02-28-06
Follow-up to pictures below: Like they did to my house in Pennsylvania, this is more like what I remember.
02-27-06
The Massacre Continues in Iraq 84/
Civil Rights Lost: Another Example
02-27-06
Domestic rendition or (TORTURE INC.)
SEE: 1 CRYPTOME 2 BUSH CRIMES
1
A Judicial Green Light for Torture
Published: February 26, 2006
The administration's tendency to dodge accountability for lawless actions
by resorting to secrecy and claims of national security is on sharp
display in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian, Maher Arar, who spent
months under torture because of United States action. A federal trial
judge in Brooklyn has refused to stand up to the executive branch, in a
decision that is both chilling and ripe for prompt overturning.
Mr. Arar, a 35-year-old software engineer whose case has been detailed in
a pair of columns by Bob Herbert, was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002
while on his way home from a family vacation. He was held in solitary
confinement in a Brooklyn detention center and interrogated without proper
access to legal counsel. Finally, he was shipped off to a Syrian prison.
There, he was held for 10 months in an underground rat-infested dungeon
and brutally tortured because officials suspected that he was a member of
Al Qaeda. All this was part of a morally and legally unsupportable United
States practice known as "extraordinary rendition," in which the federal
government outsources interrogations to regimes known to use torture and
lacking fundamental human rights protections.
The maltreatment of Mr. Arar would be reprehensible — and illegal under
the United States Constitution and applicable treaties — even had the
suspicions of terrorist involvement proven true. But no link to any
terrorist organization or activity emerged, which is why the Syrians
eventually released him. Mr. Arar then sued for damages.
The judge in the case, David Trager of Federal District Court in Brooklyn,
did not dispute that United States officials had reason to know that Mr.
Arar faced a likelihood of torture in Syria. But he took the rare step of
blocking the lawsuit entirely, saying that the use of torture in rendition
cases is a foreign policy question not appropriate for court review, and
that going forward would mean disclosing state secrets.
It is hard to see why resolving Mr. Arar's case would necessitate the
revelation of privileged material. Moreover, as the Supreme Court made
clear in a pair of 2004 decisions rebuking the government for its policies
of holding foreign terrorism suspects in an indefinite legal limbo in
Guantánamo and elsewhere, even during the war on terror, the government's
actions are subject to court review and must adhere to the rule of law.
With the Bush administration claiming imperial powers to detain, spy on
and even torture people, and the Republican Congress stuck largely in
enabling mode, the role of judges in checking executive branch excesses
becomes all the more crucial. If the courts collapse when confronted with
spurious government claims about the needs of national security, so will
basic American liberties.
2
Torture, Rendition, Illegal Detention and
Murder Indictment
Torture:
Count 1: The Bush administration authorized the use of torture and abuse
in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and
domestic constitutional and statutory law.
Rendition:
Count 2: The Bush administration authorized the transfer (“rendition”) of
persons held in U.S. custody to foreign countries where torture is known
to be practiced.
Illegal Detention:
Count 3: The Bush administration authorized the indefinite detention of
persons seized in foreign combat zones and in other countries far from any
combat zone and denied them the protections of the Geneva Conventions on
the treatment of prisoners of war and the protections of the U.S.
Constitution.
Count 4: The Bush administration authorized the round-up and detention in
the United States of tens of thousands of immigrants on pretextual grounds
and held them without charge or trial in violation of international human
rights law and domestic constitutional and civil rights law.
Count 5: The Bush administration used military forces to seize and detain
indefinitely without charges U.S. citizens, denying them the right to
challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
Murder:
Count 6: The Bush administration committed murder by authorizing the CIA
to kill those that the president designates, either US citizens or
non-citizens, anywhere in the world.
Count 1
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: George W. Bush, President of the United States, Dick Cheney, Vice
President, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, former Director of
Central Intelligence, George Tenet; Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, V Corps,
Commanding General and formerly in charge of Combined Joint Task Force 7,
Iraq; Colonel Thomas M. Pappas, Brigade Commander, 205th Military
Intelligence Brigade; Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller; Alberto Gonzales,
formerly White House Counsel and now Attorney General of the United
States; Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, and David Addington,
Vice Presidential Counsel.
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law, including crimes of war and crimes against
humanity. The U.S. laws violated include, but are not limited to: the
Fifth Amendment to the Constitution; 18 U.S.C. Section 242 (War Crimes);
18 U.S.C. Section 2340 (Convention Against Torture Statute); the Uniform
Code of Military Justice, Army Regulation 190-8, Articles 3 and 5 of the
Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, and customary international law as
reflected, expressed, and defined in multilateral treaties and other
international instruments, international and domestic judicial decisions,
and other authorities.
c. In commission of Count 1, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) In or about December, 2001, Bush ordered torture by authorizing Tenet
to order the Special Access Program that led to the secret detention of
Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rushul, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaida and dozens
of other detainees without any contact with the outside world in secret
prisons around the world and ordering them subjected to tortures including
water-boarding, severe beatings, subjection to extreme temperatures,
suspension in painful positions, denial of pain-killing medicine after
gunshot wounds, severe burning by hot metal, asphyxiation and by threat of
death and sexual assault against themselves and members of their families.
During such torture an unknown number of detainees died, including Manadel
al-Jamadi, Abdul Wali and Abid Hamad Mahalwi.
2) On or about August 1, 2002, upon the initiative of Cheney, Addington
and Gonzales drafted a memorandum, “Re: Standards of conduct under USC
2340-2340 A” signed by Bybee, justifying torture and authorizing its use
on detainees and detailing possible defenses in the event of prosecution
under the Convention Against Torture Act. The memorandum was approved by
Bush, Cheney and the National Security Council.
3) In October, 2002, Miller requested authorization of torture techniques
for use at Guantanamo.
4) Beginning in November, 2002, Miller, acting with the authorization of
the above-cited memorandum, committed grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions by ordering coerced interrogation of hundreds of detainees at
Guantanamo Bay, by subjecting them to humiliating and degrading treatment,
including the forced removal of clothing, sleep deprivation, sensory
deprivation, subjection to loud and prolonged noise, by denying them
medical care and by submitting them to torture. Miller ordered the torture
of at least dozens of detainees at Guantanamo Bay by ordering them
subjected to extremes of heat and cold, shackled in painful positions for
many hours, subjected to beatings with batons, all of which caused the
detainees severe pain and suffering. In addition he ordered them
threatened with dogs, subjecting them to threat of severe pain and
suffering by dog-bite. In addition he ordered that detainees be threatened
with transfer to countries known for extreme methods of torture.
5) In December, 2002, Rumsfeld, acting under the authorization of the
August, 2002 memorandum, committed grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions by ordering the coerced interrogation of detainees at
Guantanamo, by subjecting them to humiliating and degrading treatment,
including the forced removal of clothing, sensory deprivation, stress
positions, and torture ordering that detainees at Guantanamo be threatened
with dogs, subjecting them to threat of severe pain and suffering by
dog-bite.
6) In August, 2003, Rumsfeld sent Miller to Iraq to institute torture
techniques there.
7) In September, 2003, Sanchez committed grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions by ordering coerced interrogation of hundreds of detainees in
Iraq, by subjecting them to humiliating and degrading treatment, including
the forced removal of clothing, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation,
subjection to loud and prolonged noise, by denying them medical care and
by submitting them to torture by ordering them subjected to extremes of
heat and cold, shackled in painful positions for many hours, all of which
caused the detainees severe pain and suffering. In addition he ordered
them threatened with dogs, subjecting them to threat of severe pain and
suffering by dog-bite. Furthermore when Sanchez was informed by the ICRC
of additional torture and degrading treatment occurring in detention
centers throughout Iraq, he did nothing to stop these acts.
8) Beginning in September , 2003 many detainees at Abu Ghraib, and
elsewhere in Iraq were tortured pursuant to the directives of Rumsfeld,
Miller and Sanchez, authorized by the August, 2002 memorandum. During the
commission of the acts of torture that the defendants conspired to commit,
at least 28 detainees died.
Count 2
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: George W. Bush, President of the United States, John Ashcroft,
formerly Attorney General of the United States; Tom Ridge, formerly
Secretary of State for Homeland Security; George Tenet, formerly Director
of Central Intelligence.
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law. The laws violated include, but are not
limited to: the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution; 18 U.S.C. Section 242 (War Crimes); 18 U.S.C. Section 2340
(Convention Against Torture Statute), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, note (the Torture
Victim Protection Act), 5 U.S.C. § 702 (Administrative Procedure Act); the
Convention Against Torture and implementing regulations.
c. In commission of Count 2, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) Since September 11, 2001, the Defendants committed grave breaches of
the Geneva Conventions and authorized torture by authorizing covert
“extraordinary renditions,” -- the detention and transfer of over 100
detainees including both US citizens, such as Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, and
non-citizens, such as Canadian Maher Arar, to countries known for torture,
to be tortured at CIA direction. The Defendants who have adopted,
ratified, and/or implemented the “extraordinary renditions” policy know
that non-U.S. citizens removed under this policy will be interrogated
under torture.
Count 3
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: George W. Bush, President of the United States, Dick Cheney, Vice
President, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Alberto Gonzales,
formerly White House Counsel and now Attorney General of the United
States; George Tenet, formerly Director of Central Intelligence, Jay S.
Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, and David Addington, Vice Presidential
Counsel.
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law, including crimes of war and crimes against
humanity. The U.S. laws violated include, but are not limited to: Article
II of the U.S. Constitution; the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
to the Constitution; the due process requirements embodied in the common
law; 5 U.S.C. Section 702 (the Administrative Procedure Act); 18 U.S.C.
Section 242 (War Crimes); Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 USC
242); Conspiracy Against Rights (18 USC 241); the Uniform Code of Military
Justice, Army Regulation 190-8, Articles 3 and 5 of the Third and Fourth
Geneva Conventions, and customary international law as reflected,
expressed, and defined in multilateral treaties and other international
instruments, international and domestic judicial decisions, and other
authorities.
c. In commission of Count 3, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) In October, 2001 Cheney and Addington committed grave breaches of the
Geneva Conventions by directing that a Presidential order be drafted
authorizing the indefinite detention without charge of detainees and their
subjection to military tribunals.
2) On November 16, 2001, Bush did under color of law willfully subject
thousands of detainees outside the United States to the deprivation of
their rights to due process under the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments
to the Constitution by on Nov. 16, 2001 issuing a Military Order
authorizing unconstitutional detention without charge of non-citizens,
also thereby committing a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.
3) In November, 2001, pursuant to the above-cited Military order,
thousands of individual were detained in camps in Afghanistan and at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without charge or trial. The detainees have been
imprisoned at the Guantánamo since January 2002. They have been held
incommunicado without access to their families or counsel or to the
courts.
4) In or about December, 2001, Bush committed authorized Tenet to order
the Special Access Program that led to the secret detention of Hiwa Abdul
Rahman Rushul, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaida and dozens of other
detainees without any contact with the outside world in secret prisons
around the world.
5) In January, 2002, Gonzales committed grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions by advising Bush in written memos to suspend the application
of the Geneva conventions to detainees.
6) On February 7, 2002, Bush committed grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions by issuing in February 7, 2002 a Memorandum stating that
Geneva Convention does not apply to detainees, “unlawful combatants”.
7) Beginning in March, 2003, tens of thousands of individuals are detained
in Iraq without charge or trial, in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Count 4
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: John Ashcroft, formerly Attorney General of the United States;
Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States; Tom Ridge,
formerly Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chernoff Secretary of
Homeland Security
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law. The laws violated include, but are not
limited to: the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the
Constitution, Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 USC 242);
Conspiracy Against Rights (18 USC 241); the Alien Tort Statute (28 U.S.C.
1350) ,customary international law, and treaty law as incorporated into
federal common law and statutory law.
c. In commission of Count 4, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) Thousands of male non-citizens from the Middle East, South Asia, and
elsewhere who are Arab or Muslim or have been perceived by Defendants to
be Arab or Muslim, were detained on minor immigration violations following
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States (“post-9/11
detainees”), and were treated as “of interest” to the government’s
terrorism investigation and subjected to a blanket “hold until cleared
policy” pursuant to which the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(“INS”) denied them bond without regard to evidence of dangerousness or
flight risk, and detained them until the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(“FBI”) cleared them of terrorist ties. All were in fact cleared of any
connection to terrorism.
2) Subsequently, in the period from January, 2002 to the present, tens of
thousands of non-citizens from many countries, primarily from the
Caribbean, and Africa but also from the Middle East, South Asia, Latin
America and Eastern Europe, were detained without criminal charge for
months and in some cases years as “administrative detainees”, a practice
in violation of the basic provisions of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Amendments.
3) The victims were subjected to one or more of the following
unconstitutional policies and practices: they were held without an
indictment by a Grand jury, they were denied the right to counsel, the
right to a trial by jury and denied any form of judicial review. They were
held without any criminal charge being brought against them. They were
denied bond. Some were classified as being “of high interest” to the
government’s terrorism investigation, “Witness Security” and/or
“Management Interest Group 155” detainees in the absence of adequate
standards or procedures for making such a determination or evidence that
they were involved in terrorism. They were subjected to a communications
blackout and other actions that interfered with their access to counsel
and their ability to seek redress in the courts. After receiving final
removal orders or grants of voluntary departure, some were held in
immigration custody far beyond the period necessary to secure their
removal or voluntary departure from the United States, again without
regard to whether they posed a danger or flight risk.
4) While in detention, the detainees have been subjected to unreasonable
and excessively harsh conditions. Some have been held in overcrowded and
unsanitary county jail facilities and housed with potentially dangerous
criminal pretrial detainees, even though they themselves have never been
charged with a crime. Others have been kept in federal and county
facilities where they have been placed in tiny cells for over 23 hours a
day and strip-searched, manacled, and shackled when taken out of their
cells. Many have suffered physical and verbal abuse by their guards. These
abuses include being badly beaten and being attacked by dogs. Many have
been denied the ability to practice their faith during their detention.
5) During their confinement, Defendants or their agents subjected some
detainees to coercive and involuntary custodial interrogation designed to
overcome their will and coerce involuntary and incriminating statements
from them.
6) By adopting, promulgating, and implementing these policies and
practices, Defendants Ashcroft, Gonzales, Ridge, and Chernoff, and others
have intentionally or recklessly violated rights guaranteed to the
detainees by the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States
Constitution, customary international law, and treaty law. In doing so
they have also violated the Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law Act
(18 USC 242) which prescribes punishment for “Whoever, under color of any
law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any
person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to
the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or
protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to
different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person
being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed
for the punishment of citizens”. They have also engaged in a Conspiracy
Against Rights (18 USC 241) by conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten,
and intimidate the detainees in the free exercise or enjoyment of the
rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution of the United
States, including the right to personal liberty and to due process.
Count 5
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: George W. Bush, President of the United States, Dick Cheney, Vice
President, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Alberto Gonzales,
formerly White House Counsel and now Attorney General of the United
States;. Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, and Dick Addington,
Vice Presidential Counsel.
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law. The laws violated include, but are not
limited to: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution,
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 USC 242); Conspiracy Against
Rights (18 USC 241); customary international law, and treaty law as
incorporated into federal common law and statutory law.
c. In commission of Count 5, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) On June 9, Bush ordered Rumsfeld to detain Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen
as an “enemy combatant”. Rumsfeld ordered that military personnel carry
out this Presidential directive, which had no basis in any law. Padilla
was not charged with any criminal offense, was not indicted by a grand
jury, was not convicted or even tried by a jury, was given no access to
counsel and has been imprisoned for over three years. Padilla’s rights
under the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution were
thereby violated in violation of 18 USC 242 and 18 USC 241.
2) On the initiative of Cheney and Addington, Gonzales inserted into an
Aug.1, 2002 memorandum from Bybee wording justifying the President
unlimited power to detain as enemy combatants anyone, without any judicial
process. This memorandum, approved by Bush and Cheney is part of a
conspiracy against the rights of all US citizens and residents.
3) In court papers in the case of Padilla, and in the case of Hamdi as
well as elsewhere, Bush and his agents have claimed that the President has
the power to designate any one, citizen or immigrant, as a enemy combatant
and to jail them indefinitely without charge or trial. Such assertions by
those acting under color of law constitute a conspiracy against the rights
of all US citizens and residents.
Count 6
a. The Defendants responsible for the violations delineated in this count
include: George W. Bush, President of the United States, George Tenet,
formerly Director of Central Intelligence
b. Defendants’ actions under this count constitute egregious violations of
international and domestic law. The laws violated include, but are not
limited to: the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution,
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 USC 242); and Murder (18 USC
1111)
c. In commission of Count 6, those named above did engage in the following
acts:
1) In October 2001 Bush issued a secret finding authorizing the CIA to
kill those he designated, either US citizens or non-citizens, anywhere in
the world.
2) Under the authority of this secret finding, Bush and Tenet ordered the
killing by Predator drone of US citizen Kamal Derwish.
02-28-06
ALABAMA paper publishes some pretty tame pictures from the civil rights era. I wonder what happened to all the pictures of blacks and minorities being hung, shot, beaten, and killed that I remember seeing when I was a boy. They claim to have opened up some great archive but frankly it's all pretty tame stuff. Nonetheless worth a look. Perhaps even though the real violence and injustice is not glaring one in the face, a taste of what that time was like is at least to be had. The blood of many innocent people flowed for the rights that have been lost in the last 15 years.
02-27-06
The Massacre Continues in Iraq 83/
Alleged Ex-Russian Spy Contacts JAR2
02-27-06
Mike Smith, an alleged Russian spy imprisoned by the U.K. and released after serving his sentence, contacted JAR2 and asked me to publicize information regarding his case on the site. If any one has information regarding any aspect of his case please feel free to send it, anonymity guaranteed. You can read more about his case by clicking on the links below.
SEE: Mike Smith MI5 UK
Dear John,
Many thanks for putting the information from my blog onto your website, and also for giving a link to my blog.
I have put a link to your site on my blog and mentioned that you have put the information on JAR2.com. See here:
http://parellic.blogspot.com/2006_02_26_parellic_archive.html
Best wishes,
Mike Smith
02-27-06
This did as well. Something lighter for Sunday.
SEE: Knowledge News
The Original Olympics
02-25-06
These two articles came in my mail.
SEE: Archive February '06
Corruption Comes at a Cost/or, Selling America to the Highest Bidder
"This deal wouldn't go
forward if we were concerned about the security of the United States of
America."
-- President Bush on the UAE port deal
But he treatens to veto any measure against it.
The weekly update from Media Matters for America
SEE: Archive February '06
On the lighter side: for your phone:
SEE: Archive February '06
Civil War About to Break Out in Iraq 82/
The Geneva Conventions Ignored by U.S./
Bush Stole Election Again
02-24-06
The US has decided to ignore the Geneva conventions just as Americans have ignored the fact that a usurper has been illegally spying on them and taken away their civil liberties while committing thousands of high crimes and trampling on the constitution, and all in the name of flexibility against an enemy created by they themselves. Terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror terror...Had enough? More to come. And now the son-of-a-bitch Bush wants to allow Arabs to control all sea port operations on the East-Coast?
All par for the course for an administration whose vile-president shoots some old guy in the face and then has the poor old guy apologize in the national press for getting in the way of the royal buck-shot. I don't condone swearing and am not one to do so but I have had enough! Just who the FUCK do they think they are? And where the fuck is the fucking outrage?!?! Jesus help you all. You sold out.. You fucking pathetic sheep!!!! I can imagine Putin telling the Russian people that border security will now be handled by fucking Chechens.... FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our second offering just tells us what we knew all along and of course nothing will become of it, as usual...
SEE: The Memo
Mora went on, “It seemed odd to me that the actors weren’t more troubled by what they were doing.” Many Administration lawyers, he said, appeared to be unaware of history. “I wondered if they were even familiar with the Nuremberg trials—or with the laws of war, or with the Geneva conventions. They cut many of the experts on those areas out. The State Department wasn’t just on the back of the bus—it was left off the bus.” Mora understood that “people were afraid that more 9/11s would happen, so getting the information became the overriding objective. But there was a failure to look more broadly at the ramifications.
“These were enormously hardworking, patriotic individuals,” he said. “When you put together the pieces, it’s all so sad. To preserve flexibility, they were willing to throw away our values.”
Jane Mayer, The Memo, February 20, 2006
SEE: STOLEN ELECTION
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An
examination of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machine records from
the 2004 election found possible tampering and tens of thousands of
malfunctions and errors, a watchdog group said Thursday.
Spread the Comics! Send to Friends!
SEE: Archive February '06
The Pillaging Continues in Iraq 81/
Right-Speak
02-18-06
SEE: Archive February '06
The Blood for Bucks Continues in Iraq 80/
Real Reason for Burning Plame
02-15-06
Now this comes out, and lo and behold Cheney orchestrates his own media diversion. No Michael Jackson this time, no Bin Laden message, no terror plot uncovered, just some 78 year old man shot by Cheney himself. Is Cheney upset, well apparently the White House thinks its something to laugh about. Why not? It takes the focus off the real news again. Which in my humble opinion should be the recently released information that Valerie Plame Wilson was working on assessing Iranian nuclear WMD capabilities.
Why is that important? Well for one, as her husband, who was responsible for assessing the same area of proliferation by Iraq and returned information which did not support the pre-arranged invasion scenarios of the Bushies, she had to have been assumed to be as ethical, incorruptible and morally upstanding as her husband. Meaning she too would show the integrity that he did when making the facts known. As operatives they kept their oaths and fulfilled their obligations to their office and their country. Unlike the dirty politicians who are only interested in making themselves and their cronies even richer these two were true to the higher ideals which led them to serve in the outstanding way they did. Unfortunately nothing is sacred, not even the blood of their fellow countrymen, when someone gets in the way of the soulless sharks occupying the White House and ruling the country.
It is standard knowledge that Rumsfeld and the first Bush drew up plans for an Iranian invasion and this Bush has been placed in office to carry those plans through. What people are having a hard time dealing with is how far they would go to actually push their agenda trough. 9-11 anyone?
Why out Plame? If the effects were even slightly as detrimental to the ability of the CIA to monitor Iranian proliferation as it has been claimed, and classically damage estimates are under-stated by said agency, then there is no way to accurately come up with a threat assessment on Iran at present. This is just what the Bushies need in order pull the wool over the eyes of the world and claim that Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Which is what they are doing. Remember this is not an administration that is interested in the truth. They are interested in their own self-serving truth and if yours doesn't jive with theirs, they will destroy you. As they did Plame and her teams.
So while the press is having a field day on Cheney shooting a 78 year old lawyer, keep your eye on the ball, and the nuclear button. The drums of war are beating at BushCo and Iran is the next target.
Watch the propaganda building up and fueling the hysteria. For example USA Today is running a story this very minute that says the American people are fearful that Iran will develop a nuclear weapon and use it against the U.S.. They are starting the media blitz. We know Iran is no more of a threat than Iraq was. Can we stop them from invading another country? Sadly I am afraid without more people out there like you we will all have to sit sadly by and watch as the country is pulled into another long and drawn out conflict, killing our young men and destroying the economy.
That is my opinion.
For more see the story below:
SEE: RAW STORY
Several intelligence officials described the damage in terms of how long it would take for the agency to recover. According to their own assessment, the CIA would be impaired for up to "ten years" in its capacity to adequately monitor nuclear proliferation on the level of efficiency and accuracy it had prior to the White House leak of Plame Wilson's identity.
The Blood for Oil Continues in Iraq 79/
First Ambramoff-Bush Photo/
Real Reasons for Iranian Invasion
02-13-06
Without the lack of concrete evidence that Iran possess nuclear weapons or is even able to produce the enriched uranium that is necessary for the lack of centrifuges the case for invasion is frighteningly reminiscent of what was pulled off in order to invade Iraq. The US has had plans in place for years for invading Iran and it needs to do so very soon.
Why? Reason number one: Iran, as Saddam Hussein did when he converted Iraq’s oil exports to the Euro, is planning to convert to a euro-based oil Bourse some time next month. This will have a catastrophic effect on the dollar as a world currency and may see the fall of the dollar to such levels that it will not be worth the paper it is printed on...
Given the neo-cons plan for world domination, the Plan for the New Millennium, and the agenda already put forth, an Iranian Invasion is imminent, and will be carried out under whatever guise, and for whatever reason. Other than the real one of course. The result will make Iraq look tame in comparison and will further help to bring about the diminishing of the United States as a power. What I am saying is that their plan will backfire and lead the US on a road toward its downfall.
How to stop it? Remove the current administration, from the top down.
SEE: Archive Photo February '06
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 78/
Weekly Media Analysis by Media Matters
Congress to investigate Republican President
02-11-06
SEE: Archive February '06
02-10-06 Back on-line...Hopefully all problems resolved...
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 77/
White House Approved Leaks/Continues to Spread Lies-Misinformation-Propaganda/
Hamas Coming to Moscow
02-09-06
SEE: Archive February '06
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 76/
Media Analysis by Media Matters on Bush Spying/
Massive Attacks on JAR2
02-09-06
SEE: Archive February '06
02-06-06
We Were Down After Publishing the Mohammed Cartoons No Explanation
SEE: Archive February '06
02-04-06
Weekly Media Analysis by Media Matters
SEE: Archive February '06
Am I in Some Weird Parallel Universe?
02-03-06 / 02-05-06
SEE: Archive February '06
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 75/
What's the Deal With Mohammed and 72
Virgins ???
02-03-06
SEE: Archive February '06
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 74/
Top Ten Repukes/Alito In
01-31-06
SEE:
January '06
The Genocide Continues in Iraq 72/
Bush the Dictator-Fear Monger/
Why Does Bin Laden Show Up Everytime
Bush is in Trouble ????? Any Takers ?
01-27-06
SEE: January '06
The Genocide Continues in Iraq 71/
British Spies Screw Up
Again
01-22-06
SEE: January '06
The Tragic Losses Continue in Iraq 70/
Bin Laden Releases a
New sHit Tape; Blah-Blah-Blah...Hey George!!
I'm Still Heeeeeeere...Nya-Nya...
But Wait...Is He Really Offering Peace???!
01-19-06
SEE: NET January '06
Long time Bush family friend, ex-CIA agent Tim Ossman, AKA Ossaaaama Bin-Ladle makes an appearance, promises to kill more innocents, gloats, proves he is still delusional, states crap we already know, and spews more crap diguised as Islam, defiling Islam once more and proving to the world at large that George Bush is a disaster and he (Bin-Boy) has gotten what he wants....I don't know who is worse anymore...I think they deserve each other... If his offer of peace is genuine then he, for one, has learned something... But hey, peace sells but the Bush administration will surely not buy it... I mean what would happen to all those Halliburton bucks? Wish he'd choke.
Still freezing here.((( Good night.
The Pogrom Continues in Iraq 67/
U.S. Trying to Build Case for Iran Invasion/
Welcome Cryptome
01-16-06
SEE: this January '06
I have come to the conclusion after analyzing all of my open-source information that the Bush Administration is once again testing the waters for implementing scenarios that will build up to an invasion of Iran.
This has long been the goal of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney. Unfortunately for them earlier attempts to get their plan under-way have been hampered by the fiasco they have created in Iraq.
The world and the American people, already suspicious and untrusting, will not allow the administration the carte-blanche they had after 9-11 when dealing with Iran, so it would be hard at this point to bolster support for an Iranian invasion on the grounds that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons and possesses WMDs. It would take an act of open agression or a declaration of war by the Iranians to allow the Bush Administration to put forth their planned invasion.
John Robles