The Most Generous Soul

Wellthere is lots of concern about the NSA amassing information about call records. There is lots of concern about privacy surrounding this practicebut seems to be little discussion of why the NSA is doing it.

Now I don’t know the exact reason for thisbut I am going to put forward an educated guess. To show why the NSA might be doing thisI’ll use an analogy: junk e-maila.k.a. spam.

Most of us who have e-mail also have some sort of junk mail filter in place. Many of these filters use mathematical algorithm for determining the probability that an e-mail is “spam” or “ham”. How does this work? Wellit relies on Bayes’ Theorem (for more click),

Basicallywhat Bayes’ Theorem allows us to do is determine the probability of event A given B given that we know the likelihood of A given B–that isL(A|B)–and the (prior) probability of A–that isP(A). Notice that the likelihood of A given B is also the conditional probability of B given A.

For our Spam/Ham problem we want to know what is the probability of a given e-mail is Spam (A) given some information (B). In the case of the Bayesian e-mail filter B is examples of previous spam e-mailshow frequent the are and so forth.

These filters workand they work very well. This is why now you’ll see spam e-mails with subject lines that read“Yore % Cityb an ck CArD Con % tact Infor^^Ation NeEds Updat!ng”. Because of the effectiveness of the Bayesian spam filter a subject line like“Your Citibank Card Information Needs Updating” would be flagged and dumped. So all the mis-spellings and special characters are the spammers’ attempt to get around these filters and get to the person who might be gullible enough to think that such an e-mail is legitimate.

Howeverfor Bayesian filters to work wellthey can require quite a bit of data–that is lots of both Ham and Spam in the case of our Bayesian e-mail filter. This isn’t a problem in that spammers send out hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails every hour. And most people who use e-mail frequently (and also the likely targets of spammers–I have an account at home I rarely use and it almost never gets spam) also get lots of “Ham” as well.

Nowhow does this apply to the NSA? Wellit seems reasonable that the NSA would like to know who is the likely terrorist so that they can start listening in on that guy’s phone calls to see if there is some intelligence that they can pick up. But how to do that? Wellone way would to be to build a data base of phone calls in the U.S. and use that like the Bayesian e-mail filters would. The big difference would be that instead of looking for telemarketing phone callsthe NSA would be looking for people with really unpleasant intentions. Without that kind of data it becomes much harder to determine who is and who is not the likely terrorist.

Does this justify building a database of the calls that people make? I don’t know (the point of this post is to offer a reasonable guess as to why the NSA has compiled such a database). James has argued that while it is a violation of our civil libertiesit is a small one (like the violation at airports). Using such a database to try to catch terrorists and foil their plots does sound reasonable. Howeverthere is the issue of “mission creep.” Will this data be used in the war on drugs and other criminal activities? This does seem to be a legitimate concern and it sure would be nice to know how the NSA plans on preventing such a thing. Based on news reports it looks like there is nothing to prevent mission creep.

The NSA told Qwest that other government agenciesincluding the FBICIA and DEAalso might have access to the databasethe sources said. As a matter of practicethe NSA regularly shares its information — known as “product” in intelligence circles — with other intelligence groups. Even soQwest’s lawyers were troubled by the expansiveness of the NSA requestthe sources said.

I think there is definitely reason for concern here.

Update: Via Instapundit–Apparently this is old news.

And for all of the hypethere may not even be much “news” here. Last December 24a few days after they spilled the beans about the NSA terrorist surveillance programNew York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen disclosed how U.S. phone companies were helping the NSA by giving them “access to streams of domestic and international communications.”

While I agree that there is a sensationalistic tone to this story I think there are indeed legitimate concerns about privacy and the growth of government power.

The conservative line of defense seems to be: this is defending Americaso leave it alone. Besides being somewhat of a non-sequitur it is also a bit of a strawman. I think one can want to defend Americabut at the same time be concerned about expanding the power of government to intrude on our lives.

John Hinderaker is also probably wrong when he writes,

Twoit’s obvious that what the NSA does with this vast amount of data is to run it through computerslooking for suspicious patternsespecially involving known or suspected terrorist phone numbers. I did a quick calculation: assuming that there are 200 million adult Americanseach of whom places or receives ten phone calls a day (a conservative estimateI think)it would require a small army of 35,000 full-time NSA employees to pay a total of one second of attention to each call. In other wordslighten up: the NSA obviously isn’t tracking your phone calls with your friends and relatives.

As noted abovewhen “looking for suspicious patterns” you need both the “ham” and the “spam”. So they will be tracking the phone calls to your friends and relatives…chances are thoughthey will be deemed spam (i.e. something the NSA doesn’t want). And his calculation is just another example of bad math. They don’t need to monitor each second of a phone call and the first part of the above paragraph points this out.

Source: outsidethebeltway.com

Wednesday the Congress was briefed on the activities of the National Security Agency regarding monitoring phone calls from outside the country to insideand the NSA’s activities in compiling huge data banks of phone numbersparticularly which phone numbers called which other phone numbers.

As you might have noticedthere has been an enormous hue and cry about this since it was revealed by two newspapers over the last six months. The most recent revelations came last week.

Now the administration has declassified the records of which members of Congress had been briefed on these NSA activities and when.

FOX’s Jim Angle reports that Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requested the declassification. So it wasn’t a matter of Bush declassifying something just because it makes him look good.

But it does make him look good.

That’s because it turns out that important and crucial members of Congress were briefed about the NSA wiretapping and number gathering programs and have been since 2001.

Prominent among those who have been kept up to date is none other than Nancy Pelosi herself

She was briefed five weeks after 9/11 and several times since.

This is important because Democrats have been screaming bloody murder about this program for the six months that it has been known publicly. They have been saying the president is spying on Americans; that the president is abusing the Constitution; that the president is exceeding his authority; that the president has run amok.

In The L.A. Times Wednesdaycolumnist Max Boot — something of an expert on security matters — correctly notes that we need more spyingnot less.

Alsofor a little context hereit should be noted that Britain has recently discovered that there are 700 active Al Qaeda members running around Britain — at large — whom authorities are trying to locate andpresumablyjail.

How did Britain discover this information? Wiretapsthat’s how.

The NSA is doing important work. I hope the people who have been demanding information get the information they need to realize this is not something they want stopped.

That’s My Word.

Source: foxnews.com

Is your computer watching you? The spectre of Big Brother just got a giant step closer thanks to a controversial piece of software called DIRT.

Sold only to policemilitary and intelligence agenciesDIRT is causing a small furor in civil liberties circles. It offers government operatives a powerful tool to break into your home through the Internet and read everything on your computerwithout ever leaving their offices.

The brainchild of former NYPD cop Frank JonesDIRT stands for Data Interception by Remote Transmission. Depending on the modelit reportedly costs anywhere from a few thousand dollars to over $200,000.

Even a well-secured computer is vulnerable. The software is said to be powerful enough to penetrate many common security toolsincluding firewalls. No anti-virus program on the market can detect it.

Reached at his companyNew York-based Codex Data SystemsJones was tight-lipped about the software’s capabilities and which governments he’s sold it tocalling that “proprietary information.”

An ad for DIRT says even the technically challenged can use it to break into a computer halfway around the globe. “Imagine being able to remotely monitor any PC in the world any time you want,” says the adposted earlier this month on the intelligence Web site cryptome.org. “Suppose you could read every keystroke… access and retrieve any file from the hard drive… No more secrets…”

No police or intelligence agency in Canada or the U.S. has acknowledged that it hacks. In factcomputer hacking by governments is one of the most sensitive and highly classified government secrets anywhere in the world.

It goes by innocent-sounding terms like “computer network exploitation” and “information operations.”

But even military and intelligence officials acknowledge hacking is highly dubious in the eyes of both domestic and international law.

“If you get caught mapping out the critical infrastructure of a power gridpeople might view it as an act of war,” said one U.S. intelligence expert who advises the Pentagon on information operations.

A renowned U.S. computer scientist who has testified before Congress and advised the U.S. government on computer security tells NOW that hacking by western military and intelligence services is an explosive issue.

“There are a lot of folks here who don’t want to admit this is going on,” he saysadding a warning: “You’re on the tip of the iceberg here. You want to be a little bit careful.”

Canadian and U.S. policefor their partare also interested in hacking to get evidence for criminal cases. But here toothe legalities are extremely questionable.

“There is no case law on it at all,” says RCMP Inspector Peter McAughleyhead of the force’s high-tech crime forensics unit. Yet he says that with a little “tweaking,” existing legislation in Canada does allow cops to hack for evidence. “If it’s an investigative avenue and it can be done legallyit’s something else we can throw in the tool box.”

AlreadyAustralia and New Zealand have adopted legislation to allow security agencies to hack into citizens’ computers and alter data to hide traces of intrusions.

All this has civil libertarians aghast. “These are the worst kinds of searches,” says Barry Steinhardtassociate director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “We do not think intelligence agencies or law enforcement should be engaging in these black bag operationsespecially without close supervision from courts.”

Canadian interest in hacking technology was revealed during a New York trial in which DIRT vendor Frank Jones was charged with possession and distribution of illegal wiretap equipment. Jones was convicted of a single count of possessing illegal bugsand sentenced in 1999 to 300 hours of community service and five years of probation.

The court file includes letters from Jones’s attorneyseeking permission for Jones to travel to Canada three times during the trial to meet RCMPlocal and regional policeInterpolCanadian government and military officials to discuss software he had developed.

Michael Richardsona former Canadian intelligence officer who was the Canadian distributor for DIRT at the timetells NOW the meetings were arranged to discuss DIRT.

Richardson says he quit Codex after he learned of Jones’s criminal conviction and that Jones had secretly been selling DIRT to governments like Peru and South Africa that have lax laws covering the use of evidence in court.

“It’s a very dangerous product. It can take control of a machine and download what’s on it,” says Richardson.

Eric Schneiderthe computer programmer who wrote DIRTalso doesn’t have much nice to say about Jones. A business partner in CodexSchneider left in 1999 for what he calls “ethical reasons.” He tells NOW he designed DIRT to help police investigate pedophilesbut that Codex has since sold it to foreign governments.

Schneider also says DIRT isn’t as powerful as Codex claims. The latest versions aren’t much more powerful than free hacker tools called Trojanslike Back Orifice or SubSevenhe said. “It’s pretty unimpressiveI think.”

Jones vehemently disagreessaying DIRT “bears little resemblance to Back Orifice. The underground community likes to knock the programbut they’ve never seen the true power of this device.”

Jones refuses to talk about the court casesaying he’s about to file a $20-million defamation suit against people who disparaged him and DIRT on the Web. He then hangs up the phone.

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7 July 2001. Thanks to Anonymous:

As you know Frank Jones (AKA Spyking”Francis Edward Jones”) is on federal criminal probation in New York after being convicted of a serious federal felony.
The Probation office main number is (212) 805-0040.

According to the last contact with them callers were directed towards the following person as Frank’s current probation officer: John Meredith128 Dolson AvenueMiddletownNY 10940(914) 344-2789.

John Meredith’s direct supervisor is Hal Grant (845) 344-6142and complaints concerning Jones violating his probation (and Meredith not controlling Jones) should be directed to him.

The following is used to ID Frank in their databases and his records are indexed off of the following data:

Subject of Probation: Frank Jones (AKA: Francis Edward Jones)
Defendant’s Soc. Sec. No.: xxx-xx-xxxx [omitted by Cryptome]
Defendant’s Date of Birth: 09/26/1949

7 July 2001: See complaint filed by Frank Jones in 1999:

http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/CodexOSC_conformed.htm
And a related Forbes article from August 102000which features Frank Jones and critics:

http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/10/mu9.html

The Brain Machine Interfaces Program represents a major DSO thrust area that will comprise a multidisciplinarymultipronged approach with far reaching impact. The program will create new technologies for augmenting human performance through the ability to noninvasively access codes in the brain in real time and integrate them into peripheral device or system operations. Focus will be on the following areas:

1. Extraction of neural and force dynamic codes related to patterns of motor or sensory activity required for executing simple to complex motor or sensory activity (e.g.reachinggraspingmanipulatingrunningwalkingkickingdigginghearingseeingtactile). Accessing sensory activity directly could result in the ability to monitor or transmit communications by the brain (visualauditoryor other). This will require the exploitation of new interfaces and algorithms for providing useful nonlinear transformationpattern extraction techniquesand the ability to test these in appropriate models or systems.

2. Determination of necessary force and sensory feedback (positionalposturalvisualacousticor other) from a peripheral device or interface that will provide critical inputs required for closed loop control of a working device (robotic appendage or other peripheral control device or system). Such feedback could be received from peripheral systems or sent directly into appropriate brain regions.

3. New methodsprocessesand instrumentation for accessing neural codes noninvasively at appropriate spatiotemporal resolution to provide closed loop control of a peripheral device. This could include both fundamental interactions of neural cellstissueand brain with energy profiles that could provide noninvasive access to codes (magneticslightor other).

4. New materials and device design and fabrication methods that embody compliance and elastic principlesand that capture force dynamics that integrate with neural control commands. These include the use of dynamic materials and designs into working prototypes.

5. Demonstrations of plasticity from the neural system and from an integrated working device or system that result in real time control under relevant conditions of force perturbation and cluttered sensory environments from which tasks must be performed (e.g.recognizing and picking up a target and manipulating it).

6. Biomimetic implementation of controllers (with robotics or other devices and systems) that integrate neural sensory or motor control integrated with force dynamic and sensory feedback from a working device or system. The first phase of the program may include dynamic control of simple and complex motor or sensory activity directly using neural codes integrated into a machinedeviceor system. Simple actions considered include using a robotic arm or leg to sense a targetreach for it and manipulate itthrow or kick an object at a targetor recognize a sensory input and responding to it (visualacoustic) directly through input/output brain integration. More complex activity may include issues related to force or sensory perturbation in more complex environments.

Solicitation Information:
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
Special Focus Area: Brain Machine Interfaces
Announcement #: BAA01-42Addendum 1
CBD Reference: September 172001

http://www.arpa.mil/dso/thrust/biosci/brainmi.htm

Source: www.totse.com

Last weeka fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Goodyear blimps. Firemen rushed to the 211-foot-tall structure and quickly doused the flames. Reporters and photographers descended on the landmark. Many were surprised to learn the blimps were no longer being stored there.

Turns out Lockheed Martin — the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile — was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It’s being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you’re frightened of this administration’s habit of spying on American citizensyou may want to stop reading.

The prototype is called the High Altitude Airshipor HAA. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in Akron won the $40 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to build HAA in 2003. It is essentially another blimp. A giant one. Seventeen times the size of the Goodyear dirigible. It’s designed to float 12 miles above the earthfar above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energyand will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a yearundetectable by ground-based radar. You can’t see it from the ground. But it can see you.

“The possibilities are endless for homeland security,” says Kate Dunlapa Lockheed Martin spokesperson. “It could house camerasand other surveillance equipment. It would be an eye in the sky.”

According to a summary released by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Commandthe HAA can watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter. That’s everything between Toledo and New York City. And they want to build 11. With high-res camerasthat could mean constant surveillance of every square inch of American soil. “If you had a fleet of themthis could be used for border surveillance,” suggests Dunlap.

Launch date: 2009.

Of coursemimicking its defense of warrantless wiretapping and phone-log data miningthe government maintains it only wants to protect its citizens from external threats. But as any geek can tell youblimps were ubiquitous in The Watchmenthe seminal ’80s graphic novel in which heroes have been driven underground and Nixon is still president.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not watching you.

Source: athensnews.com

“The Internet offers intelligence agencies an amazing potential source for information collection and for monitoring the activities of their targets. They not only can plug into communications through the names of senders and receivers of e-mailbut also through keyword monitoring of messages as they have done for many years. If you add e-mail to their monitoring of telephone and other credit card transactionsthey can get a very complete picture of a given person’s activities.”

former CIA officer Philip Agee

Last summera Pentagon analyst for “Special Operations and Low-Intensity Warfare” named Charles Swett wrote a 30-page report for his bosses in the Department of Defense (DoD). It laid out how to use the Internet for military intelligence and counterintelligence. The Federation of American Scientists exposed this report–posting a copy on their Internet Web page for everyone to read.

Swett’s Pentagon report warns that the Internet can be used to spread news about U.S. wars and atrocities in a way the U.S. government and the official media can’t control. And Swett warns that information can create difficult political conditions for conducting some operations. But at the same timeSwett describes ways for U.S. military intelligence to exploit the Internet for its purposes:

<195><|>Swett discusses spying on progressive and left-wing discussion to “assess the nature and extent of its members’ actual real-world activities.” Swett gives the Institute for Global Communications (with its PeaceNet and EcoNet discussion groups) as an example of the “breadth of DoD-relevant information available on the Internet.” Swett warns that the information gotten from spying might become less reliable if “it became known that DoD were monitoring Internet traffic for intelligence or counter-intelligence purposes.”

<195><|>Swett says military intelligence will conduct “routine monitoring of messages originating in other countries” (meaning e-mail and other computer traffic) to search for information on “developing security threats” and catch “early warning of impending significant developments.”

<195><|>Swett describes using the Internet for “psychological warfare”–secretly spreading deliberate lies designed to divide and weaken forces that U.S. imperialism considers its enemies. Swett writes that the “Internet could be used offensively as an additional medium in psychological operations campaign and to help achieve unconventional warfare objectives”–including by manipulating journalists.

<195><|>Swett describes the value of building up “networks of human sources with access to the Internet…in areas of security concern to the U.S.” He specifically mentions forces involved in “unconventional warfare” that the U.S. may not want to be openly associated with–which means various death squadsfascist groups and contra-style armies.

The operations Swett discusses are in addition to the Pentagon’s use of the Internet for conventional war. During the Gulf WarGeneral Colin Powell told Byte magazine (July 1992) that the modern “battlespace” now has an “infosphere.” Defense officials say that 25 percent of the Pentagon’s logistics communications during the Gulf War were sent back and forth over the Internet uncoded.

There is evidence that political police are already applying techniques Swett discusses. And the Pentagon’s military intelligence is far from the only police agency involved.

According to Wired writer Brock N. Meeksan FBI spokesperson named Settle admitted thatin 1992the FBI started actively recruiting “net literate” agents with computer science degrees and experience in network administration. Two years laterSettle reportedthe FBI had a team of 25 such agents.

There are also “unofficial” pigs openly announcing their intention to help the political police spy on the Internet. Journalist Daniel Brandt (in an article made available on various Internet sites through NameBase NewsLine) reports that the Anti-Defamation League’s Tom Halpern announced that the ADL is “undertaking efforts to monitor the activities of Muslim extremists and others on the Internet.” The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of carrying out spying that police cannot legally do. Halpern made it clear what the ADL would do with its spy information: “When evidence arises that a posting constitutes or encourages illegal activitiesnaturally we’d bring it to the attention of law enforcement.”

An Internet posting by InterPress Service (May 41995) revealed that the United Nations had sponsored an international police conference in Cairo in May 1995 where more than 140 national delegations discussed police use of computersthe Internet and other “new media” to surveil and capture people.

The Visible Hoofprints
There have already been some publicized cases of aggressive police spying and entrapmentboth on the Internet and over private computer networks like Compuserve and America Online (AOL). The cases reported in the press usually involve pornography rings and young hackers breaking into government computers–so government agents can use “national security” and “decency” as justifications for more spying. These stories give an idea of the kinds of techniques the political police are likely to be using in unpublicized political surveillance.

In one operationthe FBI used a technique called “the honeypot”: With the cooperation of the America Online corporationthe police created a computer site that provided illegal pornographic materials. For two years they made lists of people interested in such materialsand entrapped them in illegal acts. More than 120 homes were raided and searched. (Associated PressSeptember 141995).

With the passage in Congress of the so-called “Communications Decency Act,” the FBI got long-sought legal powers to pressure the companies who maintain bulletin board sites. This Februarysoon after this law was passeda special three-judge panel was set up to hear legal challenges to this censorship law. The FBI publicly agreed to wait until the legal issues were settled before starting any online investigations. Howeverin secretthey started investigations anyway. The New York Times reported (May 11) that the FBI opened a secret spy operation investigating Compuservethe huge corporate online network. When confrontedthe FBI said they were investigating “indecent materials”–after complaints about Compuserve were sent to them by the Christian-fascist “American Family Association.”

The magazine Internet Today (May 1996) describes a murder case in which the police confiscated the home computers of the murder victim and the suspected murderer–and had America Online turn over records of the e-mail the two had exchanged. This reveals legal powers police investigators are using to seize e-mail. In this casesome of the e-mail records had supposedly been deletedhowever AOL recovered the records for the police.

Nineteen-year-old Christopher Schanot was arrested in Philadelphia and accused of belonging to an “Internet Liberation Front” that allegedly breaks into military computers and carries out other “anti-commercial” hacking. Schanot faces a possible 30 years in prison.

Some cases reveal international police cooperation in patrolling and controlling computer links:

In one important caseInterpol (an international police organization) had the Finnish police raid an Internet site that had been providing a valuable service for people who don’t want their e-mail addresses listed on their Internet messages. Some anti-government forces have used this famous site known as anon.penet.fi to protect their identity while on line. It strips the revealing addresses off e-mailand sends the now-anonymous e-mail on to its final destination. Howeveron February 1995a posting appeared signed by Julfthe administrator of anon.penet.fi. It said “Based on a request from Interpolthe Finnish police have gotten a search-and-seizure warrant on my home and the anon.penet.fi serverand gotten the real mail address of a user that has allegedly posted material stolen from the Church of Scientology. Fortunately I managed to prevent them from getting more than this onesingle address.” International police forces want everyone participating on the Internet to be traceable.

In another caseU.S. authorities had Argentinian police arrest a young computer user whothey saidhad broken into U.S. military computers.

Sometimes the political police use “covert operations” to suppress Internet sites. One tactic has been so-called “e-mail bombing”–the political police and allied reactionary forces send a massive wave of e-mail messages to a site they want to suppress (often one that is operating outside their country’s borders). The deluge of messages are intended to overload the phone lines of the business that provides the site’s Internet connection.

Last yearsuch an “e-mail bombing” hit a Basque separatist electronic magazine “Euskadi Information,” which was sharply criticizing the Spanish government from a Web site based in Switzerland. The harassing e-mails caused the Swiss Internet provider to temporarily close down the Euskadi site.

Signs of Cyber-COINTELPRO
Recent U.S. government moves to expand its surveillance of telecommunications (see the accompanying article”The Push To Wiretap”) make it clear that anyone using the Internet should assume that their communications could be intercepted and studied by the political police. All discussions and disputes that take place over the Internet can be read by the police agents.

Unfortunatelysome political forces encourage Internet practices that make valuable information available to the police. For exampleon PNEWSa discussion list for left-leaning activiststhe list administrator encourages new subscribers to publicly “introduce” themselves–often listing their real namespolitical historiesinclinations and activities. The Communist Party USA (an outfit with pro-system politics behind a phony communist facade) even asks its supporters to sign up for party membership over the Internet–in full view of the political police.

Many activist groups and networks now conduct large parts of their internal life through e-mail exchanges on the Internet–discussing recruitmentgossipleadershipmeetings and even conducting major political disputes. Such practices produce networks and movements that are extremely vulnerable to police observationinfiltration and manipulation.

The well-documented FBI COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s and ’70s used information gathered through spies to undermine anti-government movements–especially revolutionary organizations like the Black Panthers. In addition to notorious cases of FBI assassinationCOINTELPRO operatives spread liesfalse documents and rumors. After they identified political disagreementsthey worked to fan them into hostile (and even violent) splits. COINTELPRO agents spread wild accusations–”bad-jacketing” revolutionaries with the label “police agent.” They worked to create a viciousugly atmosphere–to turn honest people away from the revolutionary struggle. And the COINTELPRO’s favorite tactic was to do these things from behind the scenes–using anonymous letters and rumors spread by hidden infiltrators.

Many things happening on the Internet suggest that COINTELPRO has spread into cyberspace. Whenever radical politics is discussed in open forums on the Internet–disruptive elements flock in like fliesoften ranting and insulting until everyone is driven away. There are many cases of people posting ridiculous lies about progressive and revolutionary forcesoften in ways that seem designed to create confusion and divisions among honest people.

There have also been incidents of people demanding inside information about progressive and revolutionary groups or demanding the “real names” of activists who participate in Internet discussions.

It is always hard to say for sure if a suspicious activity is the work of a fool or of a conscious police agent. But this much can be said: Any serious person watching the political discussions and disputes on the Internet will see many activities that resemble the classic disinformation and wrecking activities of the COINTELPRO. Anyone using the Internetdownloading its posted information or thinking about participating in discussion groups should be vigilant about the enemy’s tricks.

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Many people using the Internet dream of using modern computer technology to bring humanity closer togetherto make all kinds of information broadly availableto “empower” people and to weaken the hold of centralized government and corporate centers. Howeverunder capitalismsuch dreams are brushed aside by the needs of the system. The Internet is being privatized and commercialized. All kinds of “credit card gates” and “ID systems” are being installed to identify who goes whereand to control what they see there. Plans are being made to create an approved “Internet mainstream”–and to shut down the corners of cyberspace that resist central control.

The ruepresentatives of intelligence agencies have come together to make sure that government spies can wiretap all the emerging forms of tele-communications.

At the highest levelsMeeks reportsrepresentatives of the FBI and the National Security Agency are involved in plans to make sure that a so-called “backdoor” is built into the “National Information Infrastructure.” (NII is the structuresregulations and technologies that decide how telephonestelevision cable and computer networks will work).

Source: revcom.us

The National Security Agency’s surveillance program is news again. News reports based on anonymous sources – always a good cover for the media – fed stories this past week that the NSA demanded and got tens of millions of domestic phone call logs from VerizonBellSouthand AT&T in the wake of September 112001.

The major mediabeginning with USA Todayran with the leaked informationapparently deeming anything that sounds negative for the Bush Administration or for major corporations as sufficiently credible on its face. AlreadyVerizonBellSouthand AT&T have denied the reports. The firms categorically deny having provided the phone logs that the news media said the companies gave NSA. Indeedthe phone companies said as well that NSA never asked for the information. Other phone companies reportedly said the same thing – meaning that this story should be filed under the headline “didn’t askdidn’t tell.”

There areof coursecolumnists who have the same story line ready to go each day: the headline is “Bush Administration Responsible for Disaster,” though the details change day-to-day. Ifas now seems likelythe mass release of phone records is one of those really good news stories that has the minor defect of being a total fabricationthat may change some of the details in future stories about the NSA program. But it won’t keep a swarm of anti-Bush columnists from slamming the administration for having (supposedly) conducted this large-scale surveillance operation. Just as it didn’t keep self-appointed privacy watchdogs from filing suit almost immediately asking for $200 billion in damages from the companies named in the news stories.

The NSA stories have generated great interest and the usual hyperbolic commentary. As with the Texas National Guard story that brought an all-too-eager Dan Rather’s career to a closesome members of the publishing and pundit classes have staked out territory well ahead of the support that is at hand. This has occasioned the predictable calls for congressional hearingsprosecutorial investigationsand even impeachment. The familiar voices are once again claiming that in authorizing the NSA programPresident Bush has committed a crime.

He hasn’t. Not even close.

The legal issues aren’t simpleand the practical issues aren’t simple. But one issue is: those who want to portray the NSA surveillance program as the far-fetched creation of a megalomaniacal president abusing his power and flouting the American constitution have to develop some new material.

The starting point for any perspective on this has to be 9/11. More Americans were killed in a single day from one event than at any time since the Civil War battle of Antietam. We were shocked by the attack’s occurrenceby its callous brutalityand by the sudden expectation that something very much like this could happen again and again. We demanded that our government find out who was to blamediscover how the signals had eluded usand identify future threats before thousands more were killed. Talk-radio stationspolitical commentariesand public personalities of every stripe demanded that we improve our ability to “connect the dots” more swiftly and accurately.

Our officials quickly determined that the al Qaeda organization was to blame and almost as quickly sought – and got – congressional approval for sweeping changes to our laws that would make it easier for government to findmonitorchallengecaptureand detain al Qaeda and other terror suspects. Few people were in a mood to ask questions. Government officials weren’t precise in framing what they were asking for and congressmen and -women weren’t precise in deciding what they were authorizing.

Congress expressly authorized the President to use “all necessary and appropriate military force against those nationsorganizationsor persons he determines” were involved in 9/11. All force necessary and proper to make us secure. Not all force consistent with prior legislation. Not all force consistent with scruples about individuals’ privacy concerns. Military force historically has included intelligence-gathering as well as front-line combat. What did our representatives intend with respect to that? It’s doubtful that anyone could have said at the time. They knew we’d been attacked and might be attacked again and didn’t want to answer to the American people if they failed to authorize whatever it took to prevent that. That’s what President Bush promised Americans he would do: whatever it takes.

When The New York Times revealed NSA’s electronic surveillance of international communications (including communications into or out of the US) aimed at suspected al Qaeda operations last December – four yearstwo military campaignsand a few Administration problems later – the civil libertarians in and out of Congress suddenly remembered what this use of force resolution meant. They said it meant only that the President could pursue al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistannot that he could authorize information gathering that would include surveillance of their conversationsespecially not if one conversant were in America. They recalled specifically that the extensive restrictions on electronic surveillance put in place in the 1970sunder the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actwere to be maintained fully in the new regime. The sudden recollections went hand in hand with assertions that there was no other legal support for the NSA’s actionnot in statutein the Commander-in-Chief clause of the Constitutionor in Article II’s clause vesting the Executive Authority in the President.

While not all the President’s men sprang to his defensesome advocates of the NSA program pointed out that more recent legislation trumps earlier legislationthat the Commander-in-Chief clause long has been thought to authorize pursuit of intelligence against enemies who threaten to use force against usand that the vesting clause of Article II traditionally has been interpreted as giving broad latitude for presidential authority over foreign and military affairseven in the face of contrary congressional command. They marshaled quotations from Presidentspresidential advisersand judges – stretching back from the Clinton administration to the time of the Framing – to support that construction of the law.

Neither side has a hands down case. Presidential detractors probably have at least as good a caseand possibly a better oneon the issue of statutory authority. The far more general instruction in the authorization for use of military force can plausibly be read as supplanting FISAand it may make practical sense to use a very different approach than FISA demands. But there is very little clear evidence of a design to replace FISA in the authorization for use of force. The President’s defenderson the other handhave the better constitutional argument. The argument based on the vesting clause is especially strong. That clauselike the parallel judicial vesting clauseconveys some measure of executive powerand executive power long has been understood to include some independent element of foreign affairs power.

Mostlyhoweverthe President’s supporters have right the essential insight thatfar from using the law to advance personal ends or pursue political vendettasthis President is engaged in a struggle that is critical to the future of our nation. He is fighting a threat that is realan enemy who has struck Americans repeatedly and whose attacks can have devastating consequences if allowed to proceed undetected and undeterred.

The proper weight to be given to privacy concerns is a matter of debatejust as it should have been when President John Kennedy and his Attorney GeneralRobert Kennedyauthorized warrantless wiretaps directed at Dr. Martin Luther KingJr. The weight to be given to personal liberty relative to national security can be arguedas it should have been when President Franklin Roosevelt and Governor Earl Warren backed internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. But while critics can question President Bush’s weighing of policy concerns and the legal grounds for his positionshis commitment to our security – and its central role in shaping the NSA surveillance program – should be beyond question.

If liberty is a too-frequent casualty in wartruth is a too-frequent casualty of political reportingespecially in the Blame-It-on-Bush era. Calls to round up the usual suspects should be seen for what they are – better suited for keeping our interest than for keeping us secure.

Source: realclearpolitics.com

“The US Secret Govt Rears Its Ugly Head in the Bush Cabal”
By Jackson Thoreau

If the United States truly practiced the concept of “liberty and justice for all,” retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin would be the one with the national radio talk show and prestigeand Ollie North would be having to hide out in a remote siteor better yetin prison.

George W. BushJeb BushGeorge Bush Sr.Richard Armitageand others sure would not be in the positions of power they are. Some people would not be sitting in prisons for what they knew about the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. Other people would not have died under odd circumstances since thenpossibly because someone was afraid they’d talk too muchor find out too much.

And two books I’ve recently readAl Martin’s “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider” [National Liberty PressLLCP.O. Box 43PrayMontana 59065Toll-free 1-866-317-1390http://www.almartinraw.com2002] and Uri Dowbenko’s “Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy” [Conspiracy DigestPrayMont.Toll-free 1-866-317-1390http://www.conspiracydigest.com2002]would be required reading in all U.S. college government courses.

But of courseas the Denzel Washington character says in Philadelphiawe don’t live in a perfect worldnow do we?

The books made my head spinonce I finally found some time to really read them and not just skim over them. They deserve careful readings by anyone interested in learning more about why the U.S. bullies much smaller countries like IraqSyriaIranand Nicaragua.

If you want to know why the Bush administration is on the verge of invading Syria when its adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are not even completebuy these books. They connect the dots between North and the Bush syndicate – and even prominent Democrats that profited from and helped cover up Iran-Contra and Iraqgatesuch as Janet Reno. They pull no punches. They give credence to your suspicions that something is frightfully wrong with the direction Bush Inc. are leading us.

Martinone of the bravest whistle-blowers who has graced the U.S.was actually an officer in the powerful Office of Naval Intelligence and a middle player in Iran-Contrathe scheme that on the surface illegally sold American weapons to Iranthen used that money to illegally fund the right-wing Contras’ war on the leftist Nicaraguan government. But as he showsIran-Contra was a lot more than that; it was bank fraudsavings and loan frauddrug runningapparent murderfalsely imprisoning people who knew too much.

Martin describes numerous meetings with none other than Jeb Bushthe man who stole Florida for his brother in the 2000 election heist. At oneBushwho Martin calls a “real sharp cookie,” tells him how to illegally “short” stock in companies to make a hefty profit that can then be sent to the Contras. Martin explains how he incorporated dummy companies with Bush that were used to funnel illegal money between the Middle EastCentral Americaand other regions.

“Jeb likes any kind of fraud – bankingsecurityreal estateoil and gasgold bullionaircraft brokerage,” Martin writes. “Neil [Bush] was much more in the real estate end of the fraud. But George Jr. – I would classify as an insurance fraudsterin terms of his Iran-Contra profiteering….At the top of that [Iran-Contra fraud] pyramidthere are people like George Bush [Sr.] and a few others like Oliver North. George Bush is at the very pinnacle of that pyramid.”

This is the same Bush Sr.who Martin quotes as saying”The greatest reliever of stress is shredding documents.”

As Martin writesthe repercussions of Iran-Contra did not stop in the 1980s. American taxpayers are still paying for all of the banks and S&Ls that failed due to the fraud.

Americans are still financing the illegal and immoral adventures in the Middle East and Latin America of this “secret government,” a term for the Iran-Contra U.S. government hijackers of the 1980s who exist stronger than ever under Bush Jr.

Many obvious players in Iran-Contrasuch as North and Bushare still heavily involved in the current U.S. secret plans to do whatever the hell the rich and powerful forces that really run our government want to do.

In a chilling precursorMartin describes Operation Orpheusa secret plan in the 1980s to fake a nuclear attack by Russia to cover up Iran-Contra misdeeds and install a military dictatorship in the U.S.

It was a similar plan to Operation Northwoodsanother phony terrorism campaign which some of the late President Kennedy’s military advisorsled by then-Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzerdevised to help justify an invasion of Cuba in 1962 to overthrow Fidel Castro.

Among the ideas these U.S. government officials discussed were killing innocent Americans in cities and blaming Cuban “terrorists,” blowing up U.S. ships and blaming Castroblaming Cuba if the spaceship with John Glenn exploded [as some blamed Arab terrorists for the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia this year]provoking a war by flying a plane over Cubaand paying a Cuban official to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base. Kennedy rejected the phony campaign and was assassinated the following year. Some said military planners enraged by JFK’s rejection of Operation Northwoods could have participated in the assassination.

Now it seems as if Bush Jr. has accepted a similar plan – both bin Laden and Hussein were trained and financed by U.S. military and intelligence agents at one timeand both somehow escaped capture and death in the latest military operations.

Were deals made with bin Laden and Hussein? Is this “war on terrorism” as phony as the previous U.S. military schemes to justify invasions and funneling more funds to the military-industrial complex and even implementing a military dictatorship with Bush Jr. as head puppet today?

There are many more ties between the 1980s scandal and the present one. For instanceU.S. Sen. Rick Santoruma Caucasian Republican from Pennsylvaniawas among the beneficiaries of the Iran-Contra scandalMartin says. Santorum is now a key supporter of Israel who is leading the charge in the Senate to invade Syria and other countries. He and Sen. Barbara Boxera Jewish Democrat from Californiaplan to introduce legislation that would set the stage for the Syrian invasionif they haven’t done so already.

Rep. Eliot Engela Jewish Democrat from New Yorkand Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinena Hispanic Republican from Floridaintroduced similar legislation in the U.S. House on April 11before the Iraqi mission to make that country another U.S. puppet state was finished.

Predictablythey called Syria a “rogue nation” [idle question: When has Syria defied the UN and bombed another sovereign nation back to the Stone Agekilling and maiming thousands of innocent people in the process?]. They accused Syria of supporting terroristswhich it doesbut only the kind that fights back against Israeli-sponsored terrorism against Palestinians. What one side calls terrorists the other side calls soldiers – see http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html for Israeli leader Ariel Sharon’s record of war crimes. They said Syria has these dreaded “weapons of mass destruction,” which UN inspectors and U.S. troops have yet to find in Iraqanother country the U.S. invaded supposedly because it had these awful weapons.

Heyif the U.S. wants to find “weapons of mass destruction” so muchall it has to do is look in its own backyard. Or the backyard of Israelwhich has more than 400 nuclear weaponsa primary reason why countries like IraqSyriaand Iran want more potent weapons to provide a balance in the region. But of coursethe U.S. won’t look in its own backyard or the backyard of its favorite lapdog statenext to Great Britain.

The U.S. secret government wants to make sure certain other countries don’t keep the weapons it developed and sold to them at one time [yesto Iraqto Syriato Iranand others] to make a quick buck. That’s not hypocriticalit’s just part of what we have to do in the war on terrorismright? Wrong. It’s part of our “leaders” latest attempts to divert our attention from their selfish plans to control the Middle East and ultimately the planetand inadequacies in providing for our domestic needs.

Meanwhilethe propaganda war against Syria rages in the mainstream mediaand public support to invade that country because “heywe will have to do it someday” will increase. Syria will be an even easier “opponent” than Iraq wasas it spends even less on national defense than Iraqaccording to the well-respectednon-partisan Center for Defense Information.
Syria is near the bottom of the worldwide listspending only $1 billioncompared to Iraq’s $1.4 billion and the United States’ $399 billion [add another $100 billion or so for the Iraqi invasion]. Israel is a respectable 14th in military spending at $10.6 billionwith the only other Middle Eastern country higher being Saudi Arabiawhich is eighth at $21.3 billion.

And the Secret Teamers want us to believe we should fear countries with relatively small militaries like IraqSyriaand Iran? Are we really that stupid?

AnywaySantorum profited from the International Signals and Controls scandalwhere the Pennsylvania company shipped missiles and component parts to Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Contra daysMartin writes. At least one official from that company ended up in prisonbut obviously not Santorum.

The list goes on – these books need indexes so you can look up certain people. Besides the Bush clanMartin implicates Bush’s Interior Secretary Gale NortonDeputy Secretary of State Richard Armitageand White House National Security Council aide Elliott AbramsRenoBill ClintonU.S. Rep. Henry Hydethe adulterer who tried to drive Clinton from office for lying about an affairformer Reagan National Security Advisor Frank Carlucciand former Republican presidential candidates Steve Forbes and Bob Doleamong others. Among those who deserve commendation are numerous reporters who tried to get bits of the story outand Sen. John Kerrywho headed a commission that attempted to expose the truth.

Some fellow progressives might bristle at the mention of Clinton and Renobut I’ve never been naïve enough to think that Clinton got so far merely by making goody-goody deals. I just liked Clinton’s politics on the surface better than other recent presidentsand I enjoyed the way he infuriated conservativeswho hate Clinton so much they are wasting millions of dollars to open a “Counter Clinton Library” in Little Rock later this year.

Have liberals opened a “Counter Reagan Library” or “Counter Bush Library” in the cities that house their libraries? No – that just lends more evidence on who the real hatemongers are in this countrythe Limbaughs and Norths and Liddys that Clinton loved to piss off. But I admit I’ve overlooked Clinton’s excessesthough not near as much as the average Bush-can-do-no-wrong supporter overlooks his.

Martin also exposes Israeli involvement in Iran-Contra and Iraqgatean important link in the current situation in the Middle East. Hard-line Zionists will accuse me of being anti-Jewish for daring to criticize Israel. I may be anti-Sharon administration like I’m anti-Bush administration. But as much as certain people yell at me that I’m anti-JewishI’m not. Just as many Bush supporters call me anti-American for opposing the anti-American-ideals Bush administrationmany Israeli supporters call me anti-Jewish for opposing the far rightbulldoze-the-Palestinians-out-of-existence Sharon government.

Nowa conspiracy theoristthat’s a different matter. Look at this situation with Syria. Rather than focusing on the declining economyrunaway budget deficitsgrowing chasm between the haves and have-notsand other important domestic issuesBush administration officialsmany Congressional Republicans and Democratsand the wealthy international interests behind them are salivating over the prospect of invading and controlling Syria next. Then it’s on to IranEgyptand Saudi Arabia. Bush Inc. are playing right into Sharon’s handsif they are not directly conspiring with Sharonwhich I suspect is more likely the case. By the time the U.S.-Israeli crusaders are donethe Middle East will lie in ruins and be ruled over by a Jewish-American King accountable only to multinational oil companies.

While many Americans are giddy about our “victory” in Iraqit was like an NFL Super Bowl champion playing a junior high school football squad. When one side spends $399 billion-plus on high-tech weapons and the other side spends $1.4 billion on scud missiles and used tanksis anything fair about that contest?

Ironicallythe U.S. kept claiming the Iraqis weren’t “playing fair” for faking surrenders and other tricksbut that’s like the NFL team claiming the junior high team was playing dirty for trying some trick plays [excuse the sports analogy – in a past life I was a sports reporter – it’s the best one I can think ofthough I know war is by no means a game].

Another note of personal disclosure here: I am a Caucasian American born in WashingtonD.C.whose family originally derives from LithuaniaIrelandEnglandand Austria. I married a woman who was born in Pennsylvania whose parents are from Syria. Thereforemy two young children are half Syrian American. We have many relatives in Syria. I admittedly do not want my tax dollars used to kill and maim and make homeless my relatives in Syriaas they have already been used to kill and maim and make homeless thousands of innocent Iraqis and innocent Afghans.

I do not buy the Bush-Cheney Inc. line that people’s lives in these countries will be improved – ask the families of those killed if the U.S. military action improved their lives. Obviouslythose who are dead would speak otherwiseif they could. Ask the families of the more than 100 American and British soldiers who died if this invasion was really worth it in a few yearswhen another dictator takes control of Iraq.

Did I miss itor have all the ruling clans in Afghanistan held free elections and decided not to kill each other? What about Kuwaitanother American colony still run by an unelecteddictatorial prime minister 12 years after we “freed” that country? Don’t tell me Kuwait elects a national assembly – that body has even less power than the U.S. Congress against the dictators in the White House.

Beyond thatI understand the government in Syria is a dictatorship. But I also understand that I live under a more subtle dictatorshipone that can install a leader in power who was not elected by the majority of voters and control other leaders through corporations and money. I can write and scream and march and protest all I wantand Bush-Cheney Inc. are not going to listen to my request to stop these immoralidiotic invasions. Millions of people can protestMichael Moore can use the Oscars stage to protestand Bush barely can get his cocaine-and-alcohol-destroyed brain working long enough to ask Karl Rove”What does ‘fictitious’ mean?” Because I refuse to give a penny to any politicianmuch less hundreds of thousands of dollars that is the going rate for bribery these daysI have about as little influence on my government as the average Iraqi had on Hussein or the average Syrian has on its dictatorship.

The challenge is to find ways to live under our forms of dictatorships without destroying each other. The challenge is to find ways to survive when we have only surface control of our governmentwhose leaders ultimately do whatever the richpowerful people who fund their campaigns want them to dowhich is gain more land and wealth for them.

You say you don’t think Israel has much influence over U.S. Middle Eastern policy? Look at who is running the Iraqi “interim” government. You have Jay Garnera retired general hand-picked by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for “viceroy designate” of Iraq – meaning he is the Big Cheese in Iraq right now. Garner was most recently head of the Pentagon’s Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistancewhose motto is “Bomb the Hell out of Those Damn ForeignersThen Send a Few Crumbs of Bread to Give Those Who Survive for the Media Cameras and Give Fat Reconstruction Contracts to Friends in the Defense Industry.”

Garner has strong links to both the international arms industry and a Jewish lobby groupaccording to syndicated columnist Molly Ivins. He has visited Israel as the guest of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and signed a statement in October 2000 blaming the Palestinians for the violence in the region after the collapse of peace talks – which Bush stopped when he took over in early 2001.

Garner has also commended the Israeli army for its “remarkable restraint.” This is the same army that showed such “remarkable restraint” in killing thousands of Palestiniansbulldozing thousands of homesand even killing a few American and European peace activists like Rachel Corrie [see http://www.rachelcorrie.com/] who try to stop the violence.

The Israeli military has destroyed more than 7,000 Palestinian homes since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967leaving 30,000 people homeless. Most home demolitions target civilians who have not been charged with any crime. The Caterpillar bulldozers that destroyed many homes and Rachel are partly financed by U.S. tax dollars – Israel is the world’s largest beneficiary of American military and economic aid. It receives more than $5 billion a year from the U.S.and 75 percent of those funds are spent on arms and equipment from U.S. corporations.

SoIsrael can use tanks and bulldozers and automatic weapons to kill Palestiniansand it’s OK. But when a few Palestinians fight back through suicide bomber missions – which I don’t condone but understand – they’re branded as dirty terrorists. At least three times as many Palestinians have died as Israelis in the last two years. Who are the terrorists here?

And now we claim Syria is harboring terrorists and even Iraqis who fled Baghdad. So are we going to bomb Idaho and Montana and other U.S. states because they give refuge to KKK members and anti-government U.S. terrorists like Tim McVeigh who bombed Oklahoma in 1995? How about Irelandwhich has terrorized the British since the 1920s? Ohthey’re white terroristsso we don’t mess with them. I forgot.

The bottom line is Bush-Cheney Inc.with help from many Republicans and Democrats in Congressare running a racist policy to exterminate Arabs and hand over control of the Middle East to wealthypowerful oil and real estate cronies.

More and moreI’m beginning to think the secret government conspirators are closer to the truth than most of us head-scratchers know. Maybe there is a group of wealthy business-types who call most of the shots on our planet from some secretive island off the coast of South Carolina or in the Pacific.

Maybe there doesn’t appear to be much the average person can do to stop the secret teamers from running roughshod over people. Maybe it’s easier not to think too much about itto go on with our lives gliding along the surfaceunaware of why the latest tragedy occurs.

StillI’ve never been one to just glide on the surface. I want to dig deeperI want to know more. When I was fivemy older sister died at the age of nine of a still-undiagnosed disease that took her quicklywithin a couple of days. I don’t remember crying. I only remember sitting around a room full of sobbing family membersbewildered at the scene. I couldn’t cry like my younger sister who cried just because everyone else was. I had to know why I should crywhat had really caused such a scene. I had to know why my older sister died.

I’ve continued my search for that truth and many others. My sister died in Florida – another reason why I dislike that state – and I suspect environmental causesperhaps pesticide poison from some fruit she might have picked from a tree and eaten. The medical staff of that Tampa hospital in 1965 and the county medical examiner were not exactly the most skilled – they didn’t even perform a complete autopsyor at least they won’t release such records. The cause of my sister’s death remains another mystery.

That experience has shaped my lifesent me head-long into searches that many people don’t dare takesuch as psychic medium sessionsporing over obscure books and documents in more obscure libraries and government offices for daysback-alley rendezvous in tough neighborhoodsand 5,000-mile walks through the heart of the global military-industrial complex. I don’t believe at face value anything anyone tells me – not even a family member. I listen politelyfor the most partbut I have to make my own investigationto search beyond the obvious surface clues for the underlying story.

As a freshman reporter for my college newspaper way back in 1978I didn’t turn away an eyewitness to the JFK assassination who wanted to share some insight that others wouldn’t digest. I not only listened to the manI wrote story after storyread book after bookinterviewed person after personwalked down dangerous alley after dangerous alleyfought off critic after criticignored threat after threatin a search that continues to this day.

That search leads me to believe that the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK was erroneousand that commission was covering up misdeeds by powerful peopleagenciesand institutions. Former and current government agents and military officialsmembers of the Mafiaanti-Castro Cubanswealthy far-right oil barons and industrialistsand members of the current secret government were most likely involved. When someone challenges me on this conclusionI say to themread the books I havetalk to the people I haveand then we’ll talk. When someone calls me a “conspiracy nut,” I say to themall I want is the truthand I don’t believe we have been told the truth about this.

And let me say something about conspiracies – conspiracies have existed as long as human beings have. The Bible and other books are full of such tales of conniving rulers and wannabe rulers plotting against people to consolidate their power. To ignore conspiracies just because you’re afraid of being labeled a “conspiracy nut” is to ignore a vital trend and component of our society that can lead you farther along on your path to the truth. To ignore conspiracies is to compromise your search for the truth.

The bottom line is our governmentour corporationsour mediaour institutionslied to us thenand have lied to us many times before and since. The most powerful government officials and corporate leaders have engaged in conspiracy after conspiracy since Day One. And we’ve let them with our silenceour inertiaour unwillingness to confront themour unwillingness to expose their misdeeds to the light of day and bring them to justice.

Exposing the lies has become a passion to mea reason to live. When a newspaper I work for refuses to publish something I writeI find another way to get it out. With the Internet – thank God Al Gore invented thathuh? – it is easier these days than it was back when I had to publish my own newsletterspamphletsand books. It’s easier to take a too-controversial-for-mainstream-journalism article to the Web than quit your job in protest and take a story on the powerful local defense establishment trying to shut down the nuclear freeze movement to the competition newspaperwhich I did in 1984.

The truth shall set you freesomeone saidbut I’m sure not yet free. I guess I have yet to really uncover as much of that truth as I think I can. Even thenI remain skeptical that I’ll ever really be freeexcept for perhaps in my own mind.

I’m most free when I read books like Martin’s and Dowbenko’s. “Bushwhacked” is a great complement to “The Conspirators,” as it further exposes the crimes of the powerfulusually-unseen-to-the-general-public forces that prop up the Bush regime and prior regimes. The book is an indictment of our system in which most people worship the wealthy and mindlessly justify their excessesand would rather watch Survivor on television than do something about helping us all really survive on this planet. For those who want to do somethingit provides much ammunition and insight we need to execute our plan of action.

I tell people again and again you cannot look at Bush on the surface. He appears to be a niceaffable doofus to many. But he is conniving and politically astutemore so than his father. He is more willing to engage in dirty campaigning than the former CIA director was. He is more willing to win at any costas we saw in the 2000 election. He is more willing to bomb civilians in some faraway land if he can gain politically from those deathsas we saw in Afghanistan and Iraq and probably will in Syria and other countries.

But to really know what Bush is about you must know something about the people around him and those who fund him. You must know something about the murky origins of DynCorpwhich Dowbenko explains began as an Air Force contractor in 1954 and has gained a reputation as a front company for the CIAperforming dirty tricks throughout the world. This Virginia-based “security” firm was one of Bush’s biggest campaign donors in 2000 and has been awarded all kinds of lucrative government contractsfrom protecting Afghan officials to providing “security” in Iraq.

“Even more sinister is the fact that DynCorp manages email and information systems for many federal investigation agencies like FBIDOJand SEC,” writes Dowbenkoone of the alternative media’s foremost writers who founded Conspiracy DigestAl Martin Rawand Steamshovel Press. “What does that mean? Whenever criminal behavior is detectedDynCorp controls the informationgiving it defacto power to subvert the process of law and cover up corporate-government criminal activities.”

Dowbenko includes a more-than-interesting chapter about Bush skeletons like a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency video allegedly showing Jeb and Dubya with a large amount of cocaine. There are more stories on how investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts was ambushed by corporate-government criminalsthe last known interview with the late best-selling author Malachi Martin on the “end of religion,” and bizarre mind control programming.

So is what’s in these booksand in this essayreally true? It’s hard to say what’s really true. Ultimatelywe all have to figure it out on our own. But I do believe in the law of karmathat what goes round comes round. No empirenot the Romansnot the Britishnot the U.S.lasts forever. Somedayour kids and their kids will pay for our sins. I just hope they understand that not everyone merely went along with the crowdjust as not every German went along with the Nazis in the 1930s.

So if you believe the Bush administration is controlled by a secret governmentwhat can you really do about it? For one thingexpose it to the light of day. Spread the wordvia whatever means you have. Let them know there are a lot of people on our planet who are fed up with their selfishviolent actions.

What’s the alternative? To do nothing? To live in fear? Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Better to march a mile than sit around wringing your hands.

Better to read a book like “The Conspirators” or “Bushwhacked” that goes deeper than mere headlines than watch more CNN coverage that only skims the surface.

Jackson Thoreau is co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. Thoreau can be emailed at jacksonthor@justice.com.

Albright criticizes Bush’s good vs evil rhetoric
LondonMarch 24IRNA-Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Friday criticized the Bush administration’s newly unveiled national security strategy based on the good vs. evil rhetoric.

Albright said it was “more tragedy than strategy” that three years after the invasion of Iraq and the invention of the phrase “axis of evil,” the administration now highlights such a threat.

“It is sometimes convenientfor purposes of rhetorical effectfor national leaders to talk of a globe neatly divided into good and bad. It is quite anotherhoweverto base the policies of the world’s most powerful nation upon that fiction,” she said.

“The administration’s penchant for painting its perceived adversaries with the same sweeping brush has led to a series of unintended consequences,” the former US secretary of state warned in an article for the Financial Times.

She said when the US president invaded Iraqhe may have thought he was striking a blow for good over evil but “the forces unleashed were considerably more complex.”

“The administration is now divided between those who understand this complexity and those who do not.”

There were now officials on the front lines in Iraq who “know they cannot succeed in assembling a workable government in that country without the tacit blessing of Iran” and led to last week’s long overdue plans for a US-Iranian dialogue on Iraqshe said.

The US secretary of state offered three suggestions to the USfirstly to end the tyranny on the world and being solving Iraq’s problemswhich it was no longer able to controlby acting in a useful role of a referee.

“Secondthe US administration should disavow any plan for regime change in Iran,” she saidadding that its endorsement only made it less likely.

The third was for the US to “stop playing solitaire while Middle East and Persian Gulf leaders play poker.”

The US president pledged that “American must continue to lead,” in the world but Albright said that “actually it is the world he must begin to address – before it is too late.”

Gay BushismsWritten 2006-10-11 by Roedy Green : ©2000-2006 Canadian Mind ProductsEvidence Bush Enjoys Kinky S&M and Gay Sex I am gay myself and was one of the early pioneers in gay lib in Western Canadaso I don’t fault Bush for being gay. Further I don’t fault Bush for being into S&M. There is no shame in either sexual preference were it not for six things: Some of Bush’s partners were non-consenting. He likes to hurt other people. Some of Bush’s sex objects were children. I have no evidence Bush raped children personallybut he ordered others to do it and provide video tapes. Bush denies lies about who he is while pretending to be Puritanical Christian. Bush works to deny the civil rights of gay people. He campaigned for a constitutional amendment to formally make gays second class citizens without the right to a marriage licence like every one else has. Jeff GannonBush’s pet shill “reporter” is a gay prostitute and anti-gay propagandist. Bush has given his unqualified boyfriends cushyoverpaid government jobs. If you are gayyou have to refine your gaydar to guess who is gay and who is not. If you ever make a mistake you could get a punch in the mouth or worse. The signals we gays look for are very subtle. Bush is broadcasting at 100,000 watts. If this were evidence about anyone but the presidentthe following evidence would be sufficient to be 1000% convincing he was gayat least to any gay person. If you doubt mepresent just some of this evidence to a gay person without telling them it is the president you are talking about and ask them what the odds are that person is gay. According to the Wayne Madsen report: Bush had homosexual sex with various members of the TANG Texas Air National Guard Unitnicknamed the Champagne Unit. At the Delta Kappa Epsilon frat houseBush became known as “a jock sniffer”. “In all due respectyou’ve got a beautiful face and everything.” ~ George W. Bush to Brit Hume in a Fox news interview. “Wellyou got a pretty face. You got a pretty face. You’re a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott [Press Secretary Scott McClellan ] anyway.” ~ George W. Bush to Scott Reid Prime Minister of Canada Martin’s assistantreported in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Bush was close with “his Scott”press secretary Scott McClellanwho hung out in gay clubs in Austin Texas. “I’m also most appreciative of the Mayor of KnoxvilleTennessee for being here. I’ve known Mayor Ashe for years and years and years. And he has done a fabulous job of being a fine public servant in Knoxville. SoVictorthank you for coming.” ~ George W. Bush2001-02-21about the openly gay mayor of KnoxvilleVictor Ashe whom he used to live with and who visits often for sleepoversand with whom he goes on vacationswithout his wife Laura. Note the gushycampy language. “I want to thank my old college classmate — you used to call him Bulldogwe call him Victor — the Mayor of KnoxvilleMayor Victor Ashe.” ~ George W. Bush2002-10-02Van Hilleary for Governor LuncheonKnoxvilleTennessee2002-10-08Same nickname Jeff Gannon has. According to Senatorial candidate Ed McAteerBush and Ashe had a 3-way relationship involving bondage and sadism/masochism with an African American woman in Tennessee in 1984. They paid her $15,000 for the three encounters. “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. My cabinet could take some pointers from watching that show. In factI’m going to have the Fab Five do a makeover on [Attorney General John] Ashcroft.” ~ George W. Bush2004-03-25 Why is Bush so hostile to the idea of gay marriage? Perhaps because until 1987George W. Bush was gay. According to a group of 29 Yale classmates who comprise Gay Ivy Leaguers for TruthBush was “known to be at least sexually experimental throughout his time in college.” One of Bush’s alleged former boyfriendsAnthony Berusca (class of ’70)told The Dallas Morning News that Bush was “deeply conflicted about being gayeven somewhat self-hating.” Berusca is convinced that this conflict led to Bush’s drinking problemsbut describes the President as a “gentlecaring lover”. In 1976the Bush family arranged for George to join Worthy Creationsa church group in El Paso that focuses on converting homosexuals through faith. A year laterBush claimed to be straightborn againand engaged to Laura Welch. At his Yale FraternityDelta Kappa Epsilon ΔΚΕas fraternity presidentBush was in charge of branding initiates by burning them on their bare behinds. According to the New York Times1967-11-08the fraternity was charged with sadistic and obscene initiation proceduresinvolving applying a hot branding iron with the Greek letter delta Δ half an inch wide. Bush used to pour honey and salsa into rectums of his fellow fraternity brothers — “buttholes” as he called them. Think about that. Why honey? Why salsa? Kinky! “And we’ll prevailbecause we’re a faaabulous nationand we’re a faaabulous nation because we’re a nation full of faaabulous people.” ~ George W. BushAtlantaGA2002-01-31his favourite adjective is fabulousrarely used by straight men. Can you think of anyoneeven Liberacewho used the word fabulous as often as Bush? “I’m proud to be the President of a country where we’ve got such a fabulous city called New York City.” ~ George W. Bush2002-02-06New York Sheraton Hotel reception for Governor Pakati “But he’s got a fabulous record.” ~ George W. Bush2002-02-06New York Sheraton Hotel reception for Governor Pakati “It’s one of the fabulous parts of the job.” ~ George W. Bush2001-08-21Harley Davidson Factory Lunch RoomMenomonoee FallsWisconsin “He’s a man who loves his countrya man who is going to be a fabulous Secretary of State for America.” ~ George W. Bush2001-04-22Quebec CityQuebecCanada “I put together a fabulous cabinet.” ~ George W. BushGreen Bay WI2001-09-03commenting on the fashion sense of his cabinet. The word fabulous comes up over 500 times in his speeches on his whitehouse.gov website. This is a big gaydar give away. Even masculine or closeted gays who hang out with nelly gays can inadvertently pick up a camp mannerismvocabulary or inflection. Yesthat’s W. in drag in the white dress. George W. Bush at Phillips Academy in AndoverMassachusetts was the head cheerleader. Drama club and cheerleading are where the gay boys hang out. Photos from the Phillips Academy Yearbook. “That’s when Yale really started going downhill.” ~ George W. Bush commenting on Yale’s decision to admit women. circa 1964. “Yea Team!” ~ George W. Bush head cheerleader at Andover. George earned the nickname Lips Bush for his skill at giving blow jobs to his fraternity buddiescirca 1965. Scott McClellan referred to Bush as “she”the way closeted homosexuals often refer to each other. “She [Harriet Miers] called the President last night at 8:30 p.m. He was in the residence when she called himto inform her — inform him of her decision.” ~ Scott McClellan2005-10-27 press gaggle at the White House. “I want to thank my friendSenator Bill Fristfor joining us today. You’re doing a heck of a job. You cut your teeth hereright? That’s where you started practicing? That’s good. He married a Texas girlI want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girljust like me.” ~ George W. BushNashvilleTennessee2004-05-27. Closeted gay men often refer to each other using feminine pronouns. The idea was if they accidentally mentioned some sexual partner in straight companythey would not accidentally give themselves away by using the masculine gender. Some even give themselves feminine nicknames for the same purpose. “The most important job is not to be governoror first lady in my case.” ~ George W. Bush2000-01-30San Antonio Express-NewsPellaIowa. Bush has unusually close personal relationship with Valdimir Putinthe Russian Presidentwhom he calls “Pootie Poot”. Putin shocked his countrymen when he spontaneously kissed a little boy on the stomach. It was love at first sight. “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. I was able to get a sense of his soul.” ~ George W. Bushafter meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin2001-06-16. The depth of their mutual admiration borders on infatuation. Check out the giddy emotions in these photos: Bush has unusually close personal relationship with Tony Blairthe Prime Minister of Britainwhom is often referred to has his poodleto emphasise how effeminate Mr. Blair is and how abjectly he submits to W. Blair and Bush together concocted the lies that lead the west to attack Iraq. Jeff Gannonthe official White House male prostituteentertained Mr. Blair for two hourswithout writing a word about the “interview”. On 2006-07-17 Bush and Blair accidentally left a microphone on that captured a private conversation. Some of the deathless dialog: Bush: “Thanks for the sweaterit was awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself.” Blair: “Ohabsolutely.” Wellat least it wasn’t a frightfully divine teddy. On 2002-02-24 Bush and Blair met at Camp David. When a reporter asked the leaders to name some things they have in commonBush replied “We both use Colgate toothpaste”. Blair responded: “They’re going to wonder how you knew thatGeorge“then apologized for the question coming from a member of his press corps. Bush has gay-style nick names for the people he hangs out with: “Turdblossom” term for Karl Rove Note the classic juxtaposition of the obscene with the feminine to come up with a nickname for a gay man. For examplethe late David Lewis went under the name Sally Suckemsilly. A turdblossom is a flower that grows out of a cowpie. “Bulldog” term for both Victor Ashe and Jeff Gannon aka Jim Guckert “Pootie Poot” term for Vladimir PutinRussian President “Balloonfoot” term for Colin Powell “Pablo” later “Mr. Big O” term for treasury secretary Paul O’Neill. “The Hammer” term for Tom Delay “Kenny Boy” term for Ken Lay of Enron “Zorba the Veep” term for Spiro AgnewNixon’s Vice PresidentThat is a classic gay nickname formto avoid giving away the last name. e.g. the late Harry Mendez-Boyle was known as Harry the Peruvian. The late Patrick M. was known as Patrick the Grasshopper. “Bondar Bush” term for Prince Bondar of Saudi Arabiathe only ambassador free to just drop in on the president without an invitation. “She will be the lump in the bed next to me since I get in at 1:30 in the morning.” ~ George W. Bush2003-06San Francisco luncheon. We know he wasn’t working… Gannongate: The White House gave a presidential press pass to Jim Guckert (pronounced Goo’kurt) (not to be confused with the Martin Short gay character Jiminy Glick)gay name Jeff Gannon a homosexual prostitute (see photos) who owns gay website: Hotmilitarystud.com and gay prostitution websites: Militaryescorts.com and Militaryescortsm4m.com. Guckert got the pass on a phony namewith phony credentials from a questionable news organisationTalon News. Gannon’s duty was to ask sucky soft-ball questions to “my Scott” Scott McClellan. Gannon is not just a garden variety gay prostitute. He is into urinationverbal abuse and sadism (without leaving visible marks). See Anderson Cooper of CNN interview him. Gannon has many links with Karl Rove: recommend book⇒he Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power 0-307-23792-3 James Moore and Wayne Slater The book reveals that Rove has told insiders he does not consider himself “a Christian”had a father who was gayand regularly dealt with openly gay Republicans as he worked publicly to have a constitutional amendment passed that would ban same-sex marriage. It also talks about Ken Mehlman reported to be gay too. Amazon.com Amazon.ca Powell’s Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble Amazon.de Chapters Indigo Bush has a fetish for touching the heads of fat bald guys such as Jeff Gannon . See photosphotosphotosphotosphotosphotos. Straight men don’t go around feeling up the heads of strangersunless they are barbers. He appointed his old bunk mateand Skull & Bones kink-mate from YaleJames D. Lockhart as deputy minister of Social Security. Sorry I don’t have a younger sexier photo. Scooter LibbyCheney’s top aidewrote a homo-eroticchild pornography novel. recommend book⇒The Apprentice 0-312-28453-5 Lewis “Scooter” Libby,yesthe indicted Libby. A pornographic novel set in Japan in 1903. In itlittle girls are forced to have sex with bears in order that they will learn not to become attached to the gentlemen they are forced to have sex with. There are pedophilichomoerotic and bestiality scenes as well. For more details read this blog and a review in The New Yorker. Amazon.com Amazon.ca Powell’s Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble Amazon.de Chapters Indigo Cutie pie Bobby Eberle head of gopusa.orgprostitute and pimp Jeff Gannon’s bosswas given access to presidential press conferences even though he did not work for a news organisation. Then again it could be his Moonie connections that got him the innamely writing for Reverend Moon’s publications the Washington TimesInsight and Human Events. Bush surrounds himself with softchubbyadoringsqueal-like-a-pig style yes-menreminiscent of Ned Beatty in Deliverance: Victor Ashe Karl Rove Scott McClellan Dick Cheney Daniel Gurley Richard Perle “You are not responsible for what your friends dobut you will be judged by the company you keep.” ~ Leonard Cole Karl Rove rubbing noses with his hero George. “Huge amounts of charismaswaggercowboy bootsflight jacketwonderful smilejust charisma – you knowwow!” ~ Karl Rove Bush’s little “Turdblossom” If you search Google for Karl Rove gay you will get about 5 million hits. Despite his party’s strong anti-gay stanceBush has promoted gays to high office including Republican National Committee Daniel Gurley who is involved in an unprotected gay sex scandalVictor Ashe the openly gay former mayor of Knoxville to the ambassador of PolandJeff Gannon a gay prostitute and pimp given press room accessKen Mehlman chair of the RNC and openly gay Jay Banningchief financial officer of the Republican party. According to the LA WeeklyCalifornian Republican Congressman David Dreier won the Ray Cohn award in recognition of 24 years of working against gay and lesbian rights while living as a gay man himself. He lived with his extravagently paid chief of staffBrad Smith. According to The Memphis FlyerRepresentative Jim Kolbe of ArizonaRepresentative David Dreier of CaliforniaRepresentative Ed Shrock of VirginiaRepresentative Bob Bauman of Maryland and Representative Jon Hinson of Mississippi are all not only gaybut rabid supporters of Bush’s anti-gay constitutional amendment to formally declare gays as second class citizens. Ironically it is the closeted gaysincluding Bushmost in favour of this amendment since supporting it provides camouflage for their personal sexual preference. “The lady doth protest too muchmethinks.” ~ Shakespear Hamlet Act III scene ii Look at this photo of a young Dick Cheney making goo goo eyes at Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney was not always old and ugly as a bulldog. Cheney is schizophrenic about his openly gay daughter Maryone minute supporting herthe next complaining of smears if anyone mentions her existence. Cheney’s wifeLynnewrote a lesbian novel called Sisters. This suggests a marriage of convenience to Dickthe Lord of the Lies. recommend book⇒Sisters 0-451-11204-0 Lynne Cheney I have a copy. It is a bit of a collector’s item now with the notoriety it has generatedit is selling at over $300. It is a historical novel about a pair of lesbians dealing with male chauvinist society. Amazon.com Amazon.ca Powell’s Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble Amazon.de Chapters Indigo Cutesinglegay and closetedKen Mehlman is now chair of the Republican Party. He has the boyish charm of Tommy Tune in the Boy Friend. Mehlman posted a porn-site bigger-than-life sized poster of himself for anyone who wants to study his pores. To everyone’s surpriseSteve Schmidta senior official of the Bush campaign announced “Ken Mehlman is not gay.” Mike Rogers claims otherwise from personal experience. The Chief Financial Officer of the Republican Party Jay Banning has confirmed he is gay. Bush selected Richard A. Clarke a lifelong batcheloras his terrorism czar. Richard Perle : Whose Fault Is He? Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle — Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girlThose kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma’s boy could bethose kids who oft- Times pushed poor Richard down and could be heard Addressing him as SissyWimp or Nerd. Those kids have got a lot to answer for’Cause Richard Perle now wants to start a war. The message his demeanor gets across: He’ll show those playground bullies who’s the boss. He still looks softbut when he writes or talks There is no tougher dude among the hawks. And he’s got planes and ships and tanks and guns — All mannedof courseby other people’s sons. ~ Calvin Trillin The 2005-04 issue of GQ Magazine has an article on the Gay Republican mafia. The number two political director of the Republican party and National Field Director Daniel Gurley has confirmed he is gay. He solicited unprotected sex and multiple sex partners in an on-line profile at Gay.com. The love duet with Tony Blair. The link is a jokebut Blair publicly gushed and made goo goo eyes at Bush without shame. Betty Bowers has her own complete collection of Bush’s gay utterings. A picture is worth 1000 words. Watch Bush’s effeminate body language in the debates and speeches. He often puts one knee behind the other like a woman needing to pee. You can see it most clearly in the SOTU speeches. Milton Ericksonthe late famous hypnotherapistsays this gesture means the person is concealing something. Bush often tilts his head like a woman. Watch his Jack Benny effeminate gestures in the split screen version of his first debate with Kerry 2004-09-30. Bush kissed Democrat Lieberman who does not appear to be enjoying his attentions. See the video Bush started his S&M career torturing frogs both by shooting them and inserting firecrackers into them and blowing them up. His friend Bill Frist collected puppies and kittenspretending to want to adopt them. He sold them for vivisection experiments. “Feels Good!” ~ George W. Bush on the Brink of Declaring War on Iraqrelishing the thought of killing kids. “Please! Don’t kill me.” ~ George W. Bush to Tucker Carlson reported in Talk Magazine Vol 1 No 1 Devil May Care pages 103-110 1999-09mocking what Karla Faye Tucker said when asked “What would you say to Governor Bush?” prior to her execution by lethal injection. Bush is a member of the prostitute kinky homosexual Yale fraternitySkull & Bones. As did all members(including his father and John Kerry)Bush masturbated publicly in a coffinand swore allegiance to Satan as part of his initiation. Pulitzer Prize winnerand breaker of the Mai Lai MassacreSeymour Hersh of the New Yorker says that Bush is responsible for the torture and kink going on in Abu Ghraib. Bush twice refused to stop it when it was brought to his attention. The odd thing about Abu Ghraib is the not just the torture but S&M homosexual kink — masturbationanal raperape trained attack dogscovering people in excrementforcing people to eat the contents of toiletsbondage etc. all these from the fertile mind of Mr. Bush himself. Bush of course is also responsible for hundreds of violations of the Geneva conventions including American soldiers raping and murdering children in Iraq. Bush also had kiddie porn rape movies made of little boys being raped. Watch Hersh explain some of what Bush has been doing in Iraq in this video. Judge Hellerstein ruled Bush must hand over his kiddie rape videos to the ACLUbut he has not done so. Bush has never used his vetobut he did threaten to use it once — to retain his right to torture people for his perverted amusement legally. recommend book⇒Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib 0-06-019591-6 Seymour M. Hersh Bush was told via Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld in 2002 and 2003 about the sexual torture going on in Abu Ghraib prisonbut he refused to do anything to stop it. This book explains why Bush himself is responsiblenot some underlings. Read his summary article in the New Yorker. This book does not cover the Bush porn videos of little Iraqi boys screaming as they were anally raped. He uncovered that after the book was published. Seymour Hersh is the Pulitzer prize winner who broke the Mai Lai massacre atrocity story in the Viet Nam era. He writes for the New Yorker. Amazon.com Amazon.ca Powell’s Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble Amazon.de Chapters Indigo Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler were also sadists who ordered audio recordings made of the tortures for their private sexual enjoyment. Bush of course would have the option of DVD video with sense-surround sound for his jerkoff sessions. Margie Schoedinger (often misspelled Shoedinger) filed a lawsuit against Bush accusing him of abducting and raping both her and her husband. Schoedinger was a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. Police said she dated Bush prior to his marriage. She filed papers in Fort Bend on 2002-12-02 charging Bush with abduction and rape. Prior to her death she claimed she had been harassedthat her bank account had been interfered withthat she had been threatened and beaten. She died of a bullet to the head ruled acough“suicide”. Bush has successfully kept nearly all mention of this scandal out of the public eye. It originally sounded too outrageous to be possibly truebut in light of Bush’s torture dungeons at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraibhomosexual abuse of prisoners and homosexual rapeit sounds much more plausible. Jackson Thoreau spoke to her just before hear death. Bush squirmed when Kerry stared at him in the third debate and said “I think if you talk to anybodyit’s not choice. I’ve met people who struggled with this for yearspeople who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of conventionand they struggled with it.” ~ George W. BushTempe Arizona2004-10-13 Consider how few gay signals former Governor James McGreevy gave out when he was in the closet compared with how many Bush is giving out. Bush has lost the ability to control himself. He is broadcasting gaydar at 100,000 watts. Consider how few gay signals the late J. Edgar Hoover gave out when he was in the closet compared with how many Bush is giving out. Hoover projected the same tough guy image Bush aims forbut managed to hide that he was both gay and a transvestite by intimidating others into silence. Bush’s father was a sadistic pedophile. It is common for sexually abused children to become sexual abusers themselves. The Republican elite have tolerated pedophilia in their midst for decades. George Bush raised eyebrows when he asked a crowd of supporters in GalvestonTexas if they still celebrated Splash Dayan annual gay pride event in that statebest known for attracting tens of thousands of buff menwearing little more than suntan oil. 2005-04-26. According to LauraGeorge avoids sex with women. “I said to him the other day‘Georgeif you really want to end tyranny in this worldyou’re going to have to stay up later.’ Nine o’clock and Mr. Excitement here is in bedand I am watching ‘Desperate Housewives’ — with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemenI am a desperate housewife.” ~ Laura BushW.’s female wife2005-04-30complaining George does not have sex with her. video According to LauraGeorge likes whacking off male horses. I don’t mean well hung menI mean the kind that eat hay. “But I’m proud of George. He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worseit was a male horse.” ~ Laura BushW.’s female wife2005-04-30complaining about George liking to masturbate horse cock. video. Mel Brooks fans will know the line “Walk this way” — his running gag about people mimicking a swish waiter’s gait. FOX news put a clip of Bush in Russia doing a little camp hip shimmy. Down girl! 2001-05-09. Bush hired one of his daughter Jenna’s hunky ex-boyfriendsBlake Gottesman for a year as a gofer. [c.f. New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy had to resign after he revealed he hired his boyfriend for a year as a homeland security advisor.] He then greased the wheels to get the boy into Harvard Business School. Blake was admitted even though he does not have the prerequisite undergraduate degree. Blake writes a gushy column called Ask the White House that sounds as if it were penned by Richard Simmons. Bush might pull these strings for a future son-in-lawbut for a daughter’s ex-boyfriend? So that’s my evidence that Bush enjoys kinky S&M (sadomasochisic) and gay (homosexual) sex. Let me make it clearBush is not strictly gay. There is plenty of evidence that prior to his marriage he was heterosexually promiscuous as wellat least while drunk. The above is only evidence he is a bisexual sadist. Kinky George “I refuse to negotiate with myself in public.” ~ George W. Bush2004-12-20 dodging a question on social security. “We’ve got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” ~ George W. Bush2004-09-06See video: “The goals for this country are peace in the world. And the goals for this country are a compassionate American for every single citizen. That compassion is found in the hearts and souls of the American citizens.” ~ George W. Bush Source: Federal Document Clearing HousePresident Visits D.C. Food Bank2002-12-19a chicken in every pota slave for every citizen. at the McKinley Societya conservative think tank2003-02-28 SourceRelated: http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html