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• Pre-massacre concerns about Hasan may have been off limits to FBI
• Wednesday, December 16, 2009
• By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News
  dmichaels@dallasnews.com
• WASHINGTON – FBI agents who discovered Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's extremist ties before the Fort Hood massacre may not have had access to key Army records on the psychiatrist, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday.
• The Maine Republican said some information that terrorism investigators need stays in military education or training files "and does not make its way to the personnel files" – the records that intelligence agencies would see when deciding whether to investigate someone.
• Collins is the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which is investigating how pre-massacre intelligence was handled.
• She spoke after a closed-door hearing with Defense Department officials.

  • Why is something like this discussed behind closed doors and in secret? Is it to keep from embarassing some government officials/politicians?
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• Hasan's colleagues and superiors repeatedly raised concerns about him during his psychiatric training.
• Issues included his fundamentalist Islamic leanings, religious proselytizing, work performance and mental stability.
• "It doesn't appear that the military has updated its personnel policies to reflect the threat of Islamic extremism," Collins said.
• "There appears to be a real gap in the protocols in the personnel procedures."
• Army spokesman George Wright said that in general, soldiers' supervisors decide whether to put letters of counseling or reprimand in personnel files.

  • Pass the buck down to the lower ranks..as usual and let some low echelon take the blame. US Govt/US Military SOP.
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• He declined to discuss Hasan's records.
• An FBI-led terrorism task force began intercepting e-mails last December between Hasan and a radical imam in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki.
• FBI officials have said they didn't investigate further because the correspondence seemed consistent with Hasan's psychiatric research.

  • Pass the buck again..DHS and all the other Washington controlled Wonks seem too busy investigating "Christians, U.S. Veterans and legal gun owners" to be concerned with real threats.
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• The FBI has investigated al-Awlaki's ties to terrorists since the late 1990s.
• Any contact with him should have set off an investigation, experts have told The Dallas Morning News.
• William Webster, who formerly headed the FBI and the CIA, is now reviewing the bureau's pre-massacre work on Hasan.

  • Oh that's real comforting. Sleep well, Kiddies
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• FBI spokesman Paul Bresson declined to comment Tuesday.
• Sen. Joe Lieberman, the homeland security committee's chairman, said the panel may get a classified briefing this week about the task force that intercepted the e-mails.
• He said he was still trying to obtain Hasan's Army records.
• The military is doing its own study of whether the Nov. 5 slaughter could have been prevented and whether there are better ways to identify potentially dangerous service members.
• Hasan faces military charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder.
• Lieberman said that the White House would not allow Tuesday's briefing to be held in public and that it had taken too long to give lawmakers information.
• Information-sharing problems still seem to be compromising American security more than eight years after the 9/11 attacks, Collins said.

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• Yahoo is spying on you
• Allegedly acting as proxy for law enforcement, intel agencies
• Posted: December 21, 2009
  9:18 pm Eastern
  
   

  By Michael Carl
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• Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
• That means U.S. citizens' tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo's spying.
• According to Wired.com, Yahoo also charges the agencies for the information.

• A Yahoo customer who asked not to be identified became suspicious of Yahoo's operations when the image below appeared on his screen while downloading his e-mail.  

   
• John Young, who runs the website Cryptome.org, believes the Internet giant is gathering data from customer e-mails for possible disclosure to U. S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
• Young says Yahoo has a standard operating procedure for e-mail data mining spelled out in the Yahoo Law Enforcement Compliance Manual. Young has posted a copy of Yahoo's manual on his Cryptome.com website.
• Yahoo and its Washington, D.C.-based legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, have not responded to WND requests for comment.
• The manual says Yahoo records the IP address of any computer involved in a Yahoo e-mail exchange.
• "Every message sent by a Yahoo! mail user contains the originating IP address in the header," the Yahoo manual says. "That is, Yahoo! records the IP address of the computer that was used to send the email, and Yahoo! inserts that IP address in the header of the message.
• Accordingly, if law enforcement is seeking to determine the IP address from which a Yahoo! e-mail was sent, Yahoo! will have no additional information other than what is visible in the message itself."

• The manual continues.  

  "The relevant line from the header will generally look like this: Received: from [65.207.97.120] by web41705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:30:05 PDT  
• "In this example, the IP address in brackets corresponds to the computer from which the message was sent," the manual states.

• Section V of the Yahoo compliance guide says:  

  "Yahoo! generally will accept service of court orders, search warrants, and criminal grand jury or administrative subpoenas for the production of documents by fax from government entities."

• Then there's this paragraph a few lines later in the same section:  

  "Yahoo! will ask law enforcement to certify that the prior or delayed notice provisions have been satisfied if contents are sought with legal process other than a Search Warrant."  
  
  "…with legal process other than a Search Warrant."
• An intelligence analyst and private terrorism investigator who asked not to be named, believes this phrase is key in Yahoo's willingness to turn over e-mail contents to U.S. intelligence agencies.
• Young stands by his actions and what he has written about Yahoo's surveillance. He believes the public material may be a diversion for deeper surveillance.
• "What remains unclear is what are other arrangements between Yahoo and law enforcement and intelligence agencies that are not covered by publicly available material. It is more than probable that the publicly available material diverts attention from these other shenanigans," Young observes.
• He adds that other Internet providers are also involved in surveillance.
• "Yahoo is not alone in these customer transgressions, the deceptive practices are widespread among telecommunications and IP providers," Young asserts.
• A story on Mathaba.net states, "Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and Internet service providers," or ISPs, are involved in federally sanction data collection.
• Young also believes media haven't done a good job reporting the abuses.
• "There's an abysmal neglect of what the ISPs, OS (operating system) producers, network operators, data farmers and search engines are up to with customer data displayed on the computer screen."
• Yahoo's legal counsel, Steptoe and Johnson, has contacted Young, acknowledging the compliance guide's existence and how it facilitates Yahoo's participation in intelligence and law enforcement investigations.

• The letter posted on Cryptome.org reads.  

   

• The letter concludes with a threat of legal action.  

      
• The series of letters is posted on the Cryptome.org website.

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• Sunday, December 27, 2009
• Fire Napolitano    [Jonah Goldberg]
• Understandbly, the White House is trying very hard to get out in front of the would-be Christmas bomber story.
• The head of the Department of Homeland Security isn't helping.
• I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the pevious appearance.
• It is her basic position that the "system worked" because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack.
• That the attack was "foiled" by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right.
• That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically.
• I would wager that not one percent of Americans think the system is "working" when terrorists successfully get bombs onto planes (and succeed in activating them).
• Probably even fewer think it's fair that they have to take off their shoes, endure delays and madness while a known Islamic radical — turned in by his own father — can waltz onto a plane (and into the country).
• DHS had no role whatsoever in assuring that this bomb didn't go off.
• By her logic if the bomb had gone off, the system would have "worked" since it has done everything right.
• Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with "man-caused-disasters" afer they occur.
• If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.
• It appears she really believes it.
• Here she is her own words, over at RealClearPolitics.

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• Lou Dobbs Covers The Disturbing DHS Document Regarding "Right Wing Extremists"
• SaveOurSovereignty3
    April 14, 2009
• Airing Date April.14, 2009
  
  Lou Dobbs Covers The Disturbing DHS Document Regarding "Right Wing Extremists"
  
  Here is a PDF to the Home Land Security document in question
  http://wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-e...

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• Michael Savage - DHS Monitoring "Right-Wing Extremism"
• martysoffice
    April 15, 2009
• YOU might just be a terrorist!! - The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.
  
  A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
  
  "It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.
  
  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2...
  
  POLL: Should DHS chief step down
  for targeting patriots as terrorists?
  
  Weigh in on Savage online poll ...
  http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/

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• You Lie Again! Napolitano Must Go!
• Tuesday, December 29, 2009
• CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC ALIPAC 
    www.alipac.us WilliamG@alipac.us 
    (866) 703-0864
• Americans who value their security, freedoms, and future prosperity are being encouraged to call the White House immediately to demand the resignation or termination of Janet Napolitano for overt and gross dereliction of duty after revelations her department issued an unlimited US visa to Detroit terrorism suspect "crotch bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
• Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), a pro-border and immigration enforcement national organization, is asking citizens to call the white house at 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414 or e-mail the White House via this link http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ to demand that President Obama terminate Janet Napolitano immediately.
• "President Obama has a few days to fire Napolitano before the American public will place full blame for the grotesque failure by the Department of Homeland Security in his lap!" said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC.
• "If Obama fails to fire or demand the resignation of Napolitano, then he will indicate he is willing to support these kinds betrayals of government trust."
• Janet Napolitano is facing increasing criticism as more is learned about the attempted terrorist attack.
• Her comments claiming ''one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked," have set off a firestorm of public anger.
• In 2009 Napolitano has focused her department on supporting amnesty legislation for illegal aliens and casting terrorism suspicion on Americans opposed to the Obama administration instead of focusing on protecting the nation from terrorism attacks.
• President Obama came to her defense on Monday claiming that the U.S. government is doing all it can to protect U.S. citizens.
• "You lie again!" exclaimed Gheen in response to Obama's claims.
• "If Obama and Napolitano were doing all they could to protect our citizens, then our borders would not be virtually undefended, our immigration laws would not go unenforced, and the Department of Homeland Security would not be handing out God-knows how many visas to people that are on our terrorism watch lists.
• Instead of taking away blankets, pillows, and laptops from innocent passengers, Obama should order the immediate confiscation of all visas issued to people on the terrorism watch lists handed out by Napolitano and DHS!"
• Yesterday, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC called on national supporters to contact members of Congress to demand full and immediate Congressional investigations into these matters and to take appropriate corrective and disciplinary actions.
• ALIPAC is asking Congress and the American public not to reward those that fail the public with more power and money, as was the case after 9/11.
• ALIPAC is now launching a national campaign to demand that President Obama place Janet Napolitano on leave or accept her immediate resignation.
• The Department of Homeland Security's issuance of a visa to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, after he appeared on the watch lists, is a violation of US law.

  • And a criminal act..
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• Current U.S. laws require all immigration applicants to be screened against terrorism watch lists.
• "The American public will have no sense of security or confidence as long as Obama keeps Janet Napolitano as head of Homeland Security," said Gheen. "Today, with thousands of calls and emails, we will make that very clear to the President."
• ALIPAC is calling on citizens and members of Congress to take action and is calling on all members of the U.S. media to unify with the demand for Napolitano's immediate removal.
• "We need talk show hosts and newspaper editorial writers working together to pressure the Obama administration to do the right thing here.
• If Napolitano remains in power then the evidence mounts that the U.S. is now in an autocratic system with zero government accountability or responsiveness to the public." said Gheen.
• For more information or interview requests, please visit www.alipac.us

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• Obama: U.S. Knew of Nigerian Terror Threat But Did Not Act
• Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009 10:52 AM
• By: Jim Meyers
• President Obama has acknowledged that the United States had early signals that a terrorist attack was being plotted in Yemen and failed to take adequate steps to prevent it.
• According to a page one story in the New York Times, two federal officials told the paper that U.S. intelligence was aware that a Nigerian Muslim was preparing an attack, yet officials did nothing to give warning of such an attack.
• The paper reported Wednesday: "Two officials said the government had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda were talking about 'a Nigerian' being prepared for a terrorist attack."
• Although the attacker was not named, officials said his identity would have been evident had it been compared with information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
• the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an American passenger jet on Christmas Day.
• But despite those signals, the administration never raised a terror alert, and would-be bomber Abdulmutallab was allowed to board a plane bound for the United States.
• Critics also have charged that, although al-Qaida has engaged in multiple terror attacks at the same time and has promised more attacks soon, the administration has yet to raise Homeland Security's terror threat level. It  remains at "yellow" or "elevated" — as it has for several years.
• Obama was told at a briefing on Tuesday that U.S. officials had information that would have warned clearly of a pending attack if agencies had shared the information, The New York Times reported.
• U.S. intelligence learned that leaders of a branch of al-Qaida in Yemen were talking about a Nigerian's being prepared for a terrorist attack.
• Abdulmutallab first came to the attention of U.S. officials in November, when his father told the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that his son had expressed radical views and then disappeared.
• After being briefed, Obama told reporters: “A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.”

  • MMMMM...MMMMM...MMMMMM
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• Referring to the early signals, he said: “Had this critical information been shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged.
• The warning signs would have triggered red flags, and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America.”
• He added, “It’s becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have.”

  • You've been in office a whole year, Imam Bozo. You did not order such a review of our national security? When asked, your hand picked Dyke heading up the DHS could not even state she had reviewed the security in place from the previous administration.
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• After Abdulmutallab’s father spoke to embassy officials, the embassy sent a cable to Washington, and Abdulmutallab’s name was added to a database of 550,000 people with possible ties to terrorism, according to the Times.
• But he was not put on the no-fly list of 4,000 people or on a list of 14,000 individuals who are required to undergo addition screening before flying.
• Also, his visa to the United States was not revoked.
• The attempted bombing on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit has touched off partisan squabbling in Washington.
• Republicans were sharply critical of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after she declared on Sunday that “the system worked,” even though the bombing was thwarted only when Abdulmutallab’s device failed to detonate.
• "It is insulting that the Obama administration would make such a claim," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.
• House Minority Leader John Boehner said Tuesday: “All year long, we’ve asked the question: What is the administration’s overarching strategy to confront the terrorist threat and keep America safe?
• “We haven’t gotten a satisfactory answer, and the secretary’s ‘the system worked’ response doesn’t inspire confidence.”
• Democrats countered that Republicans have stood in the way of needed personnel and funds for anti-terrorism efforts, the Times reported, by blocking Obama’s nominee for head of the Transportation Security Administration and by voting against a bill providing $44 billion for Homeland Security operations.
• Obama said he had ordered government agencies to provide him with a preliminary report about the security lapse on Thursday.
• But he added that, once Abdulmutallab had attempted to bring down the flight, “our homeland security systems and our aviation security took all appropriate actions” —
• even though the passengers and crew are the ones who apprehended Abdulmutallab, and there was no air marshal on board.
  
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• Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI'

• By Aaron Foley | MLive.com 

   

  December 31, 2009
• Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday.
  
• Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane.
• They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam.
• Haskell had two detailed posts in two different stories.
• Courtesy photoLori and Kurt Haskell
• Here is Part One, originally posted here (Nothing below in the indent has been changed. Only links have been added.):
• Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain.
• Ever since I got off of Flight 253 I have been repeating what I saw in US Customs.
• Specifically, 1 hour after we left the plane, bomb sniffing dogs arrived.
• Up to this point, all of the passengers on Flight 253 stood in a small area in an evacuated luggage claim area of an airport terminal. During this time period, all of the passengers had their carry on bags with them.
• When the bomb sniffing dogs arrived, 1 dog found something in a carry on bag of a 30 ish Indian man. This is not the so called "Sharp Dressed" man.
• I will refer to this man as "The man in orange". The man in orange, who stood some 20ft away from me the entire time until he was taken away, was immediately taken away to be searched and interrogated in a nearby room.
• At this time he was not handcuffed. When he emerged from the room, he was then handcuffed and taken away.
• At this time an FBI agent came up to the rest of the passengers and said the following (approximate quote) "You all are being moved to another area because this area is not safe. I am sure many of you saw what just happened (Referring to the man in orange) and are smart enough to read between the lines and figure it out."
• We were then marched out of the baggage claim area and into a long hallway. This entire time period and until we left customs, no person that wasn't a law enforcement personnel or a passenger on our flight was allowed anywhere on our floor of the terminal (or possibly the entire terminal)
• The FBI was so concerned during this time, that we were not allowed to use the bathroom unless we went alone with an FBI agent, we were not allowed to eat or drink, or text or call anyone.
• I have been repeating this same story over the last 5 days.
• The FBI has, since we landed, insisted that only one man was arrested for the airliner attack (contradicting my account).
• However, several of my fellow passengers have come over the past few days, backed up my claim, and put pressure on FBI/Customs to tell the truth.
• Early today, I heard from two different reporters that a federal agency (FBI or Customs) was now admitting that another man has been held (and will be held indefinitely) since our flight landed for "immigration reasons."
• Notice that this man was "being held" and not "arrested", which was a cute semantic ploy by the FBI to stretch the truth and not lie.
• Just a question, could that mean that the man in orange had no passport?
• However, a few hours later, Customs changed its story again.
• This time, Mr. Ron Smith of Customs, says the man that was detained "had been taken into custody, but today tells the news the person was a passenger on a different flight."
• Mr. Ron Smith, you are playing the American public for a fool. Lets take a look at how plausible this story is (After you've already changed it twice).
• For the story to be true, you have to believe, that:
• 1. FBI/Customs let passengers from another flight co-mingle with the passengers of flight 253 while the most important investigation in 8 years was pending. I have already stated that not one person who wasn't a passenger or law enforcement personnal was in our area the entire time we were detained by Customs.
• 2. FBI/Customs while detaining the flight 253 passengers in perhaps the most important investigation since the last terrorist attack, and despite not letting any flight 253 passenger drink, eat, make a call, or use the bathroom, let those of other flights trample through the area and possibly contaminate evidence.
• 3. You have to believe the above (1 and 2) despite the fact that no flights during this time allowed passengers to exit off of the planes at all and were detained on the runway during at least the first hour of our detention period.
• 4. You have to believe that the man that stood 20 feet from me since we entered customs came from a mysterious plane that never landed, let its passengers off the plane and let this man sneak into our passenger group despite having extremely tight security at this time (i.e. no drinking even).
• 5. FBI/Customs was hauling mysterious passengers from other flights through the area we were being held to possibly comtaminate evidence and allow discussions with suspects on Flight 253 or to possibly allow the exchange of bombs, weapons or other devices between the mysterious passengers from other flights and those on flight 253.
• Seriously Mr. Ron Smith, how stupid do you think the American public is?
• Mr. Ron Smith's third version of the story is an absolute inplausible joke. I encourage you, Mr. Ron Smith, to debate me anytime, anywhere, and anyplace in public to let the American people see who is credible and who is not.
• I ask, isn't this the more plausible story:
• 1. Customs/FBI realized that they screwed up and don't want to admit that they left flight 253 passengers on a flight with a live bomb on the runway for 20 minutes.
• 2. Customs/FBI realized that they screwed up and don't want to admit that they left flight 253 passengers in customs for 1 hour with a live bomb in a carry on bag.
• 3. Customs/FBI realize that the man in orange points to a greater involvement then the lone wolf theory that they have been promoting.
• Mr. Ron Smith I encourage you to come out of your cubicle and come up with a more plausible version number 4 of your story.
• Haskell continued his comment in a different post on MLive.
• For the last five days I have been reporting my story of the so called "sharp dressed man." For those of you who haven't read my account, it involves a sharp dressed "Indian man" attempting to talk a ticket agent into letting a supposed "Sudanese refugee" (The terrorist) onto flight 253 without a passport.
• I have never had any idea how it played out except to note that the so called "Sudanese reefugee" later boarded my flight and attempted to blow it up and kill me.
• At no time did my story involve, or even find important whether the terrorist actually had a passport. The importance of my story was and always will be, the attempt with an accomplice (apparently succesful) of a terrorist with all sorts of prior terrorist warning signs to skirt the normal passport boarding procedures in Amsterdam.
• By the way, Amsterdam security did come out the other day and admit that the terrorist did not have to "Go through normal passport checking procedures".
• Amsterdam security, please define to the American public "Normal passport boarding procedures".
• You see the FBI would have the American public believe that what was important was whether the terrorist in fact had a passport.
• Seriously think about this people. You have a suicide bomber who had recently been to Yemen to but a bomb, whose father had reported him as a terrorist, who supposedly was on some kind of U.S. terror watchlist, and most likely knew the U.S. was aware of these red flags.
• Yet, he didn't go through "Normal passport checking procedures." What does that mean?
• Maybe that he flashed a passport to some sort of sympathetic security manager in a backroom to avoid a closer look at the terrorist's "red flags"?
• What is important is that the terrorist avoided using normal passport checking procedures (apparently successfully) in order to avoid a closer look into his red flags.
• Who cares if he had a passport. The important thing is that he didn't want to show it and somehow avoided a closer inspection and "normal passport checking procedures."
• Each passport comes with a bar code on it that can be scanned to provide a wealth of information about the individual. I would bet that the passport checking procedures for the terrorist did not include a bar code scan of his passport (which could have revealed damning information about the terrorist).
• Please note that there is a very easy way to verify the veracity of my prior "sharp dressed man" account. Dutch police have admitted that they have reviewed the video of the "sharp dressed man" that I referenced.
• Note that it has not been released anywhere, You see, if my eye witness account is false, it could easily be proven by releasing the video.
• However, the proof of my eyewitness account would also be verified if I am telling the truth and I am. There is a reason we have only heard of the video and not seen it. dutch authorities, "RELEASE THE VIDEO!"
• This is the most important video in 8 years and may be all of two minutes long. Show the entire video and "DO NOT EDIT IT"!
• The American public deserves its own chance to attempt to identify the "sharp dressed man". I have no doubt that if the video indicated that my account was wrong, that the video would have already swept over the entire world wide web.
• Instead of the video, we get a statment that the video has been viewed and that the terrorist had a passport.
• Each of these statements made by the FBI is a self serving play on semantics and each misses the importance of my prior "sharp dressed man" account.
• The importance being that the man "Tried to board the plane with an accomplice and without a passort". The other significance is that only the airport security video can verify my eyewitness account and that it is not being released.
• Who has the agenda here and who doesn't? Think about that for a minute.

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• False Flag of Christmas - Strings Being Pulled...
• COVER UNRAVELING AS CYA PROGRAMS GO INTO HIGH GEAR ALA 911 ATTACK , FLIGHT 800, FIRST TWIN TOWERS ATTACK, OKC BOMBING, AND EVEN BACK TO DEALEY PLAZA.
• December 31, 2009
    Hawk
• and some of the reasons for and implications of possible rush to World War III or Gog Magog War ala Albert Pike's letter and Ezekiel 38 & 39,
• As the previous Hawk Talon of 12/22/09 predicted and warned of a False Flag Attack probably coming during the Holiday period
• it is fitting here to echo some excellent work of Alex Jones in his interviews with eyewitness Kurt Haskell
• and subsequent discussions about the Underwear Bomber False Flag with former NSA employee and now journalist Wayne Madsen on 12/30/09.
• Please go to read and see videos at the following www.infowars.com/bombshell-eyewitness-revelations-confirmed-fbi-cover-up-of-flight-253-attack/
• I will use some questions and statements below that should stimulate research and also should activate some of the good guys in INTEL/ MILITARY/GOVT
• to come forward and flush this fun house of luciferian mirrors down the toilet , and bring the truth out to the American people.
• For the Friends of Roland Carnaby.............
• 1. WHERE IS THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF THE TICKET AGENT COUNTER IN SCHIPHOL AIRPORT AND WHY DOESN'T THE FBI SHOW IT ON ALL THE NETWORKS ?
• 2. WHO IS THE SHARP DRESSED 50' ISH "INDIAN" MAN WHO HAD ENOUGH JUICE TO GET THE DISHEVELED UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB ON THAT FLIGHT WITHOUT A PASSPORT UNDER COVER STORY THAT HE WAS A SUDANESE REFUGEE? ........IS HE AN AGENT OF RAW.....(RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS WING OF INDIAN INTELLIGENCE) ? OR OF SOME OTHER INTELLIGENCE SERVICE? 
• 3. WHY NOW IS THERE A COVER-UP WITH REPORTS STATING THAT THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER USED AN ITALIAN PASSPORT.....WHEN ACTUALLY HE DIDN'T AND JUST HAD ONE ALLEGEDLY IN HIS POSSESSION? WHO GAVE THAT COVER STORY TO THE MEDIA? 
• 4. WHY IS THE FBI SEEMINGLY TRYING TO FOCUS UPON DISCREDITING EYEWITNESS KURT HASKELL'S  REPORT OF THIS OPERATION AT THE BOARDING DESK IN AMSTERDAM.......
• AND ALSO THE 2ND 30'ISH "INDIAN" MAN WHO WAS ARRESTED AFTER BOMB SNIFFING DOGS HIT ON HIS CARRY-ON LUGGAGE IN THE DETROIT CUSTOMS ROOM WHERE ALL PASSENGERS WERE BEING HELD FOR QUESTIONING? 
• 5. WHY DID THE FBI FIRST DENY THAT ANY OTHER PERSON ON THAT FLIGHT HAD BEEN DETAINED AND THEN AFTER MULTIPLE WITNESSES FROM THAT FLIGHT CONTINUALLY GAVE STRONG AND ACCURATE EYEWITNESS REPORTS OF THE SECOND MAN WHO THE DOGS OBVIOUSLY GOT A HIT ON EXPLOSIVES OFF HIS LUGGAGE CAME FORWARD ......
• NOW SAY THEY DID DETAIN A SECOND PERSON , BUT ONLY FOR PASSPORT OR DOCUMENT PROBLEMS? DO YOUR DOGS NOW HAVE THE ABILITY TO SNIFF FOR FALSE OR PROBLEMATIC PASSPORTS?
• 6. WHO WAS THE MAN ON THAT PLANE  THAT WAS VIDEOTAPING THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER FOR THE WHOLE FLIGHT PER WITNESSES ON BOARD? WHERE IS HIS VIDEOTAPE OR CELL PHONE MEMORY CARD AND WHAT DOES IT SHOW?
• REMINDS ME OF THEM DISCREDITING 100'S OF EYEWITNESSES TO A MISSILE STRIKING FLIGHT 800, AND EVEN RESURRECTED OLD MEMORIES OF THEM PUTTING THE STRONG ARM ON EYEWITNESS BEVERLY OLIVER IN DEALEY PLAZA AND THEN TAKING HER INTO AN OFFICE WHERE SHE WAS INTIMIDATED AND TOLD THAT ONLY 3 SHOTS WERE HEARD AS JFK GOT ASSASSINATED, WHEN SHE ADAMANTLY SAID THAT SHE HEARD MORE .....THEY SAID ECHOES.
• 7. WHY DO WE NEED ANOTHER DISCREDIT THE EYEWITNESS OPERATION FROM THE FBI? ........
• (NOTE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS ACOUSTICS EVIDENCE DID PROVE MORE THAN 3 SHOTS) .
• DOES THE "I" IN FBI STILL STAND FOR INTEGRITY?   
• 8. WAYNE MADSEN REPORTED THAT HIS SOURCES INDICATE A FALSE FLAG OPERATION INVOLVING RAW OF INDIAN INTEL, MOSSAD, AND THE CIA WAS RUNNING THIS UNDERWEAR BOMBER (WITH 3 NAMES RULE FOR PATSY OBVIOUS)  CAPER.
• HE ALSO REPORTS A POSSIBLE DUBAI CONNECTION AS WELL,
• AS THE BRAVE DUTCH FILMMAKER (SEEMED VERY WELL TRAINED TO ME) WHO JUMPED ON THE BOMBER , WAS DRIVEN TO THE SCHIPHOL AIRPORT BY SOMEONE WHOSE FACE BOOK FRIENDS LIST THE EMIR OF DUBAI
• AND ALSO REFERENCES TO THE MOGADISHU ATTEMPT OF SYRINGE AND POWDER LAST MONTH ON AN AIRLINE ALLEGEDLY OWNED BY THE EMIR OF DUBAI. 
• 9. WITH THOUSANDS OF U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES AND BUKU SPOOKS ADVISING IN THE YEMEN PROXY WAR , IS THIS THEN TO BE THE BACK DOOR ENTREE FOR A GO AT IRAN OR MORE SPECIFICALLY TO MAKE SURE THE U.S. HELPS ISRAEL GO AT IRAN WHILE THE SAUDI OIL FIELDS ARE BEING PROTECTED FROM REBEL FORCES IN YEMEN?
• WITH THIS ABDULMUTALLAB GETTING TRAINING AND PROBABLY THE PETN FROM TWO AQ CHIEFTAINS RECENTLY LET GO FROM GUANTANAMO FOR SAUDI ART THERAPY CLASSES ......WHO LET THEM GO AND WHO IS CONTROL FOR THEM?   
• IS IT NEW YORK AGAIN WHERE WE SAW "BLACK JACK" ESQUE WHITE VAN (PROBABLE DECOY TO TIME RESPONSE) SHUT DOWN THE NASDAQ EXCHANGE YESTERDAY?
• 10. WHAT IS THE NEXT FALSE FLAG TARGET AND WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?
• 11. ARE U.S. OIL REFINERIES OR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS LIKE INDIAN POINT NEXT ?
• (RECALL ROLAND CARNABY ON THE REFINERIES QUESTION AND PREVIOUS ULTRA BLACK FACTIONS DUST UP OVER ALLEGED NUCLEAR DEVICE IN THE HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL ON A BOAT WHERE A FIRE FIGHT DID HAPPEN WITH CASUALTIES) 
• 12. WHY ARE MARTIAL LAW UNITS INCLUDING FOREIGN TROOPS. AND MERCENARIES ALREADY INSITU IN AMERICA UNDER DAILY COMMAND AND CONTROL  OF SOME "MARTIAL LAW PAPA" WHO HAS AUTHORITY THAT SUPERCEDES ALL OTHER HF TRAFFIC COMING OUT OF ANDREWS
• AND WHO HAS BEEN USING NOT ONLY UN BUT EVEN ....UNA.....UNION OF NORTH AMERICA IN HIS RADIO DESIGNATORS? (RECALL "BLACK JACK" SCENARIO FROM UK TELEGRAPH ART SECTION ....AND THE UNA USAGE)
• 13. WHEN WILL ALL GOOD MEN WHO LOVE THE LORD AND SWORE AN OATH TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION ...........PUT A STOP TO THIS LUCIFERIAN ILLUMINATI EVIL SERIES OF PLANS AND ACTIONS DESIGNED TO DESTROY THE U.S. AND TO FORM THE WORLD GOVERNMENT THAT AT COPENHAGEN WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE FORM OF WORKING BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE AND WHOSE FUNDING MECHANISM VIA CAP AND TRADE IS BEING DEBATED RIGHT NOW IN THE U.S. CONGRESS?
• STAND UP AND RESIST BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
• May the Lord Jesus defuse these evil plans currently afoot and negate all intelligence operations designed to destroy the U.S. and plunge the world into war. May he return and send all those responsible into the fiery lake post haste.
   
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• Bombshell Eyewitness Revelations: Confirmed FBI Cover-Up Of Flight 253 Attack
• Editor’s note:
• Detroit attorney Kurt Haskell dropped bombshell revelations concerning his eyewitness experience of the Flight 253 attack and how the FBI detained a second man after dogs detected a bomb in his luggage on The Alex Jones Show today.
• The FBI has not only ignored Haskell’s story, but they have launched a cover-up by refusing to even acknowledge the existence of another man who filmed the entire flight, including the aborted attack, as well as the well-dressed man who aided the bomber to board the plane even though he had no passport and was on a terror watch list.
• Watch this space for more stories on this astounding news that the corporate media has completely failed to cover.
• Kurt Nimmo
   Infowars.com
   December 29, 2009
• Detroit attorney Kurt Haskell appeared on the Alex Jones Show today and detailed his experience at the Amsterdam airport and on flight 253.
• Mr. Haskell provided information not covered by the corporate media.
•        Kurt Haskell.
• In addition to a detailed retelling of the story he gave the corporate media,
• Mr. Haskell addressed the unprofessional and lackadaisical behavior of the FBI and airport security after the plane landed at the Detroit Metro airport in Romulus, Michigan.
• He characterized their behavior as a “complete embarrassment. They actually put us in more jeopardy than we were already in.”

  • Because the intent was to get Americans killed en masse..for reasons....The inflight massacre failed; so pick it up and try once last time on the ground and within the airport.
  Add Sticky Note
• Passengers were told to remain seated in the aircraft for 20 minutes after landing despite the fact security did not know at that point if there was an explosive on the plane or if the fire started by the suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab while on descent to the airport had spread under the floor in the cabin or to the fuel tanks in the wings.
• After being allowed to disembark from the plane by officials, passengers were detained in customs with their carry-on luggage for six hours while they waited to be interrogated by the FBI, according to Haskell.
• At this point a bomb-sniffing dog pointed at carry-on luggage in the possession of a man Haskell described as Indian around 30 years old.
• Officials led the man away to an interrogation room.
• Haskell said he was concerned because the bomb-sniffing dog had flagged the man, indicating he may have had explosives in his carry-on luggage.
• The Indian man was subsequently led away in handcuffs.
• Following this incident the FBI moved the passengers to another location.
• “You’re being moved,” the FBI told them, “it is not safe here. I’m sure you all saw what happened and can read between the lines and why you’re being moved.”
• He has repeated it to “countless” news agencies and they uniformly have not included it to his knowledge.
• Haskell said the corporate media refuses to cover this aspect of his story.
• Mr. Haskell questioned why officials have not released the Amsterdam airport security video that will undoubtedly reveal crucial information about the “sharp-dressed man” who escorted a disheveled Mutallab to the boarding area.
• Haskell described the suspected terrorist as appearing to be a “poor black teenager.”
• He insisted Mutallab be boarded on the plane without a passport and when an airport employee refused to do so Mutallab and the Indian man went to talk with a supervisor.
• The well-dressed Indian man did all the talking.
• The Indian man tried to pass off Mutallab as a Sudanese refugee and have him boarded despite the fact doing so would be in violation of regulations concerning refugees.
• In general, documentation must be provided by an embassy in order for refugees to board international flights.
• Mr. Haskell did not see Mutallab again until the botched terror bombing inside the plane on the approach to Detroit. He did not know how Mutallab finally boarded the aircraft.
• The FBI was not pleased with Kurt Haskell when they conducted a follow-up interview earlier today in Michigan.

  • I bet the bastards weren't..
  Add Sticky Note
• They showed him close-up photographs of various people, including Mutallab. “They kind of tried to trick me,” Haskell explained.
• The agents tried to pass off two photos of Mutallab as different people. Kurt asked the agents if they were attempting to impeach his story and smear him.
• The Indian man was not included in the photographs.
• Haskell asked them why he was not shown a full body shot of the suspect.
• Haskell was eight rows back from the suspect.
• He also asked the FBI agents if it would be more appropriate to bring the surveillance video from the Amsterdam airport instead of still photos.
• The FBI agents did not answer and were displeased with the question.
• “I don’t think they liked that comment from me,” Haskell added.

  • I think the stupid fucks and their payrolled alphabet agencies such as these FBI "Manchurians" overstepped their hand in this Flight 253 attempted terror plot and they've opened themselves up to quite a visual by the American people.
  Add Sticky Note
• The FBI said they did not have the videotape. They also made a point to tell Haskell they were asking the questions and not him.
• The agents showed Haskell a photograph of the man flagged by the bomb-sniffing dog and taken into custody in customs.
• “Isn’t this the man who had the bomb in his carry-on bag that you arrested in customs who you refuse to admit exists?” Haskell asked the agents.
• “They really didn’t like that comment from me and had no comment back to me but I said it sure looks like the man you refuse to admit exists.”
• Kurt Haskell was circumspect and careful not to speculate during the interview with Alex Jones.
• He indicated he is only interested in the facts and does not want to endanger his version of events by speculating on motives.
• Corporate media interviews with the Haskells.
• 197 Responses to “Bombshell Eyewitness Revelations: Confirmed FBI Cover-Up Of Flight 253 Attack”

• KiD WiZDOM Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

  I’ve read on HAARP, Project Blue Beam, Planet X 2012 AKA “Wormwood Star“ Project Blue Book Project Grudge, The Lucifer Project AKA Saturn SUN and many other shadow government projects

   

  And yes I will enjoy the lights in the sky, stupid fool.

• Madison Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 2:49 am

  Interesting:

   

  Google image search the name of the underwear bomber:

   

  Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab

   

  Isn’t that strange, eh?

   

  I’ve found at least 8 people who’s photoa are said to be Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab

• .(0/\/\f0r+@b|y.clu/\/\b. Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 9:28 am

  Kate… I have to disagree. Everybody who reads these comments isn’t necessrily in the “choir”. Think about newcomers who have just begun their journey of awakening.
• Of course, we can’t forget the surveillance teams they hava assigned to every significant, effective website in the Information Revolution.
• They all deserve a chance to learn the tragic Truth of our situation here on this planet.
    JJ… I am very grateful for your consistent injections of Truth on these comment boards. Keep up the good work, Brother, that we may one day relish in the Peace, Liberty and Justice birthed from the tireless efforts of the Information Warriors.

• Jibbs Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

  I cant believe they can fool the masses with this crap… If Al-quada was so smart why would they pick non valuable targets? Its absurd to think that for over 8 yrs they cant even kill 1 valuable target..
• Its obvious that these “terror” attacks are being used to take freedom and liberty from people instead of protecting them!

• Sabretruthtiger Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 1:02 am

  Absolutely, if the NWO wanted to forge a passport I’m pretty sure they could, even create a legit one as they own the system lol! If they wanted the plane blown up by this guy it would be blown up. This is just to portray the so called ‘terrorist’ as an incompetent loose cannon. That way they can claim how lame the current security is that such a moron could bypass the system. This will lead to even bigger security upgrades (or freedom removals)

• TS Gordon Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 12:57 am

  LOL; B-U-S-T-E-D! Even the FOX can’t outrun the truth on this story!

• FAUX NOOZ Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 10:10 am

  I truly hope that Mr. Haskell does not have a fatal auto accident traveling on “icy” I-94 or I-75
   or M-59… I also hope he doesn’t become suicidal over the thought of what might of happened if his plane had blown up, or that he doesn’t accidentally overdose on heroin with his black hooker girl friend, or is the victim of a drive by shooter on 8 mile!!!
   WATCH YOUR BACK DUDE!!

• SpazJohn Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 11:30 am

  Now there’s a thought I’ve had since the couple came forward publicly as eyewitnesses.
   Stay safe Haskells, also there is one other eyewitness.

• Mr Morphed Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 11:58 pm

  you forgot heart attacked and cancered

• FAUX NOOZ Reply:
  December 31st, 2009 at 11:10 am

  I ALSO HEARD HE ‘S FROM TAYLORTUCKY SO THAT RULES OUT AN ACCIDENT ON M-59 OR 8 MILE….BUT IT OPENS UP AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEFARIOUS ACT ON TELEGRAPH ROAD…….

• Thomas Paine Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 1:56 am

  “Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goering

• Audio Truther Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 5:32 am

  Boule The Black Skull-n-Bones Society Exposed —-> myspace.com/audiotruther

   

  this is a Huge cover-up, even the Obama Deception missed this—

• John Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 8:24 am

  People from India and Pakistan share a common ancestry. While the witness thought the sharp dressed man was indian, he could have easily come from Pakistan. Note the relationship between the Pakistan intelligence service and the CIA. The intelligence services have people from all sorts of nationalities.

   

  Is it a coincidence that the man flagged by the bomb sniffing dog looked similar to the sharp dressed man?

   

  People in general and US citizens in particular need to wake up.

   

  Seems like the only people that travel hassle free are the ones who are up to no good.

   

  Remember the baby who had his name on a watch list and got held up with his mom?
• The Deliverer Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 6:52 pm   

  We need more people like this couple, to expose the criminals of our government for what they really are.
• andrew Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:09 pm   

  Great film:

   

  Bill Hicks Puppet Show: “The Elite”

   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8IvKx0c19w
• subjectoftheussa Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:09 pm   

  pretty sad they can interview these people and sound interested to get a quick ratings spike, yet you still don’t see the story anywhere and don’t hear anyone asking these questions.

   

  business as usual
• turkey eater Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:12 pm   

  It’s badass that Haskell was pushing the buttons of these FBI agents. I think that he needs to heed Alex’s warning today about watching his six. Theres no way to tell what the feds wont do to people like him who choose to speak out.

• Truthurts Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

  This clown is trying to hurt the credibility of this huge story by posting his moonie crap. Next, he’ll be posting Bigfoot stories.

   

  He wants anyone new visiting this site to think it’s just a bunch of whackos. Definitely a COINTELPRO move.

   

  Where the F is the moderators?

   

  They pull posts that don’t deserve to get pulled and leave crap like this?
• Tom Joness Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:33 pm   

  Sir, that NASA info is completely off topic. Mods, please delete his irrelevant comments. Thanks
• ArksmnokOfWiksunkor Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:37 pm   

  Very interesting story. If Haskells are credible witnesses and they seem to be for me. If their story is backed up with testimonies of other independent witnesses then it is very high probability that here was some sort of cover up action done.
   My speculation is that this indian looking man that helped the terrorist to board the plane is UN diplomat or official which could be also working for some secret service I would say it could be ISI from Pakistan which works together with CIA. The same could apply for the other man which was arrested after the landing by which the search dog has found some suspicious substance. As far as I know he could be also some diplomat because they can board planes without going trough security.
• Watch Tower Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:37 pm   

  There will be a false flag operation occur Dec. 31 st. there are absolutely tons of equipment being moved across the country right now and every single vehicle on the trains are ALL clearly marked UN.

• Also has anyone heard that the FEMA coffins have been moved from Madison Ga.?

   

  Im tellin ya now get ready cause its right around the corner.

• PD Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  Yes, it is becoming much clearer that you are attempting to disrupt the board
• keith4130 Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 7:48 pm   

  The tip of the ice burg for the false flags the NWO scum will try as their mainstream media control collapses. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” …. Rahm Emanuel
• Mothman Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:07 pm   

  What we are witnessing is a prime example of criminality that does not get investigated in the manner consistent with good investigations. We see again the FBI and other agencies acting more to protect the scene and discern who knows what and who saw what.
• Since there are witnesses that saw the crotch bomber being led to a gate while someone else video tapes is a clear indication that this whole incident is riddled with intelligence operatives that will have to explain what they were doing and why and under whos authority.
• With this being said, now we have to cross our fingers and watch and see how long viable witnesses live after this incident.
• After Obamas broadcast I clearly felt that a coverup was under way and from all indications it is going to be a problem for the incompetent Obama gangster regime trying to distract from Health Care and to provoke a response that will allow him to enact Martial Law and shut down all travel. He still has an agenda to ruin the nation and to do so Obama must continue to undermine the dollar, and undermine our international financial affairs with other nations.

• What we have seen in this terrorism act is another example of elements of the government trying to create a false flag operation for domestic policital reasons.

   

  Pretty soon Obama will don a uniform and a swagger stick and begin acting like Chavez the dictator and super bum of Latin America.
• We have witnessed a poorly conducted false flag operation. What we must do now is to continue to bring the guilty to justice and keep an eye on Obmama’s next move. It has to be a whopper of a plan if he plans to disarm and go for the dictator gold.

• casey Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

  Mothman, thanks for the great succinct post!

   

  Any more of the Capitol gun scares like today, and he might get away with disarmament if most Americans are truly as gullible as they behaving with these false-flag events!

   

  It’s up to those in the know and willing to speak out to keep up this flight in the Infowar!
• jojo Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:12 pm   

  Any Bets that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab never was on the plane but a CIA stooge ,
    Notice only one used picture of him is blurred and don’t reflect family pictures .CIA has him but drugged from a previous kidnapping :^/
• AnthraxSleuth Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:20 pm   

  SO my comment which is on topic and contains personal experiences with the FBI is removed but the twit posting on the moon which is as far off topic as well, the moon gets to stay posted. What a joke this information war is.
• AnthraxSleuth Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:23 pm   

  Wouldn’t want to inject reality into this fantasy website now would we. Please remove all comments based in reality. The information war will not be webinized!
• AnthraxSleuth Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:28 pm   

  Want to find a real story? google my screen name or google “Special Agent Jim Page, Anthrax”
   It’s a hoot. And a true story of FBI cover up.
   Stay tuned I have a tell all book backed up with the FBI’s own documents coming soon.
• bullsh!t Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:28 pm   

  ” including the aborted attack ”

   

  how is this considered an aborted attack? who told the guy to abort?

• witman Reply:
  December 31st, 2009 at 8:42 am

  More like a foiled attack.

• Jim Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

  People who seem to see the big picture are derided as conspiracy nut bags that wear tin foil hats. Of course rich people wouldn’t get together and have a plan. NOOOO.
• Lyn Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:31 pm   

  Total bombshell interview by Jones… amazing revelation
• 7deviations Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:31 pm   

  I greatly enjoy sharing information and ideas with my fellow citizens with the goal of exposing the criminal government.

   

  However, the trolls really need to be policed in these reply sections. I would rather all comments be totally shut down than have people spam in the comments section.
• Delphi Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:41 pm   

  Ok, ok!

   

  Its all a scam, but give up your rights anyway. Its the right thing to do.
• Alex Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 8:46 pm   

  Good on you Haskell…Stay strong and lets blow the TRUTH on this open….
• keith4130 Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 9:29 pm   

  In the late 70s, George HW Bush first headed the CIA, then immediately was director of the CFR. Shortly after that he was Vice President, then President. In the 80’s he made his famous speech calling for a “New World Order” in Congress.
• The CIA is nothing but an NWO tentacle of treason, fermenting 3rd would countries into debt and conflict so they can then be owned by central banks, and otherwise creating war and hatred of the US around the world. CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS lurkers, if you swore an oath to the US Constitution to assume your current job position, perhaps you need to re examine your loyalties. How many US Service Persons have died as a result of CIA back blasts and failed policies? We are led by traitors.

• Weed Wacker Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 3:28 am

  Not that I am a bible toater, but try watching Iron Mountian Blueprint for Tyranny. You can get it at google.
• Some christians put the video together based upon some classified documents that were uncovered. What they interpret from those documents as the war between Satan and Jesus, is actually the NWO’s blueprint, bigger than PNAC, blood – guts and all.
• The christians – modern day scribes, diligently go through the Iron Mountian documents preserving and focusing on the meaning of each sentence, as they see. And beyond their interpretation of Satan, Jesus and the book of Daniel, they did one heck of a good job outlining the NWO agenda as it’s happening today and also what lies ahead. They have government documents calling for world genocides and it’s no joke, this is serious.
• MAINSTREAM MEDIA BUSTED Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 9:32 pm   

  PLANE BOMBER REVEALS CIA FALSE FLAG INVOLVEMENT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWp5F4IRpw <9

   

  Reply

  paul smith Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

  oh my god that is shocking
• Gas Passer Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 9:43 pm   

  I certainly am happy that there is “InfoWars” to get the whole truth out to the people since Kurt Haskell told the corporate news media the whole story….but they didn’t report all of his story.

   

  Kurt Haskell, thanks for considering InfoWars to tell the whole truth….that the corporate media didn’t do.

   

  There needs to be a whole clean up of politicians in Washington DC. We need to vote people in that will investigate stuff like this.

• in the woods Reply:
  December 29th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

  I think the voting days are just about over in this country. Many good people have been sent to Washington it hasn’t change one thing. All that happens is more laws put on the little people and the super rich just steal more of are freedoms.
• RebelsWanted.com/health.htm Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 9:54 pm   

  Alex… Have a program on your website which automatically organizes and categorizes (and rates like on youtube) our posts, so that WE THE POSTERS can create an organized posting of information, so that we can read and find all this vitally important info that we all post. Because posting now is really wasting time and energy. Its not effecient enough and too disorganized!!!!!!!!!!
• More news which Alex won´t report is at: RebelsWanted.com
• michael Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 10:18 pm   

  It is so obvious, the level of manipulation by the web of controllers, and yet the majority of us cannot handle it. Only those who feel the impact of this information, and who know what the implications are for the future, will do what is right. The rest of us are just so complacent and chemically labotomized.
   Wake up?
   It takes time to learn the ABC’s, and I fear there is not enough time for the sheeple to even get through kindergarten.
• UPTOHERE Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 11:43 pm   

  WHAT TYPE OF EXPLOSIVE ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? COULD IT HAD BEEN SOME KIND OF FIRE BOMB? OF COURSE WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE GUY WHO WAS RECORDING EVERYTHING IS IN A FEMA CAMP NEAR YOU. GOT ORGANITE?
• USUCKYHADJIFORGIWATCHY Says: 
     December 29th, 2009 at 11:53 pm   

  HOW COME THE MEDIA AND THE FBI ARE NOT QUESTIONING THE GUY WHO WAS SHOOTING THE VIDEO ? WHAT HAPPEND TO THE TICKET AGENT? WHY ARE THEY NOT INTERVIEWING THE TICKET AGENT? MAYBE THE TICKET AGENT TOOK AN EARLY VACATION? MAYBE THEY WILL FIND HIM IN SOME BATHROOM A WARM GUN IN HIS HAND AND BULLETT HOLES IN HIS BACK OR HANDS BEHIND THE BACK AND HIS FEET TIED HANGING FROM A ROPE SUICIDE”? AND WHAT THE HELL HAPPEND TO THE GUY WHO GOT HIM ON THE PLANE?
• SWATCAT Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 12:01 am   

  I HAD THE SAME QUESTIONS / USUKAHADJIFORGIWATCHY /AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WATCHING CNN WERE PROBABLE DRINKING KOOL= AID AND BELIEVE IT IS REAL ALQUEDA. THERE NOT EVEN QUESTIONING IT?
• dont care Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 12:11 am   

  I think the elite are to the point where they don’t care what we know.Because they know most americans are brainwashed to the point of no return.Their mouthpiece(MSM) can make the sheep believe ANYTHING.
• The bailouts didn’t expose them,the leaked climategate e-mails didn’t expose them,JFK,MLK,9-11,etc.They did all of this and most people don’t believe that the elite exist,the fed is a private bank,the left and right are controlled puppets despite all the hard proof alex shows.Its amazing the public is still asleep.
• fortigate firewall Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am   

  I’m impressed I found this site on google looking for something else entirely, now I’m gonna have to go through the old material Good bye spare time today, but this was a truly great find

• oldnamvet Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 1:43 am

  Welcome to infowars,back in 1995 I to found infowars site cause I was pissed off about the babies being killed in OKC in april 19,1995.That was my line in the sand for me.
   OKC bombing was a govt inside job just as 911 was a inside job.Please send this site to all you know and wake them up and start this infowars revolution against these satanic scum of the new world order
• Red Star Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 12:48 am   

  Looks like they picked the wrong plane for this false flag op, Mr. Haskell seems like a smart and decent man. I like how he talked back to the FBI and showed him that he won’t be easily manipulated. And he is not scared! God Bless peopel like Mr. Haskell. Courageous to say that he visited infowars.com after the feds visited him.

• 9th1 Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am

  Exactly !

   

  People Everywhere and in all walks of life are wise to the endless scams now.

   

  Ignorance is not bliss anymore for the .gov criminals…
• HillbillyJihad&TheBubbaLiberationFront Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 4:01 am   

  Ponder these…WHERE WAS (1 Interpol (2 MI 1 thru 6 (3 DHS (4 FAA (5 FCC (6 NSA (7 NRO (8 TSA (9 State Dept. (10 CIA…and list goes on!!! Get it now??? “We are the Players, YOU are the show(Shakespeare}!!!” Problem reaction solution in Progress!!! Enjoy!!! “All ‘Thermal Expansion!!!”
• keith4130 Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 5:39 am   

  Today DHS employees will sip coffee and complain they have impossible jobs, and CIA employees will work hard again to be sure America is hated around the world, and that more of these attacks will be lined up 6 months and a year from now.
• Nina Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 6:12 am   

  The first installation of roadside systems for Mexico’s ambitious nationwide electronic vehicle registration (EVR) has been completed by Sirit and Axiompass. The installation using Sirit’s open road tolling technology including ID5100 readers, Sirit lane controllers and software and PIPS cameras produces a system that can simultaneously read the electronic registration stickers and also the vehicles and their license plate numbers with cameras.

   

  The combined data will be transmitted to a central database of the national vehicle registry agency which can find “vehicles of interest” for law enforcement. The system will enable the various regional enforcement agencies to pick up identified vehicles on a watch list as they travel along the highway

   

  http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/4513

   

  Folks, I spent 30 years in highway engineering…believe me this is coming here. You can learn a lot from the above website.
• jason Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 6:54 am   

  YOUTUBE HAVE BANNED THIS VIDEO IN SOME COUNTRIES WHY??

   

  UK US POLICE STATE 2010

   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQfNJ-xE-4

• schools out Reply:
  December 30th, 2009 at 8:23 am

  this is why http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWp5F4IRpw
• Neocon Narc Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am   

  The ONE question we should all be asking….How was the underwear bomber going to Sudan, but on a flight from Amsterdam to the U.S.??

   

  The TSA should have figured this one out during the counter dispute.
   Hey Mister, You are going the wrong direction and therefore lying to us.
   I don’t know of any air flights from N.Y. to California that go to England first!!!

   

  Here is the rest of my theory to consider:
   The days before the attempt Obama gave Interpol immunity. Typically the government gives immunity when they are committing their crimes. The sharp dressed man was with Interpol and only person with authority to operate where and how he did.
   This plane had no security on it. Pulled back.
   This plane was supposed to have blown up and allowed an invasion for Yemen.
   Instead the friggin people on board stopped it and need more restrictions to keep them from acting like they did to stop future planned bombings.
   Followed up with the usual government tactic that even when the cover is blown, go ahead with the scam because they are in control.
   Within 24 hours you have Liberman and others calling for Yemen invasion or attack.

   

  Either Mr. Haskell is lying, or the government was caught red-handed.
   They are going to have to start a discredit,murder,smear campaign on this lawyer to save face.

   

  I am just theorizing because that is all you can do when you are on the outside and not on the inside of the crime like Lieberman and others who revealed the real intentions and plot.
• fedup Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 11:48 am   

  It’s a circus for morons produced by clowns. You can drive in the back gates at major airports and walk up to the hangars, even the National Guard hangars, but the show is at the front gate, for public consumption. Pathetic. If you are still flying supporting the fall of our country, you are worthless, please go through yourself off a bridge.
• Mark Says: 
     December 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pm   

  When do you idiots stop talking and do the only right thing, and:

   

  found THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL PARTY ! Get those idiots out of Washington – NOW !

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• Report of 2nd man cuffed from Flight 253 confirmed
• 'This is the FBI's 4th story'

  • Well,it is a little difficult to tell the truth when you are waiting to hear from the "Top" if that "truth" should be told or wait on a "manufactured" story to trickle back down to you through the chain of command.
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• U.S. Customs and Border official apologizes, reverses himself –
• Posted: January 02, 2010
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• After several days of denying eyewitness reports of a second man from Northwest Flight 253 being arrested following the attempted Christmas Day bombing of the plane by a Nigerian passenger linked to al-Qaida, the chief U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit area has admitted another passenger was taken into custody.
• Ronald G. Smith sent an e-mail to the Detroit News, the paper reported, apologizing that the information provided to federal investigators by two attorneys aboard the plane had not been made available earlier.

  • Gotcha, Bastard!!!!!!!!!
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• As WND reported, Smith and other federal officials repeatedly denied accounts of the incident by Kurt and Lori Haskell of Taylor, Mich., who described authorities handcuffing and taking away a second passenger.
• Following the foiled terrorist attack, Haskell said passengers were corralled into a small, evacuated luggage claim area of an airport terminal. Then, he says, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in.
• "During this time period, all of the passengers had their carry-on bags with them," he wrote in a posting on MLive.com. "When the bomb sniffing dogs arrived, one dog found something in a carry-on bag of a 30-ish Indian man." He said this man wore orange clothing.
• "The man in orange, who stood some 20ft away from me the entire time until he was taken away, was immediately taken away to be searched and interrogated in a nearby room," Haskell explained.
• "At this time, he was not handcuffed. When he emerged from the room, he was then handcuffed and taken away."
• Immediately after the questioning, Haskell said an FBI agent approached the remaining passengers and, referring to the man in orange, said, "You all are being moved to another area because this area is not safe. I am sure many of you saw what just happened and are smart enough to read between the lines and figure it out."
• In his interview with MLive.com, Haskell said the agent's statement made him and other passengers believe an explosive may have been detected in the man's luggage.
• A second passenger, Daniel Huisinga of Fairview, Tenn., who was returning from an internship in Kenya, confirmed the account.
• Haskell said authorities marched the remaining passengers out of the baggage claim area and into a long hallway.
• "This entire time period and until we left customs, no person that wasn't a law enforcement personnel or a passenger on our flight was allowed anywhere on our floor of the terminal (or possibly the entire terminal)," he wrote.
• "The FBI was so concerned during this time that we were not allowed to use the bathroom unless we went alone with an FBI agent. We were not allowed to eat or drink, or text or call anyone."
• Haskell said ever since the landing the FBI had insisted only one man was arrested for the airliner attack.
• "However, several of my fellow passengers have come over the past few days, backed up my claim, and put pressure on FBI/Customs to tell the truth," he wrote.
• Apparently, the pressure worked.

  • The average American citizen still has to do the work these over paid, over lauded, too empowered National Security Defenders are tasked with doing. Then they lie and try to defame the truth tellers who happen to be eye witnesses.
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• In Smith's e-mail, which he also sent to the Haskells, he said he had just received information he did not have before and hoped "it will clear up the matter."

  • Bravo Sierra!!! No..your Superiors realized the sham and lieing was not going to work this time around and you were advised accordingly, Mr Smith. That's what happened and your excuse for making an ass of yourself initially frames perfectly your picture as Ding Dang Dufus.
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• As the couple reported, the second man was handcuffed and escorted to a room where he was interviewed and searched, confirmed Smith, but he was not arrested or detained because nothing was found.
• "This information is consistent with eyewitness accounts," Smith said.
• Previously, Smith had said the Haskell's account was not accurate and was a composite of two unrelated events that occurred with passengers from other flights at about the same time.
• Smith had told the newspaper, "There was a second person taken into custody, but it had nothing to do with Flight 253. They did see dogs, but again, it was a totally different incident."
• But Haskell stood by his story, claiming officials were "playing the American public for a fool."
• "Seriously, Mr. Ron Smith, how stupid do you think the American public is?" he wrote.

• Vindicated, Lori Haskell told the Detroit News Smith's e-mail was a small victory for the couple, yet it angered them as well.   

  "I just want them to look into our claims," Lori Haskell said. "Our story has been the same since Day One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI's fourth story."  

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• DETROIT   BOMBER INCIDENT: PLAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AGAIN
• By:   Devvy
    January 1, 2010
    © 2009 - NewsWithViews.com
• Terrorism   is serious. No question we're all deeply concerned about terrorists coming   across our borders
• while Congress and the last five presidents have sat   on their backsides, making half-baked efforts to seal up the borders,   hunt down the illegals and get them out of our country.
• America has paid   a terrible price from the slaughter of our citizens by illegal aliens.
• All we have seen is Band Aids since Ronald Reagan opened the flood gates   and our brave U.S. Border Patrol agents treated as nothing but political   pawns.
• Much   has been written about Northwest Flight 253 originating in Amsterdam.
• It became immediately obvious to many there was something wrong with the   story.
• William Norman Grigg, one of my favorite columnists, wrote an excellent   piece, The Old 'False Flag Trick'[1]
• In that column, William   reminds Americans that the FBI was running a dangerous operation in NYC   which resulted in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
• Oh, yes,   they did and six people died. Not a single FBI personnel was ever held   accountable for murder:
• "The   New York Times later reports on Emad Salem, an undercover agent   who will be the key government witness in the trial against Yousef.
• Salem   testifies that the FBI knew about the attack beforehand and told him they   would thwart it by substituting a harmless powder for the explosives.
• However, an FBI supervisor called off this plan, and the bombing was not   stopped. [New York Times, 10/28/1993]
• "Other   suspects were ineptly investigated before the bombing as early as 1990.
• Several of the bombers were trained by the CIA to fight in the Afghan   war,
• and the CIA later concludes, in internal documents, that it was “partly   culpable” for this bombing (see January 24, 1994).
• [Independent,   11/1/1998] 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is an uncle of Yousef   and also has a role in the WTC bombing (see March 20, 1993). [Independent,   6/6/2002; Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002]
• One of the attackers even   leaves a message which will later be found by investigators, stating,   “Next time, it will be very precise.” [Associated Press,   9/30/2001]"
• "This   factual accounting of Salem and the sting operation came out during trial   and cannot be disputed.
• What shocked me is that for once, the truth actually   appeared in the NY Times, which, unfortunately, has become nothing   more than a propaganda rag over the years.
• At the time, millions of Americans   should have demanded not only criminal indictments against the FBI personnel   involved, but the removal of the Director of the FBI and the Attorney   General for allowing this act of terrorism to happen.
• It didn't happen,   either because Americans didn't know or didn't care."[2]
• At that   time, the Butcher of Waco, Janet Reno, conducted the investigation into   her own people. Now, another equally inept political animal, Janet Napolitano,   is vowing to "fix it."
• One   of the things that struck me most odd was the photo ABC News   put out regarding the would be bomber's under wear.
• Here's this guy sitting   on what is alleged to be a bomb that would blow his backside to the 72   Virgins in the sky playground.
• He's hidden the bomb in his under wear   with a built in panty pouch, but that pouch where the bomb caught fire,   is still quite visible and clean looking.[3]
• Additionally, as   I wrote in a short note for my email alert list:
• "But,   this latest incident reads eerily similar to an episode of Law & Order
• where a young man had problems with girls. The character was also in emotional   turmoil over seeking God and peace for himself.
• Ripe for the picking.   In that episode, the script is quite similar to the one on Christmas Day.   Both young men. Both socially inept. Both seeking God. Both embrace Islam.   Both turn to terrorism."
• In mid-December   2009, the outlaws in the U.S. House of Representatives voted a 60-day   extension on three provisions of the anti-Bill of Rights "Patriot"   Act.
• A new act of terrorism on an incoming flight to an American airport   should seal the deal when it comes up for a vote soon.
• "Owing to what must have been an anguished   report from his father, Umar Abdulmutallab was known to the CIA and the   State Department as a potential terrorist.
• Grigg   points out in his column:
• Umar Abdulmutallab the elder,   a banking official from Nigeria, met personally with CIA officials to   express concerns that his son – who had gone to Yemen for the supposed   purpose of studying Arabic – was falling into the company of suspected   terrorists."
• Why wasn't this guy's name and face   plastered all over airport security offices? Why didn't the CIA put out   a world wide bulletin to all airports that Abdulmutallab's own father   considered him so dangerous, he took the time to meet with CIA officials   and warn them?
• Certainly,   the question begs to be answered:
• Reminds me of another "failure." John Ashcroft   rejecting warnings in the strongest language of a terrorist attack in   the summer of 2001-
• 'Ashcroft Personally Rejected Specific Warnings of   Impending Terrorist Attacks During Summer of 2001'.
• Patrick Briley, one   of the most respected researchers in this country on the OKC bombing wrote   that piece and it should be read by everyone. [4]
• The government of The Netherlands as well as   the airport officials at the Amsterdam airport.
• Who   is to be held accountable?
• But, wait! Supposedly,   allegedly, the U.S. somehow "...prevented Dutch authorities from   installing full body scanners before the suspected Christmas Day bomb   plotter passed through security at Amsterdam's airport, the Dutch government   claimed today." [5]
• How is it that the   U.S. government can dictate to another foreign government what they can   and cannot install at their own airports?
• Grigg   reprints an important interview from an eyewitness to Abdulmutallab's   boarding on that flight. The one who should be tracked down and questioned   is the "well-dressed, official looking fellow from India." He   was so obviously Abdulutallab's handler.
• Moving   the herds in the desired direction
• Yesterday   on FOX News Network, one of their simple minded hosts, Dave Briggs, blurted   out:
• Get those full body scanners in all airports. If it means getting   naked in front of them to make my family safe, then I say do it!
• Briggs   has already given his consent to get down on his knees and fitted with   chains of bondage.
• Not to mention how dangerous those scanners are to   your health: Full-Body   Scanners to Fry Travelers With Radiation.
• Why do you think the dentist   puts a protective cover over your body when they do x-rays of your mouth?
• Making sure every pilot is   armed, as was routine only two months prior to 9/11 [6],   will send a clear signal:
• Those   scanners are not going stop these zealots.
• Adopt the same procedures as El Al, the Israeli   airline system that has not had an attack on their planes in 30 years.   [7]
• I submit   to you that there is a deeper, darker agenda at work here.
• It will be   some time before any journalist will be able to get ahold of the FBI lab   reports on the explosive and amount inside Abdulutallab's underwear via   a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). Perhaps never if the feds don't want   us to see it; the old "national security" exemption.
• I am   truly thankful that no one was injured or killed on that flight. But,   after 20 years of watching what has gone on in this country and a zillion   hours of research,
• I firmly believe that very disturbed man was a patsy   from the get go.
• In order   to advance the agenda for complete control, it is necessary to continue   using fear and the specter of mass terror to get Americans to give up   more and more of their freedoms for the illusion of "being kept safe."
• If you don't know how the game is played, the game will play you.
• Jeri   Lynn Ball is a gifted writer and determined researcher. Like so many other   dedicated Americans who love this country, she has written about the plans   and methods being used to create the "new Soviet man."
• Her books   (Masters of Seduction, The Great Communitarian Hoax and others) are out   of print and difficult to find. She has never been given the credit so   richly deserves for all her hard work over the years.
• One has to understand   how propaganda is being used and the ultimate goal.

• Jeri explains it so   succinctly here:

   

  The   Totalitarian Vision of “Human Reconstruction”
• "The   same year they wrote “The Program,” Communist architects and   social engineers began to implement their plans for the globalist, communistic   New World Order,
• commencing with the transformation of all humans into   supporters of totalitarianism.
• Nikolai Bukharin had previously written   “that the revolution's principle task was to ‘alter people's   actual psychology.’”
• "In   1928 Bukharin stated that “one of the first priorities is the question   of the systematic preparation of new men, the builders of [totalitarian]   socialism.”
• In his book, Soviet Civilization, Andrei Sinyavsky states   that the “idea of the new man is the cornerstone of Soviet civilization.”
• The “new man” is in fact the indispensable, fundamental basis   of all totalitarian societies.
• Totalitarianism requires the support, approval,   and fearful veneration of the masses; if the “new men and women”   had not been created, totalitarianism would not exist today.
• "The   Communists planned to create not only a new way of life, but new human   beings.
• They sought to achieve not only the reconstruction of social and   cultural institutions, but reconstruction of human beings.
• Communist totalitarianism   has undergone tremendous growth over the past century only because it   has “the support of a man of a new social and psychological type”—the   “new communitarian (Communist) man.”
• A communitarian is a   member of a communistic community. A communitarian adopts and advocates   communistic concepts, such as a spirit of community, selfless commitment   to community service, and the duty to work for “the common good.”

  • Like uh..uh..a certain "Community Organizer???"
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• The terms “Communist” and “communitarian” are   synonyms and are interchangeable, but the word “communitarian”   connotes a sense of community and a spirit of collectivism."
• Please   take the time to read   these few pages from Jeri's book, The Clash of Civilizations: The   U.S. and Communist Ruling Elites.
• Americans   must take the time to learn what the communitarian philosophy is so they   can understand the agenda.
• The communist Chinese, the U.S. government   and the Soviets are in league together to bring about a horrific, brutal   one world government.
• The communitarian philosophy (communist morality)   is taught to vulnerable young Americans in several universities in this   country.
• Please take the time to learn and understand what communitarian   means because it is an ideology that is being inculcated into the minds   of the American people who are in effect, becoming active players in destroying   our republic.
• See: The   Historical Evolution of Communitarian Thinking
• "We   are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am   willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for   it." Patrick Henry
• Don't   let "progressives" (socialists and communists) or the blood   thirsty, war mongering neo-cons keep you from learning the truth.
• Marxist   Obama/Soetoro has simply picked   up where Bush left off. [8]

  • Exactly..!!
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• Research   takes time, but it's the only way to learn the methods being used to destroy   us and defeat them.
• This weekend, no college or NFL football game, trip   to the mall or movie theater is more important than becoming educated   on how Americans are being manipulated and unifying against these masters   of evil. Open your eyes, America. The painful truth is right there to   see.
• What   has been the reaction of the American people over the Northwest Flight   253 incident?
• The polls are showing between 72-76% of Americans are ready   to line up, allow themselves to be stripped naked in front of a scanner   and exposed to ionizing radiation.
• Operation Abdulmutallab can be considered   a success - unless millions refuse to fly. Congress and the airlines will   get the message loud and clear.

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• by     Publius
• Award winning war correspondent Michael Yon was detained and handcuffed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Yesterday by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel.
• Yon was returning to the United States from Hong Kong to visit family when TSA officials stopped him during a routine security checkpoint.

•  “Officials asked me what was in my bag—nothing wrong with this question,” Yon said in an interview with BigGovernment.com.  “I told them it was normal stuff, clothes and toothbrushes.”

   

  
• At this point the TSA officials escorted Yon to a designated screening area where they examined the contents of his bag.
•  Yon suggested to the TSA officials that the question was inappropriate and unrelated to transportation security.
•  “Then they asked me how much money I make,” Yon said.
• The award-winning blogger noted another TSA officer approached Yon: “he asked who do I work for.”  ”I did not answer the question which clearly was upsetting to the TSA officers.”
• Yon was escorted to a room elsewhere in the airport where he said he remained silent during much of the questioning.
• According to Yon, “they handcuffed me for failing to cooperate.  They said I was impeding their ability to do their job.”
• “I always assume everything is being recorded.  I was trying to be professional.”
• Yon described the TSA officials as noticeably frustrated by his refusal to answer their questions:
• Yon continued, “They said I wasn’t under arrest, but I’m handcuffed.  In any other country, that qualifies as an arrest.”
• Ultimately Port Authority police released Yon; according to Yon, the police were “completely professional.”
• In January of 2009, Yon’s article “Border Bullies” detailed a Homeland Security officer coercing a friend to give up her e-mail password so that he could read private email correspondences between her and Yon.
• “If I am the guy on that passport and I don’t have any contraband in my luggage, it is a matter for the FBI, not the TSA.”
• Regarding the incident in Seattle, Yon was adamant the TSA agents had overstepped their bounds:
• “TSA people are out of control,” he said. “They are not doing their jobs, they are harassing people, creating animosity.
• They ask you ‘what time is your connective flight?’ and they bully you until you miss the flight.”

• Phil · 22 hours ago

  I'd bet that he would not have had that much problem with them if his name were Mohammud.

• · 22 hours ago

  sounds to us like Mr Yon has been 'profiled'...
  
  One suspects that they most certainly know who he is, and what he does, and where he stands. His reputation no doubt precedes him. ergo the third degree.
  
  What we wonder- and will try to find out on our own- is who put these bureaucrats up to it. You just don't ask people about their income for no reason.
  
  SOMEONE wanted him to leak something they thought he knew. Hard to figure. But this is rotten, and it smells deliberate as well...

• Danny · 22 hours ago

  They are bullies they act no differently to most who get some power.
• I have chosen to drive or train many journeys I would have flewn before . Not only are these power hungry freaks not helping transit in the least they cannot be helping the airlines bottom line . I mean really these are the same people who stopped Ray Charles Lol Ray Charles !

• · 22 hours ago

  Today's TSA are probably SEIU members.

• Cthrag Sardius · 22 hours ago

  VER ARE YOUR PAPERS!?!?!? ><

• · 22 hours ago

  How much money you make? No wonder we're not safe. We apparently have I.R.S. employees moonlighting as TSA workers.
• was he given a fisting treatment?

• RobertB · 22 hours ago

  Well it's good to know that our fine airport security officials are doing their best to keep former Green Berets off of commercial flights. You never know when one of these guys might snap and use a pillow one hour before landing, endangering the lives of any underwear-igniting jihadists aboard.
• "In January of 2009, Yon’s article “Border Bullies” detailed a Homeland Security officer coercing a friend to give up her e-mail password so that he could read private email correspondences between her and Yon."
  
  I don't think this was a random bit of TSA bullying. I suspect Mr Yon's name was put on a terrorism watch list and he was singled out for "special treatment" because he's dared speak out against the TSA.
  
  Get used to this folks, this is Obama's America (we'll be calling him "Uncle Barry" any day now).
• Come on you guys!
  Get off the TSA's back and leave them alone.
  If they weren't working airport insecurity, they'd be managing your local McDonalds, or cleaning urinals at the ballpark. It's a rough job, and it is hard enough to find people ill qualified to do it.
• Unfathomably unbelievable. I vow never to fly until the situation improves. If the travel inductry suffers sanity may retrun. What's the point of harrassing old ladies and white marines? It's common knowledge who the bomb carriers are. Profile the SOBs!

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• U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
• U.S. border enforcement officials discovered alleged extremist links in a database while the suspect was headed to Detroit on Christmas Day, new disclosures show.
• By Sebastian Rotella                           

  January 7, 2010
• U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials disclosed Wednesday.

  • Ssssuuuuuurrrr 'ya did...
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• The new information shows that border enforcement officials discovered the suspected extremist ties involving the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in a database despite intelligence failures that have been criticized by President Obama.
• "The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection," a senior law enforcement official said.
• "The decision had been made. The [database] had picked up the State Department concern about this guy -- that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen."

  • BRAVO SIERRA!!! They discovered this info while he was enflight to Detroit..."jes in the nick of time, eh." What if the bomb had gone off. The idea is to question before these Low Lifes board a plane; not afterward..Dickweeds..
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• If the intelligence had been detected sooner, it could have resulted in the interrogation and search of Abdulmutallab at the airport in Amsterdam, according to senior law enforcement officials, all of whom requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

  • No..your damned "False Flag Op" didn't go off (in air as a matter of fact) and now it is CYA time..How many stories does this make now coming out of "Dickweedville" on the Potomac?
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• "They could have made the decision on whether to stop him from getting on the plane," the senior law enforcement official said.
• But an administration official said late Wednesday that the information would not have resulted in further scrutiny before the suspect departed.
• Abdulmutallab was in a database containing half a million names of people with suspected extremist links but who are not considered threats.
• Therefore, border security officials would have sought only to question him upon arrival in the U.S., the administration official said.
  
• Nonetheless, the disclosure shows the complexity of the intelligence and passenger screening systems that are the subject of comprehensive reviews that the administration will release today.

  • No...these Assholes can't find their butts with both hands; unless you are white, blue eyed, 89 years old and bound to a wheel chair going through security.
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• The threshold for requiring a foreign visitor to undergo special scrutiny upon arrival in the U.S. is considerably lower than criteria for stopping a passenger's departure overseas, according to current and former law enforcement officials.

  • That's because this intimidation and harrassment of American citizens (law abiding I might add) was set up and fully operational as is during George "Chimpy" Bush's reign...Never mind giving foreign nationals the treatment or the fact the 9-11 Terrorists were not from Pug Holler, Kansas but instead were foreign nationals.
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• That is why border security agencies rely heavily on terrorism watch lists of suspects seen as urgent threats, officials said.
• "The public isn't aware how many people are allowed to travel through the U.S., who are linked, who intersect with bad guys or alleged bad guys," a national security official said.
• "It makes sense from an intelligence perspective. If they are not considered dangerous, it provides intelligence on where they go, who they meet with."
• Moreover, the window for identifying a passenger overseas as a potential threat is limited, a senior homeland security official said.
• U.S. border enforcement officials have access to passenger data based on lists of those who have made flight reservations.
• But the in-depth vetting only begins once a comprehensive list, known as a flight manifest, has been generated, just a few hours before takeoff, the homeland security official said.
• Customs and Border Protection personnel based at the National Targeting Center in Washington came across the intelligence about Abdulmutallab -- which was based on a tip from the suspect's father to U.S. Embassy officials in Nigeria -- during an in-depth review of the manifest after the plane was en route to Detroit, the other law enforcement officials said.

  • BULL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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• The administration's review of screening procedures now underway includes an effort to make more information accessible to inspectors further in advance of flights, the senior law enforcement official said.
• The sheer number of passengers who must be screened and the potential slowdown for air travel posed by more scrutiny remains an impediment, however, officials said.
• In contrast, once foreign visitors arrive in the U.S., border inspectors armed with additional screening data can refer them to secondary inspection, which involves more extensive questioning and searches, for reasons including suspected immigration problems or criminal activity.

  • That doesn't make a whole hel'eva lot of sense if they want to blow the plane up in air or before it lands!!!!!
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• Customs and Border Protection spokesmen declined to comment because the investigation is still open.
• Homeland security officials declined to discuss what information reached the U.S. border officials in Amsterdam on Christmas Day or the actions of those officials related to Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
• But they asserted that the likelihood of Abdulmutallab being intercepted in Amsterdam was low because he was not on the no-fly list, which contains about 4,000 names, or a separate terrorism watch "selectee" list that contains fewer than 20,000 names.
• Instead, the Nigerian was on the larger database.

  • You mean the United States government does not have the computer software/technology that my local bank has...to type in a name and up pops the info/data in a few minutes???? Where has all our tax dollars been going since 9-11 and the DHS and National Security infastructure? Need to quit giving payoffs for those little kids from Central America you entertain foreign diplomats with and put the cash back into protecting American citizens.
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• The real breakdown came months before the flight because intelligence officials failed to match the father's tip with intercepts about a suspected plot involving a Nigerian, a former senior homeland security official said.
• "There was enough information in the system to make the guy a selectee or a no-fly without hoping for Customs and Border Protection to detect it at the last minute," the official said.
  
• The administration plans to release results today of its review of the Christmas Day plot, following a directive by Obama to make public a declassified version of the report he has received.
  
  The report will be edited to remove information that might tell how the intelligence was gathered or who the sources were, administration officials said.

  • Or..."how we F*&#@ up!!!
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• The report is expected to present a clearer picture of how the intelligence system failed to detect the threat.
• Then, for the second time in three days, Obama is planning to speak publicly about the matter.
• Counter-terrorism chief John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also may speak about the breakdown as early as today.
• "This investigation is fast-paced, global and ongoing, and it has already yielded valuable intelligence that we will follow wherever it leads," Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said.

  • I repeat.."after the fact". Dingleberry...
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• Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?
• By Ray McGovern
    December 29, 2009
• In the past, I have alluded to Panetta and the Seven Dwarfs. The   reference is to CIA Director Leon Panetta and seven of his   moral-dwarf predecessors —
• the ones who sent President Barack   Obama a letter on Sept. 18 asking him to “reverse Attorney   General Holder’s Aug. 24 decision to re-open the criminal   investigation of CIA interrogations.”
• Panetta reportedly was also dead set against reopening the   investigation — as he was against release of the Justice   Department’s “torture memoranda” of 2002, as he has been against   releasing pretty much anything at all — the President’s pledges   of a new era of openness, notwithstanding. [See   Consortiumnews.com’s “CIA Torturers Running Scared.”]
• As for the benighted seven, they are more to be pitied than   scorned. No longer able to avail themselves of the services of   clever Agency lawyers and wordsmiths, they put their names to a   letter that reeked of self-interest — not to mention the   inappropriateness of asking a President to interfere with an   investigation already ordered by the Attorney General.
• Three of the seven — George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael   Hayden — were themselves involved, in one way or another, in   planning, conducting or covering up all manner of illegal   actions, including torture, assassination and illegal   eavesdropping.
• In this light, the most transparent part of the letter may be   the sentence in which they worry: “There is no reason to expect   that the re-opened criminal investigation will remain narrowly   focused.”
• When asked about the letter on Sunday TV shows on Sept. 20,   Obama was careful always to respond first by expressing   obligatory “respect” for the CIA and its directors.
• While Obama   keeps repeating the mantra that “nobody is above the law,” there   is no real sign that he intends to face down Panetta and the   Seven Dwarfs — no sign that anyone has breathed new life into   federal prosecutor John Durham, to whom Holder gave the mandate   for further “preliminary investigation.”
• What is generally forgotten is that it was former Attorney   General Michael Mukasey who picked Durham two years ago to   investigate the CIA’s destruction of 91 tapes of the   interrogation of “high-value detainees.”
• Durham had scarcely been heard from when Holder added to his   job-jar the task of conducting a preliminary investigation   regarding the CIA torture specialists.
• These are the ones whose   zeal led them to go beyond the already highly permissive Justice   Department guidelines for “harsh interrogation.”
• In any case, do not hold your breath for findings from Durham   anytime soon. Holder appears in no hurry.
• And President Obama   keeps giving off signals that he is afraid of getting crosswise   with the CIA — that’s right, afraid.
• Not Just Paranoia
• In that fear, President Obama stands in the tradition of a dozen   American presidents. Harry Truman and John Kennedy were the only   ones to take on the CIA directly.
  
• Worst of all, evidence continues to build that the CIA was   responsible, at least in part, for the assassination of   President Kennedy. Evidence new to me came in response to things   I included in my article of Dec. 22, “Break the CIA in Two."
• What follows can be considered a sequel that is based on the   kind of documentary evidence after which intelligence analysts   positively lust.
• Unfortunately for the CIA operatives who were involved in the   past activities outlined below, the temptation to ask Panetta to   put a SECRET stamp on the documentary evidence will not work.   Nothing short of blowing up the Truman Library might help some.
• In my article of Dec. 22, I referred to Harry Truman’s op-ed of   exactly 46 years before, titled “Limit CIA Role to   Intelligence,” in which the former President expressed dismay at   what the Central Intelligence Agency had become just 16 years   after he and Congress created it.
• The Washington Post published the op-ed on Dec. 22, 1963, in its   early edition, but immediately excised it from later editions.   Other media ignored it. The long hand of the CIA?
• Truman wrote that he was “disturbed by the way CIA has been   diverted from its original assignment” to keep the President   promptly and fully informed and had become “an operational and   at times policy-making arm of the government.”
• The Truman Papers
• Documents in the Truman Library show that nine days after   Kennedy was assassinated, Truman sketched out in handwritten   notes what he wanted to say in the op-ed.
• He noted, among other   things, that the CIA had worked as he intended only “when I had   control.”
• In Truman’s view, misuse of the CIA began in February 1953, when   his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, named Allen Dulles CIA   Director.
• Dulles’s forte was overthrowing governments (in   current parlance, “regime change”), and he was quite good at it.
• With coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) under his belt,   Dulles was riding high in the late Fifties and moved Cuba to the   top of his to-do list.
• Accustomed to the carte blanche given him by Eisenhower, Dulles   was offended when young President Kennedy came on the scene and   had the temerity to ask questions about the Bay of Pigs   adventure, which had been set in motion under Eisenhower.
• When Kennedy made it clear he would NOT approve the use of U.S.   combat forces, Dulles reacted with disdain and set out to   mousetrap the new President.
• Coffee-stained notes handwritten by Allen Dulles were discovered   after his death and reported by historian Lucien S.   Vandenbroucke. They show how Dulles drew Kennedy into a plan   that was virtually certain to require the use of U.S. combat   forces.
• In his notes Dulles explained that, “when the chips were down,”   the new President would be forced by “the realities of the   situation” to give whatever military support was necessary   “rather than permit the enterprise to fail.”
• Additional detail came from a March 2001 conference on the Bay   of Pigs, which included CIA operatives, retired military   commanders, scholars and journalists.
• Daniel Schorr told   National Public Radio that he had gained one new perception as a   result of the “many hours of talk and heaps of declassified   secret documents”:
• “It was that the CIA overlords of the invasion, Director Allen   Dulles and Deputy Richard Bissell, had their own plan on how to   bring the United States into the conflict.… What they expected   was that the invaders would establish a beachhead … and appeal   for aid from the United States. …
• “The assumption was that President Kennedy, who had emphatically   banned direct American involvement, would be forced by public   opinion to come to the aid of the returning patriots. American   forces, probably Marines, would come in to expand the beachhead.
• “In fact, President Kennedy was the target of a CIA covert   operation that collapsed when the invasion collapsed.”
• The “enterprise” which Dulles said could not fail was, of   course, the overthrow of Fidel Castro.
• After mounting several   failed operations to assassinate him, this time Dulles meant to   get his man, with little or no attention to what the Russians   might do in reaction.
• Kennedy stuck to his guns, so to speak; fired Dulles and his   co-conspirators a few months after the abortive invasion in   April 1961; and told a friend that he wanted to “splinter the   CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
• The outrage was mutual, and when Kennedy himself was   assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, it must have occurred to Truman   that the disgraced Dulles and his outraged associates might not   be above conspiring to get rid of a President they felt was soft   on Communism — and, incidentally, get even.
• In his op-ed of Dec. 22, 1963, Truman warned: “The most   important thing … was to guard against the chance of   intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President   into unwise decisions.” It is a safe bet that Truman had the Bay   of Pigs fiasco uppermost in mind.
• Truman called for CIA’s operational duties [to] be terminated or   properly used elsewhere.” (This is as good a recommendation now   as it was then, in my view.)
• On Dec. 27, 1963, retired Admiral Sidney Souers, whom Truman had   appointed to lead his first central intelligence group, sent a   “Dear Boss” letter applauding Truman’s outspokenness and blaming   Dulles for making the CIA “a different animal than I tried to   set up for you.”
• Souers also lamented the fact that the agency’s “principal   effort” had evolved into causing “revolutions in smaller   countries around the globe,” and added:
    “With so much emphasis on operations, it would not surprise me   to find that the matter of collecting and processing   intelligence has suffered some.”
• Clearly, CIA’s operational tail was wagging its substantive dog   — a serious problem that persists to this day.
• Fox Guarding Hen House
• The well-connected Dulles got himself appointed to the Warren   Commission and took the lead in shaping the investigation of   JFK’s assassination.
• Documents in the Truman Library show that he then mounted a   small domestic covert action of his own to neutralize any future   airing of Truman’s and Souers’s warnings about covert action.
• So important was this to Dulles that he invented a pretext to   get himself invited to visit Truman in Independence, Missouri.
• On the afternoon of April 17, 1964, Dulles spent a half-hour   trying to get the former President to retract what he had said   in his op-ed. No dice, said Truman.
• No problem, thought Dulles. Four days later, in a formal memo   for his old buddy Lawrence Houston, CIA General Counsel from   1947 to 1973, Dulles fabricated a private retraction, claiming   that Truman told him the Washington Post article was “all   wrong,” and that Truman “seemed quite astounded at it.”
• No doubt Dulles thought it might be handy to have such a memo in   CIA files, just in case.
• A fabricated retraction? It certainly seems so, because Truman   did not change his tune. Far from it.
  
• In a June 10, 1964, letter to the managing editor of Look   magazine, for example, Truman restated his critique of covert   action, emphasizing that he never intended the CIA to get   involved in “strange activities.”
• Dulles and Dallas
• Dulles could hardly have expected to get Truman to recant   publicly. So why was it so important for Dulles to place in CIA   files a fabricated retraction?
• My guess is that in early 1964 he   was feeling a good bit of heat from those suggesting the CIA   might have been involved somehow in the Kennedy assassination.
• Indeed, columnists were asking how the truth could ever come out   with Allen Dulles on the Warren Commission. Prescient.
• Dulles feared, rightly, that Truman’s limited-edition op-ed   might yet hit pay dirt and raise serious questions about covert   action.
• Dulles would have wanted to be in position to flash the   Truman “retraction,” with the hope that this would nip any   serious questioning in the bud.
• The media had already shown how co-opted — er, I mean   “cooperative” — it could be.
• As the de facto head of the Warren Commission, Dulles was   perfectly positioned to exculpate himself and any of his   associates, were any commissioners or investigators — or   journalists — tempted to question whether the killing in Dallas   might have been a CIA covert action.
• Did Allen Dulles and other “cloak-and-dagger CIA operatives have   a hand in killing President Kennedy and then covering it up?
• The   most up-to-date — and, in my view, the best — dissection of the   assassination appeared last year in James Douglass’s book, JFK   and the Unspeakable.
• After updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and   conducting still more interviews, Douglass concludes the answer   is Yes.
• Ray McGovern now works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of   the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.   During a 27-year career at CIA, he served under nine CIA   directors and in all four of CIA’s main directorates, including   operations. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence   Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
•  http://consortiumnews.com/2009/122909b.html

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• UNDER   OBAMA, SECURITY IS A JOKE
• By   Dr. Laurie Roth
    January 8, 2010
    NewsWithViews.com
• An   Obama defense aid recently stated to the press “That’s two   strikes.” He was of course referring to the near miss regarding   the flight to Detroit and the Ft. Hood attack by Hasan.
• It   is most fascinating to me that this President thinks he has only had   two strikes against him. Dream on oh deluded one!
• As I have shared before,   this President has not only shredded our national security but mocked   our international reputation.
• It   is most evident his love and adoration for communist dictators by his   on the record love and support of Hugo Chavez, support of the ousted   Honduran tyrant and support of Ahmadinejad going nuclear. There are   three strikes there alone before we move onward.
• Then   there is the submitting and bowing to the Saudi King, nearly a billion   given to Hamas and fool hardiness of closing GITMO. I think we are at   6 strikes now.
• I   wish there were only two strikes against national security with this   President.
• Now, the latest that just came out was that our authorities,   TSA, CIA and other people in control new about the dangers of Abdulmatallab   and their response wasn’t to keep him from getting on the plane   but to talk to him as soon as he had landed.
• Did they think body parts   and wreckage could talk?
• Apparently they did, because but for the grace   of God that plane with all the bodies on board would have been fertilizer   to many fields on the way to Detroit.
• At this rate I would feel safer   with an Alzheimer’s ward running our national security.
• I   fear with all the hoopla and Obama’s concern about these “two”   strikes playing against his political power and legacy that stupid decisions   regarding airline security are being made which will (as usual) betray   and violate the freedoms of the American people.
• I   have said it before…I will say it again, it is time to profile   Muslims.
• I   didn’t say persecute. I didn’t say terrorize but we must   look specifically at connections, behavior, language spoken, known danger   signs that track to fundamentalists who promote and/or are violent.
• We must have additional questions and screening for anyone coming from   a Muslim country of any nationality.
• If we are actually going to have   watch lists, then we must hire people up and down the ladder who actually   have a brain and training to connect the dots, not just try and make   a pretty picture with the dots as they eat donuts.
• Just yesterday on my radio show I had a Muslim caller from Dallas who   was angry with me saying that I was preaching hate against Islam.
• She   passionately talked about Islam not being the only religion that produces   killers. “Christians murder and Jews murder….look at the   US and Christians killing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
• She actually   believed that Jews and Christians were organized killing machines, not   Islam.
• This   is precisely the brazen, arrogant, lying and delusional attitude that   reflects much of our Government right now.
• How else would Islamic radicals   be walking on planes with bombs strapped to them?
• How else would we   get another stupid speech from our President “don’t rush   to judgment” when Islamic radical, Nidal Malik Hasan also a known   radical, tracked by the FBI murdered 14 victims at Ft. Hood.
• It   is this delusional view of blame against Americans, Christians and Jews   that inspired endless apologies to the world for America and apologies   to Muslim nations for our behavior.
• Is that the behavior where we try   and hide from the Muslim bombers and Jihadists?
• Now   they are talking, with all the media heat on and with Obama worrying   about his dying legacy, about the pervert scanners that will take   X-rays of our naked bodies. They are also saying we will have a   bunch more sky marshals sitting on planes.
• With   all the sensitivity and caution we seem to demonstrate, will the new   sky marshals have squirt guns and a free wake of treatment at Mayo’s   clinic to offer the terrorists currently hyper focusing on us and our   planes? Lord help us all.
• © 2010 Dr. Laurie Roth - All Rights   Reserved

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• Is the Secret Service Targeting the Birthers?

• Why agents investigating threats to the president have been paying visits to the right-wing activists questioning his citizenship.

  — By Stephanie Mencimer
• Thu Jan. 7, 2010 3:05 AM PST
• Over the past year, Secret Service agents charged with protecting President Obama seem to have taken a keen interest in the Birther movement, the committed group of anti-Obama activists around the country who claim the president was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and is thus ineligible to serve.
• The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked (see FactCheck.org's thorough takedown here), but that hasn't stopped Birthers from doggedly making their case in American courtrooms, to US attorneys, and even to a rural county grand jury,
• in the hopes that a judge will rule in their favor and Obama might eventually be removed from office.
• Those efforts have failed spectacularly, but they seem to have succeeded in placing the Birthers on the radar of the Secret Service.
• At least a half-dozen prominent anti-Obama activists who've petitioned various federal agencies or courts to investigate the president's citizenship or publicly questioned his eligibility to serve say they've been visited by Secret Service or Homeland Security agents.

  • Maybe that's why they shuffled aside the Nigerian Terrorist of Flight-253 fame who tried to take down a plane load of people on Christmas Day over Detroit; the Gestapo bastards were/are too busy harrassing American citizens who have the right to know the background and credentials of the man who calls himself their President..along with declaring U.S. Military veterans, Christians, legit gun owners as potential "terrorists" to be watched...Many said in the beginning of the GOP's "Patriot Act" that the Security State would be turned against American citizens..and it has been.
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• Dr. Orly Taitz, the "Queen Bee" of the Birther movement, says, "A number of my supporters had visits from Secret Service, from different agencies, INS, Homeland Security.
• There are a whole number of people who got these visits to intimidate and harrass them."
• She says federal agents visited her home once; however, she was not there to be interviewed.*
• Of particular concern to the Secret Service, it seems, are the individuals who are trying to interest federal prosecutors in bringing criminal charges against the president for fraud and treason, a movement spearheaded by a retired Navy lieutenant commander, Walter Fitzpatrick III.
• Last March, Fitzpatrick sent an "indictment" for treason to the US attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, asking the prosecutors to act on it.
• Two days later, he noted on his blog, two Secret Service agents showed up at his house along with a couple of local cops, to see what sort of threat he might pose to the president.
• "I'm still here," Fitzpatrick reported afterward.
• Fitzpatrick was contacted by the Secret Service again in July after he sent his complaint to the US attorney in Washington, DC.

  • Yeah..don't dare complain about the Fascist sons'a bitches!
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• Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick has encouraged others to take the indictment to prosecutors around the country in the hopes that one will bite.
• Georgia computer-store owner Carl Swensson is a fan of Fitzpatrick's and a member of the American Grand Jury movement, which seeks to hold "citizen grand juries" that bring indictments against the president.
• In an interview, he said that last spring, he took Fitzpatrick's treason complaint to the US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. Shortly afterward, two Secret Service agents showed up at his office.
• "They said they had to make sure anyone who put forward this information wasn't a physical threat to the president," says Swensson.
• He says he engaged them in a polite debate about the 14th Amendment and showed them "proof" that Obama's Hawaii birth certificate was a fake. He also said that he intended to keep bringing the treason charges to federal prosecutors all around the country.
• Swensson doesn't have any hard feelings about the visit, which did little to dampen his enthusiasm for his project. "They were doing their job. They were professional.
• They left, and he hasn't heard from them since.
• They tried to dissuade me from what I was doing, but I wasn't going to have anything to do with that," he says.
• Indeed, far from discouraging the Birther movement, the law enforcement visits have become something of a badge of honor for anti-Obama activists, an event proudly reported to supporters.
• In November, Dale Laudenslager, another Fitzpatrick follower, who sent his criminal complaint to the FBI, got a visit from a Secret Service agent and some local cops shortly before Obama was supposed to appear in nearby Allentown.
• Laudenslager posted the name and phone number of the agent on Fitzpatrick's website. I called the number, which did indeed connect me to the Secret Service special agent, who admitted that he "may have" visited Laudenslager.
• In November, outspoken Birther Rev. James David Manning, a black minister in Harlem, called for Obama to be "jailed, hung and shot," among other things, in one of his online video sermons urging Tea Partiers to "go viral" with the birth certificate issue.
• A few days later, he reported that the CIA and some NYC detectives had come to talk with him, prompting Manning to release a new video suggesting that his arrest for threatening the president was "imminent." (He has not been arrested.)
• Stephen Pidgeon, a Washington state lawyer who brought one of the first civil suits challenging Obama's eligibility to hold office, went so far as to alert WorldNetDaily when he suspected that the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service's parent agency, had him under surveillance.
• The conservative website, which has been a major source of publicity for the Birther movement (even buying billboards reading "Where's the Birth Certificate?"), immediately posted a story about Pidgeon's suspicions, helping to further fuel the perception that the government has it in for anti-Obama activists.
• (He says he spotted black SUVs following him to work.)
• The Secret Service won't comment on whether it has focused on the Birthers or whether it has sent agents to talk to any members of that movement.
• But Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the agency, says the Secret Service is not interested in the issue of the president's citizenship. "Our mandate is to protect the president of the United States," he said.
• Wiley did lay out the generic criteria for what might prompt a Secret Service inquiry. Writing a letter doesn't necessarily qualify as making a threat. But "an unusual direction of interest"—that is, an unhealthy obsession with the president—might get the agency's attention. By that measure, Birthers are an obvious red flag.
• Many of the plaintiffs in the Birther lawsuits have been active or former military people.
• The real question, of course, is whether any of the Birthers might actually be dangerous.
• Orly Taitz reportedly recruited many of them at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot and military gun show, a semi-annual Kentucky event that's a hotbed of right-wing and racist radicalism.
• And some of the Birthers' anti-Obama rhetoric can be pretty extreme. Taitz has even suggested that "it might be time" to exercise "our second amendment right to bear arms and organise in militias."
• A veteran of the CIA, Post is a psychiatrist who specializes in the psychology of political violence.

  • And "MK-ULTRA", Mr Post??
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• Still, Jerrold Post thinks that the president probably doesn't have much to fear from them.
• He used to evaluate people who tried to break in to the White House to see just how dangerous they might be. He says the Birthers do seem to cling fast to the idea that the president, for whatever reason, must be illegitimate.
• But, he adds, "When they are channeling that into legal means like litigation or threats of public exposure, one is less worried about physical injury. Having said that, I think it's perfectly appropriate for the Secret Service to be watchful."
• * This story has been updated to include additional comments from Dr. Taitz. The original version said she had not responded to a request for an interview.
• Stephanie Mencimer is a staff reporter in   Mother Jones' Washington bureau.
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  Stephanie,

   

  "Our mandate is to protect the president of the United States," he said. Wiley did lay out the generic criteria for what might prompt a Secret Service inquiry. Writing a letter doesn't necessarily qualify as making a threat. But "an unusual direction of interest"—that is, an unhealthy obsession with the president—might get the agency's attention. By that measure, Birthers are an obvious red flag."

   

  That's total bullshit.

   

  What you are saying is that you are in agreement that any form of civil participation, much less civil disobedience opens the gate to a Secret Service investigation and Secret Service Intimidation.

   

  Defending police and administration intimidation of political foes? Where the hell is Mother Jones?

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• The Fake Terror Agenda And
    Where It's Headed
• By Joel Skousen
    Editor - World Affairs Brief  
    1-8-10
• The latest airline terror threat by Abdulmutallab, the  underwear bomber, was as phony as the previous shoe bomber Richard Reid.
• A terrorist wannabe simple can't set off plastic explosives with a match  or chemicals that create a mild flame. It takes a blasting cap or very  high intensity flame.
• If even low ranking military people know this, certainly  the government's blame-all, super-powerful and infinitely-resourceful,  terrorist creation, al Qaeda, knows it.
• Nevertheless, the hype of endless  government spokespersons and media pundits covering this story non-stop  is being used to justify yet another terror offensive--this time in lowly  Yemen, a key choke point in the oil tanker network of the Middle East.
• The hapless public, in turn, is going to have to endure another escalation  in body searches in order to save us from terror.
• The shoe bomb threat  required that everyone remove their shoes during airport screening, but  that simply shifted explosives concealment to another part of the body.  Now the public is going to be forced to submit to a "digital strip  search" during screening, and even that won't catch certain explosives  hidden inside internal body cavities.
• Jerry Mazza an editor with the Online Journal summarizes  the problems with the official story [with my comments and corrections  in brackets]:
• "Returning to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to  blow up a Northwest airliner on Christmas day, let's scan the body of evidence  for government lies, the real explosive elements.
• Let's give Umar a good  dose of radiation with the knowledge that first reveals the 80 grams of  [powdered] PETN he carried in his crotch lacked a blasting cap to blow  him and the plane away.
• Instead, lighting with an injection of liquid did  nothing but set him on fire--as if no one in the military or intelligence  knew that!
• Then theirs is the issue of al Qaeda's rush to take credit  for this botched bombing attempt.
• What self-respecting terrorist organization  would be anxious to take credit for this embarrassingly ill conceived attempt  on an airliner--
• unless, of course, they were instructed to do so by the  black operation masterminds who control certain "terror"
• "John McCarthy, retired Marine captain from the  Vietnam War clued me via email:
• 'Jerry, the false flaggers forgot that  a blasting cap is required to detonate PETN and other plastic explosives
• [They didn't forget. They knew the press wouldn't even bring it up, just  as they didn't when discussing the shoe bomber].
• Sure, it will burn and  we used it in winter to heat our cans of food, but a blasting cap is missing  from the mix. So, the PTB [Powers That Be] wanted to raise the fear factor,  which this incident did, without loss of life and a $75 million dollar  airplane
• [Using a no-damage "attack" allows them to leverage  off of a created crisis without the large loss of life that induces the  public to demand that heads roll] . . .
• now the Israeli firms that make  the full body scanners will reap millions!'
• [Somehow the US government  was prescient enough to have placed large orders for additional full-body  scanners a few months prior to this incident. Did they know something the  public doesn't?]
• "Also, another former Marine combat captain, Gordon  Duff, wrote in Veterans Today, Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Terrorism,  "We do know a couple of things.
• His dad [Alhaji Umaru Abdulmutallab],  back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership  with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them
• [This could be true, but Duff gives us absolutely no documentation to support  this. These types of statements comes from anonymous government leakers  who regularly leak to Debka, Wayne Madsen and Duff but provide nothing  to trace or check up on. Beware of conspiracy disinformation].
• They run  everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though  Islamic, Abdulmutallab was a close associate of Israel.
• He has been misrepresented.  His 'banking' is a cover
• [Not really a cover. The father is a high-level  professional accountant and has worked in Nigerian banking for years, and  he also sits on the many boards of large corporations in Nigeria. This  type of person may well have board responsibilities with DICON but I don't  think an accountant type is going to be running the day to day affairs  of a black operation.
• This would, however, give him ample reason for having  alerted the US embassy of his son's radical associations--which few normal  parents would do].
• "Next, what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders  Bush had released, the ones who planned this
• [And how would the government  even know details like who planned this unless they had informants or agent  provocateurs deep inside?]?
• According to ABC news, the Al Qaeda leaders  running the insurgency in Yemen were released from Guantanamo, although  two of the highest ranking known terrorists there, without trial.
• 'Guantanamo  prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari,  were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department  log of detainees who were released from American custody. Both of the former  Guantanamo detainees are described as military commanders and appear on  a January 2009 video, along with the man described as the top leader of  al Qaeda in Yemen, Abu Basir Naser al-Wahishi, formerly Osama bin Laden's  personal secretary.'
• With all the hoopla about trials in New York, not  a word is said when top level terrorists are released to Saudi friends  of the Bush family who let them go. We are now fighting these two Bush  friends in Yemen. They are running a major insurgency there
• [Frankly, this  is doubtful. No low or medium level terrorist gets out of prison after  years in detention and steps in to run the show. Still it is very strange  that if the feds knew this kind of background information, why did they  release them, unless they intended to provoke more terror?].
• "The CIA admits  in its November 29, 2009, interview with Papa Abdulmutallab, they were  told that his son had ties to extremists in Yemen, a hotbed of al Qaeda  activity. The information was not acted on responsibly."
• What Did the US Know Beforehand?
• FoxNews says  that "The CIA's Africa desk had been preparing a report on the suspect  in the Christmas Day airline plot well before the attempted attack but  did not distribute it because the analyst in charge was waiting for pictures  of the young Nigerian. Sources cite this as a main reason President Obama  declared Tuesday that a 'systemic failure' had occurred in the run-up to  the attempted attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight."
• "One official described the CIA report as containing  a 'more extensive description' of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's travel and  contacts, which could have been used to keep him off the plane.
• The National  Counterterrorism Center already had learned about Abdulmutallab and added  his name to a terror database of more than a half-million people, but he  had not been added to the smaller 'no-fly' list or another list that requires  secondary screening at airports."
• Homeland Security chimed in that they had Abdulmutallab  on a list and were planning on interviewing him upon arrival in Detroit.
• How convenient--always claiming they were just a day late.
• Incredibly,  US officials told CBS news that "It was only after the Christmas Day  terror attack in Detroit that U.S. officials learned that Abdulmuttalab  had been issued a visa by the U.S. Embassy in London valid from June 16,  2008, through June 12, 2010."
• Really? Let's take that apart:
• According to the AP "British intelligence officials  knew that the Nigerian man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound  airliner had ties to U.K. extremists but did not consider him enough of  a high risk to alert American authorities, a senior British official said  Sunday
• [Absolutely bogus. The Brits share all their terror lists with the  US].
• Officials realized about a year after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came  to London to study in 2005 that he was in contact with Islamic extremists  whose communications were being monitored."
• That means he was on their  lists when he applied for a US visa in 2008.
• These excuses are all a bit  too convenient and appear to be coming out to foreclose any public conclusion  about foreknowledge.
• Anyone from a foreign country knows how detailed and  scrutinizing the interviews are when applying for a US visa-and most are  rejected.
• There are files kept on every visa application at the Embassy,  and this terrorist surely has one.
• Why has no one produced it? It would  surely show violations of visa issuance policy.
• Was Abdulmutallab Acting Alone?
• There is a major contradiction  here in the story.
• As reviewed by Wayne Madsen, "Michigan attorney  Kurt Haskell and his attorney wife Lori Haskell are being pilloried by  the corporate media after the two were featured on major U.S. television  networks.
• Haskell and his wife witnessed a 'well-dressed Indian man' arrange  for Mutallab to board Delta 253 without a passport at the check-in desk  at Schiphol [Amsterdam airport].
• Haskell told CBS News: 'Only the Indian  man spoke, and what he said was, this man needs to board the plane, and  he doesn't have a passport. And the ticket agent then responded saying  you need a passport to board the plane, and the Indian man then said he's  [a refugee] from Sudan. We do this all the time.'
• [Wayne Madsen Reports features leaks from claimed  insider sources all the time. But this can't happen without being permitted  by governments because they surveil all communications--especially to anti-government  types who are all too willing to accept leaks without scrutiny]
• has learned  that the Indian man is suspected by Asian intelligence services of being  a RAW [India Intel Service] agent who used his influence to convince airline  and airport security personnel that Mutallab was a bona fide Sudanese refugee.
• Mutallab reportedly spent several hours in a Schiphol airport lounge before  boarding the Delta flight.
• Dutch agents are reportedly scanning Schiphol  CCTV footage and have reason to believe that Mutallab had accomplices at  the airport, which bolsters the witness accounts of the Haskells."
• Actually, this is not the case.
• The Dutch claim now to  have reviewed all the video tapes at the airline gate and claim Abdulmutallab  was alone the entire time.
• Either the Haskells or the Dutch government  are lying. Both accounts can't be true. I'm not taking the government side  here either.
• Every European government has falsified evidence and covered-up  for black operations in the past. This could be another example.
• Yet, there are other problems with the Haskell story.
• Why would Mutallab show up at the airport without his passport? He had  to have one to get his US Visa and he even used it on his visit to Yemen,  as admitted by the Yemenese government.
• The gate agent, according to Haskell  did not accept the refugee excuse and all apparently went to see a supervisor.  Frankly, there are no exceptions to the passport requirement.
• Even if they  made one, the Dutch would certainly have known that US Customs would have  refused him entry and would have turned him around to be flown back to  Amsterdam--with a letter of reprimand to the Dutch authorities.
• I'm just not buying this "failure to produce a passport"  story. How would he have gotten into Europe from Africa without a passport?
• It is not true that refugees do this all the time! The only time it does  occur is if refugees are captured at sea heading for shore, but then they  are already in the custody of the authorities--not some Indian handler  who is trying to lead a refugee through an airport without documentation.
• Besides, the underwear bomber would have needed both a passport and a visa  to travel to the US--so getting through without a passport is only half  the requirement.
• That said, if Abdulmutallab were drugged up (as implied  by Haskell's description of his bent over and weak demeanor) this would  mean a mind-controlled person was set up to do the suicide bombing
• (See  my book reviewof Joseph Douglass' book "Betrayed" below for more  information on the use of drugs for mind control).
• Let's assume he forgot  or misplaced his passport. If the Indian accomplice did exist, he certainly  could have been Abdulmutallab's handler, and charged with getting him through  the check-in procedure.
• And, if this were a British and/or US black operation,  the handler certainly could have told the supervisor to call a certain  number in the government and get an exception to the passport rule.
• But even then, why would a black operation raise red  flags with employees or supervisors in Holland who would then have to be  silenced later on during an investigation, when they could simply use the  passport and visa we know he already had?
• Of course, all this is easily  verifiable or deniable by the FBI who arrested Mutallab in Detroit and  has all his possessions in custody.
• The Haskell interview got on several  mainstream sources, so why hasn't the FBI released his passport to show  the story is false? And, why doesn't the media ask these questions?
• There are other anomalies that have taken place in the  tense hours after the plane landed that indicate that the government  has reason to cover something up.
• As in the OKC bombing cover-up, the FBI  and other security agencies involved seem intent on covering up the identity  of an accomplice on the same Flight 253.

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• The French Connection Revisited: The CIA, Irving Brown, and Drug Smuggling as Political Warfare

• The French Connection Revisited:

     

  The CIA, Irving Brown, and Drug Smuggling as Political Warfare

     

  by Douglas Valentine
• When they hear the words "the French Connection," most people think of the 1971 Gene Hackman movie, in which a rough and tumble New York City detective corralled a group of Mafia heroin traffickers in January 1962, but failed to capture the suave, insouciant Frenchman who was their source of supply
• Indeed, most people think of "the French Connection" as an action-adventure story-not as an example of political warfare.
• But, in fact, the French Connection is a keyhole through which to view the CIA's use of the underworld in its larger strategy of political and psychological warfare.
• Simply stated, this secret war is a function of American capital's use of organized criminals in the employ of its private police force, the CIA, to smash Communism everywhere; to suppress labor and undesirable minorities at home; and to expand its influence worldwide, at the expense of unfriendly and friendly foreign nations alike.
• Documentary Evidence
• Indeed, based on four newly discovered documents, generated by the defunct Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930-1968), it is now evident that the U.S. government, through the CIA, has historically employed drug smugglers to effect its unstated domestic agenda.1
• The French Connection is a prime example, and a principal player in that sordid episode was labor leader Irving Joseph Brown, the American Federation of Labor's chief overseas representative from 1945 until 1962.
• Brown had a long history of involvement with the CIA, gangsters, and drug smugglers; but it was not until April 1962 that he first came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN).2
• The circumstances are both bizarre and revealing, and center on Etienne Tarditi, a short, potbellied, Corsican drug smuggler, who first implicated Brown in drug smuggling activities.3
• Tarditi's job in the 1950s was twofold: on behalf of his underworld sponsors, he purchased morphine base in Lebanon and smuggled it to France, where it was converted into heroin; then he "recruited" diplomats to smuggle the heroin to Mafiosi in America.4
• Tarditi's operation began to unravel, however, in mid-1960, when a rival drug smuggler told the FBN Agent in Beirut that a diplomat named "Maurice" was carrying heroin to America.5
• The ensuing investigation revealed that the diplomat, whose luggage was passed through U.S. Customs without being checked, was Maurice Rosal Bron, Guatemala's Ambassador to the Netherlands.
• Rosal, it was discovered, had an unrestrained sexual desire for young boys-a fatal flaw which Tarditi used to blackmail the dapper diplomat into carrying heroin to America.
• Further investigation revealed that Rosal made frequent trips to America, often with Tarditi, and that he always left with less baggage weight than when he arrived.
• The investigation itself climaxed in October 1960 in New York City, when FBN agents busted Rosal, Tarditi, TWA purser Charles Bourbonnais, and Nick Calamaris of the Gambino Mafia family.6
• The bust netted 100 kilograms of pure heroin, and the intelligence take provided the FBN with enough leads to keep it busy for the next five years.
• Most of the information, notably, came from Tarditi, who identified his sources in France, and claimed that he "was involved in intelligence work beneficial to American interests."7
• Tarditi would also, after 18 months of steady interrogation, implicate labor leader Irving Brown in drug smuggling activities.
• One was the famous French Connection case of January 1962, in which FBN Agents and NYPD detectives busted Mafioso Patsy Fuca, along with his father Joe, French heroin smuggler Francois Scaglia (co-leader of the Trois Canards Gang in Paris), and Scaglia's unsuspecting courier, Jacques Angelvin, the host of a popular French television show.
• Meanwhile, two related cases unfolded.
• Eluding authorities in the case were Jean Jehan, the debonair mastermind of the plot, and mystery man Jacques Mouren, who was never identified.
• Another occurred in March 1961 (right after French President Charles de Gaulle decided to negotiate with nationalist rebels in Algeria), when Air France stewardess Simone Christman was arrested by U.S. Customs agents for smuggling heroin in her brassiere. Christman said the powder, which she thought was perfume base, had been given to her by a Mr. Mueller in Paris.
• In March 1962, Christman was sentenced to four years in prison-but at the intervention of an unknown outside force, she was quietly and quickly released.
• According to an FBN agent on the scene at the time, Christman was, in fact, a spy for the Secret Army Organization (OAS), a group of French soldiers who, with the support of the CIA, were fighting the forces of President de Gaulle in Algeria.8
• The OAS was known to be financing its operations through the drug trade, and, being "a good soldier,"
• Christman "took a small fall to protect her bosses"- who in return continued to receive CIA support.
• In addition to Christman's quiet and quick release, the FBN agent stationed in Paris was told not to investigate the mysterious "Mr. Mueller." The agent was told that U.S. Customs was handling the case; but he knew that the CIA had, in fact, blocked the investigation in order to conceal its involvement with the protected OAS drug smuggling ring.9
• Likewise, it is conceded by FBN agents that they were not allowed to follow up leads relating to Jean Jehan and Jacques Mouren in the French Connection case, for the very same, intelligence-related reasons.
• "Mr. Mueller" Unmasked
• The unexpected does happen, however, and just as Customs agents had inadvertently uncovered a protected CIA drug route when they busted Simone Christman, "Mr. Mueller's" identity was revealed in April 1962, when Etienne Tarditi, seeking leniency in his case, named Irving Brown in connection with the busts of Ambassador Rosal in October 1960, and of Simone Christman in March 1961.10
• Like most professional crooks, Tarditi's allegations about Brown (as well as his own work for U.S. intelligence) normally would not have been believed. But all of the information he had provided about the drug smuggling milieu had proven accurate,
• so in May 1962, FBN agent Andrew Tartaglino launched an investigation of Irving Brown.11 And through a routine background check, Tartaglino learned that Brown (who was then the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' representative to the United Nations) frequented a restaurant owned by George Bayon in Paris.
• Tartaglino subsequently learned that Irving Brown was Bayon's friend; that Bayon used the alias "Mueller"; and that Bayon's restaurant was used by drug smugglers to "recruit" diplomats, like the hapless Ambassador Rosal, as couriers in their drug smuggling ventures.
• These facts fueled the agent's curiosity, and his investigation of Brown was widened;
• and after checking with other government agencies, Tartaglino learned that Brown had been granted port privileges in New York (meaning that his baggage was never checked by Customs);
• that his wife, Lilly, was a secretary for Carmel Offie, a CIA agent who owned an import-export business in Manhattan; and that there was "a possibility" that Brown himself was "connected in some manner with the CIA."12
• The implications were unmistakable, and at this point in June 1962, Tartaglino was told to drop his investigation; that another Agency was handling it.13
• Which begs two questions: 1) who were Irving Brown and Carmel Offie, and 2) were they smuggling drugs for the CIA?
• The Angleton Connection
• In regard to the second question, leads to the CIA's notorious chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, had emanated from the Rosal case. Specifically, inside Ambassador Rosal's pocket at the time of his arrest was the address of Stig Wennerstrom, a former Swedish military attaché to the United States, and a close friend of Philippe de Vosjoli.
• De Vosjoli at the time was the French intelligence service's liaison to Angleton. But more importantly, de Vosjoli was also a double-agent working for Angleton against his own country.
• By de Vosjoli's account,14 Wennerstrom was "an associate" of several French intelligence officers stationed in Washington.
• De Vosjoli's charge led Angleton to believe that the Soviet intelligence service, the KGB, had penetrated the French intelligence service, SDECE. In Angleton's mind, this belief was confirmed in December 1961 by the famous KGB defector, Anatoly Golitsyn.
• And for this reason, Angleton, who had long been associated with Irving Brown,15 apparently decided to penetrate the French drug smuggling milieu, as a way of uncovering further evidence that SDECE, which had long been involved in smuggling narcotics out of Indochina, was penetrated by the KGB.
• And Angleton's use of drug smugglers as counter-intelligence agents brings us back to the first question: who were Irving Brown and Carmel Offie?
• But after a dispute with Stalin in 1929, Lovestone defected, and with Brown's help, began rooting Communists out of American labor unions.
• Briefly, Irving Brown was a disciple of Jay Lovestone, who in the 1920s was the leader of America's Communist Party.
• In return for his counter-espionage work, Brown was assigned as the AFL's representative to the War Production Board during World War II, and afterwards began to work for the CIA under AFL cover in Europe and Africa.
• Using CIA money, Brown established a "compatible left" labor union in Marseilles with Pierre Ferri-Pisani. On behalf of Brown and the CIA, Ferri-Pisani (a drug smuggler connected with Marseilles crime lord Antoine Guerini), hired goons to shellack striking Communist dock workers.
• According to Brown's case officer, Paul Sakwa, Ferri introduced Brown to Guerini; and according to one of Brown's associates, Ferri also introduced Brown to Maurice "Le Petit" Castellani.
• A comrade of Ferri's from the French Resistance, Castellani, along with the aforementioned Francois Scaglia (busted in the French Connection case of January 1962), headed the Trois Canards Gang, whose members often met for homestyle bouillabaisse at George (a/k/a Mueller) Bayon's restaurant in Paris.16
• Brown's association with Maurice Castellani, co-leader of Les Trois Canards, supports the theory that Brown was involved in the French Connection, Rosal, and Christman cases.
• So it is worth noting that, according to Alain Jaubert,17 the Trois Canards gang was formed by an erstwhile Marseilles policeman, Robert Blemant. During the War, Blemant worked for French intelligence in North Africa, and afterwards for the Surété in Marseilles.
• Ostensibly fired in 1947, he went underground with his files, formed Les Trois Canards, and set up a chain of nightclubs across the Mediterranean with his old informant, Antoine Guerini.
• By 1954 Blemant was in Tangiers working with the American Mafia's French connection, Jo Renucci; and when Renucci died in 1958, Blemant reportedly took over his operation and began acquiring narcotics from drug smuggler Marcel Francisi in Lebanon. Author Steve Rivelle claims that by 1960 Blemant's influence included "narcotics trafficking from Turkey to the U.S."18
• The timing of Blemant's descent into the underworld is intriguing, for it happened at the same time that Brown, having neutralized the Communists in Marseilles, moved to Italy, where cash he sprinkled from the CIA's black bag bought votes and funded media blitzes that kept the Communists out of power.
• In 1953, according to former CIA labor officer Paul Sakwa, Brown also contacted the CIA's Mafia affiliates in Sicily-at approximately the same time Trois Canards founder Blemant formed associations with the American Mafia.
• When the CIA's subsidies to Brown stopped in 1953, Blemant's heroin business was self-sustaining, and Brown himself began to operate under the aegis of James Angleton.
• Moreover, according to author Alfred McCoy,19 the CIA in the mid-1950s, through its South Vietnamese ally, inherited SDECE's drug smuggling allies in Indochina.
• Likewise, according to the diaries of FBN agent George White, Angleton in 1953 met with FBN Commissioner Harry Anslinger and former OSS chief William Donovan regarding the narcotics situation in Southeast  Asia. Considering that the U.S. would snatch hegemony in the region from France in 1954, after the fall of Dienbienphu, there is ample circumstantial evidence to indict James Angleton, Irving Brown, and the CIA in an international drug smuggling conspiracy.
• Carmel Offie's Guidance
• It was also during the mid-1950s that CIA operator Irving Brown came under the guidance of Carmel Offie. A Foreign Service officer in Honduras in the mid-1930s, who later served as an aide to Ambassador William Bullitt in Russia, Offie took a CIA contract after World War II.
• From his base in Frankfurt he formed refugee groups and ran agents posing as black marketeers behind the Iron Curtain.
• And through a Radio Free Europe front, he also smuggled Nazis to Argentina. In both of these smuggling-related endeavors, Offie worked closely with James Angleton.
• Carmel Offie was also involved in labor activities in postwar Europe, and as political adviser to the AFL's Information Service, he guided Irving Brown in Europe until 1954 when, amid rumors of pouch abuse and gun running, he was ostensibly fired from the CIA.
• He may, however, have simply gone under deep commercial cover, opening an import-export company that did business in France, South  Vietnam, and Italy.
• According to author Burton Hersh, Offie also bought a piece of a mining company in North Africa in 1957, at the same time Brown was both representing the AFL at the Tunis labor conference, and recruiting Algerian students for the CIA while directing them as agents provocateurs against France.20
• When his subversive activities were discovered by SDECE, Brown became persona non grata in France and Algeria. He returned to New York and in 1962 set up an office near the U.N., while his wife, Lilly, became a secretary at Carmel Offie's import-export firm.
• As head of the African American Labor Center, Brown started working closely with Algeria's first chief-of-state, Ahmed Ben Bella, as well as with Roger Faulques, the commander of Moise Tshombe's forces in the Congo. And his covert war against the French continued apace.
• Here it must be noted that during this turbulent time, the People's Republic of China (PRC) was being blamed by FBN Commissioner Harry Anslinger as the main source of America's heroin problem.
• In June 1962, at the same time the FBN's first investigation of Irving Brown was obstructed, Anslinger told the United Nations that heroin was being moved from the PRC on horse caravans to Burma.
• That particular myth, however, was becoming increasingly hard to defend, for in his 1960 book, The China Lobby, Russ Koen had claimed that Nationalist Chinese were smuggling into America, "with the full knowledge and connivance" of their government. "[P]rominent Americans have participated [in] and profited from these transactions," Koen said. But after Anslinger denounced the book, the publisher stopped printing copies, and Koen was remanded into obscurity.21
• Then in his 1962 book, Treasury Agent, Andrew Tully told about a CIA officer arriving in Burma from Taiwan. The CIA officer saw no soldiers, only a vast plantation. "You see," said the Kuomintang colonel in charge, "it takes money to run an operation like this and so...we're growing opium."22
• "Up until 1962 we thought the source was Turkey," FBN agent Tom Tripodi explains. "But the French were taking drugs out of Southeast Asia. French Intelligence was running the show.
• Thirty to forty people were involved, including Rosal, who was being blackmailed by Tarditi, who was part of the Brown-Lovestone-Angleton net."23
• According to Agent Tripodi, Brown's friend, handsome Maurice Castellani, was the net's operations manager.
• And as another FBN agent, Francis Waters, suggests, Castellani, whose nickname was "Le Petit Maurice," may even have been mystery man Jacques Mouren in the French Connection case. "Patsy Fuca talked about Le Petit Maurice with great deference," Waters recalls.24
• "On one occasion I followed Patsy to the garage where [Jacques] Angelvin's Buick was stashed," Agent Waters continues. "I saw Patsy talk to Toots Shoenfeld, and I did some checking and found that Toots was connected to the guy who was bankrolling Jean Jehan's operation. A few years before we'd found the same address (to the apartment where Jehan was staying in New  York City) in the possession of Marcel Francisi; so we got a search warrant and went in. It was a beautiful place, owned by an executive of Michelin Tire. So we had to back out."
• "Think about it," Waters adds. "Mouren was never identified; Scaglia had been trained by the OSS; and people from U.S. Army Special Forces were involved in the French Connection case."
• "By the 1960s," FBN agent Martin Pera explains, "it was obvious that Far East Asian dope was coming to the U.S., and everyone was pre-occupied with the fact that it couldn't happen without SDECE." Pera pauses. "And if it was to CIA's advantage [read Angleton] to have these sources left intact, so be it."25
• Back in New York in 1965, Irving Brown's involvement in the French Connection surfaced again when agent Waters learned that Maurice Castellani had been bringing money to his fellow Canard, Francois Scaglia, at Attica Prison since May 1964.
• As has been noted, Scaglia was convicted in the 1962 French Connection case based on traces of heroin found in Jacques Angelvin's Buick-traces that matched the heroin found in Patsy Fuca's basement in Brooklyn.
• Handling the Castellani investigation was agent Mort Benjamin, who in September 1965 learned that Castellani and Irving Brown had arrived together in New York via Air France, and that Brown had been ushered through Customs without having to open his bags.26
• Next, Benjamin checked with INS and found that Brown had not filled out the form, and that three forms were missing for that particular flight.
• Photos of Brown and Castellani were sent to Customs agents and on November 23, Benjamin was notified that the pair had arrived together again at JFK Airport. Benjamin and another agent were told to follow Castellani to Attica, and to record his conversations with Scaglia.
• Unfortunately, the visit was scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, and there were so many visitors making so much noise, that Castellani's chat with Scaglia could not be recorded.
• The agents did, however, overhear the conversation-in which Scaglia gave Castellani explicit instructions on how to smuggle dope-and learned that Castellani had traveled to and from the prison in a taxicab (with Canadian and American plates) that belonged to a company controlled by a front man for the powerful Maggadino Mafia family.
• The agents also noted that American Airlines had no record of Maurice Castellani ever having boarded his flights to and from Buffalo-an omission that reeks of the CIA.
• On November 27, 1965, Castellani threw a party for Brown at the Beaux Arts Hotel in New York. Afterward, Castellani met with a few unidentified persons, then returned to Paris. And the FBN dropped its investigation.
• So Castellani (who would operate well into the 1970s without ever being arrested on narcotics charges) and Brown were allowed to slip away, at a time when the guerre sale had reached a critical point. By the mid-1960s, the U.S. military had decided to occupy South Vietnam, and the CIA had allowed the FBN to make cases on Corsicans in Laos, so that U.S.-backed warlords in South Vietnam could profit from a greater share of the narcotics market.
• Within two years, the FBN itself had been abolished and replaced by a new organization, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which was more heavily penetrated by the CIA.
• In closing, it is worth noting that the CIA element of the French Connection would continue to engage SDECE in Southeast Asia, even after the so-called French Conection was finally smashed in 1973, concurrent with the ceasefire in Vietnam; a ceasefire negotiated in France.
• Moreover, the CIA expanded its use of drug smuggling, as an instrument of political warfare, into South America, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
• Indeed, the doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare, which emerged as the CIA's post-Cold War strategy in the Third World, has itself devolved, and now has as its main ingredient the bte noire known as counter-narco-terrorism.
• But is it acceptable for the CIA to smuggle drugs, even under the aegis of national security?
• One need only look at the devastation of America's inner cities and minority communities to answer that question. But then again, pacifying minorities and undermining civil liberties are integral parts of the CIA's overall strategy in waging its clandestine campaign of domestic political warfare.

• Endnotes:

     

  Douglas Valentine is the author of The Hotel Tacloban (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill, 1984; North Ryde, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1985; New York: Avon, 1986) and The Phoenix Program (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1990; New York: Avon, 1992). For those interested in learning more about the French Connection as a facet of political warfare, see the author's forthcoming book, The Strength of the Wolf: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1968. Copyright © 1999 by Douglas Valentine.

     

  1. Bureau of Narcotics, District No. 2, Memorandum Reports, Narcotic Agent Mortimer L. Benjamin, General File Title Maurice Castellani et al.: 1) Oct. 11, 1965; 2) Oct. 19, 1965; 3) Nov. 17, 1965; 4) Nov. 30, 1965.

     

  2. Ibid., Report 1.

     

  3. Ibid.

     

  4. Ibid.; and see Tom Tripodi, Crusade (New York: Brassey's, 1993); Jill Jonnes, Hep Cats, Narc and Pipe Dreams (New York: Scribner, 1996).

     

  5. Confidential FBI source.

     

  6. Rosal was arrested Oct. 3, 1960; an article appeared on the front page of the Daily News on Oct. 4. See Andrew Tully, The Secret War Against Dope (New York: Coward McCann, 1973), pp. 142-43.

     

  7. Jonnes, op. cit., n. 4, p. 185.

     

  8. Confidential FBN source.

     

  9. Interview with Andrew Tartaglino.

     

  10. Op. cit., n. 1, Report 1.

     

  11. Interview with Tartaglino.

     

  12. Op. cit., n. 1, Report 1.

     

  13. Interview with Tartaglino.

     

  14. In his autobiography, Lamia (Boston: Little Brown, 1970), pp. 314-15.

     

  15. Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 314-15; confidential sources.

• 16. Op. cit., n. 1, Report 1; confidential sources.

     

  17. Dossier D...comme Drogue (Paris: Alain Moreau, 1973).

     

  18. Steve Rivelle, "Death of a Double Man," National Reporter, Spring 1987, p. 49.

     

  19. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast  Asia (New York: Harper Row, 1972) and The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill, 1991).

     

  20. The Old Boys (New York: Scribners, 1992). According to Jonnes in Hep Cats, op. cit., n. 4, p. 184, after the Rosal case, the Treasury Secretary asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk to raise the drug issue with the French, but Rusk was told by the French that no extra men could be assigned until the problem in Algeria was settled.

     

  21. John McWilliams, "Seeing Red," unpublished manuscript, p. 22.

     

  22. Andrew Tully, CIA: The Inside Story (New York: William Morrow, 1962), p. 197.

     

  23. Interview with Tripodi.

     

  24. Interview with Waters.

     

  25. Interview with Pera.

     

  26. Op. cit., n. 1, Report 3.