[cia-drugs] Over the Cliff with George and Dick
This was sent to me in my email and is very apt, isn't it?
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The decision to attack Iran would be the equivalent of setting
off an advanced IED directly under the main highway of what's
left of global order.
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[cia-drugs] Stop Him Before He Gets More Experience: FRANK RICH - Obama ; U.S. Prepares War on Iran and ...
Stop Him Before He Gets More Experience: FRANK RICH - Obama ; U.S. Prepares War on Russia by FRANK RICH - The New York Times Sunday Feb 11th, 2007 RICH: If time in the United States Senate is what counts for presidential seasoning, maybe Barack Obamas two years worth is already too much. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WITH ALL HYPERLINKS AND MORE -- Obama Got It Right The New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST Stop Him Before He Gets More Experience By FRANK RICH Published: February 11, 2007 As the official Barack Obama rollout reaches its planned climax on 60 Minutes tonight, well learn if he has the star power to upstage Anna Nicole Smith. But at least one rap against him can promptly be laid to rest: his lack of experience. If time in the United States Senate is what counts for presidential seasoning, maybe his two years worth is already too much. Better he get out now, before theres another embarrassing nonvote on a nonbinding measure about what will soon be a four-year-old war. History is going to look back and laugh at last weeks farce, with the Virginia Republican John Warner voting to kill a debate on his own anti-surge resolution and the West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd seizing the occasion for an hourlong soliloquy on coal mining. As the Senate pleasured itself with parliamentary one-upmanship, the rate of American casualties in Iraq reached a new high. The day after the resolution debacle, I spoke with Senator Obama about the war and about his candidacy. Since we talked by phone, I cant swear he was clean, but he was definitely articulate. He doesnt yet sound as completely scripted as his opponents though some talking-point-itis is creeping in and he isnt remotely defensive as he shrugs off the race contretemps du jour prompted by his White House run. Not that hes all sweetness and light. If the criterion is how long youve been in Washington, then we should just go ahead and assign Joe Biden or Chris Dodd the nomination, he said. What people are looking for is judgment. --MORE-- http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-him-before-he-gets-more-experience.html Labels: Barack Obama, Bush, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Elections 2008, FRANK RICH, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Joe Lieberman, McCarthyism, News, Politics, President 2008, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, The New York Times Obama would consider missile strikes on Iran | Chicago Tribune http://tinyurl.com/7hle7 Gates prepares for a large-scale war with Iran, North Korea, China and Russia http://tinyurl.com/342clu And More http://mparent.blogspot.com/ New website http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ Alternate website with unique articles CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS MARC PARENT mparent mparent - Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos
[cia-drugs] An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare
Mr. Fair. I just read 'An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare and was rivited by your memories. It takes a lot of strength and courage to stand against the terrible wrongs of war. Yes, you could have refused orders back then, but you could have also gone to your grave without a word. Don't be too hard on yourself... How many would have had the nerve to refuse those orders? After all, the military is all about blind obedience. You did the right thing as quickly as you could and that's all any of us can do. I sincerely hope your dreams grow more pleasant. Kay Lee Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:22 AM [ http://tinyurl.com/yvl865 ] An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare By Eric Fair, The Washington Post (Op-Ed) Feb. 9, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/yvl865 A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine. That dream, along with a host of other nightmares, has plagued me since my return from Iraq in the summer of 2004. Though the man in this particular nightmare has no face, I know who he is. I assisted in his interrogation at a detention facility in Fallujah. I was one of two civilian interrogators assigned to the division interrogation facility (DIF) of the 82nd Airborne Division. The man, whose name I've long since forgotten, was a suspected associate of Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad, the Baath Party leader in Anbar province who had been captured two months earlier. The lead interrogator at the DIF had given me specific instructions: I was to deprive the detainee of sleep during my 12-hour shift by opening his cell every hour, forcing him to stand in a corner and stripping him of his clothes. Three years later the tables have turned. It is rare that I sleep through the night without a visit from this man. His memory harasses me as I once harassed him. Despite my best efforts, I cannot ignore the mistakes I made at the interrogation facility in Fallujah. I failed to disobey a meritless order, I failed to protect a prisoner in my custody, and I failed to uphold the standards of human decency. Instead, I intimidated, degraded and humiliated a man who could not defend himself. I compromised my values. I will never forgive myself. American authorities continue to insist that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was an isolated incident in an otherwise well-run detention system. That insistence, however, stands in sharp contrast to my own experiences as an interrogator in Iraq. I watched as detainees were forced to stand naked all night, shivering in their cold cells and pleading with their captors for help. Others were subjected to long periods of isolation in pitch-black rooms. Food and sleep deprivation were common, along with a variety of physical abuse, including punching and kicking. Aggressive, and in many ways abusive, techniques were used daily in Iraq, all in the name of acquiring the intelligence necessary to bring an end to the insurgency. The violence raging there today is evidence that those tactics never worked. My memories are evidence that those tactics were terribly wrong. While I was appalled by the conduct of my friends and colleagues, I lacked the courage to challenge the status quo. That was a failure of character and in many ways made me complicit in what went on. I'm ashamed of that failure, but as time passes, and as the memories of what I saw in Iraq continue to infect my every thought, I'm becoming more ashamed of my silence. Some may suggest there is no reason to revive the story of abuse in Iraq. Rehashing such mistakes will only harm our country, they will say. But history suggests we should examine such missteps carefully. Oppressive prison environments have created some of the most determined opponents. The British learned that lesson from Napoleon, the French from Ho Chi Minh, Europe from Hitler. The world is learning that lesson again from Ayman al-Zawahiri. What will be the legacy of abusive prisons in Iraq? We have failed to properly address the abuse of Iraqi detainees. Men like me have refused to tell our stories, and our leaders have refused to own up to the myriad mistakes that have been made. But if we fail to address this problem, there can be no hope of success in Iraq. Regardless of how many young Americans we send to war, or how many militia members we kill, or how many Iraqis we train, or how much money we spend on reconstruction, we will not escape the damage we have done to the people of Iraq in our prisons. I am desperate to get on with my life and erase my memories of my experiences in Iraq. But those memories and experiences do not belong to me. They belong to history. If we're doomed to repeat the history we forget, what will be the consequences of the history we never knew? The citizens and the leadership of this country have an
[cia-drugs] Fwd: THE PENTAGON'S SECRET AIR WAR IN IRAQ / Thurs. 2.8.07
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[cia-drugs] Re: Global child porn ring uncovered in Austria
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/msearch?query=apec+fbi http://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+apec+fbi --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Judith.Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: [RM-COUNSEL] Global child porn ring uncovered in Austria Global child porn ring uncovered in Austria 8th February 2007, 12:15 WST At least 2360 people in 77 countries are suspected of trying to download videos of young children being sexually abused and even raped, according to authorities who intercepted the illicit material on a web server in Austria. The FBI was investigating about 600 of the suspects in the United States, Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter said. German authorities were following leads on another 400 people, France was looking into more than 100 others, and 23 suspects were Austrians, he said. Platter said the videos included images that showed the worst kind of child sexual abuse. Girls could be seen being raped, and you could also hear screams, said Harald Gremel, an Austrian police expert on Internet crime who headed the investigation, adding that the children were aged 14 and under. One can explicitly see sexual acts with children, Gremel said. No Austrian suspects were yet in custody, authorities said, adding that they shared their information with law enforcement agencies in other countries in the hope suspects could be investigated. Gremel said he could not provide details about investigations outside Austria, but noted that cooperation with Russian authorities had intensified over the past two weeks. He said the investigation began in July, when a man working for a Vienna-based Internet file hosting service approached authorities at the Interior Ministry to say he noticed the pornographic material during a routine check. Gremel said the link to the videos was posted on a Russian website, which is no longer in operation. The videos, hosted on the Austrian server, were freely accessible, but users had to pay $US89 ($115) by credit card to access more pornographic material in a members only area on the Russian website. Within 24 hours, the man recorded more than 8000 hits from 2361 computer IP addresses in 77 countries, ranging from Algeria to South Africa, Gremel told reporters. He said the man blocked access to the videos while recording the IP addresses of people who continued to try to download the material, and gave the details to authorities. In Austria, the possession of pornographic material showing children 14 and under is punishable by up to two years in prison. Possession of material showing children aged 14-18 carries a maximum one-year sentence. I believe an increase in penalties is necessary, Platter said. Germany's Federal Criminal Office said about 200 suspects linked to the case in Germany had been identified and were facing prosecution. Gremel said that in Austria, the youngest person implicated was 17 and the oldest was 69, with the suspects ranging from students to retirees. He said investigators believed the videos - which included images of girls and boys up to age 14 - were made in Eastern Europe and uploaded to the site from somewhere in Britain. However, Gremel noted that one girl also looked Asian. The large amount of video material available on the Internet made it more difficult for authorities to track it down, Gremel said. In Austria, authorities seized 31 PCs, seven laptops, 1232 DVDs and CDs, 1428 diskettes and 213 video cassettes, Gremel said. Police displayed some of the seized material at yesterday's news conference. Austrian authorities have yet to evaluate a total of about 8 terabytes (8000 gigabytes) of space on hard disks, DVDs, CDs and diskettes seized in Austria Gremel said. Of the Austrian suspects, 14 allegedly have admitted they downloaded the videos, Gremel said. Finding and stamping out such content is needle-in-a-haystack work, said Carole Theriault, a security consultant with Sophos in London. Theriault noted that the perpetrators could send footage over peer-to-peer networks or computers that had been surreptitiously coopted by Internet worms. You could have this stuff on innocent machines and the owner wouldn't even know it, Theriault said. It can get ugly and complicated, absolutely. Even the fact that viewers had to pay for some material would not necessarily increase the chances of detection. While the major credit card carriers have programs to verify the validity of merchants in their networks, dozens of Internet payment processors use other methods to discreetly ferry money around, said Mike Petitti, senior vice-president of marketing at AmbironTrustWave, a data security company. One way involves automated cheque-clearing services that route money from chequing accounts and avoid the credit
