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Thursday, June 19 2008 - Other Important News
911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Hearing in NYC19 June 2008 Michael Collins (June 17, NYC). A surprise development occurred at today's hearing in the case of Susan Lindauer versus the United States. A long time associate of the accused, associate professor of computer science at Toronto's York University, Parke Godfrey, Ph.D., testified that Susan Lindauer predicted an attack on the United States in the southern part of Manhattan. According to his testimony, she said that the attack would be very similar to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Godfrey said that Lindauer made the prediction on several occasions, one as late as August 2001. The testimony occurred in a hearing on Lindauer's competence to stand trial held before U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska, Southern District of New York, in lower Manhattan. On March 11, 2004, Lindauer was arrested for acting as an "unregistered agent" for the nation of Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. Prosecutors have delayed the trial for over four years claiming Lindauer was delusional for asserting that she was a U.S. intelligence asset over a period of nine years, including the period covered by the indictment. This was Lindauer's first real opportunity to argue her competence to stand trial and deny the delusions claimed by court psychiatrists. Lindauer asserts that she had been a U.S. intelligence asset since working on the Lockerbie case and subsequent antiterrorism efforts.
Thursday, June 19 2008 - Other Important News
Gov't says FBI agents can't testify about 9/11The Associated Press NEW YORK: Government lawyers say the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks could be compromised if the airline industry is allowed to seek more information from the FBI to defend itself against lawsuits brought by terrorism victims. In papers filed late Tuesday, the government urged a judge to block aviation companies from interviewing five FBI employees who the companies say will help them prove the government withheld key information before the 2001 attacks. The lawyers said it would be impossible to interview the employees without disclosing classified or privileged material that could "cause serious damage to national security and interfere with pending law enforcement proceedings." "The harm described is not hypothetical and cannot be lightly dismissed," according to the court papers submitted by the office of U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia. "Investigators continue to seek out those parties responsible for the 9/11 attacks who remain at large."
Tuesday, June 17 2008 - Other Important News
Two New Papers at the Journal of 9/11 StudiesKevin Ryan, Journal of 911 Studies Two new papers have been published at the Journal of 9/11 Studies. The first is an article by Frank Legge, called "9/11 and Probability Theory". Here is an excerpt:
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/911andProbabilityTheory17Legge.pdf The second paper is a letter from Kevin Fenton, entitled "WTC Collapse Initiation Floors: What They Were And How Much Damage They Suffered":
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/FentonWTCInitiationFloors.pdf
Thursday, June 12 2008 - Other Important News
9/11, Deep State Violence, and the Hope of Internet PoliticsPeter Dale Scott The Deep State and 9/11 The unthinkable -- that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians -- has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General de Gaulle's plans for Algerian independence, organized as the Secret Army Organization and bombed civilians indiscriminately, with targets including hospitals and schools.1 Critics like Alexander Litvinenko, who was subsequently murdered in London in November 2006, have charged that the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings around Moscow, attributed to Chechen separatists, were in fact the work of the Russian secret service (FSB).2 Similar attacks in Turkey have given rise to the notion there of an extra-legal "deep state" -- a combination of forces, ranging from former members of the CIA-organized Gladio organization, to "a vast matrix of security and intelligence officials, ultranationalist members of the Turkish underworld and renegade former members of the [Kurdish separatist] PKK."3 The deep state, financed in part by Turkey's substantial heroin traffic, has been accused of killing thousands of civilians, in incidents such as the lethal bomb attack in November 2005 on a bookshop in Semdinli. This attack, initially attributed to the Kurdish separatist PKK, turned out to have been committed by members of Turkey's paramilitary police intelligence service, together with a former PKK member turned informer.4 On April 23, 2008, the former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar was ordered to stand trial for his role in this dirty war during the 1990s.5 In my book The Road to 9/11, I have argued that there has existed, at least since World War Two if not earlier, an analogous American deep state, also combining intelligence officials with elements from the drug-trafficking underworld.6 I also pointed to recent decades of collaboration between the U.S. deep state and al-Qaeda, a terrorist underworld whose drug-trafficking activities have been played down in the 9/11 Commission Report and the mainstream U.S. media.7
Wednesday, June 11 2008 - Other Important News
The Spy Who Loves UsThe Spy Who Loves Us Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line. by Philip Giraldi After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. negotiated an understanding with Israel—a “gentlemen’s agreement” —stipulating that neither nation would thenceforth conduct espionage operations in the other’s territory without consent. But the agreement was a sham from the beginning. The Israeli government didn’t even honor its commitments in the aftermath of the Pollard case, failing to return the estimated 360 cubic feet of stolen information to enable the U.S. to conduct a damage assessment. The United States, for its part, continued to recruit and run agents inside Israel throughout the 1980s and 1990s. And it was known within the intelligence and counterintelligence communities that Israel did the same in the United States. David Szady, the FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence, was so dismayed by the level of Israeli spying in the late ’90s that he called in the head of the Israeli Embassy’s Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Activities (Mossad) office and told him, “Knock it off.” ... Virtually every U.S. government body concerned with security has confirmed that Israeli espionage takes place, though it is frequently not exposed because FBI officers know that investigating these crimes is frustrating and does no favors for their careers. But Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report called “Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage.” The 2005 report states, “Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable armaments industry.” It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information.
Tuesday, June 10 2008 - Other Important News
Dr. William Pepper on James Earl Ray's Innocence, Sirhan Sirhan's Innocence, 9/11 Truth and Prosecuting War CrimesAnother excellent VIDEO EXCLUSIVE from Hot Potato Mash: Dr. William Pepper on James Earl Ray's Innocence, Sirhan Sirhan's Innocence, 9/11 Truth and Prosecuting War Crimes Dr. William F. Pepper is an internationally acclaimed lawyer who defended James Earl Ray in a 1999 civil trial (supported by Martin Luther King's family) where the jury found Ray not responsible for the MLK assassination. Now Pepper is defending Sirhan Sirhan for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a case he says is �an easier one than the assassination of Martin King and the innocence of James Earl Ray�. Last Wednesday Pepper spoke about all of his projects, including 9/11 truth and prosecuting the Bush administration for war crimes, to a packed celebrity filled house in Los Angeles. Among those in attendance were Ed Asner, Gina Belafonte, Judd Nelson and 9/11 author Professor David Ray Griffin. Videos of his talk follow ... Part 1 (6:21) - Introduction In Part 1 Pepper talks about his background, childhood and motivation. He also speaks about the time he spent in Cuba playing baseball where he got to know Fidel Castro. According to Pepper, Castro foresaw much of what is happening in the United States today: ... Part 5 (8:36) - 9/11 �The 9/11 matter is, in my lifetime, the most traumatic assault on democracy and the safety of this Republic.� - Dr. William Pepper Part 5 is dedicated to finding out the truth about 9/11. Pepper supports two different ways for accomplishing this goal. First, he backs an effort to create a new commission to investigate 9/11 by New York state referendum. Volunteers are currently trying to get the necessary 30,000 signatures from registered New York voters to get the measure on the ballot. The second approach is to once again file a lawsuit in the courts. Pepper is leading this effort on behalf of the Jersey Girls and plans to sue, among others, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who is widely believed to have sent $100,000 to lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed Atta.
Monday, June 9 2008 - Other Important News
EPA MISDEEDS ON TRIAL IN OMBUDSMAN WHISTLEBLOWER HEARINGFor Immediate Release: Monday, June 9, 2008 EPA MISDEEDS ON TRIAL IN OMBUDSMAN WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING Witnesses Detail 9/11 Contamination, Toxic Fertilizer and Litany of Other Failings Washington, DC — In a long-awaited whistleblower trial beginning today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will have to justify dismantling its only independent public advocate. The National Ombudsman Office was closed early in the Bush administration as it pursued an array of EPA scandals, including its failure to issue health warnings after the World Trade Center collapse, use of toxic sewage sludge in widely distributed fertilizer and malfeasance at several Superfund cleanups across the nation, according to documents posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The complaint by Hugh B. Kaufman, who served as the Chief Investigator for the National Ombudsman Office from 1997 until its demise in 2002, charges violation of whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions of the very federal environmental laws that EPA is supposed to enforce. The hearing will feature witnesses harmed by agency misdeeds who had sought help from the Ombudsman Office.
Monday, June 9 2008 - Other Important News
Impeachment (Including 9/11 crimes) being introduced in Congress Right Now!Breaking: STILL on CSpan 1 (watch now at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS) ...
11:53pm CST--Live poll now at MSNBC: "Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?" I'll blog live as fast as my fingers can type ... Ouch... "President spent August on vacation" in spite of famous 'Bin Laden determined to strike...' PDB. "...President has acted in a manner ... subversive of constitutional government, causing manifest injury to the people of the US, wherefore President Bush is guilty, by such conduct, of an impeachable offense, warranting removal from office." (Oh yeah...!) Article #34: Together with Vice President Cheney, Bush is guilty of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE because they obstructed investigations into the attacks on the TC and Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001. Took strong steps to thwart any and all attempts... Article #35: Endangering health of first responders--recklessly endangered the health of first responders and residents at location of the former World Trade Center in NYC. Referring to damning EPA report from August, showing air was NOT "safe to breathe" in spite of assurances to the contrary. White House "convinced" EPA to add reassuring statements and to delete cautionary ones from press releases/statements issued immediately after 9/11 and in weeks following ... White House role in EPA public communications re. WTC conditions described in 9/12/01 email from Assistant Director of EPA to senior officials stating, "All statements to media should be cleared through the National Security Council before they are released." approx 10:50 CST -- Explanation (some of which I missed): Rule 9, Resolution from floor as question of privileges of the house has immediate precedence only within a time designated by the chair (within two days?)... (note: for more info on privileged resolutions, see http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/privilege.html) form of Resolution will appear in the Record at this point. Chair will not determine whether it constitutions Resolution of Privilege. * * * * * * We will post much more tomorrow, from other sources. But for tonight, this is happy news! Clip: "Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, one of the groups pushing for impeachment congratulated Kucinich on his "historic leadership." "We've waited seven years to find one Member of Congress brave enough to stand up for our Constitution, for which generations of Americans have fought and died," Fertik said. "We are thrilled and honored that Dennis Kucinich has chosen to be that one genuine patriot." – Ed.
June 9, 10pm CST -- Breaking: STILL on CSpan 1 (watch now at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS) ... (...and they're Rockin' all over the World!) by David Swanson http://www.opednews.com Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. Yes, 35. He'll be reading for a while. ... Good websites to watch for updates and actions: http://democrats.com http://afterdowningstreet.org Let Justice roll down like waters in a mighty stream . . . (Ed. More news articles follow this.)
Friday, May 30 2008 - Other Important News
Lawyers want 9/11 trial dismissed (and related articles)By Andrew O. Selsky SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Defense lawyers accused the government of rushing the Sept. 11 defendants to trial at Guantanamo to influence the U.S. presidential elections, and asked the military judge to dismiss the case in a court filing obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The filing also shows that the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, who resigned in October over alleged political interference, was sanctioned by the military on May 23 after testifying for the defense in a Guantanamo hearing. The former prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, wrote that the action will discourage any other military members from providing information about the controversial war-crimes tribunals. The tribunals' legal adviser, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, told the AP Davis was sanctioned because of poor job performance and not because he testified.
Thursday, May 22 2008 - Other Important News
Snakes and SuperdelegatesWhile the US media obsesses on delegates, superdelegates and whether or not Hillary Clinton is using math formulae hallowed by MSNBC, we learn that US interrogators used snakes to torture prisoners (that's right, PentaPost --torture, not 'interrogate' and prisoners, not 'detainees') at Guantanamo Bay - while the FBI watched. By Lori Price www.legitgov.org http://www.legitgov.org/essay_price_snakes_superdelegates_210508.html 21 May 2008
Wednesday, May 21 2008 - Other Important News
Watch online TODAY--FBI Whistleblower to Testify on Mistakes Inside Counterterrorism ProgramMEDIA ADVISORY For Wednesday, May 21 2008 UPDATE: Watch this hearing online--Mr. Youssef's testimony will shed light on significant problems in the FBI's Counterterrorism program, and I urge everyone who can to attend this hearing (details below). For those who are not in Washington, you can watch a live webcast of the proceedings on the House Judiciary Committee website. Click here to visit their webpage and then click "View Live Webcast." FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TO TESTIFY ON MISTAKES Unit Chief to disclose shortfalls in war on terror WHAT: FBI Whistleblower and Supervisory Special Agent Bassem Youssef testifying before Congress WHEN: Wednesday, May 21, 1:30 p.m. EDT WHERE: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2141 Washington, D.C. -- FBI Counterterrorism Whistleblower Bassem Youssef will testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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