Showing posts with label cointelpro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cointelpro. Show all posts

July 31, 2008

Incredible DOJ IG Testimony Does Not Reconcile With Evidence

The DOJ IG's statements do not reconcile with the record.

TPMM reprts: Fine said, "From the evidence that we had, both emails and discussions, we did not
see
that others were involved in this process,
and we questioned the
person who was involved"
This is absurd. DoJ IG would have us believe there was no US Attorney firing email. The evidence of communication between the White House, DoJ and others using emails is stunning. Here's only a sample:
The Vice President's legal counsel is on a list of emails which the DOJ IG appears to have ignored.

The DoD emails show the White House was communicating through Feith and former administration officials.

Rove's legal counsel is connected with the DoD military analysts.
The DOJ IG must provide some written responses to Congress about his competence and lack of imagination:
- What review did DOJ IG make of the military analyst program, or other information channels linked with the DoD propaganda program?

- Why weren't these communication channels considered?

- What is the DOJ IG's explanation for not reviewing the political connection between the DOD emails and the DOJ Staff counsel decision on US Attorneys?
TPMM summary of the DOJ investigation into Goodling is all we need to consider:
A. Goodling was the liasion between DOJ and the White House.

- Is it the DOJ IG's contention that Goodling wasn't talking to anyone in the White House, despite her "role" as a "liaison"?

- What is the DOJ IG "view" of what "liaison" means?

B. US Attorney firing emails show White House personnel were on the DOJ Staff emails and workflows, and how we learned about Harriet Miers' name on the Jan 9 email.

- Does DOJ IG know what JCON is?

- Is it the DOJ IG's contention that none of the DOJ workflows pointed to any White House staff?

- What review did DOJ IG do of Goodling's workflows and calendar of meetings with White House personnel?

- Were there "no" White House connected people on any workflow related to Goodling?

C. Congressman Waxman found evidence of RNC email accounts. The courts refused to release these through FOIAs. The President asserted these were protected presidential records.

- Is it the DOJ IG contention that he should not have reviewed any of the gwb.com email accounts?

- How does the DOJ IG justify doing nothing about emails using the RNC email accounts in reviewing the White House involvement?
We need to re-examine Fine's qualifications to conduct oversight as DOJ IG; and have an independent review of his audit working papers to find out:
1. What auditing standards was he using;

2. What were the specific reasons, despite the evidence of DOJ emails and gwb accounts, did Fine not review White House officials?

3. What review did Fine make of any of the findings about the White House emails from Congressman Waxman?

4. Does the audit engagement timeline and ground rules DOJ IG used make sense?

Comments (1)

Some of your questions are relevant, but the IG does not determine the "executive priveledge" assertion, the equal branches of government do.

The hesitancy to bring the issue before the courts is due to a finding that could in fact limit further investigations.

The time to take the issue to court also is problematic.

Essentially the other branches of government will erode and limit the executive role, as they have done after previous administrations.

Church act, post Vietnam as an example.

But no Fine is not the SCOTUS and congress doesn't want a showdown at OK coral.

Your other questions about immunity for those outside of the telco's is interesting, banking, local government, Maryland State Police, USPS, just to name a few will be interesting as time elapses.

What got me was the immunity with "good faith" provision that OLC handed down, and then a subsequent description by the Supt. of MSP stating it was "poor judgement" in the COINTEL of Maryland state citizens.

The point here is that traditionally government was not liable for "poor judgement" as in the context of financial agreements, farm aid, etc.. but now, now we get the "good faith and poor judgement" excuse wrapped up all in one.

I don't think a jury will buy it.

Patience and history right these wrongs, there is a book "the true believers" by eric hoffer that describes when the zealots movement is subsequently rejected.. as all mass movements do.

You see the smarter ones getting closer to the door, press secretary and others..

But no Glen Fine is not the SCOTUS and since the congress did not pursue that showdown in the courts, the emails are priviledged information until the courts state otherwise.

But did the telcos immunize banks? zoning boards, airports, contracts for detaining people, etc.. no.. and "good faith and poor judgement" will lead to an eventual showdown.


March 21, 2008

lawyers, oaths and the BAR ... (lol)

"BRITISH ACCREDITED REGISTRY"

Several years ago, I encountered on the Net a man named David Gould who made the groundless assertion that the word "BAR" in reference to professional associations of lawyers meant "British Accreditation Regency". This nonsense appeared to be nothing more than disinformation promoted by wild-eyed gurus, typically associated with Wrong Way Law types who believed arguments like the missing 13th Amendment, names in CAPS, etc. Gould was reputed to be addicted to TV cartoon shows and he obtained his legal information only from the Net. During a trip to Phoenix in early 2000, I learned that Gould apparently acquired this idea about "BAR" from another man named Sean Rice, who at the time was leagued in some fashion with the Zidar group in Phoenix. Later information from those who knew Rice clearly indicated that Rice was at least a confidential informant ("CI") working with federal law enforcement. The feds do have an interest in sowing garbage arguments in the freedom movement. The feds also love to have people act on their own without benefit of sound advice from legal counsel.

But over time, more and more gurus have been making this unfounded claim. For example, one promoter's web site states:

"The owners who control the American BAR Association are a private corporation whose headquarters are located in England. BAR stands for British Accredited Registry. Attorneys at law are given the title of 'Esquire' through the BAR, a title meaning 'Shield Bearer'; they carry this shield for the 'Crown of the City of London'. Attorney: one who transfers or assigns property, rights, title and allegiance to the owner of the land."
There are probably 4 or 5 other promoters of this idea which lacks any factual basis.

I suggest that the American Bar Association itself be consulted to determine whether the above contention is correct. At the ABA web site, this is found:

"The ABA was founded on August 21, 1878, in Saratoga Springs, New York, by 100 lawyers from 21 states."
The original constitution for that organization, as amended, still governs it. Its headquarters are located at American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005-1019. It declares that "the ABA is a national, voluntary professional organization. We have no role in administering bar exams or licensing attorneys in the U.S." It has no legal association with Britain or its Monarch. Only American lawyers and others having related occupations (like law librarians) can join (there is an international section of "associates"). Not every American lawyer is a member; I am not and I know many others who are not.

Further, a search on the Net regarding either the terms "British Accreditation Regency" or "British Accredited Registry" reveals that such an entity does not exist. If it exists, what is the address of BAR? If it exists at all, it is in the minds of the promoters of this nonsense.

What about this supposed allegiance to the "Crown"? Alabama lawyers take, via Alabama Code §34-3-15, the following oath:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will demean myself as an attorney, according to the best of my learning and ability, and with all good fidelity, as well to the court as to the client; that I will use no falsehood or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice and that I will support the Constitution of the state of Alabama and of the United States, so long as I continue a citizen thereof, so help me God."
Nothing in this oath mentions anything about having allegiance to British entities. Instead, when I was sworn, I made an oath to support the US and Alabama Constitutions, not something British, either its people or the British "unwritten" constitution. See the oath for Mississippi lawyers, and Georgia's Rule 16, Rules for Governing Admission to the Practice of Law.

The oath taken by Florida lawyers is as follows:

"I do solemnly swear:

"I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Florida;

"I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;

"I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceedings which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land;

"I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and will never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law;

"I will maintain the confidence and preserve inviolate the secrets of my clients, and will accept no compensation in connection with their business except from them or with their knowledge and approval;

"I will abstain from all offensive personality and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which I am charged;

"I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay anyone's cause for lucre or malice. So help me God."

Rule 402, South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, provides that lawyers are to take the following oath:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that:

"I am duly qualified, according to the Constitution of this State, to exercise the duties of the office to which I have been appointed, and that I will, to the best of my ability, discharge those duties and will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of this State and of the United States;

"I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;

"I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defenses except those I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land; but this obligation shall not prevent me from defending a person charged with crime;

"I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me only such means as are consistent with trust and honor, and will never seek to mislead the judge or jury by an artifice or false statement of fact or law;

"I will respect the confidence and preserve inviolate the secrets of my client, and will accept no compensation in connection with a client's business except from the client or with the client's knowledge and approval;

"I will abstain from all offensive personalities, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which I am charged;

"I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice;

"So help me God."

Oaths taken by attorneys in other States are similar. For example, the statutorily mandated oath in Oklahoma provides:
"Upon being permitted to practice as attorneys and counselors at law, they shall, in open court, take the following oath: You do solemnly swear that you will support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma; that you will do no falsehood or consent that any be done in court, and if you know of any you will give knowledge thereof to the judges of the court, or some one of them, that it may be reformed; you will not wittingly, willingly or knowingly promote, sue, or procure to be sued, any false or unlawful suit, or give aid or consent to the same; you will delay no man for lucre or malice, but will act in the office of attorney in this court according to your best learning and discretion, with all good fidelity as well to the court as to your client, so help you God." 5 O.S. § 2 (OSCN 2001).
The oath Tennessee lawyers take is somewhat shorter. Rule 6, Tennessee Rules of the Supreme Court, requires the following oath for attorneys:
"I * [name] * do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee, and that I will truly and honestly demean myself in the practice of my profession to the best of my skill and abilities, so help me God."
The oath Texas lawyers take is:
"I, (name), do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and of this State; that I will honestly demean myself in the practice of the law, and will discharge my duties to my clients to the best of my ability. So help me God."
Wyoming Code §33-5-112 provides:
"No person shall be deemed admitted to the bar until he shall have taken an oath to the effect that he will support, obey, and defend the constitution of the United States, and the constitution and laws of this state, and that he will faithfully and honestly and to the best of his ability discharge the duties of an attorney and counselor-at-law."
See also California Business and Professions Code §§6067-68, Indiana Code §33-21-1-1, Idaho Code §3-201, Kentucky SCR §2.010, Montana Code §37-61-207, North Carolina Gen. Statutes §11-11, and Virginia Code § 54.1-3903.

Precisely where does one find this supposed allegiance to the "Crown of the City of London"? If anything, attorneys have taken an oath and are "shield bearers" to not only their clients, but also for the U.S. and various State constitutions.

A lawyer upon admission to a State bar association enters a regulated profession. To become a lawyer, one must today attend college and graduate, and then attend three years of law school. After graduation, the bar exam must be taken and passed. Then a lawyer is sworn and I doubt that any of the statutorily mandated oaths of any State of this nation is substantially different from the oath I took and the others noted above.

The profession itself imposes certain duties upon lawyers, including ethical conduct. The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct are posted at the web site of the ABA. If you want to read the ethical rules for lawyers in all of the American States, this site at Cornell contains the links. This FindLaw link will also send you to these rules of ethics. See also CODE OF CONDUCT FOR UNITED STATES JUDGES.

What legal training do these gurus have? Are they under any legal obligation to provide sound legal advice? The absence of any such duty on their part leaves them free to promote whatever wacky ideas they want, dressed in the garb of a legal argument. This is why they promote arguments like the UCC, redemption, three judge courts, "we are Brits," and others noted on this web site. To dissuade you from seeking the advice of a competent lawyer regarding the validity of the arguments of gurus, they have invented this baseless "Bar" contention, which I trace back to Sean Rice. Federal and state law enforcement agencies surely desire to have people in the freedom movement following utterly groundless legal arguments: it makes their job easier.

These same "Bar" contention gurus also try to make a case based upon the word, "attorn." Webster's 1828 dictionary defines "attorn" as follows: "To turn * * * In the feudal law, to turn, or transfer homage and service from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate." History of feudal times provides the meaning of this term. After the Norman conquest in 1066, feudalism was completely established in England (this system had its origins in Medieval Europe). The nobility were the friends and court favorites of the monarch and consequently held estates beneath the King, who owned all the land. Possession of the land was similarly held at will by other parties below the nobles. But nobody "owned" (in the modern sense of ownership) the land; it was owned by the King. These "at will" estates allowed an occupant to possess the land so long as duties of "homage and service" to the superior were met. See the Calverts of Maryland. The most common duties included making payments of rents and crops, providing soldiers for defense and for war, etc. Some of these duties were discharged by new brides: their wedding nights were spent not with their new husbands, but with the landlord ("first night"). But the most important duty was that of allegiance of the tenant to his landlord. These duties were often oppressive, leading to controversies and revolts.

If a tenant desired to vacate his estate and transfer it to another, the superior landlord had to approve. Obviously if the estate in question was that of a mere villein, the landlord most likely would only want a hard worker in his place. But for larger estates, there were obviously different considerations for landlords. If some duke who was the immediate tenant of the King wanted to leave England to marry and live in France, the King would only approve someone whom he knew was absolutely faithful to him. Thus, changes in estates from one tenant to another were complicated procedures. And a change of the estate of a duke, for example, required those who were his tenants to pay the same "homage and services" to the new landlord. But it seems fair to say that most changes in estates, "attorning," were accomplished by the parties themselves without the assistance of any other person. If another party did assist this procedure in some way, that party was obviously someone who was well connected and politically astute. It did not require, however, somebody like a lawyer.

But in a sense, "feudalism" itself was "attorned" and the lawyers did it. Over a period of several hundred years, the old common lawyers methodically kept arguing and getting judicial approval for recognition of ownership rights in land. Slowly and surely, the courts began to recognize that tenants had certain rights to the land they possessed and eventually, the tenants became owners. Over time, the Monarchs lost title of the land to the tenants. While at the height of feudalism in England, a king could go anywhere he wanted and could even force villeins to build bridges for him over creeks, eventually the king not only lost title to the land, but it became recognized that a mere villein was "king of his own castle" and the king could not even enter his humble abode. This "alienation of the estate" away from the King to the tenants was the accomplishment of the old common lawyers and judges.

I wish that the "attorn" advocates would get the story straight. Perhaps they would learn something by watching some movies about feudal England, like "Braveheart." They don't because they fail to read and study (or watch movies); they are prone to just follow rumor and hearsay rather than making the effort to confirm the accuracy of an historical fact or law. This explains why they build and sell arguments based upon statutes that no longer exist. To confirm that which I stated above regarding lawyers "attorning the king," may I suggest Bergin & Haskell's Estates in Land and Future Interests, which explains this evolution of estates from ownership of the king to the tenants. Of course, there are other similar works in law libraries, but I doubt that any of these "Bar" advocates can find their way there. But if they did, they would be lost once inside.

Those who advocate this "BAR" argument are using lies to sell garbage legal arguments like names in CAPS, missing 13th Amendment, redemption, etc. If you buy into their position, expect to be sold some trashy legal argument without substance ("make yourself an alien"). These gurus do not want you to ask a lawyer whether the legal arguments they promote have any validity. Buyer beware.



January 30, 2008

MUST READ: Think about FISA!!:


Wednesday, January 23, 2008

THE PENTAGON'S REVOLVING DOOR

By William Fisher

The Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America – but is known to have spied on at least 186 peaceful anti-war protests in the U.S. – has just awarded a $30 million contract to a company whose senior management includes the former Defense Department (DOD) official who set up that office.

The former DOD official is Dr. Stephen Cambone, a trusted protégé of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Since his resignation as DOD’s Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence following Rumsfeld’s departure in November 2006, Cambone has been vice president for strategy of a company known as QinetiQ (pronounced “kinetic”) North America, a major British-owned defense and intelligence contractor based in McLean, Virginia.

Two months after QinetiQ hired Cambone to expand its North American operations, that company’ s Mission Solutions Group signed a five-year, $30 million contract to provide a range of unspecified “security services” to the Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field Activity office, known as CIFA. While at the Pentagon, Cambone was responsible for supervising CIFA and was deeply involved in the Pentagon’s most controversial intelligence programs at a time when DOD was making concerted efforts to marginalize the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by setting up its own parallel intelligence apparatus.

Formerly known as Analex, QinetiQ’s new contract expands work that Analex was providing to CIFA since 2003. CIFA manages a database of what it regards as "suspicious incidents" in the U.S. The database includes intelligence, law enforcement, counterintelligence, and security reports, as well as raw non-validated information from DOD's "Threat and Local Observation Notice" (TALON) reporting system of unfiltered information.

In 2006, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information request to inspect TALON’s documentation. It received and reviewed hundreds of TALON documents, among which was a 2006 memo listing 186 reports involving “anti-military protests or demonstrations in the U.S., several peaceful protesters identified as potential threats to the military, and 2,821 TALON reports relating to “U.S. person information” and “anti-military protests or demonstrations in the U.S.” These reports were entered into a DOD anti-terrorist threat database.

Pentagon documents released by the ACLU show that the DOD monitored the activities of a wide range of peace groups, including Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Code Pink, the American Friends Service Committee, the War Resisters League, and United for Peace and Justice.

The organization said the Pentagon’s misuse of the TALON database is just one example of increased government surveillance of innocent Americans.

“It cannot be an accident or coincidence that nearly 200 anti-war protests ended up in a Pentagon threat database,” said Ann Beeson, the ACLU’s Associate Legal Director. “This unchecked surveillance is part of a broad pattern of the Bush administration using ‘national security’ as an excuse to run roughshod over the privacy and free speech rights of Americans.”

And Mary Shaw of Amnesty International USA, told IPS, “This is a prime example of how the U.S. government has created a broad definition of "domestic terrorism" that overreaches, and can have a chilling effect on our rights to free expression, free association, and privacy. Even in times of crisis, it is important to preserve our constitutional rights. As Benjamin Franklin said,

‘He who gives up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety’."

Telephone calls to QinetiQ’s offices seeking comment for this article were not returned.

TALON was created after the U.S. Congress in 2002 approved a proposal backed by Rumsfeld and Vice President Richard Cheney to create a new undersecretary slot at the Pentagon specifically for intelligence. Cambone was given the job. Under the law, Cambone exercised the Secretary of Defense’s “authority, direction and control” over all DOD intelligence, counterintelligence and security policy, plans and programs.

The mission of Rumsfeld and Cambone was to give the Pentagon greater authority in the area of human intelligence, traditionally the preserve of the CIA. Cambone’s deputy was Army Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin, then a deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Boykin was later reprimanded by the Army for “inappropriate” comments made in a series of speeches given in evangelical churches while in his military uniform, in which he described
the war on terrorism as a Christian battle against evil.


Civil libertarians and human rights activists have drawn parallels between CIFA’s collection and retention of data on peace groups and other activists and the domestic collection of data through such programs as COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program). COINTELPRO was a program of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the U.S. Its targets were organizations that were at the time considered to have politically radical elements, ranging from groups such as The Weahtermen, who advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government to such non-violent civil rights activist organizations as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Such acitivites were later strictly regulated by laws such as the Privacy Act of 1974, which strengthened and specified a U.S. citizen's right to privacy as guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

According to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker magazine, Cambone was also involved in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal. Hersh claimed the interrogations at Abu Ghraib were part of a highly classified Special Access Program (SAP) code-named Copper Green, authorized by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and ultimately overseen by Cambone.

Originally a joint CIA-Pentagon program in Afghanistan that utilized highly trained Special Operations personnel, Copper Green eventually expanded to Iraq, Hersh reported, where Cambone decided to begin using non-Special Operations personnel -- including military intelligence officers and other military personnel --to begin questioning prisoners whose status was outside the program's original brief. He wrote that the CIA objected and withdrew from the program, while Cambone apparently tasked Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, former Guantánamo Bay interrogations chief, with "Gitmo-izing" Iraq's prison system.

The bottom line: Rummie may be gone, but the Bush Administration and its army of private contractors continues to be chockablock with his private armies and neocon sycophants. And most of the departed are re-entering, and earning a ton more money in the process.

If you were hoping that Bob Gates was going to change all that, get over it.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Green

US Department of Defense response to Seymour Hirsch
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=7372

"To correct one of the many errors in fact, Undersecretary Cambone has no responsibility, nor has he had any responsibility in the past, for detainee or interrogation programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else in the world.

"This story seems to reflect the fevered insights of those with little, if any, connection to the activities in the Department of Defense."


William Fisher has managed economic development programs for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development in the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere for the past 25 years. He served in the administration of President John F. Kennedy.

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December 12, 2007

Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team and a letter to the propaganda team

Dear mind police and/or propaganda team member,

I realize that you go onto sourcewatch and wiki to challenge ALL truthful articles about Guantanamo "detainees" (read: prisoners of war - think Omar Khadr - and those who were put in there via the $5,000 reward, something that gets deleted from ALL sources of info).

From the searches I have made, I have noticed that whenever I want to read something about the Center for Constitutional Rights, it has ALL been changed or challenged! So your recent forays into Digg and other places come as no soopreeze to ME.

For myself, my first clue the ante was upped was when someone challenged this blog as a SPAM BLOG!! Such a blatant attempt to have my "security key "lifted" could not go unnoticed. You may, of course, feel very uncomfortable, and often ANGRY and full of rage at what I post, but your soul knows what I say is SO, and free speech is the right of every living being. But I think it's wrong of you to lie to google about me. I am only doing my job as a WRITER.

Yup, you've been watching this blog like hawks for months. I have your IP numbers and addresses!! I know that MURKANS tax dollars are spent surveilling every thing I post here! The Navy, the Air force, the lot are REGULARS! Wow! aren't you guyz just so COOL!

You know what guys, you guys are JUST AS expendable as the rest of us, cause when they are through ripping off everything, despoiling the planet with du, shit chemicals, out go you, too, because as "luck" would have it NO ONE ON THIS PLANET IS PERFECT ENOUGH FOR THE EUGENICS GUYS, and that includes you, too! We're ALL flawed; that's what we all have in common. That's kind of a heavy thought and oversimplified, but think/dwell on that for awhile when not hanging out in a bar with fellow arrogant a**holes or snorting your precious powders and have a right good think on it. You, my potential friend, are EXPENDABLE, too. And that's just a pitch to your superficiality. To your soul, I have an entirely different "argument" if you'll just bear with me for another moment or six (after all you DO get paid to "sit through" all this, I do not.)

There is still time to do the right thing. Even if you DON'T believe in reincarnation, the final judgment or anything else, you can still seeing living out your cruddy little lives cannot be justified as you shut down your hearts, minds and awareness for yet another day.

And let me say this, unequivocally - telling each other our stories, dialogue, discussing, is the real work in this world. Having a hand in perpetrating war and havoc, living only for profit and materialISM, ignoring the needs of other people and the planet really does not "cut it" in the long run.

It's STUNTING YOUR GROWTH.

Wordz and the will of people to have freedom and real bonds with fellow human beings is where it IS at. And you know, the death squads, the disappearances agents, the torturers in Latin America have been largely RUN OUT! Yup, the will was there becuz of the actions taken by their mothers and their children. Love won! against rather heavy odds, I might add.


I AM a torture survivor. What was done to me was total torture - it lasted in intense form for about a half a day with the guns blazing (and why did they not just shoot me then, I have asked myself many, many times since 1994) - but the truth is each and everyday since then I have lived with the most hideous form of PTSD and considered suicide on many, many occasions. To this day, those who did that to me, to my husband and to my children have never been held accountable and perhaps they never will be but they DO know what they did. It nearly drove me insane trying to figure out how they could do such a thing.

But I live to tell the TRUTH, I am open to honesty and truth and I am willing to change myself to be the BEST human being I can be and live without minimization, rationalization, denial or delusion as I am capable.


And so, sir or madam, so must you - if you wish to see the planet survive and live in a world where things make SENSE. Dragging around the reluctance to face truth is a burden no one should carry.

Join the crowd of us MERE human beings while ya still can. While you are still festering from 9/11 wounds, remember this: it was an inside job, employing the talents of agents just like you, handpicked worldwide from Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Italy, Afghanistan, Canada and all over. Many are not doing so "well" today. Others like Osama have billions paid to them for their efforts. So get over whatever weakness they are exploiting in YOU, whatever fears YOU have, whatever reservations are holding you back and join the team of the living.

Choose life!!

All my best,
Virginia


Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

From Wikileaks


JULIAN ASSANGE (investigative editor)
2007-12-12 (Wednesday)

Guantanamo Bay deletes detainee ID numbers, labels Fidel Castro "an admitted transexual" and more.

WASHINGTON--The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The attacks, exposed this week in a report by the government transparency group Wikileaks, include deleting detainee ID numbers from Wikipedia last month, the systematic posting of unattributed "self praise" comments on news organization web sites in response to negative press, boosting pro-Guantanamo stories on the internet news site Digg and even modifying Fidel Castro's encyclopedia article to describe the Cuban president as "an admitted transexual".

Shayana Kadidal, Managing Attorney of the Center for Constitutional Rights Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, said in response to the report:

"The military's efforts to alter the record by vandalizing Wikipedia are of a piece with the amateurism of their other public relations efforts: their ridiculous claims that released detainees who criticize the United States in the media have 'returned to the battlefield,'.


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The evidence

public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil

First we prove that the IP address used by a number of the attacks belongs to Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay (JTFGTMO). The documentation is provided for independent verification; non-technical readers may skip this section.

IP lookup

The server known as public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil, is a gateway computer through which internet connections are passed between the U.S. and Joint Task Force Guantanamo. This server is located at the IP address: 130.22.190.5. (See reverse lookup for 130.22.190.5 at Iwebtool.com:

The Host/IP Address you provided resolves to:
public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil

Ownership record

The following is the ownership record associated with that IP address, obtained using the Whois tool at Domain Tools .com:

OrgName:    UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND
OrgID: DCEC-1
Address: 3511 NW
Address: 91ST AVE
City: MIAMI
StateProv: FL
PostalCode: 33172
Country: US

NetRange: 130.22.0.0 - 130.22.255.255
CIDR: 130.22.0.0/16
NetName: SCWAN3
NetHandle: NET-130-22-0-0-1
Parent: NET-130-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: SCUHQNS1.SOUTHCOM.MIL
NameServer: CNUWNS03.CMS.SOUTHCOM.MIL
Comment:
RegDate: 1988-04-28
Updated: 2006-06-20

OrgTechHandle: KWW-ARIN
OrgTechName: Wright, Kevin W
OrgTechPhone: +1-305-437-1910
OrgTechEmail: WRIGHTK@hq.southcom.mil

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-12-11 19:10

Miscellaneous google references

There are a number references to this IP available through a web search for JTFGTMO/USSOUTHCOM's IP address: 130.22.190.5 that refer to staff being stationed in Cuba, for example

  • "Reinaldo Zayas" (arcides.colon@us.army.mil) left this message, originating at 130.22.190.5 on a [melodysoft.com Melodysoft .com] forum:
05/19/2007 15:56  Saludos a todos mi companeros de la clases polaris 82
me encuentro estacionado en CUBA y espero esta para lo 25 ANOS de la clases
NO VEMOS POR ALLA FRANK : VAMOS A ENTRANOS A PATAS : ARCIDES COLON YREINALDO ZAYAS

Traceroute

It can be readily observed from the timings of a "traceroute" that packets to the machine in question pass through southcom.mil in Maryland and then into a satellite, as is consistent with US military internet provision to Cuba.

 9  qwest.wil03.net.reach.com (134.159.63.62)  167.783 ms  167.724 ms  167.74 ms
10 los-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.32.13) 167.932 ms 168.061 ms 167.914 ms
11 * * *
12 dca-edge-13.inet.qwest.net (205.171.209.74) 271.2 ms 271.237 ms 271.256 ms
13 67.132.214.186 (67.132.214.186) 286.186 ms 291.165 ms 286.31 ms
14 198.26.99.81 (198.26.99.81) 266.371 ms 266.208 ms 265.984 ms
15 33.250.176.2 (33.250.176.2) 805.465 ms 802.891 ms 818.362 ms

Ownership record for satellite down link IP 33.250.176.2

OrgName:    DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US

NetRange: 33.0.0.0 - 33.255.255.255
CIDR: 33.0.0.0/8
NetName: NIPR-CONUS
NetHandle: NET-33-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: CON1R.NIPR.MIL
NameServer: CON2R.NIPR.MIL
NameServer: EUR1R.NIPR.MIL
NameServer: EUR2R.NIPR.MIL
NameServer: PAC1R.NIPR.MIL
NameServer: PAC2R.NIPR.MIL
Comment:
RegDate:
Updated: 2006-10-05

OrgTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network DoD
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil

Wikipedia

Full list of wikipedia modifications by the Guantanamo Bay IP address. Highlights follow.

2 Nov 2007: remove detainee ID number for Hamidullah

2 Nov 2007: remove detainee ID number for Mohammed Mohammed Hassen

1 Nov 2007: remove detainee ID number for Omar Khadr

31 July 2007: change "invasion of Afghanistan" to "war in Afghanistan"

16 January 2006: Modify Fidel Castro's entry to read "Fidel Castro is an admitted transexual"

Comments left on other sites

The following list is a sample of total Joint Task Force Guantanamo internet propaganda activity. The comments were located by searching for "jtfgtmo.southcom.mil" posted to news sites. Subtler comments and those yet to be discovered google (keeping in all the activity found so far is in the last two months) would not have been detected by the methodology employed in this report.

In response to Wikileaks leaking of the Guantanamo Bay Standard Operating Procedure manuals

comments(1)
.., Interesting document but not at all relevent today November 19, 2007
Interesting document but not at all relevent today as much of this has changed over the years.
Their site reflects the professionalism sailors and soldiers put forth today and always. http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil.
Joe Forsyth | 130.22.190.5

It seems likely that "Joe Forsyth" is a complete fabrication. On other comments often we see "joenavy", but in both cases the language is identical to that used by Richard M. Wolff — Guantanamo "mass communications specialist". In addition, note that a link to this story was "dugg" by "usnavymc1" at digg.com. "usnavymc1" is used frequently, and is the first part of one of Wolff's contact email addresses listed with the navy.


Posted by: joenavy
19 days ago

http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil See what JTF Guantanamo is all about!
It's a very professional place full of true American patriots.


*Well, if you really want to see some great photos and stories about the Joint Task
Force Guantanamo, visit their website at http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil.

Posted by: usnavymc1 | Dec 5, 2007 10:09:21 AM


public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil IP adds:

http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/___Counter


same IP modified

http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/___Counter

to

http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/ --Legends


20 minutes later an account is created by "joenavy", who uses it to add:

Check out Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s website to learn what they are all about!
http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil

Other stories

Check out Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s website to learn what they are all about! http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil
November 26th, 2007 at 6:57 am
If absurd that many Americans think that those of us here in Guantanamo are
treating the prisoners poorly. We are committed to the safe and humane treatment
of those captured on the battlefield, just as we would want those fighting against
us to be towards us. Visit the JTF Guantanamo website to see what we are really
about: http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil.

Posted by: usnavymc1 | December 5, 2007 1:15 PM

This is the only comment which does not attempt to hide the Guantanamo Bay affiliation. It is presented here to show the similarities with those comments that are unsigned or mis-attributed.

Digg

http://digg.com/ is the internet's most popular user driven news site. A story that is "dugg" (voted up) onto the Digg front page can attract hundreds of thousands of readers.

The digg account "usnavymc1" has posted over 40 Guantanamo Bay "official" propaganda stories posted to Digg. A full record of these and nearly 100 other stories "voted up", can be seen using the link below. The user is almost certainly Guantanamo "mass communications specialist" Richard M. Wolff although he may share the account with other Guantanamo staff. Wolff fits the description account holders description, and uses the username "usnavymc1" -- not used by anyone else on the internet (see the section of this document on Wolff) -- as part of one of his official email addresses. Wolff may share the account with other Guantanamo staff.

A 35 year-old guy who joined Digg on October 10th, 2007

The above was modified circa Dec 12 to remove this information, changing it to

A person who joined Digg on October 10th, 2007

possibly in response to an email from the author to Richard M. Wolff at Guantanamo questioning the activities. However at the time of writing the unrestricted profile is still available via google's cache:

http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:ODXuPuRIJokJ:digg.com/users/usnavymc1

+usnavymc1+digg&hl=fr&client=firefox-a&gl=fr&strip=1

Richard M. Wolff

Wolff, Richard M.  MC1,  USN,  Mass Communication Specialist/Webmaster,
Joint Task Force Guantanamo APO AE 09360 [Cuba] (9/11/2007)
Phone: 011-5399-8135 Ph DSN: 660-8135
Fax: N/A Fx DSN: N/A
Email: richard.m.wolff@jtfgtmo.southcom.mil
Comments: Alt Email: usnavymc1@yahoo.com
Hi all! I am new to the group and in need of some help. I am in the
military, did 9 years active-duty, then for the past 5 years I've
been in the reserve. When I left AD, I got a little lazy and gained a
few pounds, ok more than a few... lol. Anyhow, I've lost most of the
fat I gained before, but I also lost a lot of muscle. I've tried
combinations of weight gain and intense workouts, even some ripped
fuel, I do a good amount of cardio as well. Does the cardio hurt me
from gaining muscle max? Would I be better off just lifting?

I've been in this routine of getting back in shape for about a year
now and I'm looking much better than I did, but I feel I'll never get
back into that really ripped form I used to have. I am 5'6", 165lbs,
34 years old. Of course my age might have something to do with it
since my metabolism might not be as good as it used to be, but I try
to eat healthy and things that digest easily. Should I be eating more
red meat? I don't at the moment at all, but I do take a multivitamin
everyday so I do get all my vitamins.

Any advice would be great! Also, if anyone knows if I should take
something besides ripped fuel to help me gain mass more please let me
know. Also, what more can I do (like in the other post) to get rid of
the little layer of fat over my abs? They're defines pretty good but
can't be seen through that damn little layer of flub.

Thanks!

Rich
  • http://www.richardwolff.com/ Personal site of this "military journalist" (nb. "currently" is not defined, but must be some time in late 2006 or 2007)
Well, where do I begin? I guess the present would be the right place. I am currently
working full-time and soon will be starting a new position wih the federal government.
I have completed an A.A.S. degree at Warren County Community College in Washington, N.J. and
was just awared a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Business Management in July of 2006.
I currently am taking MBA Classes and should graduate in April 2008.

I am also in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Even though I live in New Jersey, I am attached to a
command in Norfolk, Va. My administrative reserve office is located in the Bronx.
If you're in the neighborhood and you see a sailor on the street near that area,
it might be me. As of this past year, I am not officially a journalist anymore for the Navy.
My new title is a Mass Communication Specialist encompassing journalism, photography,
graphic arts, web design, public affairs and broadcasting.

See also

December 01, 2007

Was Osama mind controlled? Think about it.

Rare pre-Iraq war tape withheld from the public

Osama bin laden lashing out against the Baathists. My present for the people who still believe in the Al Qaeda-Saddam connection,
says the youtube blurb for THIS video!!

November 22, 2007


Internet Fakes/Cointel Pro!! WATCH OUT!

I've noticed an increase since JULY. I post about it and get NO UPTAKE.

Well, here is a GERMAN version of The Truth.

He is messing with 9/11 truth that is for sure. I caught that out on email AND on Amazon.com two weeks as his speechwriter was telling 9/11 FIBS.

I try to be REAL careful NOT to post any of it on here.

Veeger



Internet-Fakes der US-Geheimdienste in Österreich, Deutschland und anderswo

Verleumdungen, Einschüchterungen, provokante Posts in Blogs, Blogs selbst - die Geheimdienste sind natürlich auch in der virtuellen Welt präsent, weil sich dort kritische Menschen artikulieren und machtvolle Gegenöffentlichkeit entstanden ist, während tradtionelle Medien stagnieren. Die Antiwar Coalition for Truth schickte uns am 24.10. 2007 einen INTERNET COINTELPRO ALERT, in dem davon die Rede ist, wie US-Geheimdienste (genauer gesagt, die Cheney-Fraktion in den Geheimdiensten) Drohmails, fingierte Blog-Postings, Blogs und Videos lancieren, um Menschen zu belästigen, die sich gegen Kriege und für Aufklärung über 9/11 einsetzen. COINTELPRO ist ein Programm, in dessen Rahmen in Australien, Kanada, ÖSTERREICH, Deutschland und natürlich in den USA selbst solche Fakes gezielt eingesetzt werden, was die Organisation Actindependent.org verfolgt und aufzeigt. Die Abkürzung steht für Counter Intelligence Program, und im Web findet man als erstes einen Wikipedia-Eintrag. Act Independent schreibt:

"It has come to our attention that certain scurrilous, obscene, abusive, harassing, and threatening emails, blog postings, and videos are being fabricated, circulated, sent, and posted on the internet by anonymous provocateurs who are evidently working for the pro-Cheney factions of the US intelligence community. An effort is being made in some quarters to falsely attribute these faked and counterfeit postings, emails, and videos to Webster G. Tarpley, Bruce Marshall, Captain Eric May, and to other persons sympathetic to the Philadelphia Platform and/or the Kennebunkport Warning. Any such attempted attribution is a lie. Actindependent.org and its supporters, including but not limited to the persons named, have no responsibility for these items, and repudiate and condemn them in every way. The internet items in question represent the dirty tricks, provocations, and poison pen sabotage and disruption tactics associated with a world-wide chaos and confusion campaign of cointelpro orchestrated by the Cheney faction as we approach a possible US attack on Iran, Syria and other countries. Anyone who gives credence to these counterfeit items or is responsible for spreading or publicizing them is either a conscious stooge for Cheney, or else is stupidly playing into the hands of the Cheney war faction at a most critical time.


COINTELPRO gegen Subventionen der Stadt Wien für Ceiberweiber?
"Hardt" postet am 11.10. (nach der Parlaments-Sondersitzung mit dem gescheiterten Misstrauensantrag)
diese Mail, wo "er" behauptet, ich würde schreiben,
dass Arigona Zogaj "von ausländischen Geheimdiensten festgehalten wird" - wurde sie das denn?
Leichtsinnigerweise leiteten die MItarbeiterinnen der MA 57 so eine Mail (Arigona wird gefangengehalten)
offenbar nicht an die Sicherheitsbehörden weiter, sie stammt vermutlich vom 8.10.2007

Aber wenn Sie hier schon seit dem 13.Oktober am spitzeln sind, dann machen Sie das doch bitte ohne die unqualifizierten Kommentare. Danke
Reaktion auf Gerhard Hardt, "Infokrieger", beim infokrieg.tv-Forum
Anmeldedatum: 13.10.2007, Beiträge: 1 (19.10.2007, 08:09)

The goal of this crude campaign of low-grade internet fakes, forgeries, and slanders is to sow dissension, fear, conflict, and hysteria so as to prevent the emergence of a unified mass resistance to the Cheney war party and its Democratic Party backers. Actindependent.org is in the process of tracking down and analyzing a global pattern of coordinated cointelpro deployments in Australia, Canada, Austria, and Germany, in addition to the United States. Actindependent.org calls on all anti-war, impeachment, anti-globalization, 9/11 truth, civil liberties, honest vote count, labor, civil rights, ethnic minority, and other groups and persons of good will everywhere to help identify, denounce, expose, and isolate the anonymous provocateurs who are behind this campaign of falsification and harassment.


Mein Verleumder "Gerhard Hardt" meldet sich ein Mal in einer Diskussion
bei Liberal in Austria, schreibt Comprehensive Security (umfassende Sicherheit)
klein wie in englischsprachigen Texten
und verwendet "Funktionseliten", Friede als "überholtes Konzept" vs. Stabilität...

Since the Kennebunkport Warning of August 26, we have seen the rogue nuclear B-52 incident of August 29-30, followed this past week by Bush’s Hitlerian threat of “world war three” in response to Putin’s warning to the US not to attack Iran. Every passing day now brings new incidents which take the world closer to the brink of a colossal tragedy which we can still mobilize to prevent. Nobody should be disoriented for one minute by these transparent internet provocations and dirty tricks. It is rather time to redouble our efforts to stop the Cheney neocon group by pressing for the immediate impeachment of Bush and Cheney, including immediate hearings on 9/11 and on the rogue nuclear B-52 incident, as recently promised by Congressman Kucinich, and as demanded by a growing movement of people’s candidates who are running for Congress on the Philadelphia Platform of impeachment, no more war, no more dictatorship, economic recovery, and 9/11 truth. Groups and persons of good will are invited to endorse and publicize the Kennebunkport Warning with its key proviso that any terrorist incident (new 9/11 and/or new Gulf of Tonkin incident) occurring anywhere in the world involving weapons of mass destruction in the weeks and months ahead must be considered the responsibility of the Cheney faction and its allies. It is time to take a clear moral and political stand against World War Three – all the more so now that Bush has personally removed any doubt that these are in fact the stakes today.

"Hardts" Einschüchterungsversuch gegen den Betrieber der Seite islamkritiker.com,
seine übliche üble Methode (weitere Screenshots an Ende des Textes). Islamkritiker nimmt Islamkritik unter die Lupe.
Hardt verwickelt den Betreiber in eine längere Debatte, wo er mit allen möglichen Gestzen winkt, er ist selbst nur eine Mailadrssse und ein Blog.

ANTIWAR COALITION FOR TRUTH – INDEPENDENT
Actindependent.org
23 October 2007

Botschaften dieses anderen Amerika finden auch bei uns immer wieder Berücksichtigung, und natürlich kann das Outen der Operation Arigona auch der Cheney-Fraktion in den Geheimdiensten sehr gegen den Strich laufen, sodass ich deswegen, welch Zufall, auch anonym verleumdet und belästigt werde (ich wandte mich von Anfang an an die Sicherheitsbehörden, da ich an Geheimdienste dachte, leider zunächst vergeblich, es blieb ganz allein meine Sache und ich versuchte, Indizien zu sammeln, es gab absolut KEINE Hilfe ausser Solidarität von UserInnen und Medienleuten im Ausland). Beim Kennebunkport Warning, das ich veröffentlichte, habe ich übrigens auch von einer Art anonymem Remailer Mails bekommen, dass sich die Autoren distanzierten (ich wusste, dass dem nicht so war). Manchmal wurden Mails verschickt mit rechtextremen oder zumindest rassistischem Inhalt, bei denen der Absender Gerhard Wisnewski gefaked wurde, bei dem ich natürlich weiss, dass sowas nie von ihm stammen kann - aber nicht alle sind so gesund misstrauisch. In Sachen möglicher Angriff auf den Iran fordern führende AmerikanerInnen wie Gore Vidal, Willie Nelson, Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan und viele andere zur Befehlsverweigerung im Fall des Falles auf, siehe auch dontattackiran.org. und Petition zum Unterschreiben bei democrats.com.


Hinweis auf der Webseite eines Betreibers, mit dem ich nie in Kontakt war, den "Hardt" aber,
als Arbeltslosenaktivisten, als "Kleinkriminellen" bezeichnet.
(Ich schütze an sich alle, die mir schreiben, durch Anonymisierung)


siehe oben - vermutlich ist auch das beharrliche Schweigen
von JournalistenkollegInnen kein Zufall...
("Hardt" verwendet im Titel das wienerische Wort Bassena mit falschem Artiikel,
DER/DAS statt DIE Bassena, ein Blick in Wikipedia hätte genügt)
und was zum Screenshot passt:


"Hardt" hat nichts mit realen Personen zu tun, die namensgleich oder namensähnlich sind (wie Gerhard Hardt/BRD und Gerhard Hardt-Stremayr/Österreich).

Siehe auch COINTELPRO VS CEIBERWEIBER im Blog...

Ken Welch is COINTELPRO - Beispiel einer ähnlichen Phantom-Person, die kritische Menschen in den USA diffamiert, von Captain Eric May beschrieben.
Brian Glick über die ersten COINTELPRO-Aktivitäten
DOG4TREE ist eine COINTELPRO-Identität, die Fake-Videos zur Denunziation von Aktivisten bei Youtube ins Web stellt.
Ein DOG4TREE-Video, spricht junge Menschen an, arbeitet mit dem Wiederholen und schnellen Zeigen von Botschaften, die ins Unterbewusste einsickern sollen
Fight Infiltrators like "Jenny Spark" (in Portland)
In Plane Site (ein 9/11-kritischer Film, der COINTELPRO-verdächtig ist)

That's what I feel like - Meat Loaf "Rock'n' Roll Dreams Come True", dedicated to all those who are in the focus of COINTEL PRO, may it give you power to carry on! And of course No surrender!

"Hardts" Einschüchterungsversuch gegen den Betrieber der Seite islamkritiker.com,
seine übliche üble Methode, er protzt mit Beziehungen nach
Bosnien und dass er dort Erkundungen einholen lassen kann...


"Freunde" würde "er" sie nicht nennen, sondern "andere Strukturen"
....und "simpel" schreibt er englisch....

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