A new book by an American University professor espouses a theory that President Dwight Eisenhower made a secret trip to an Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrial aliens while on vacation in Palm Springs, Calif.
Michael Salla, who now heads the Peace Ambassador Program at American University's Center for Global Peace in Washington, D.C., dismisses the standard explanation of Eisenhower's actions 50 years ago tomorrow, Feb. 20, 1954, the Washington Post reported.
It's just a cover story, insists Salla, who published his theories in his new book, "Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence" and in an article on his "Exopolitics" website. [...] Eisenhower made an unscheduled departure from the Smoking Tree Ranch in Palm Springs after dinner that night. The next morning he showed up at a church service in Los Angeles, [...]
Check out this interview with Salla from "For A Closer Look": Part 1 | Part 2
After 80 years of mutual suspicion between Catholics and Freemasons, the Knights of the Southern Cross will join Melbourne's Freemasons in their Dallas Brooks Hall home to "seal an unlikely bond".
The Herald-Sun reports that it will be the first time anywhere in the world that the Pope's flag has been carried into a Masonic assembly.
Israeli investigative reporter Barry Chamish writes:
Daniel Pipes is spreading the word on the internet that I'm a Holocaust denier. This stooge of the Council On Foreign Relations will finally get his when I'm in America and find just the right lawyer to finally make him pay for his lies.
As all my readers know, not only do I acknowledge the vast scope of the Holocaust, I am now researching who was responsible for the tragedy. [...] Pipes is going to be made to pay for his slanders. I will ask the court to subpoena his financial records and prove once and for all, that he would be begging on the streets without the direct and indirect support of the Council On Foreign Relations. I know what I can prove, good luck to him finding one word that hints I deny the Holocaust.
Chamish wants help finding an American attorney to sue Pipes. Email him any ideas.
John: And was United Airlines Flight 93 shot down in Pennsylvania by a U.S. or NATO pilot . . . ?
DGP: That was hit at 10:00 hours. It was taken out by the North Dakota Air Guard. I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to take down 93.
John: Was it shot down because the airline pilots actually regained control of the hijacked auto-pilot or was that to replace the unmanned drone that was shot down?
DGP: No, it was – the aircraft, you see, had totally unconscious people on board. There were no hijackers. At 9:35, the Happy Hooligans, the Air Guard flying the F-16s were ordered to take that plane out. And they took it out from 9:35 to 10:00.
John: Were there any refueling jets involved in that operation?
AJ: Hold on a second, John. The question is why would they deviate from the plan of flying it into the Capitol? Why did the globalists decide to go ahead and shoot the plane down?
DGP: There had been an adjustment to the controls, probably by an AWACs aircraft flying overhead again – remote control. And it was on a course for either the Capitol or the White House. And at this stage, you don’t know. The Happy Hooligans came in and took care of it.
AJ: Do you think they were not following orders?
DGP: Who, the Happy Hooligans?
AJ: Well, yeah, you’ve got Cheney running around, we’ve got the stand down taking place.
DGP: Well, this is correct, but you see the Adj. General of the State of North Dakota gave the command to take it out. And, by God, they took it out. And I’ve got the full story in the book.
AJ: That’s a good thing they did that. You said you talked to the pilot. Think about this folks. Imagine what Bush would have gotten if he would have had that plane fly into the Capitol? Imagine the police state we would be in right now.
DGP: Yes, yes, yes, indeed.
AJ: And so you had to have the diversionary blast at the Pentagon so no one would get suspicious and think it was a military coup.
DGP: Perhaps, perhaps.
AJ: John, does that answer your question?
John: Was there any refueling tankers used by the North Dakota Air Guard and what tanker wing was used?
DGP: I don’t know about the aircraft itself. I don’t know about refueling. They came off base in Langley and it was just a few minutes out from Langley to the intercept over Pennsylvania. It was just a matter of minutes.
AJ: Colonel, how did you get in touch with the pilot who shot the plane down?
DGP: It turned out to be an old friend of mine from the Air National Guard and this is my home state of North Dakota. And I attended the ceremony in North Dakota and watched the Adj. General [garbled] the pilot being decorated a year later for this activity that happened on 911 with Flight 93.
[...]
AJ: Go over that a little bit slower for folks. That’s a big deal. You talked to the pilot, a friend of yours, who shot down Flight 93 that was going for the Capitol or the White House. And go over that for folks.
DGP: Okay, quick rundown. They were out of Hector Field, Fargo, North Dakota. A bunch, this 119 Fighter Group and they are called the Happy Hooligans. They are probably the best interceptors that we have in the country. They were moved to Langley Air Force Base from Hector Field down to Southern Virginia. And when the klaxon horn went off at 9:35, those two pilots put down their coffee and shot into their aircraft and took off. They didn’t know where they were going initially but by 10:00 hours, they had rendezvoused over Southern Pennsylvania. That’s about 250 miles in just a matter of minutes and engaged 93 with two side-winder missiles. And they accomplished their objective. Now Hector Field, I use to fly out of Hector Field some time ago. I know most of those pilots. I could name names. I know the National Guard Adj. General. And they were decorated about a year later and I have the full write up of that story in my book.
AJ: Yeah and it’s just ignored by the media. I have that article, too. And later, well okay, it was a missile, well there wasn’t “Let’s Roll.” It’s all made-up theatre for the public and we buy it like a bunch of saps.
DGP: That is correct.
You can contact Col. du Grand-Pre and buy his books at 540-547-2996.
LibertyForum's always reliable "ratcat" has posted a partial transcript of Alex Jones' interview with Col. Donn de Grand- Pre, U.S. Army (ret.) from 2004 02 25. Stunning revelations here:
DGP: Well, the DU rounds are over-played, first of all. They aren?t that potent and secondarily, we must consider that weapons of mass destruction have already been used by some of the opposition in the period February of 1991. Weapons of mass destruction, including low-yield nuclear weapons.
AJ: Okay, can you break that down for us?
DGP: Well, I break it down in the time frame that we had sunlight images of rounds or missiles being fired from the Negev desert toward Baghdad. That?s 600 miles distance. And six or eight of the rounds came in. That was February of 1991.
AJ: Are you saying that the Israelis used miniaturized nuclear weapons?
DGP: Yes sir. That?s what I?m saying, in plain English.
LibertyForum's always reliable "ratcat" has posted a partial transcript of Alex Jones' interview with Col. Donn de Grand- Pre, U.S. Army (ret.) from 2004 02 25. Stunning revelations here:
DGP: the group of pilots ? and they will remain anonymous ? were a wonderful mix of commercial, military and civilian pilots. At any rate, after three days, the decisions were unanimous. And I wrote my 24-page report up and submitted it to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.. . .
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has 500 copies of this 24-page report made and sent out, including, to the White House. And I have to say it was including Pres. Bush. So they got a copy of the report.
AJ: That was Myers at the time.
DGP: That is correct.
AJ: And so, he sent out 500 copies - that would mean that he believed it.
DGP: I'm quite sure that he believed in it. I think that he still believes in it. [...]
You can contact Col. du Grand-Pre and buy his books at 540-547-2996.
LibertyForum's always reliable "ratcat" has posted a partial transcript of Alex Jones' interview with Col. Donn de Grand- Pre, U.S. Army (ret.) from 2004 02 25. Stunning revelations here:
[...] DGP: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. They almost got him in Baghdad when they fired the salvo, one night, of weaponry and they scared Paul Wolfowitz off. He?s ready to resign or get the hell out.
AJ: You think that was U.S. forces doing that?
DGP: I believe it. It was very well planned again and ..
AJ: Yeah, only U.S. forces would know that he would be there. Yeah.
DGP: That is correct. And the precision of those weapons that came into the hotel. There were eleven rounds in all and I can speak from authenticity that they scared the hell out of Paul Wolfowitz. And probably, C. Paul Bremer [...]
In the official version of George W. Bush’s chronology during his National Guard years is a striking statement which has been totally overlooked in the major media. A timeline of President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard compiled by The Associated Press says, for 1971: “Participates in drills and alerts at Ellington. Begins work for Houston-based agricultural company.” [...] When the media roll over completely on the old "who what when where & why business," . . .Somebody is covering something up. [. . .] A profile of George W in 2000 in Texas Monthly said, “George W. Bush’s responsibilities included sizing up plant nurseries for possible acquisition.”
Is it just us? Does anyone else have a problem seeing George W. Bush as Mr. Green Jeans? . . .
What did George W. Bush know about tropical plants that made him a horticultural expert sharp enough to be deployed overseas looking for acquisitions?
The question answers itself. The answer is, almost assuredly, "nothing." So it is reasonable to conclude that George W. Bush wasn't in the tropical plant business during the year he says he was.
So then, just what business was Bush involved with, while traipsing around Central America? [...] MadCowMorningNews has uncovered indications that George W. Bush was in Central America serving a ‘tour of duty’ in a shadowy arm of the U.S. Government which Watergate burglar and disgraced CIA Agent E. Howard Hunt called "Clandestine Services." . . .
Bush's plant-nursin' jet-flyin' story may have just been the future Presidents “cover” while the young second lieutenant was actually detached—officially or otherwise—to a massive clandestine U.S. government operation that was going on right at this time in Central America, called Operation Condor. [...] The Secret History of the Alabama Guard . . .
From an Air Guard base in Montgomery, where a decade later George W Bush will, Zen-like, both be and not be, Barry Seal participated in Caribbean and Central American operations . . .
There's much more at the source link, and Hopsicker goes on to break down the relationship between this "nursery" company and Zapata -- Poppy Bush's CIA-front oil company.
Here's more on Operation Condor from the National Security Archive at George Wasington University:
On March 6, 2001, The New York Times reported the existence of a recently declassified State Department document revealing that the United States facilitated communications among South American intelligence chiefs who were working together to eliminate left-wing opposition groups in their countries as part of a covert program known as Operation Condor.
The document, a 1978 cable from Robert E. White, the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, was discovered by Professor J. Patrice McSherry of Long Island University, who has published several articles on Condor. She called the cable "another piece of increasingly weighty evidence suggesting that U.S. military and intelligence officials supported and collaborated with Condor as a secret partner or sponsor."
On the Alex Jones radio show. Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer . . . revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are `furious' that Kelly was murdered. [...] Speaking with impeccable credentials, including contributions to the Journal for International Security Affairs and having previously given a closed-doors confidential briefing to the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Shrimpton exploded the much-reported myth that Dr Kelly had taken his own life.
He spoke of the probable method of Kelly's death, the group which most likely carried out the assassination, who arranged it and finally where the responsibility lies. Additionally, he explained the political context and motive for Kelly's murder. [...] Shrimpton explained how he had learned that David Kelly was the BBC's source before the BBC disclosed this fact. He went on to explain that his source from within the intelligence community knew David Kelly personally, and did not believe that he had committed suicide. After making their own enquiries, says Shrimpton, this source determined that Dr Kelly had not committed suicide, but rather had been assassinated.
Apparently at ease to discuss these explosive disclosures, Shrimpton explained that there was advance knowledge of Kelly's death in Whitehall, but that the deed itself was most likely carried out by the French external security organisation, DGSE. There was no indication that anybody in MI5 or MI6 had been involved. He went further by suggesting that the hit squad itself was composed of Iraqis from the former regime's Mukhabarat intelligence organisation, recruited from Damascus with the help of Syria's own intelligence apparatus. They were apparently then flown into Corsica, seven days prior to the murder. He doubts that any of the hit-squad are still alive.
Sydney Newman Dotson's new book is a story of power, greed and deception deep in the heart of Texas that involves ties with George Bush, Lyndon Johnson and the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Two sisters dig into the death of their father, searching for his long lost will . . .
their father, a former police chief in the Galveston, Texas area . . . was a wealthy man, however, they can't figure out how he became that way on a policeman's salary. The speculation leads them to question his level of involvement in the gambling and prostitution rings along Galveston Bay. As Dotson and her sister get deeper they unearth shocking revelations. Were their father's connections to George Bush, Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird and Joe Bonanno much deeper than they seemed? Was he truly involved in the JFK assassination?
And (the Holocaust) it's all - may not all fiction - but most of it is. For instance the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz would not do the job. Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it? It takes a liter of petrol and 20 minutes - now six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war. [...] It was FDR's own private war. He went there for money. The money power that runs this country. The Fed Reserve and those foreign bankers who own our currency and charge us for it. The foreign bankers who run the international reserve like the Rothschilds and their allies in this country like the Rockefellers who were Jews and others who own the money.
MR. RUSSERT: Here in Washington, Senator Hatch has introduced S.J. Resolution 15, and I'll put it on the board: "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United States citizen for 20 years." How long have you been a citizen?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Since 1983, so it's more than 20 years.
MR. RUSSERT: So you're interested in this legislation.
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Man, I should look at that because it sounds really good. I mean, are you going to help me? Come on, Tim. Come on.
MR. RUSSERT: Well, actually, about 10 years ago a friend of yours named Mr. Sly Stallone had a premonition in a movie called "Demolition Man." Let's watch this.
MR. RUSSERT: If you could, under the Constitution, run for president, would you?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Boy, if Sly would help me, I mean, of course I would. . . .
MR. RUSSERT: But if someone's been a citizen for 20 years, they should have the right to run for president, don't you think?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Oh, absolutely. I think that, you know, times have changed. I think this is now a much more global economy. I think that there's so many people here in this country that are now from overseas, that are immigrants, that are doing such a terrific job with the work, bringing businesses here and all this, that there's no reason why not. I mean, the key thing is it's just that you understand the political system, how it works. And, you know, maybe people can be great contributors. I mean, look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger has made; Madeleine Albright. I mean, there's many, many, many people here that have worked within the government and have done an extraordinary job and not have been born in America.
"I was meant to be more than just an average guy running around, that I was chosen to do something special.
"At that point, I didn't think about money. I thought about the fame, about just being the greatest. I was dreaming about being some dictator of a country."
Finding an old book proposal from about the same time ABC News reported:
[Schwarzenegger] is quoted as saying he wished he could have an experience, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."
Does anyone remember how well it worked out for Germany when they had an Austrian immigrant take over the executive branch?
Boston Globe has reported on John Forbes Kerry's collegiate Presidential ambitions:
Kerry also had political ambitions -- and was aware of how much military service had served John Kennedy's career. "John would clearly say, 'If I could make my dream come true, it would be running for president of the United States,' ''recalled William Stanberry, Kerry's debate team partner for three years. "It was not a casual interest. It was a serious, stated interest. His lifetime ambition was to be in political office.''
Why? What drove Kerry? "I don't think there was any one specific issue, such as 'I am going to spend my life working for racial integration or world peace.' '' Stanberry said. "I don't think he had pet issues as much as he simply said, `The life of a politician is the life I want. [...] What fellow "bonesmen'' most remember is how Kerry steered the talk toward Vietnam.
"You had this group of the elite of the elite selected out of the Yale senior class who probably were most adept at gazing at their own navels and probably thought the world rotated around them,'' said one of Kerry's fellow bonesmen, Dr. Alan Cross. "You had this one among us who saw this growing quagmire in Vietnam we were heading into with good intention and certain results. His statements were really a clarion: 'Hey, guys, this is happening, this is going to define our generation.' '' [...] The National Archives provided the Globe with a Navy "instruction" document that formed the basis for Kerry's request. The instruction, titled 1300.39, says that a Naval officer who requires hospitalization on two separate occasions, or who receives three wounds "regardless of the nature of the wounds," can ask a superior officer to request a reassignment. The instruction makes clear the reassignment is not automatic. It says that the reassignment "will be determined after consideration of his physical classification for duty and on an individual basis." Because Kerry's wounds were not considered
Hm, so he was obsessed with becoming President, and he knew that the division over Vietnam would define his generation. Which side should an ambitious young man take? Why not both?
[Kerry] requested and was granted a transfer out of Vietnam six months before his combat tour was slated to end on the grounds that he had earned three Purple Hearts. None of his wounds was disabling; he said one cost him two days of service and the other two did not lead to any absence. [...] Kerry served two tours. For a relatively uneventful six months, from December 1967 to June 1968, he served in the electrical department aboard the USS Gridley, a guided-missile frigate that supported aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and was far removed from combat. [...] Kerry initially hoped to continue his service at a relatively safe distance from most fighting, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. While the 50-foot swift boats cruised the Vietnamese coast a little closer to the action than the Gridley had come, they were still considered relatively safe.
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling [...] The swift boat crew typically consisted of a college-educated skipper, such as Kerry, and five blue-collar sailors averaging 19 years old. [...] Kerry declined a request from the Globe to sign a waiver authorizing the release of military documents that are covered under the Privacy Act and that might shed more light on the extent of the treatment Kerry needed as a result of the wounds.
Author B.G. Burkett has pointed out that Lt. Kerry, as the only officer on his swift boat, had no one to dispute his tales of injury.
[Kerry] returned from the Vietnam war to lead protests, denigrate our flag, mock anticommunists, and call his fellow veterans "criminals" before a 1971 congressional committee. In his book, “Stolen Valor,” author B. G. Burkett relates how Kerry used untrue examples of atrocities committed by US servicemen to back up his charges. He was infamous for wearing tattered fatigues that mocked the uniform, carrying an upside-down US flag that dishonored Old Glory, and disposing of his medals by throwing them over the White House fence. He helped launch an antiwar veteran’s group funded by Jane Fonda, and is pictured in his mocking attire on the cover of this book, "The New Soldier."
Does this not seem an ineffective and deceitful way for a "veteran's group" to protest the war?
What could become of such a protest vehicle? headmap.org explains:
In May 1972, Bill Lemmer, Southern Regional Coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a key group in the convention protest coalition, surfaced as an undercover FBI operative. Lemmer's false testimony enabled the Bureau to haul the VVAW's national leadership before a grand jury hundreds of miles away during the week of the convention.
But somehow the golden boy Kerry, who testified for VVAW before Congress, wasn't caught up in this dragnet.
Playing both sides against the middle and coming out so clean is a delicate pursuit. Perhaps Kerry sought to get by with a little help from his friends? As MSNBC.com and NBC's Today Show reported, (archived by Propaganda Matrix) 2002 09 04:
There is a Bones cell in the CIA, which uses the society as a recruiting ground because the members are so obviously adept at keeping secrets.
Kerry went on during his Senatorial career to not only cover for the intelligence agencies in the matter of POWs during Vietnam, but also CIA drugrunning through Arkansas connected to both Clinton and Poppy Bush.
I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government and the first family.
Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in broadcast in Dutch, The remainder is in English.
[From the translation of the intro:]
After the coalition forces destroyed Baghdad it is now primarily American companies who are to rebuild Iraq. . . .
One of the corporations that work this way is the Carlyle Group. On their payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and old premier John Major.
The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics attention very often but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services.
What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does Carlyle have?
After these Intelligence committees investigated illegal CIA activities they issued a stinging report concluding that it is incompatible for the Government of a Democratic Society to engage in KGB-type activities. What Bush did as CIA Director, rather than just terminate these activities, was to privatize them. He began to look for people qualified and willing to form quasi private corporations to take control of these assets and continue to do the CIA’s bidding. Because he needed a pilot to form an Aviation cutout, he turned to the obvious referral source - his Son George Jr. who was in an Air National Guard Aviation Squadron. All military pilots like myself and Bath have to hold top-secret security clearances, are clearly patriots, and have been vetted by the FBI. Knowing this (as a former Naval Aviator himself), George Bush Sr. asked Dubya: 'Do you know a guy in your Air National Guard Unit who we could bring in to operate an Air proprietary and deal with the Saudis?' George Jr. responded by recommending his drinking buddy, Jim Bath.":
and::
". . . Bath explained to me that he had been tapped by George Senior to set up a quasi-private aircraft firm that would basically engage in CIA-sponsored activities funded by the Saudi Royal Family. He explained that the Saudis had basically entered into a quid pro quo relationship with Bush and that Bush when he was CIA Director worked with the head of Saudi Intelligence and the CIA trained the Palace Guard to protect the Saudi Royal Family who was concerned about a fundamentalist revolution. And it was at that point I think that this thing got kicked into high gear and the Saudis agreed to provide surreptitious funding to the United States to fight it's secret wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.":
The Saudis in Texas were Salem Bin Laden, Osama's brother, and Khalid bin Mahfouz, who were both probably acting as agents for the Saudi Royal Family . . . White told the CBC::
". . . Bath had told me that he had used Saudi money to fund George Bush Junior’s start up in the Energy business." :
and, on how he knew the money Bath was investing was Saudi money::
"Well I know that it was Saudi money because Bath had no money of his own. We were in business together. I saw his personal financial statements. I knew the amount of cash he had available at any given time. And he also confided in me that the money invested both in our Real Estate business and in Dubya’s Energy business was Saudi money. That was the only money there was."
Father Bush was helping the Saudis to invest in Texas and using Bath to keep an eye on them, with both his son and Bath lining their pockets in the process. Saudi money was invested in Texas with the help of father Bush's Texas business and legal friends, and at least some of it flown to the Caribbean for use in illegal CIA covert activities. This sounds like the ancestor of Iran-Contra, in that the CIA was using Middle Eastern government money to fund illegal operations through a secret proprietary airline. Bath, who is keeping a low profile, is the key to all this. Bath was suspended for failing to take a medical one month after George Bush was suspended for the same reason. The Alabama Air National Guard unit that Bush probably didn't report to is regarded as being very closely tied to the CIA's operations in the Caribbean, particularly its attempts to unseat or assassinate Fidel Castro. It was also a probable liaison between the CIA and the anti-Castro Cubans involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. A CIA proprietary airline financed by the Saudis would almost certainly have been involved in one of the CIA's favorite activities, the smuggling of drugs from South America into the United States. Bush was a heavy drug user, so heavy that he couldn't abstain for the few days it would take for the coke to clear his system, and probably avoided the medical for that reason (Bath may have had the same problem). As I have already suggested, Scott McClellan's testiness at Helen Thomas' questions about Bush's community service in Texas reveals that Thomas was getting very close to the deep political truth involved in the Bush-Bath-bin Laden-Saudi-CIA connection. It would be very interesting to know if Bath was sentenced to the same community service under the same conditions as Bush for participation in the same drug-related incident, which may have involved the sale of some 'excess inventory' being flown into the U. S. by Bath's little CIA-proprietary airline. Whatever happened in Texas may have given both the Saudi Royal Family and its American friends quite a hold over young George Bush, a hold which may even have influenced his failure to heed all the warnings about 9-11. A young personable man with a fatal character flaw is exactly the type that the Powers That Be seek out to be groomed for eventual political office, as the flaw allows them to manipulate the man to follow their directives. The American media is doing just what they are supposed to do, which is follow Bush's military records down the rabbit hole, where years of manipulation and fraud will leave the whole issue so confused that everyone will forget about it. It's the community service issue which could blow everything - and I mean everything - wide open.
A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised a confidential informant and exaggerated results in the war on terrorism.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino of Detroit accused the Justice Department of ''gross mismanagement'' of the war on terrorism in a whistleblower lawsuit filed late Friday in federal court in Washington. [...] The government now admits it failed to turn over evidence during the trial that might have assisted the defense, including an allegation from an imprisoned drug gang leader who claimed the government's key witness made up his story.
Convertino is seeking damages under the First Amendment and Privacy Act, alleging he has been subjected to an internal investigation as retaliation for his cooperation with the Senate and that information from the internal probe was wrongly leaked to news media. [...] Convertino also accused Justice officials of intentionally divulging the name of one of his confidential terrorism informants (CI) to retaliate against him.
The leak put the informant at grave risk, forced him to flee the United States and ''interfered with the ability of the United States to obtain information from the CI about current and future terrorist activities,'' the suit alleges.
The prosecutor is being represented by the National Whistleblower Center . . .
THE spymaster who helped to clear Downing Street of charges that it "sexed up" the Iraq dossier looks set to be rewarded for his loyalty by being appointed chief of MI6.
John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), has emerged as front- runner for the ?150,000-a-year post ahead of Nigel Inkster, the MI6 deputy chief and previous favourite.
Sources say Scarlett, 55, has won the crucial support of Tony Blair after his assured performance at the Hutton inquiry.
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Here's one for the "I've Been Watching Too Many "X-Files" File:" a man in Los Angeles claims Woodstock '99 was actually a government mind control experiment.
Robert Sterling, publisher of "The Konformist," an online publication for conspiracy theory lovers, says secret government operatives may have been behind the fiery riots which broke out Sunday night at the closing of Woodstock.
Sterling says the government often creates controlled riots to make citizens distrust each other and feel they can't be safe without a strong police presence.
He thinks most of the rabble-rousers at Woodstock were in fact government agents whose mission was to make the youthful music-lovers look violent and dangerous to the public.
One reason Sterling is suspicious about the Woodstock fiasco is because it took place on a declassified military base -- which are often the sites of government mind control experiments.
CONTACT: Robert Sterling, ****; LA; (310) 737-1081
interview with Salla from "For A Closer Look": Part 1 | Part 2
Former NBC producer Daniel Hopsicker connects some dots on his MadCowMorningNews 2004 02 25:
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RealVideo file and NBC News transcript of Meet the Press 2004 02 22:
Boston Globe has reported on John Forbes Kerry's collegiate Presidential ambitions:
