor recently. A colourful supporting cast includes an array of mob squealers, bent cops, loan sharks, bookies, hit men and pornographers whose testimony, prosecutors hope, will lift the lid on more than two decades of mafia violence in one of America's most crime-ridden cities. "It'll be many years before there's anything to rival this," Lee Flosi, a former member of the FBI's organised crime task force told the Chicago Tribune. Mr Lombardo, who joined the Chicago Outfit in the 1950s and served eight years for conspiracy in the late 1980s, revels in his reputation as a prankster. He enjoys yawning to spoil police mugshot photographs and was once said to have fled a police raid on a gambling den clutching $12,000 and a book of jokes. One friend said he was "more liked than the priest" in the West Side neighbourhood where he used to coach baseball to children. Prosecutors, however, are keen to play up the seriousness of the allegations against him. Jurors, who have been promised anonymity for their protection, will hear that Mr Lombardo, and his fellow leaders of the so-called Outfit, James Marcello and Frank Calabrese Sr, were allegedly responsible for up to 18 unsolved slayings in Chicago, along with running the usual mob activities of illegal gambling, protection rackets and prostitution rings. The defendants were indicted along with 11 others in 2005 after an intensive FBI operation that investigators code-named "Family Secrets", because it involves a mob captain, Nicholas Calabrese, giving evidence against his brother about Spilotro's murder. Yet only five of the ageing defendants remain to stand trial today, including Mr Marcello and Mr Calabrese, 65 and 71 respectively; the Outfit's alleged leading loan shark, Paul Schiro, 69, and an ex- Chicago police officer, Anthony Doyle, 62. Those to have fallen by the wayside in the two years since the indictment include Frank Saladino, who was found dead in a New Hampshire motel room along with thousands of dollars in cash, and Frank Schweihs, a 77- year- old alleged Outfit enforcer, who has been excused from today's proceedings because he is undergoing treatment for cancer. Mr Schweihs is the second alleged geriatric godfather to win favourable treatment from US courts this year. Albert Facciano, 97, was sentenced to house arrest at his Florida condominium last month despite admitting to decades of service as a henchman for New York's Genovese crime family. Some mafia experts believe that a higher success rate in the Lombardo case might have been achieved if tackling gangland crime had been made a higher priority. "It's taken a long time for law enforcement officials and federal authorities to do to the mob in Chicago what authorities in New York have been doing for 20 years," said Jerry Capeci, editor of the ganglandnews.com website. "Back in the 1980s, authorities there were obtaining racketeering indictments against entire families." Mr Lombardo's health, meanwhile, is likely to becoming a recurring theme at his trial. While in custody last September, he underwent heart surgery after his lawyer repeatedly complained that the authorities wer
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who is Jon(athon) Moseley?
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 18, 2007 3:14:58 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Who is Jon(athon) Moseley? Who is Jonathon Moseley? by Deborah Stevens http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/WhoisJonathonMoseley.html On Wednesday August 16, 2006 a person named Jonathon Moseley posted an outrageously false and libelous hit piece against Professor Steve Jones, Professor Emeritus Jim Fetzer, and the society Scholars For 911 Truth on WorldNetDaily, which was thoroughly refuted by Dr. Fetzer on WorldNetDaily on August 18. Moseley bore false witness against Professor Jones by alleging that he was "calling for the violent overthrow of the government " during the televised panel discussion of the L.A. Scholars Symposium which aired on CSPAN multiple times. Moseley even had the audacity to repeat this deliberate falsehood by adding that "millions of people heard him [Jones] say it" during a debate with Dr. Fetzer and Alex Jones on the Alex Jones show earlier this week. Jonathon Moseley stated at the beginning of the interview that he is an attorney and that his brother-in-law owns the publishing company associated with the Swift Boat book that attacked the war record of John Kerry, the Democrat's candidate for President in 2004. An internet search revealed that Moseley is also the Executive Director of the U.S. Seaport Commission, a public policy organization that warns against foreign control and ownership of the U.S. ports. This organization is also part of another policy- forming group, the U.S. Intelligence Council, which disseminates publications regarding threats of China and concern of our ports. It would be interesting to know if these entities are CIA assets. Perhaps Moseley would like to tell us. More searching led to what looks like a press release disguised as a news article in July of 2005 which suggests that he had served as the Executive Director of yet another entity, the Legal Affairs Council, in 2005 and had endorsed and promoted the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. More search shows that The Legal Affairs Council is another organization that develops policy whose mission statement includes "sharing intelligence about legal and government relations issues that impact advertising and marketing." Their stated purpose is to "Develop and respond to identified Government Issues" and "Educate Government officials about the value of interactive advertising." Even though Moseley's hit piece against Dr. Jones wasn't endorsed or represented by the LAC, this still leaves one wondering if Dr. Jones, Dr. Fetzer, and the Scholars For 911 Truth society are considered "identified Government issues" that Mr. Moseley needed to "respond" to. The LAC is but one of an assortment of councils that are all part of the larger Interactive Advertising Bureau, where these councils of the IAB apparently advise the government on all different aspects of advertising & marketing. The LAC appears to be the government's legal advice team in this regard. In other words, it looks as though the LAC works out the legal details for what may be one of the goverment's more substantial propaganda machines, the IAB. Thus Moseley was in charge of the LAC last year and heavily propagandized the John Roberts nomination. Moseley's unbelievably juvenile tactics during the debate as well as his complete lack of preparation was obvious. But one thing just stuck out so much - it was the tone and frequency of his voice that led me to question whether the person who was debating with Jones and Fetzer could actually even be old enough to be the person in the photograph posted on the U.S. Seaport Commission's website. I discovered the webpage of his private lawfirm which is posted on lawguru. I did some simple addition of some numbers provided on his own site to determine his approximate age. Moseley stated that he had been an attorney for eight years when he started his own firm. His earliest message post to this site was around April of 2004. To go through the normal process of becoming a lawyer, presumable one would need 4 years of college and three years of law school. Once you add in the eight years of experience he claims he had under his belt as of 2004, his age would have been approximately 33 years old at minimum in 2004, which would make him 35 years old this year at minimum. A photo of Moseley on his U.S. Seaport Commission site confirms this deduction. The person who debated with Jones and Fetzer sounded and acted like a much younger person. I found it difficult to believe that this strikingly immature sounding person could be the man in that photo at least 35 years of age, an attorney with the presumptive maturity, experience, intelligence, and critical thinking skills that (one would h
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Osama Bin Laden "Confession Video" A Fraud
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 18, 2007 7:10:24 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Osama Bin Laden "Confession Video" A Fraud Bin Laden's "confession video" has reached every civilized corner of the earth in which a press can be found. Hundreds of millions of people saw, heard, or read about the video. On December 13, 2001 the video was publicly released, and considering the sheer volume of exposure, there should have been no questions, no room for doubt. Yet, to this day, every iota of documentation related to the discovery of the video and the process by which it was authenticated as genuine is secret. The U.S. government claims that all information relating to the acquisition of the videotape is a matter of national security. What could possibly justify the secrecy surrounding the videotape? See what's free at AOL.com. From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 17, 2007 4:49:10 PM PDT Subject: C.I.A. Letter Supports Assertion That O.B.L. "Confession Video" Was A Sting Operation http://www.ichblog.eu/text/content/view/1709/1/ *C.I.A. Letter Supports Assertion That O.B.L. "Confession Video" Was A Sting Operation* By Ed Haas 06/16/07 How many times has the now infamous Osama bin Laden "confession video" played in the corporate media after its release on December 13, 2001? How many newspapers carried the story of Osama bin Laden, confessing to his prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, in their December 14, 2001 editions? How about worldwide? Combined, how many television stations, radio broadcasts, and newspapers do you think ran segments and stories about the content of this video? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ "OPED NEWS" -- Considering the number of television and radio news media outlets globally, coupled with the fact that many of the television news stations in the United States played portions of this video every 15 minutes for weeks after its release, and it can be safely estimated that this "confession video" has played millions of times since its release nearly six years ago. It can also be accepted as fact that the story of the "confession tape" was deemed fit for print repeatedly in every newspaper and news magazine in the United States and nearly every other similar type of publication worldwide. Without a doubt, exposure to the "confession video" has reached every civilized corner of the earth in which a press can be found. Millions of times hundreds of millions of people saw, heard, or read about the video. On December 13, 2001 the video was not a secret anymore. With its sheer volume of exposure, there should be no secrets about it. Yet, to this day, documentation related to the discovery of the video and its authenticity is being guarded by elements of the U.S. government under the veil of in the interest of national defense or foreign policy. The U.S. government claims that the documentation surrounding the videotape is a matter of national security -- and therefore secret. What could possibly be the secret surrounding the videotape? Almost unanimously, the western corporate media has accepted the "confession video" as the Department of Defense described it in its December 13, 2001 press release -- that the videotape of Osama bin Laden was obtained by U.S. forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in late November 2001 -- without question. http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id285.html How is it that virtually nobody within the corporate media became curious about exactly how the video was obtained by U.S. forces? Which U.S. forces? What unit? The U.S. government claimed that the "confession video" was found in a destroyed building once used by al-Qaeda fighters. How? I'm trying to imagine the scene. U.S. forces are searching abandoned buildings in Jalalabad and surrounding areas. They’re trying to smoke out al-Qaeda. Fire teams are entering each building, many in ruins, trying to locate al-Qaeda fighters. There, inside a bombed out building complete with the accustomed war torn debris is a videotape…It captures the attention of a soldier? He picks it up…and then what? What was the name of the soldier[s]? We know the names of the soldiers that found Saddam Hussein hiding in a spider hole. Why not tell us the name of the soldier that discovered this most important videotape? What made him pick up the video? What made the videotape stand out? Where was it among the rubble? Was it on a shelf, on a table, or in a box? Who did he give the video to after he retrieved it? Where did the video go next? And who watched the video for the first time and why? What prompted somebody to even bother to watch it? How did it arrive in the United States? From beginning to end, what was the chain of custody of the video from the time it wa
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush buddy/Skull & Bones member is "boss of the Blackstone private equity."
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: June 15, 2007 7:24:26 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Bush buddy/Skull & Bones member is "boss of the Blackstone private equity." http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2104177,00.htmlThe Guardian profile: Stephen SchwarzmanBorn: February 14 1947Family: Married to Christine Hearst, a lawyer. Three children between them from previous marriagesEducation: BA from Yale ; MBA from Harvard business schoolEmployment: Began at Lehman Brothers; managing director by 31. Left 1985 to co-found BlackstoneInterests: Chairman, Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts; board of New York Public Library; member Council on Foreign Relations thinktank Andrew Clark in New YorkFriday June 15, 2007The Guardian After a tough day of deal-making, it is only right that the king of Wall Street should retire home to a palace. Stephen Schwarzman does just that - his Manhattan apartment boasts 35 rooms including a foyer the size of a ballroom, his-and-hers saunas, a pine-panelled library, 11 fi replaces and 13 bathrooms.Works by Claude Monet and the American abstract artist Cy Twombly adorn the walls of the two-floor, 20,000 square foot Park Avenue residence. In pride of place, according to visitors, is a silver-framed photograph of Schwarzman arm in arm with President Bush. Brash, well-connected and fabulously wealthy, Schwarzman, 60, is New York's man of the moment. The Pennsylvania-born boss of the Blackstone private equity empire has been at the forefront of a rush of multibillion-dollar deals to snatch public companies away from the prying eyes of the stock market.Article continuesBlackstone's investments have included $12.7bn (£6.4bn) for the market research firm Nielsen, $3.2bn for United Biscuits, $2.3bn for Orangina and $3.6bn for Merlin Entertainment - the owner of Madame Tussauds, Alton Towers and the London Eye. In November, the firm smashed records by paying $38bn for US property firm Equity Office Properties.The son of a curtain store owner, Schwarzman is not blessed with deep reserves of patience, and to describe him as competitive would be a reckless understatement. "I want war, not a series of skirmishes," he told one interviewer this week. "I always think about what will kill off the other bidder."The business channel CNBC has dubbed him the premier capitalist in America. In a March cover story, Fortune magazine crowned him as Wall Street's monarch.This week, Blackstone was compelled to disclose the extent of his riches in a prospectus for a stock market flotation, and revealed that Schwarzman took home $398m in cash last year. When the firm goes public, he will scoop at least $449m and his ongoing 23% stake in the business will be worth $7.7bn.Blackstone points out that these sums reflect the fact that Schwarzman invested his own money to start the fi rm in 1985. But to some, he has become a poster boy for financial excess.Richard Ferlauto, director of investment policy at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, says Schwarzman benefits from favourable tax breaks and is setting a benchmark bound to drag up boardroom pay elsewhere: "How much incentive does he need, given his direct ownership of the company, to get him to produce more for his limited partners?"Another union, the SEIU, is more measured. It says private equity has an opportunity to shape companies in a beneficial way for both workers and employers. But spokesman Andy McDonald adds: "Right now, the economy's doing very, very well for a small number of people but there's a much larger group for whom wages are stagnant and healthcare is hard to come by."By definition, private equity is low-profile. Its logic is to take companies with long-term challenges out of the public gaze and to restructure them without day-to-day scrutiny from investors. Blackstone's rivals - KKR, Texas Pacific and Carlyle Group - shun the limelight. Schwarzman, though, is different. Short, grey-haired and softly-spoken, he is renowned for his exotic parties. His Christmas event was themed on 007, with Bond girls sashaying around with trays of nibbles. Then in February, he spent an estimated $3m on a birthday bash featuring private performances by Rod Stewart and Patti LaBelle at a regimental armoury on Manhattan's upper east side. The venue was decorated to look like Schwarzman's own living room, complete with a huge portrait of the host himself. Guests included Colin Powell, Donald Trump and mayor Michael Bloomberg.Typical of Schwarzman's prestige is his choice of living space. He paid $30m in 2000 for his apartment, which was previously the home of the Mayflower descendant George Brewster, John D Rockefeller and computer leasing magnate Saul Steinberg. "Each one of them, in their way, was the ultimate capitalist
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Huck Finn, Meet Buck Foosh
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 14, 2007 12:22:32 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Huck Finn, Meet Buck Foosh America’s Nostradamus 06/14/2007 - 04:44. http://www.diatribune.com/america-s-nostradamus There’s no doubt that a good argument could be made, and often is, that the most famous of American prognosticators is none other than the enigmatic Edgar Cayce, and I certainly would never take anything away from his extraordinary psychic achievements. But, I talk today about another man with the gift of sight, a soothsayer wrapped in the illusory façade of a simple humorist whose intelligence and foresight was both underestimated and underappreciated back in his day. However, today he's proving to be the Nostradamus of American life whose forward vision was leaps and bounds ahead of his own 19th-Century. I first read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was eleven- years old. At the time, bound by my underdeveloped powers of comprehension, the level of Twain’s patriotic capaciousness escaped me. But his ability to use humor to reveal the hidden nuances of American life did not. His rapier wit and excoriating literary style cast a beacon into not only the sentiency of 19th-Century adolescence in Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but also, in his later works, the collective mindset of a country struggling through an era of onslaught by corporate elitists and their chickenhawk marionettes in Washington – an era much like we find ourselves in today. Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger, first published back in 1916, (six- years after his death) is exponentially darker than his prior works. And, unlike Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, this magniloquent masterpiece disallows the reader the comfort of cloaking his/her emotions behind a puerile front. It dares to question the beliefs and ideals insidiously instilled deep in the American psyche by our perennially propagandist government. The Mysterious Stranger takes the unwitting reader on a surreal journey to mankind’s darker side. It exploits, as only Mark Twain can - our irrational fears and propensity for solving all our problems with violence – be it burning witches at the stake – or waging wars serving only the “… little monarchs and their [petty] nobilities.” As we find ourselves a day deeper into the delusional morass of blood, guts and ignominy that is Bush’s perpetual war, Twain’s words ring even truer than he ever intended: "The loud little handful will shout for war then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will out shout them and presently the anti-war audiences will thin and lose popularity. Before long, you will see the most curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men. And now the whole nation will take up the war cry, shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.” Ahh, but Mr. Twain’s just getting started. He nails it with this passage: "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after the process of grotesque self- deception." Don’t forget, it’s been more than nine-decades since Mr. Twain wrote the above missive, and it was published just about the same time as the decider guy’s war-profiteering ancestors first started making their blood-millions by selling out our country. Alas, at this dangerous time in history, this once great country is left with (incurious) George; the least likely of our presidents to read the clarion messages left by our most patriotic predecessors, let alone learn by them. By contrast, this cretinous man remains bunkered down in the now- defiled White House, adamant to carry out his costly hegemonic wars and whispers of wars - no matter what the people say. Meanwhile, every new chasm he creates in this country; every new religious contention or political wall; every new subversion of our Constitution brings this country closer to a precipice reserved only for the fallen, ignominious empires of history. Mr. Twain wonders aloud why free men would follow such despots: "But what does it amount to? Nothing at all. You gain nothing. You always come out where you went in. For a million years, the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself and monotonously re- performing this dull nonse
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [narconews] Giordano Refuses 2007 Project Censored Award
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From: "David B. Briones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 14, 2007 12:09:48 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [narconews] Giordano Refuses 2007 Project Censored Award
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June 14, 2007
Please distribute widely
Dear Colleague,
Narco News Publisher Al Giordano has been awarded a 2007 "Project
Censored" Award for his reports, last summer, documenting the
massive electoral fraud in Mexico's presidential race.
But the award - which we never asked for - came with conditions,
including that he allow a commercial editorial house of dubious
repute to republish his work.
Giordano responds to the email from Tricia Boreta of Project
Censored, informing him of the conditions of his award:
"Dear Ms. Boreta,
"Please don't take this personally - I think that all of you at
Project Censored are sincere people that believe you are helping me
and other independent journalists - but I must decline your 2007
award.
"I must also insist that you not publish my words or reporting, not
even in 'synopsis' form, in any book by Seven Stories Press and its
UDBCP ('Unethical Douche Bag of a Capitalist Publisher'), Dan
Simon. I do not wish to be associated with that editorial house or
its owner in any way..."
Read the whole sordid tale on Narco News:
http://www.narconews.com/
From somewhere in a country called América,
David B. Briones
Webmaster
The Narco News Bulletin
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Re: [cia-drugs] amended resend - ctrl awol.. / " Dunno. "
Yes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is down, dunna know why. Have contacted yahoo, they say they will get back in 48 hours. And there is no phone number that I have that works until Monday. So we will see. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still running. Peace, K On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:12 AM, w r wrote: > > bob, > > i just noticed that you linked to the ctrl homepage.. > glad it's there , but from the links i posted , i > asssumed it was clear that i was asking about the ctrl > yahoo group.. which i do assume you recognised.. > > aren't you a bit upset ? i am .. lots of good info > gone and the > group itself is a venerable online institution still > very timely five years past 9 / 11.. > > is mr. millegan not owner / mgr of both ( ctrl and > cia- drugs ) grougs.. ? > > didn't he approve my initial > question posted to this board about the ctrl messages > gone misssing being .? > > if you're reading this , kris , please let us know if > you killed the archive .. or if yahoo did.. and in > eithe case , why by your choice or to your best > knowledge this happened.. and if t he group archives > and activity can or will be restored.. > > thanks , w r > > > ^ > > cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com > From: "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 09 > Jun 2007 08:13:52 - > Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: what happened to ctrl ? > > Dunno. > > http://www.ctrl. org/graphicHome/ CTRLhome. html > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com, "essentuky_17" > wrote: >> >> >> >> seems all messages are gone.. gone for good ? what > happened ? >> >> >> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/ctrl/ >> >> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/ctrl/ messages >> >> >> Activity within 7 days: >> >> (No Activity) > > > > __ > __ > Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added > security of spyware protection. > http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php > > > Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ > > Please let us stay on topic and be civil. > > OM > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
[cia-drugs] Fwd: "I Work for Your Government, So I'm Above the Law and Not Accountable"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 8, 2007 5:35:31 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "I Work for Your Government, So I'm Above the Law and Not Accountable" The lawyers representing the families of four American Blackwater contractors killed in Fallujah say the company is counter-suing the families to keep them quiet and to avoid any accountability. Blackwater stonewalled families concerning any information about how their menfolk were killed. For 2 1/2 years, Blackwater has not answered a single question or produced a single document. tags: neocons, war profiteering, no decency Blackwater Sues Families of Slain Employees for $10 Million to Try to Suppress Their Story By Daniel J. Callahan and Marc P. Miles, AlterNet Posted on June 8, 2007, Printed on June 8, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/53460/ The following article is by the lawyers representing the families of four American contractors who worked for Blackwater and were killed in Fallujah. After Blackwater refused to share information about why they were killed, the families were told they would have to sue Blackwater to find out. Now Blackwater is trying to sue them for $10 million to keep them quiet. Raleigh, NC -- The families of four American security contractors who were burned, beaten, dragged through the streets of Fallujah and their decapitated bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River on March 31, 2004, are reaching out to the American public to help protect themselves against the very company their loved ones were serving when killed, Blackwater Security Consulting. After Blackwater lost a series of appeals all the away to the U.S. Supreme Court, Blackwater has now changed its tactics and is suing the dead men's estates for $10 million to silence the families and keep them out of court. Following these gruesome deaths which were broadcast on worldwide television, the surviving family members looked to Blackwater for answers as to how and why their loved ones died. Blackwater not only refused to give the grieving families any information, but also callously stated that they would need to sue Blackwater to get it. Left with no alternative, in January 2005, the families filed suit against Blackwater, which is owned by the wealthy and politically-connected Erik Prince. Blackwater quickly adapted its battlefield tactics to the courtroom. It initially hired Fred F. Fielding, who is currently counsel to the President of the United States. It then hired Joseph E. Schmitz as its in-house counsel, who was formerly the Inspector General at the Pentagon. More recently, Blackwater employed Kenneth Starr, famed prosecutor in the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal, to oppose the families. To add additional muscle, Blackwater hired Cofer Black, who was the Director of the CIA Counter- Terrorist Center. After filing its suit against the dead men's estates, Blackwater demanded that its claim and the families' existing lawsuit be handled in a private arbitration. By suing the families in arbitration, Blackwater has attempted to move the examination of their wrongful conduct outside of the eye of the public and away from a jury. This comes at the same time when Congress is investigating Blackwater. Over 300 contractors have been killed in Iraq with very little inquiry into their deaths. The families claim that Blackwater is attempting to cover up its incompetence, its cutting of corners in favor of higher profits, and its over billing to the government. Due to lack of accountability and oversight, Blackwater's private army has been able to obtain huge profits from the government, utilizing contacts established through Erik Prince's relationships with high-ranking government officials such as Cofer Black and Joseph Schmitz. In addition to assembling its litigation troops, Blackwater also stonewalled the families concerning any information about how the men were killed. Over the past two and a half years, Blackwater has not responded to a single question or produced a single document. When the families' attorneys, Callahan & Blaine, obtained a Court Order to take the deposition of a former Blackwater employee with critical information about the incident, Blackwater quickly re- hired him and sent him out of the country. When the witness returned to the United States more than a year later, the families obtained another Court Order for his deposition. Blackwater again prevented them from taking his deposition by seeking the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office to block the deposition under the guise that he possibly possessed national secrets. Following an investigation, the U.S. Army reported that the witness had no secret information and that it had no objection to the deposition. Blackwater has now lifted this
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" May Have Smuggled Drugs for "CIA Airlines"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 6, 2007 2:40:58 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" May Have Smuggled Drugs for "CIA Airlines" Monday, June 04, 2007 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/06/terror-plot-suspect-worked- for-cias.html Terror plot suspect worked for the CIA's airline The following may be the most important story I have ever written. It's an incomplete story -- indeed, we have, at present, only about 50 pieces of a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps some of you can help find missing parts of the picture. In a previous post, I argued that the "terrorist ring" led by Russell DeFreitas -- the man who had targeted JFK airport, where he once worked -- was actually a drug smuggling ring. Now we have a Newsday piece on the bomb plot which functions as a sort of palimpsest: The surface text shows hints of a more important tale which lies beneath. Authorities were tipped to the plot by a confidential informant, a convicted drug trafficker who has been working with law enforcement since 2004, according to the complaint The author of this piece does not ask the obvious question: Why was a drug trafficker tasked to get close to former baggage handler DeFreitas? The criminal complaint makes clear that DeFreitas vouched for this drug trafficker to his contacts in the Caribbean criminal underworld. The author of the Complaint -- Robert Addonizio, an investigator with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force -- prefaces his findings as follows: Because the purpose of this Complaint is to state only probable cause to arrest, I have not described all the relevant facts and circumstances of which I am aware. In other words, he does not feel obligated to discuss any subjects other than terrorism. Subjects such as smuggling. Although some media accounts have correctly identified Jamaat al Muslimeen -- a criminal organization based in Trinidad -- as a party to the JFK airport plot, none of these stories have seen fit to mention that JAM is in the business of illegal drugs and weapons. The Complaint makes clear that a JAM leader was cognizant of and involved with the plot. Although the leader is not named, the reference almost certainly goes to head honcho Abu Bakr, one of the world's most dangerous men. (On page 29 of the Complaint, Kadir is quoted as saying that this JAM leader -- whose name is redacted -- has strong ties to Libyan strongman Mohamar Qadafi. So does Bakr.) This CBS story claims that JAM did not offer the plotters support. That claim is directly contradicted by paragraphs 53-58 of the Complaint, which few in the media seem to have read with any care. So why isn't the Bush administration, which loves a good scare story, talking about JAM and its leader, Abu Bakr? Bakr knew about this plot. Why is the media focused on four relative small fry? Why the odd reticence to mention a Qadafi associate? I don't have an answer to those questions right now. But I did discover a genuinely astounding connection. The afore-cited Newsday piece gives this account of Russell DeFreitas' employment history: [New York City Police Commissioner Ray] Kelly said Defreitas last worked at Kennedy in 1995 as a baggage handler with a subsidiary of Evergreen International Airlines Inc., an airline services company based in McMinnville, Ore. Kelly said Defreitas was unemployed and lived alone. [Emphasis added.] Oddly enough, the chronology is contradicted by another Newsday story -- a profile of DeFreitas -- which reports: Defreitas was hired by a cargo transportation company at Kennedy Airport, Watts said. Documents show he was employed as a "trainee supervisor" in 2001 with Evergreen Eagle, a subsidiary of Oregon- based Evergreen International Aviation. Officials there declined to comment. When in 2001? After September 11? More to the point, was he a baggage handler or a supervisor? All of this is of no small importance, for one simple reason: Evergreen is CIA. Of all the airlines used by the CIA -- and they have used many -- Evergreen has the closest, most longstanding ties to the agency. So close are they that we may fairly say that the two entities are kept separate only by a polite legal fiction. This is not a questioned fact. This is not "tin foil hat" speculation. For example, this San Diego Union Tribune story (on a non-political subject) refers to "Evergreen Airlines – the CIA's (contract) airline that replaced Air America of the Vietnam era." A number of respected books on the Agency refer to Evergreen as the CIA's airline. Also see this fascinating affidavit by a pilot who became involved with these operations. Evergreen aircraft have, it seems, been used for "extraordinary renditions" (the transport of captured pri
[cia-drugs] Fwd: (2) Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" Worked for "CIA Airlines" Smuggling--
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 6, 2007 2:56:32 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (2) Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" Worked for "CIA Airlines" Smuggling-- Saturday, June 02, 2007 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-on-jfk-airport-terror- plot.html More on the JFK airport terror plot (BIG update) (I've added much to this account, and have taken the research into areas visited by few other bloggers. Yes, it's a big, long, weird story -- but I beg you to stay with it.) An FBI informant was involved with the JFK airport terror plotters: The plan was foiled with the help of an informant who recorded conversations with the suspects as recently as last month. But so far, we have no reason to believe that the informant encouraged criminality, as has occurred in previous instances. An initial report on CNN fleetingly suggested that the plot actually concerned drugs in some way. Certain factors make the idea intriguing -- after all, the story involves airport personnel who have strange connections to the Caribbean. Stranger still, two of the four accused, Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir, come from the South American nation of Guyana. Accused plotter Abdul Kadir, a former member of parliament in Guyana (!), was on his way to an Islamic religious conference in Iran. His daughter denies that he has any association with either the other accused conspirators or with any anti-American activity. However: Kadir's wife, Isha, said that her husband was nabbed while boarding a flight to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran. He had flown from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday. That sort of travel has a cost. This guy is getting money from somewhere. According to the Australian, Authorities said Kadir and Nur were associates of Jamaat Al Muslimeen, a Muslim group behind a 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad. This Sunni group, led by former police officer Yasin Abu Bakr, is a nasty bit of business with a long and continuing history of rape, kidnapping and murder. So far, I've seen no evidence that Jamaat Al Muslimeen is related to Al Qaeda. Keep in mind, as you read the following, that Trinidad/Tobago has an ethnically diverse population, and that less than ten percent of the citizens of that island nation is Muslim. Regarding that 1990 coup: A court ruling, questioned by many as patently absurd on the facts, upheld an amnesty agreement obtained during the incarceration of parliament by the group. This led to the non-prosecution of its members for this crime despite the contention that the fact that guns and force were used to obtain said amnesty constituted duress. Obviously, the court was paid off. Think money, think drugs, think smuggling. In many respects, the Jammat al-Muslimeen’s ideology and rhetoric mirror that of militant Black ethno-nationalist movements, including the most radical fringes of the Nation of Islam. Abu Bakr’s supporters see him as a hero fighting for social justice. Interestingly, although most Trinidadians did not support his 1990 coup attempt, many at the time agreed with the issues raised by the Jammat during the crisis, especially impoverished Afro- Trinidadians. At the same time, the Jammat is seen by many locally as a well organized criminal empire involved in everything from drug smuggling, money laundering, kidnapping for ransom, and extortion, with Abu Bakr running the show. (Emphasis added.) Interestingly, the arms for the 1990 coup came from Florida. Paging Daniel Hopsicker! Right now, I suspect this matter goes beyond any simplistic scenarios of Bushco attempting to gin up a terror threat in order to bolster his poll numbers. I think these guys were involved with smuggling. I think CNN's early whispered suggestion of "drugs" was right on the money. Indeed, we can hardly come to any other conclusion -- after all, we're talking about airport security personnel allying themselves to a criminal group in control of a nation's illicit activities. If my suspicions are correct, the FBI didn't need a terror tale to shut down this operation. And that's intriguing. Update: One of our commenters made a point which should have occurred to yours truly. If Kadir belongs to a Sunni sect, why is he attending a religious meeting in Iran, a Shi'ite country? And why go to Iran through Venezuela? (Second update: A reader says that Kadir was Shi'ite and that Venezuela has the only direct flight to Iran; see the fourth comment, below.) We are told that this plot has been in the working for two years, but Kadir was a member of the Guyanese parliament as recently as last year. This blogger and I are not sympatico politically (although I too am a fan of good ol' Andy Jackson),
[cia-drugs] Fwd: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 30, 2007 7:02:43 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Begin forwarded message: From: Madcow News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 30, 2007 2:22:23 AM PDT To: Subject: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Pirates of the Caribbean "Christian Fundementalists" and the CIA A mysterious missionary support organization flying weekly "relief flights” to Haiti from the Airport in Venice, FL. may be providing "cover" for CIA covert operations in the Caribbean, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.. Run by an ordained Southern Baptist minister, Agape Flights is a fundamentalist Christian operation which has been involved in some highly un-Christian activities like flying shipments of food and “religious supplies” on a regular basis to a man accused of plotting a coup in Haiti when he was caught importing into that troubled country an M-16, a Beretta, and a camouflage uniform with the words "God's Army" emblazoned across the chest. The news marks the second time fundamentalist Christian groups have surfaced recently in unexplained operations at the Venice Airport, and comes on the heels of revelations of a million dollar unpaid loan to recently-deceased televangelist Jerry Falwell from Wally Hilliard, owner of terror flight school Huffman Aviation. A web of connections offers clues that the group was serving some agenda other than that of the Almight: The group's links to the controversial Summer Institute of Linguistics, accused in the Latin American press of being funded by American intelligence to export a virulent brand of Christian fundamentalism to undermine the social cohesion of aboriginal communities and eliminate obstacles to natural resource exploitation. Involvement in the aforementioned CIA-backed coup in Haiti, explored more fully in our next story. U.S. Treasury Dept. permission for Agape to fly regularly to Cuba. (Michael Moore, take note.) Mohamed Atta's flight instructor at Huffman Aviation, Mark Mikarts, flies for Agape... Interestingly, Mikarts used to be someone else. Spies often use aliases, don't they? Read the whole story at The MadCowMorningNews www.madcowprod.com The Secret History of Jerry Falwell Televangelist Links to Terror Flight School in Florida Dusty & 'the boys' The CIA, the Narco-Republicans, & 5.5 tons of cocaine The Silencing of Carol Lam Secret 'Hookergate' Indictment Led to Ouster =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/103.html
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 28, 2007 7:40:33 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/103.html http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/103.html
[cia-drugs] A Real News Exclusive CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Lars en | The Real News Project January 8, 2007 NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA docum
A Real News Exclusive CIA Helped Bush Senior In Oil Venture By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project January 8, 2007 NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.' But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush's oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency. According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush's original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The '75 memo describes Devine as an "oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush." The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963. "Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil," the memo reads. In fact, early Zapata corporate filings do not seem to reflect Devine's role in the company, suggesting that it may have been covert. Yet other documents do show Thomas Devine on the board of an affiliated Bush company, Zapata Offshore, in January, 1965, more than a year after he had resumed work for the spy agency. It was while Devine was in his new CIA capacity as a commercial cover officer that he accompanied Bush to Vietnam the day after Christmas in 1967, remaining in the country with the newly elected congressman from Texas until January 11, 1968. Whatever information the duo was seeking, they left just in the nick of time. Only three weeks after the two men departed Saigon, the North Vietnamese and their Communist allies launched the Tet offensive with seventy thousand troops pre- positioned in more than 100 cities and towns. While the elder Bush was in Vietnam with Devine, George W. Bush was making contact with representatives of the Texas Air National Guard, using his father's connections to join up with an elite, Houston- based Guard unit - thus avoiding overseas combat service in a war that the Bushes strongly supported. The new revelation about George H.W. Bush's CIA friend and fellow Zapata Offshore board member will surely fuel further speculation that Bush himself had his own associations with the agency. Indeed, Zapata's annual reports portray a bewildering range of global activities, in the Mideast, Asia and the Caribbean (including off Cuba) that seem outsized for the company's modest bottom line. In his autobiography, Bush declares that "I'd come to the CIA with some general knowledge of how it operated' and that his 'overseas contacts as a businessman' justified President Nixon's appointing him as UN ambassador, a decision that at the time was highly controversial. Previously disclosed FBI files include a memo from bureau director J. Edgar Hoover, noting that his organization had given a briefing to two men in the intelligence community on November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The memo refers to one as "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" and the other as "Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency." When Nation magazine contributor Joseph McBride first uncovered this document in 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush, then vice president and seeking the presidency, insisted through a spokesman that he was not the man mentioned in the memo: "I was in Houston, Texas, at the time and involved in the independent oil drilling business. And I was running for the Senate in late '63. I don't have any idea of what he's talking about." The spokesman added, "Must be another George Bush." When McBride approached the CIA at that time, it initially invoked a policy of neither confirming nor denying anyone's involvement with the agency. But it soon took the unusual step of asserting that the correct individual was a George William Bush, a one-time Virginia staffer whom the agency claimed it could no longer locate. But that George Bush, discovered in his office in the Social Security Administration by McBride, noted that he was a low-ranked coast and landing-beach analyst and that he most certainly never received such an FBI briefing. It was perhaps to help lay to rest the larger matter of the elder Bush
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Re: Opium: Iraq's deadly new export
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 25, 2007 11:48:33 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Re: Opium: Iraq's deadly new export Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The issue becomes even more relevant when considering how much governmental 'black' money is raised through the growing, harvesting, sale, and distribution of drugs, reminding one of the Mena projects of some time ago. We don't fail to recognise that in every case of American intervention or involvement, there is a corresponding rise in durg trafficking, white slavery, prostitution, and assorted other 'social ills.' From the Russian Hebraicist emigrations to the fall of the Soviet Union; from the bombing of Yugoslavia to the freedom fighters of Kosovo; from the wresting of Afghanland from the Taleban to the regime change in Iraq, the NeoCons' liberal decadence has left it footprint like Yeti all over the World. Drugs, as we know from the Boxer period in China, are quite effective in controlling a population, driving them toward obsessive behaviours instilled in them by a hypernatural need for their form of stimulus or paliative. How effective is the control over the labour market by taking the 'druggies' off of the street? How much more does a society devote to medical and psychological study and practice when introducing a 'problem' into society? Why, even a drunken druggie can grow up to be President! We might look to the Chinese to see how they solved their problems concerning (at least) drugs. FEMA camps are indicated for their capabilities and capacities for sequestering and secluding various segments of the population. Simple usage of a drug, found in the bodies' fluids, might in the future constitute possession, requiring a mandatory sentence. Incarceration opens up the job market. Prisons and associated industries thrive as do lawyers on both sides, policing, and psychological manipulators. Long ago, I was in favour of taking the drunks and druggies and doing something similar, putting them in camps where they could fulfill their destinies through unlimited, unrestricted usage. Or, they could clean up, given a ONE-time shot (recidivism allowing for destiny fulfillment). The advantages to this are the reduction of crime, the availability of good dope, clean living conditions, and the elimination of various very real social ills, like diseases and aberrant behaviours (hooking and the like). Very humane, allowing nonusers and users alike to live as they choose without one interfering with the other. The various highway departments could utilise the manpower of those choosing the 'high way' their way, not unlike Cool Hand Luke and his fellows. Sunshine, exercise, various visual diversions, and the like. The drug companies might even employ the users for the manufacture and testing of the chemicals (natural drugs would be legalised and therefore not part of the programmes), doing something that they like while guaranteed a ready supply. (Viagra and like drugs might be a problem but ...) My thought was to be benevolent with some obviously weak or misguided people who might not qualify for the military as a 'way out' of their unfortunate circumstances. Skills training (aside from the shovels and scythes), education, and other activities might save more than a few. Chemists and statisticians might be of especial importance and use! But, this was before the very real prospect of such a situation spiralling out of control, confining anyone who was considered to be weak or misguided, politically, religiously, socially, or mentally. 'Benemalevolence' entered my vocabulary, for the good of the bad people, loosely translated. Or, 'malebenevolence,' bad for the good people. Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to Be Dual-Hatted as Director of Defense Intelligence
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 25, 2007 6:07:14 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to Be Dual-Hatted as Director of Defense Intelligence Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070524/pl_usnw/ under_secretary_of_defense_for_intelligence_to_be_dual_hatted_as_direc tor_of_defense_intelligence Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to Be Dual-Hatted as Director of Defense Intelligence Thu May 24, 10:30 AM ET To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, +1-202-201- WASHINGTON, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell signed a memorandum of agreement this week that establishes a role for the under secretary of defense for intelligence as the director of defense intelligence within the Office of the DNI. In his role as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr. will continue to report to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense. The responsibilities and the authorities assigned to this position by the secretary will not change. As the Director of Defense Intelligence, Clapper will report directly to the DNI and serve as his principal advisor regarding defense intelligence matters. The director of defense intelligence will have responsibilities as determined by the DNI in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and promulgated separately. The secretary and the director made this agreement in recognition of the crucial importance of coordinated intelligence efforts to the national security of the United States. The defense intelligence components provide a full range of intelligence products and analysis to a broad spectrum of consumers, from military forces in the field to senior policy makers across the federal government. These efforts are intertwined with the national intelligence efforts overseen by the DNI. "The creation of the Office of the Director of Defense Intelligence is in recognition of the importance of coordinated intelligence efforts to the national security of the United States," said Clapper. "This office will serve to strengthen the relationship between the DNI and the DoD." At an operational level, there should be no impact on the day-to- day operations and management of defense intelligence agencies, added Clapper. "The objective here is to facilitate staff interaction and promote synchronization," he said. The MOA does not alter the statutory responsibilities or authorities of either the secretary of defense or the DNI but will provide a framework to ensure a seamless integration of critical intelligence efforts. SOURCE Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense -0- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collected by Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy News for OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner & editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [CTRL] Fwd: Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one:
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 23, 2007 8:03:48 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one: Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 23, 2007 8:02:02 AM PDT To: Cia-drugs Cia-drugs Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one: http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/05/well-god-is-in-heaven-and-we- all-want.html#comments From one of Jeff's links above, Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one: http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2006/122706.html As part of his business strategy, Moon explained that he would dot the continent with small airstrips and construct bases for submarines which could evade Coast Guard patrols. His airfield project would allow tourists to visit “hidden, untouched, small places” throughout South America, he said. “Therefore, they need small airplanes and small landing strips in the remote countryside,” Moon said. “In the near future, we will have many small airports throughout the world.” Moon wanted the submarines because “there are so many restrictions due to national boundaries worldwide. If you have a submarine, you don’t have to be bound in that way.” (As strange as Moon’s submarine project might sound, a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Japan, dated Feb. 18, 1994, cited press reports that a Moon-connected Japanese company, Toen Shoji, had bought 40 Russian submarines. The subs were supposedly bound for North Korea where they were to be dismantled and melted down as scrap.)" and very SPECTRE like, Moon as Dr. No in Uraguay, that location where Bush family wants to escape to as well: Moon’s relocation to Uruguay didn’t go entirely without a hitch. More evidence surfaced about Moon’s alleged South American money laundry. In 1996, the Uruguayan bank employees union blew the whistle on one scheme in which some 4,200 female Japanese followers of Moon allegedly walked into the Moon-controlled Banco de Credito in Montevideo and deposited as much as $25,000 each. The money from the women went into the account of an anonymous association called Cami II, which was controlled by Moon’s Unification Church. In one day, Cami II received $19 million and, by the time the parade of women ended, the total had swelled to about $80 million. It was not clear where the money originated, nor how many other times Moon’s organization has used this tactic – sometimes known as “smurfing” – to transfer untraceable cash into Uruguay. Authorities did not push the money-laundering investigation, apparently out of deference to Moon’s political influence and fear of disrupting Uruguay’s banking industry. Still, Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic group, and some investigative journalists kept up pressure for a fuller examination of financial irregularities at Moon’s bank. Sometimes, the critics found their work a risky business. In January 1997, only two months after the money-laundering flap, Pablo Alfano, a reporter for El Observador who had been investigating Moon’s operations, was kidnapped by two unidentified men. The men claimed not to belong to Moon’s Unification Church, but threatened Alfano at gunpoint unless he revealed his sources on Moon’s operations. One gunman shoved a revolver into Alfano’s mouth and warned “this is no joke.” After holding Alfano for 30 minutes, the gunmen returned the reporter to his house, with a warning that they knew his movements and those of his family. Despite the threats, the reporter said he refused to disclose his sources. But the message was clear: he should drop his investigation. [fn, FBIS, Jan. 30, 1997.] Other critics condemned Moon’s heavy-handed tactics. “The first thing we ought to do is clarify to the people [of Uruguay] that Moon’s sect is a type of modern pirate that came to the country to perform obscure money operations, such as money laundering,” said Jorge Zabalza, who was a leader of the Movimiento de Participacion Popular, part of Montevideo’s ruling left-of-center political coalition. “This sect is a kind of religious mob that is trying to get public support to pursue its business.” Finally, in 1998, Uruguayan Central Bank president Ramon Diaz pushed the long-whispered allegations against Moon’s bank into the parliamentary record. Diaz accused Banco de Credito of violating financial rules, operating at a constant loss, practicing dubious credit policies with insolvent customers and holding inadequate cash reserves. Diaz demanded that the bank add $30 million in capital within 48 hours or face government intervention.
[cia-drugs] Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one:
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/05/well-god-is-in-heaven-and-we-all- want.html#comments From one of Jeff's links above, Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one: http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2006/122706.html As part of his business strategy, Moon explained that he would dot the continent with small airstrips and construct bases for submarines which could evade Coast Guard patrols. His airfield project would allow tourists to visit “hidden, untouched, small places” throughout South America, he said. “Therefore, they need small airplanes and small landing strips in the remote countryside,” Moon said. “In the near future, we will have many small airports throughout the world.” Moon wanted the submarines because “there are so many restrictions due to national boundaries worldwide. If you have a submarine, you don’t have to be bound in that way.” (As strange as Moon’s submarine project might sound, a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Japan, dated Feb. 18, 1994, cited press reports that a Moon-connected Japanese company, Toen Shoji, had bought 40 Russian submarines. The subs were supposedly bound for North Korea where they were to be dismantled and melted down as scrap.)" and very SPECTRE like, Moon as Dr. No in Uraguay, that location where Bush family wants to escape to as well: Moon’s relocation to Uruguay didn’t go entirely without a hitch. More evidence surfaced about Moon’s alleged South American money laundry. In 1996, the Uruguayan bank employees union blew the whistle on one scheme in which some 4,200 female Japanese followers of Moon allegedly walked into the Moon-controlled Banco de Credito in Montevideo and deposited as much as $25,000 each. The money from the women went into the account of an anonymous association called Cami II, which was controlled by Moon’s Unification Church. In one day, Cami II received $19 million and, by the time the parade of women ended, the total had swelled to about $80 million. It was not clear where the money originated, nor how many other times Moon’s organization has used this tactic – sometimes known as “smurfing” – to transfer untraceable cash into Uruguay. Authorities did not push the money-laundering investigation, apparently out of deference to Moon’s political influence and fear of disrupting Uruguay’s banking industry. Still, Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic group, and some investigative journalists kept up pressure for a fuller examination of financial irregularities at Moon’s bank. Sometimes, the critics found their work a risky business. In January 1997, only two months after the money-laundering flap, Pablo Alfano, a reporter for El Observador who had been investigating Moon’s operations, was kidnapped by two unidentified men. The men claimed not to belong to Moon’s Unification Church, but threatened Alfano at gunpoint unless he revealed his sources on Moon’s operations. One gunman shoved a revolver into Alfano’s mouth and warned “this is no joke.” After holding Alfano for 30 minutes, the gunmen returned the reporter to his house, with a warning that they knew his movements and those of his family. Despite the threats, the reporter said he refused to disclose his sources. But the message was clear: he should drop his investigation. [fn, FBIS, Jan. 30, 1997.] Other critics condemned Moon’s heavy-handed tactics. “The first thing we ought to do is clarify to the people [of Uruguay] that Moon’s sect is a type of modern pirate that came to the country to perform obscure money operations, such as money laundering,” said Jorge Zabalza, who was a leader of the Movimiento de Participacion Popular, part of Montevideo’s ruling left-of-center political coalition. “This sect is a kind of religious mob that is trying to get public support to pursue its business.” Finally, in 1998, Uruguayan Central Bank president Ramon Diaz pushed the long-whispered allegations against Moon’s bank into the parliamentary record. Diaz accused Banco de Credito of violating financial rules, operating at a constant loss, practicing dubious credit policies with insolvent customers and holding inadequate cash reserves. Diaz demanded that the bank add $30 million in capital within 48 hours or face government intervention. Within hours, panicked customers pulled $10 million in deposits out of the bank. Diaz’s goal of forcing Moon to sell the bank seemed within reach. One senator claimed that Diaz hoped an Argentine investment group would step in and take over the bank. Moon proved, however, that his seemingly bottomless well of cash could fill the bank’s vaults in a crisis. Before the 48-hour deadline, Moon transferred $30 million into the ailing bank and retained control. Banco de Credito continued to suffer chronic financial troubles. The bank again slipped into a deficit estimated at $120 million. Same Japanese "smurfin
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Orwell Would Be Proud -- Busheviks Rewrite History of JFK/RFK Assassinations
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 22, 2007 5:54:30 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Orwell Would Be Proud -- Busheviks Rewrite History of JFK/RFK Assassinations Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 22, 2007 4:35:26 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Orwell Would Be Proud -- Busheviks Rewrite History of JFK/ RFK Assassinations Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan & 9/11: foreknowledge of an attack? According to the former prison guard at Corcoran, Sirhan Sihan, did something in the months before 9/11 he had not done at any other time during his decades of incarceration – he ordered a television set for his cell. Interestingly, he showed no interest in watching television, only to occasionally check to make sure that the TV worked. Then, on September 10, 2001, Sirhan Sirhan did something else he had not done before – he shaved his head. Although he was always a “clean cut” inmate according to this prison guard, he had never shaved his head. According to the prison guard, inmates in California often shave their heads immediately before their gangs go to war against other factions to show their solidarity and support. Then, on the morning of 9/11 Sirhan was up early in his cell watching his TV for the first time when the news broke about the planes hitting the World Trade Center. In some manner, it is obvious that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 33 years after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and a guest of the California prison system, had advance knowledge of the events of September 11, 2001. Supposedly, according to this guard, Sirhan "Sirhan Sirhan received a lot of mail from addresses in the Middle East, almost all written in Arabic." I guess this is how he was supposed to have received advanced knowledge of Sept. 11. This seems like complete bullshit to me, if not deliberate disinformation. The article is published on the website of something called the Northeast Intelligence Network, which offers "terrorist news information and analysis". The notion that al Qaeda would compromise the 9/11 operation by revealing it to Sirhan Sirhan is ridiculous. --- Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan and 9/11: foreknowledge of attack? http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/sirhan052007 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director "According to the former prison guard at Corcoran, Sirhan Sihan, did something in the months before 9/11 he had not done at any other time during his decades of incarceration – he ordered a television set for his cell." 20 May 2007: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is the convicted assassin of U.S. Senator and 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in Corcoran, California, having escaped a death sentence due to a 1972 California Supreme Court ruling that invalidated all pending death sentences imposed prior to 1972. Sirhan’s motives for killing Kennedy remain a looming question among academics and conspiracy theorists alike. Many believe that Sirhan killed Kennedy due to his pro-Israel stance and the support he would likely provide Israel as the future president of the United States. Most notably, Kennedy was assassinated exactly one year after the start of the 1967 Six-Day war, a date considered less than coincidental by most. Some consider the assassination as one of the first cases of personal jihad in contemporary history. Whatever the motive, I had the benefit of reviewing the assassination case from the perspective of a criminalist while I was at the Laboratory of Forensic Science under the instruction of Professor Herbert MacDonell. Mr. MacDonell is the Professor of Criminalistics and head of the Laboratory of Forensic Science in Corning, NY where I attended. Knowing that he extensively reviewed evidence first-hand of the Kennedy assassination, I am convinced that based on the evidence alone, that there is much more to this assassination that will ever be made known. Perhaps then, it was more than serendipitous that I received information this week from a former guard at the prison in Corcoran, California about the curious behavior of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in the months, weeks and days preceding the 9/11 attacks. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Because of the commutation of his death sentence, Sirhan Sirhan has had the luxury of observing world events from his prison cell. According to one of the former guards at Corcoran, Sirhan not only had the ability to communicate with others outside of prison, he did so regularly. According to this former guard who watched over and spoke
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Breaking News: Bush Secretly DOUBLING Number of Troops Sent to Iraq
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 22, 2007 5:55:23 PM PDT To: ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Breaking News: Bush Secretly DOUBLING Number of Troops Sent to Iraq Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 22, 2007 2:11:14 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Breaking News: Bush Secretly DOUBLING Number of Troops Sent to Iraq See what's free at AOL.com. From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 22, 2007 12:21:33 PM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: CLG Breaking: Bush Could Double Iraq Troops By Christmas~22 May 2007 News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government 22 May 2007 http://www.legitgov.org/ http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Bush could double Iraq troops by Christmas -- Little-noticed second surge is quietly being executed 22 May 2007 The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat brigades and extending tours of duty for troops already there. The actions could boost the number of combat soldiers from 52,500 in early January to as many as 98,000 by the end of this year if the Pentagon overlaps arriving and departing combat brigades. Please forward this update to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to the Newsletter list can sign up: http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg Please write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for inquiries. CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, Manager. Copyright © 2007, Citizens For Legitimate Government ® All rights reserved. CLG Founder and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/815 - Release Date: 5/22/07 3:49 PM =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [CIA-Drugs_TheDarkSide] Fwd: [catapult] * * * Interesting video: Secrets of the CIA * * *
Begin forwarded message: From: "mikal haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 21, 2007 7:35:10 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CIA-Drugs_TheDarkSide] Fwd: [catapult] * * * Interesting video: Secrets of the CIA * * * Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: May 21, 2007 11:11 PM Subject: [catapult] * * * Interesting video: Secrets of the CIA * * * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It starts off slow but gets very interesting. Secrets of the CIA 44 min - Jan 1, 2000 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8085945499556832271&q=cia People who left the CIA because they could no longer handle being part of the criminal, unethical acts tell about their lives with the CIA. See what's free at AOL.com. -- http://old.punx.com/ anti-racist-action fight fascism, racism, sexism and homophobia http://www.antiracistaction.com/
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars...how BP spent L45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 21, 2007 7:59:03 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars...how BP spent L45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23397243-details/Hookers, +spies,+cases+full+of+dollars...how+BP+spent+%C2%A345m+to+win+'Wild +East'+oil+rights/article.do Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars... how BP spent £45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights 19.05.07 When Lord Browne resigned as BP chief executive earlier this month after lying to the courts during a failed attempt to gag The Mail on Sunday, his supporters paid tribute to the buccaneering way he built the company into a global oil giant. But now a former BP employee has come forward to give the first insider's account of what the deal-making often entailed - sex, spying and briefcases full of hard currency... A former BP worker has told how he threw champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative international oil contracts. The company also worked with MI6 agents to help bring about changes in foreign governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil giant. Les Abrahams, who was involved with BP's successful bid for a multi- million-pound deal with one of the former Soviet republics, today claims that he witnessed an "anything goes" drive for business which sometimes degenerated into sexual licence, spying and financial sweeteners. Scroll down for more... High life: Mr Abrahams, left, and other BP executives not linked to any impropriety partying in Azerbaijan He also claims that Home Secretary John Reid was arrested at gunpoint on a BP-funded foreign trip for being out on the streets after a military curfew had been imposed. Mr Abrahams said he helped to spend £45million of the company's money over the course of just four months of negotiations with Azerbaijan's state oil company. Most of the money was spent on new offices, hiring staff in London and the Azerbaijan capital Baku - including paying generous start- up bonuses - public-relations work and the chartering of corporate jets. But he claims that more than £5million was set aside for cultivating key local figures in Baku, with huge sums spent on lavish entertainment. Mr Abrahams says he was armed with a no-limit company credit card, allowing him to arrange for supplies of champagne and caviar to be flown on company jets to Baku, and then consumed at the "sex parties". Former BP chief executive Lord Browne The hospitality continued in London, where he hired prostitutes to entertain visiting Azerbaijanis. According to the former oil worker, he would fly dignitaries from Baku to London, put them up at The Savoy, and take them shopping for anything they desired. Mr Abrahams, an engineer by training, joined BP in 1991, just as the disintegration of the Soviet Union had triggered a "new gold rush" by the oil giants to target the 200billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Caspian Sea. At the same time as he was assisting the company's drive for the business, he says he was persuaded to work for MI6 by John Scarlett - now head of the intelligence service but then MI6's Head of Station in Moscow. He passed information to Scarlett in faxes and at one-to-one meetings in the Russian capital. He further claims that BP was working closely with MI6 at the highest levels to help it to win business in the region and influence governments. Mr Abrahams worked for BP's XFI unit - Exploring Frontiers International - which specialises in opening up new markets in often unstable parts of the world. He said Lord Browne, then BP's head of exploration, allocated a budget of £45 million to cover the first year's costs of the Baku operation. Scroll down for more... Lavish hospitality: Azerbaijani translators at the dinner to celebrate BP's £300 million Shah Deniz deal "The order came from Browne's aides to 'Get them anything they want'. By 'them', they meant local officials in Azerbaijan," he said. "There were 20 or 30 people working on it at BP head office, and we soon had a steady stream of executives coming over as negotiators. "We got through the money in just four months, after which it was simply increased without question." He describes a Wild West world in which oil executives with briefcases full of dollars rubbed shoulders with mafia members, prostitutes and fixers and cut their deals in smoke-filled back rooms. "The BP officials would come out to Baku in groups of five or six, every week. Sometimes I would charter an entire Boeing 757 to carry as few as seven or eight staff. "Their main base was the "hard- currency bar" of the old Intourist hotel - so named because it only accepted dollars and it was only open to foreigners. "It was full of girls, and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Plot to Seize the White House
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 20, 2007 3:17:46 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Plot to Seize the White House http://www.clubhousewreckards.com/plot/plottoseizethewhitehouse.htm
[cia-drugs] The Secret History of Jerry Falwell
http://madcowprod.com/The Secret History of Jerry FalwellTelevangelist Links to Terror Flight School in FloridaAt the same time the Rev. Jerry Falwell was accusing pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and People For the American Way of sharing responsibility for the 9/11 attack the televangelist owed over one million dollars in unpaid loans to the owner of the terror flight school in Florida which trained Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.In the days after terrorist hijackers murdered almost 3000 people, almost the entire American nation was numb and speechless with shock and horror.Not Jerry Falwell.The Baptist minister from Lynchburg, VA wasted no time in pointing a finger of blame for the attack. He said, "I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' "Falwell made no mention, then or ever, of his curious debt to secretive Green Bay financier Wallace J. Hilliard, whose flight school abetted, if unwittingly, the terrorist presence in the United States.Strangely, this is not Jerry Falwell’s only link to covert activity at the tiny Venice, FL airport.FULL STORY=
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] When an 8-year-old uncovers Iraq secrets
Begin forwarded message: From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 20, 2007 4:34:13 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] When an 8-year-old uncovers Iraq secrets Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ May 19, 2007 When an 8-year-old uncovers Iraq secrets Posted 12:10 pm | Printer Friendly | Spotlight http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10851.html Political scientist Pete Moore wrote a fascinating item for Salon about his endeavor digging through the massive archive of Coalition Provisional Authority documents. As Moore acknowledged, he didn´t expect to find too many hidden gems - insightful personal letters may occasionally fall out of dusty old volumes in libraries, but the CPA´s archives are paperless. But I forgot to factor in the ubiquity of human error, and of Microsoft Word. It turns out the IT era really is different, after all. It took my 8-year-old son just a few seconds to shake loose some hidden history from within the official transcript of the CPA. My son made his discovery while impatiently waiting to play a computer game on my laptop. As part of a research project, I had downloaded 45 documents from a section of the CPA Web site known as Consolidated Weekly Reports. All but three of the documents were Microsoft Word. I had one of the Word documents up on my screen when my son starting toying with the computer mouse. Somehow, inadvertently, he managed to pull down the "View" menu at the top of the screen and select the "Mark up" option. If you are in a Word document where "Track changes" has been turned on, hitting "Mark up" will reveal all the deletions and insertions ever made in the document, complete with times, dates and (sometimes) the initials of the editors. When my son did it, all the deleted passages in a document with the innocuous name "Administrator´s Weekly Economic Report" suddenly appeared in blue and purple. It was the electronic equivalent of seeing every draft of an author´s paper manuscript and all the penciled changes made by the editors. I soon figured out that with a few keystrokes I could see the deleted passages in 20 of the 42 Word documents I´d downloaded. Let this be a lesson to all of us - keep young children around for computer-related research projects. Of course, this isn´t just an amusing story about a fruitful accident; Moore (with his son´s help) also found some important CPA-related details in the previously-hidden passages. I don´t want to alarm anyone, but apparently CPA officials were dangerously clueless about the insurgency and why it existed. In fact, about half of the 20 improperly redacted documents I downloaded, including the March 28 report, contain deleted portions that all seem to come from one single, 1,000-word security memo. The editors kept pulling text from a document titled "Why Are the Attacks Down in Al-Anbar Province - Several Theories." (The security memo and the last page of the March 28 report can be seen here, along with several other CPA documents that can be downloaded.) Microsoft Word´s "Mark up" feature shows the time and date of the deletion and the identity of the person doing the deleting, but it doesn´t give the original author of the passage or when it was written. The title and hints in the text point to a memo written by one person in December 2003 or January 2004, when daily attacks on coalition forces in Anbar, the heavily Sunni province west of Baghdad that is the heartland of the insurgency, were the lowest in many months. These were the CPA´s salad days. Prior to the al-Sadr uprising and the Abu Ghraib scandal and the failed siege of Fallujah later in 2004, the CPA believed that it was succeeding in reshaping Iraq. In his book "The Assassins´ Gate," George Packer depicts late 2003 and early 2004 as the last phase of quiet isolation for the CPA, before the facts on the ground began to impinge on its Green Zone idyll. "Why Are the Attacks Down" shows the CPA on the cusp, as the author gives a half-dozen different theories for the short- term decline in violence. [...] Nowhere in any of these theories, including the "boring" one, does the author address the dissolution of the Iraqi Army as a major contributor to the violence. Nowhere, in fact, does the author seem to know which "bums" or "losers" are attacking the Americans or why. Indeed, the most remarkable passage in the entire deletion is a simple statement by an Iraqi businessman, whom the writer quotes in passing while explaining why American-induced economic prosperity will end the fighting. "It is nothing personal," the Iraqi says. "I like you and believe you could be bringing us a better future, but I still sympathize with those who attack the coalition because it is not right for Iraq to be occupied by foreign military
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush AND Cheney Assert Claim of "ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY" from Prosecution for Crimes
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 19, 2007 8:23:06 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush AND Cheney Assert Claim of "ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY" from Prosecution for Crimes NEXUS OF DARKNESS http://voxd.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/overnight-addendum-14/ The battles really begin now against an entrenched administration which argues that not only is it not beholden to the rule of law, but exists independent of the law. Not just a situation to be addressed in dusty legal tomes, the cases that will undoubtedly unfold over the next two years are of vital importance to whether the 200-plus-year-old American system of government (three branches in dynamic tension, defined by and in obeisance to the framing document of the country) survives in practice by being firmly restored in fact or will be relegated to a dusty shelf as a quaint historical construct. The woebegone G. Walker-Bush administration has ceaselessly attempted to grasp the naked core of raw power (and thus far has been abetted by a blinded, compliant Congress). As with the myth of Icarus, its very essence stands eternally ready and now bodes to prove their undoing (emphasis added). “The United States believes that… the individual federal defendants have valid claims of immunity,” the document said. “The vice president possesses absolute immunity from civil damages claims in connection with acts taken within the scope of his office.” http:// today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx? type=newsOne&storyID=2006-11-15T035937Z_01_N14360452_RTRUKOC_0_US- BUSH-LEAK.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C2-TopNews-newsOne-8 Hold on for a sec while ye old scribe goes and checks that ol’ Constitution. Ah, there it is — right before the section that reserves for the Veep all the green M&Ms and right after the one that lays out the mandate of heaven and the infallibility of any President. Not. Quoth Pirate Jenny in Brecht’s A Three-penny Opera: Idiots, all of ‘em. Several (by no means fully comprehensive, though) related items of background, including one (a bit further below) filed during the time of Nixon-Agnew by that darling of the extremist, strict constructionist right, Robert Bork. …the Court has long recognized the right of limited presidential immunity with regard to official acts — actions carried out under the auspices of the office of the presidency. This tradition goes back to Spalding v. Vilas (1896). There the Court held: “In exercising the function of his office, the head of an Executive Department, keeping within the limitations of his authority, should not be under any apprehension that the motives that control his official conduct may at any time become the subject of inquiry in a civil suit for damages. It would cripple the proper and effective administration of public affairs as entrusted to the Executive Branch of the government if he were subject to any such restraint.” Some commentators took the matter further, pressing the point that the successful conduct of the office of the presidency required immunity from criminal sanction for official acts. Justice Storey argued that “The President cannot be liable to arrest, imprisonment, or detention while he is in the discharge of the duties of his office; and for this purpose his person must be deemed in civil cases to posses an official inviolability.” More recent case law has affirmed this notion of presidential immunity for official acts. The Court held in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that such license represented “a functionally mandated incident of the President’s unique office, rooted in the constitutional tradition of the separation of powers and supported by our history.” [snip] The tradition of tension between the Executive and Judicial branches of the government is old. President Jefferson, writing to U.S. Attorney George Hay in 1807, argued that “The leading principle of our Constitution is the independence of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of each other, and none are more jealous of this than the judicial. But would the executive be independent of the judiciary if he were subject to the command of the latter and to imprisonment for disobedience which would withdraw him entirely from his duties?” Jefferson concluded that “to comply with such calls would leave the nation without an Executive Branch, whose agency, nevertheless, is understood to be so constantly necessary that it is the sole branch which the Constitution requires always to be in function.” Potential intrusions upon the autonomy of any of the branches of government is cause for concern. The fact remains, however, that determinations of legal questions, including the question of whether the Judicial Branch has the authority to determine the scope of its own authority, remain the province of the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Senators want to make CIA release 9/11 report
Begin forwarded message: From: APFN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 17, 2007 11:31:17 PM PDT To: APFN GOOGLE GROUP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, APFN Yahoogroups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LEAK-GATE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Senators want to make CIA release 9/11 report Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSNBC REPORT Senators want to make CIA release 9/11 report Fri May 18, 2007 01:25 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi? disc=149495;article=110966;title=APFN Senators want to make CIA release 9/11 report Office has not publicized any of its internal documents on the attack http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18728335/ Updated: 6:25 p.m. MT May 17, 2007 WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general’s report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The CIA has spent more than 20 months weighing requests under the Freedom of Information Act for its internal investigation of the attacks but has yet to release any portion of it. The agency is the only federal office involved in counterterrorism operations that has not made at least a version of its internal 9/11 investigation public. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and two other intelligence committee leaders — chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and senior Republican Kit Bond of Missouri — are pushing legislation that would require the agency to declassify the executive summary of the review within one month and submit a report to Congress explaining why any material was withheld. The provision has been approved by the Senate twice, but never made into law. In an interview, Wyden said he is also considering whether to link the report’s release to his acceptance of President Bush’s nominations for national security positions. “It’s amazing the efforts the administration is going to stonewall this,” Wyden said. “The American people have a right to know what the Central Intelligence Agency was doing in those critical months before 9/11 I am going to bulldog this until the public gets it.” Completed in June 2005, the inspector general’s report examined the personal responsibility of individuals at the CIA before and after the attacks. Other agencies’ reviews examined structural problems within their organizations. Wyden, who has read the classified report several times, wouldn’t offer any details on its findings or the conversations he has had with CIA Director Michael Hayden, former CIA Director Porter Goss and former National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Political security at stake But he did say that protecting individuals from embarrassment is not a legitimate reason for protecting the report’s contents from public review. He also said the decision to classify the report has nothing to do with national security, but rather political security. Hayden declined to be interviewed about the report. In a statement Thursday, his spokesman Mark Mansfield said the CIA director wants the agency to learn from any past mistakes, but doesn’t want to dwell on them. “Given the formidable national security challenges our nation faces, now and down the road, General Hayden believes it is essential for the Agency to move forward,” Mansfield said. “That’s where our emphasis needs to be.” The agency’s actions prior to Sept. 11 have gotten renewed attention with the release of a memoir by former CIA director George Tenet. He has been criticized for not doing more to warn Bush about the al-Qaida threat. In interviews about his memoir, he has said instead he worked the bureaucracy beneath the president by asking then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others for action. Bond said some intelligence officials have dismissed the inspector general’s report as “ancient history,” which he doesn’t accept. He said the report has additional information which would be useful to the public. “We have no desire to embarrass or throw cold water on the enthusiasm of the great men and women of the CIA, but let’s just take a clear and open look at what the IG found and see if we have all of those problems corrected,” Bond said. CONTINUED http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18728335/page/2/ 'Stars who had excelled' In an October 2005 statement Goss said the officers involved in counterterrorism were “stars who had excelled in their areas” singled out by the CIA to take on difficult assignments. “Unfortunately, time and resources were not on their side, despite their best efforts to meet unprecedented challenges,” he said. Goss rejected a recommendation from CIA Inspector General John Helgerson that the agency form accountability review boards to examine any personal culpability. Bond said that move was regrettable. In his statement, Goss also noted that the agency had received a Freedom of Information Act request for the report, and that a review process was ongoing. But the CIA has not rel
