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5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Pearl Harbor Story Principal, September 14, 2010
By Thomas K. Kimmel Jr.

This review is from: Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy (Hardcover)
Percy and Bettina Greaves [Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 2010, 937 pages] never mention, but more than justify Vice President Joe Biden's pre-election comment that, "[The Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short matter] is the most tragic injustice in American military history." And they do so without ever using the word, conspiracy. Just the facts--mainly those uttered under oath by the principals involved, many who are thus injured by the testimony that they intended to use to injure others: Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark most notably. The fact that the Department of Defense remains almost willfully obtuse to these facts continues to disappoint; indeed, amaze.

In 2000, the Congress, led by then Senator Joe Biden, passed a law recommending that the President posthumously advance Kimmel and Short to their highest held temporary ranks in World War II in accordance with the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 from which they alone have been punitively excluded. Percy Greaves deceased in 1984, the same year that the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA) initiated the preceding action. Clearly, PHSA would have referenced this book in its decades long struggle had it been available to them. Before the sun finally sets on PHSA the matter should be revisited using this book as exhibit A+: a well-deserved A+.

The Seeds: A chronological trace of the conflicting forces from 1894 that led the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941. The chronology depicts a well-informed President secretly making, but not declaring war; or an innocently-surprised President honorably standing on principle. The reader is prompted to decide.
The Seeds alone is worth the price of the book, but the payoff is The Fruits.

The Fruits: Another chronology, but this time by a Pearl-Harbor story principal, Percy Greaves, who served as the minority counsel for the Joint Congressional Committee (JCC) investigating the attack. This makes the book perhaps the last first-hand account of the Pearl-Harbor story we will ever get, which by itself automatically makes the book unique, and important.

Greaves is at his best describing what he knows best, his work for JCC member Senator Homer Ferguson. Greaves suggested the lead that led to the highlight of the entire JCC proceeding--the testimony of Navy Commander Lester R. Schultz, who on December 6th delivered the 13th part of the 14-part Japanese response to the American Note of November 26, 1941, prompting the President to famously say, "This means war." This in turn prompted investigators to wonder if the President could possibly read this secret communication from the enemy, declare that, "this means war," and not immediately reach out for the heads of his army and navy. Thus begins the sycophantic stories of Marshall's mendacity and Stark's shame presented in their own disgraceful words chronologically.

Greaves presents news to this life-long student of the attack. Commander Joe Rochefort, the cyptographic hero of the June 4-7, 1941, Battle of Midway, inexplicably was also a casualty of the post-Pearl Harbor attack personnel changes and ordered in October 1942 to command a floating drydock in San Francisco. Enroute he serendipitously met Kimmel in New York and gave Kimmel his first hint that crucial information about Japanese intentions had been available in Washington prior to the attack, which had not been relayed to him in Pearl Harbor. This then may well have been the genesis of Kimmel's long march toward vindication, and helped explain why the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in Washington, D.C., which Kimmel was forced to rely on prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, was ignored by Kimmel's successor, Admiral Nimitz, after the attack. Indeed, ONI was not even aware of the Battle of Midway until it was over. Rochefort's belated vindication came posthumously in 1985 when awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

Bettina Greaves demonstrates enormous discipline by offering almost nothing that was learned after her husband deceased in 1984. This adds much to the credibility of the work, which, of course, is attributed to him. Nonetheless, Mrs. Greaves must have been sorely tempted to include a host of relevant information made public since 1984--a couple of examples should suffice for the point:

1. President Reagan's Director of Central Intelligence William Casey wrote in 1988 that, "The British had sent word that a Japanese fleet was steaming east toward Hawaii." (William Casey, The Secret War Against Hitler, 1988, p.7);

2. MI6's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Chairman Victor Cavendish-Bentinck reportedly said that, "We knew that [the Japanese Fleet] had changed course [by Friday, December 5, 1941]. I remember presiding over a JIC meeting and being told that a Japanese Fleet was sailing in the direction of Hawaii, asking `Have we informed our transatlantic brethren?' and receiving an affirmative reply." (Richard Aldrich, Intelligence and the War Against Japan, Cambridge Press, 2000, p.87);

3. Sir Julian Ridsdale, member of the JIC, "Recalled a JIC meeting at which radio silence adopted by the Japanese fleet was discussed and its possible destinations reviewed. Pearl Harbor was one of the targets thought most likely and as a result a warning telegram was despatched to Washington. [He later] met with Cavendish-Bentinck and confirmed that a warning telegram had been despatched." (Richard Aldrich, Intelligence and the War Against Japan, Cambridge Press, 2000, p.87);

4. Army Pearl Harbor Board (APHB) Member USA General Henry Russell's APHB reminiscences. (Henry Russell, Pearl Harbor Story, 2001 {written 1946});

5. Admiral Arthur McCollum's October 7, 1940 "Action Proposal" to D/ONI revealed in 1999 by Robert Stinnett, Day of Deceit.; and

6. VENONA declassification in 1995 by NSA confirming that Harry Dexter White and Launchlin Currie were Soviet spies.

Percy Greaves once wrote that there was no need to go beyond the known facts in telling the Pearl Harbor story. He was correct, and this book is testament to a noble effort to get the facts straight as he knew them.
Regards,
Tom Kimmel

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SSCI Report Reveals CIA Torture Program Originated in Same Department as MKULTRA


Thursday December 11, 2014 12:47 am


The release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) executive summary(PDF) to their report, “Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program,” has rightly gotten a wide amount of press coverage.

The sheer brutality of the program’s use of torture is overwhelming, from the use of forced enemas on detainees — the CIA called it “rectal hydration” and “rectal feeding” — to intense use of solitary confinement, threats to kill prisoners’ families, homicide, and more. Revelations from this report will continue to be reported and absorbed into the world’s understanding of the criminal extent of the U.S. torture program for months or years to come.

But one revelation has gone notably unreported. The man associated with implementing the most brutal part of the interrogation program was drawn out of the same division of the CIA that some decades ago had been responsible for the notorious MKULTRA program. As a CIA history of OTS explains, MKULTRA “involved Agency funding for the testing and use of chemical and biological agents and other means of controlling or modifying human behavior” (p. 19).

OTS Contractor James Mitchell Comes to Thailand

According to the SSCI report, James Mitchell, one of the two CIA contractor psychologists widely associated with the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program, was working for the CIA’s Office of Technical Services (OTS). In late 2001, Mitchell and his former psychologist associate at the military’s Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), John Bruce Jessen, were “commissioned” by OTS to write a study based on a purported Al Qaeda manual, called the Manchester Manual, after the city in England where the document was discovered.

The paper Mitchell and Jessen produced supposedly addressed countermeasures to interrogation that were discussed in the manual. According to the SSCI investigation, we learn for the first time that Mitchell was working for the CIA’s OTS at the time he was ostensibly recruited or volunteered for the CIA’s new interrogation program.

The Senate report states that Mitchell and Jessen were central in advocating a set of torture techniques that were gathered from the SERE training program for which they used to work at JPRA. SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, and is a long-standing Defense Department program that is meant to prepare military, intelligence, and other certain important government personnel for the rigors of capture and possible torture by a determined and ruthless enemy. But the narrative that Mitchell and Jessen were solely responsible for the program, or that they even originated it, is not totally true.

According to the SSCI report, on or around April 1, 2002, Mitchell was recommended from within OTS for the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, then being touted as a major Al Qaeda figure (he wasn’t):

While Abu Zubaydah was still hospitalized, personnel at CIA Headquarters began discussing how CIA officers would interrogate Abu Zubaydah upon his return to DETENTION SITE GREEN [CIA's Thailand black site]. The initial CIA interrogation proposal recommended that the interrogators engage with Abu Zubaydah to get him to provide information, and suggested that a “hard approach,” involving foreign government personnel, be taken “only as a last resort.” At a meeting about this proposal, [1-2 words redacted] CTC Legal, [2-3 words redacted] recommended that a psychologist working on contract in the CIA’s Office of Technical Services (OTS), Grayson SWIGERT [James Mitchell], be used by CTC to “provide real-time recommendations to overcome Abu Zubaydah’s “resistance to interrogation.” SWIGERT had come to [1-2 words redacted]‘s attention through [2-3 words redacation] who worked in OTS. Shortly thereafter, CIA Headquarters formally proposed that Abu Zubaydah be kept in an all-white room that was lit 24 hours a day, that Abu Zubaydah not be provided any amenities, that his sleep be disrupted, that loud noise be constantly fed into his cell, and that only a small number of people interact with him. CIA records indicate that these proposals were based on the idea that such conditions would lead Abu Zubaydah to develop a sense of “learned helplessness.” CIA Headquarters then sent an interrogation team to Country [one letter redaction, but represents most likely Thailand], including SWIGERT [Mitchell], whose initial role was to consult on the psychological aspects of the interrogation. [pg. 26 of report; footnote notations have been removed from original]

“Novel interrogation methods”

On April 1, 2002, a cable was sent from OTS at the request of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and ALEC Station, which was the group within CIA supposedly hunting down Osama bin Ladin, discussing the possible use of “novel interrogation methods” on Abu Zubaydah.

The new proposed interrogation strategy suggested “several environmental modifications to create an atmosphere that enhances the strategic interrogation process.” The cable continued, “[t]he deliberate manipulation of the environment is intended to cause psychological disorientation, and reduced psychological wherewithal for the interrogation,” as well as “the deliberate establishment of psychological dependence upon the interrogator,” and “an increased sense of learned helplessness.”

“Learned helplessness” (LH) was a theory associated with a famous American psychologist, Martin Seligman. LH was a lab-derived set of propositions which postulated that when an animal (or human being) is faced with inescapable shock or otherwise unescapable or uncontrolled stress, the ability to cope collapses. LH has long been a theoretical model used to explain clinical depression, for instance.

Seligman is believed to have met with James Mitchell on three occasions. Seligman admits having met both Mitchell and Jessen at a SERE event in San Diego in May 2002. He also confirmed to me in an email that press reports were correct and that he met with Mitchell at Seligman’s home in December 2001. But he denied an account by Georgetown professor Gregg Bloche that he met Mitchell yet again in late March or very early April 2002, only days before Mitchell flew to Thailand for the interrogation/torture of Abu Zubaydah. Seligman said that account, supposedly given to Bloche by CIA psychologist Kirk Hubbard, was “fiction.” Nevertheless, Bloche has never rescinded his story, nor has Hubbard ever disavowed his alleged account, at least publicly.

The meetings with Seligman, in conjunction with the fact Mitchell was brought into the CIA interrogation program as a contractor for OTS, strongly suggests that the implementation of the torture program and use of SERE techniques was not solely the brainchild of James Mitchell, or Mitchell and Jessen together. Instead, it seems more likely, for reasons that will be further explored below, that the program was initiated by OTS itself, and constituted at least in part an experimental program. What exactly the experiment consisted is not totally clear. But it may have involved the use of wireless or other medical devices to measure biological markers of “uncontrollable stress,” in an effort to establish a scientific calibration of torture and overall behavioral or mental control of prisoners. That such a “mind control” effort would originate or be carried out by the same institution that spent millions of dollars on the MKULTRA program is not difficult to believe.

It’s impossible to know if the SSCI report ever mentions Seligman, as the report redacted or used pseudonyms for CIA agents and other personnel.

Where exactly did the EITs originate?

By July 2012, the report goes on to say that Mitchell and other CIA officers “held several meetings at CIA Headquarters to discuss the possible use of ‘novel interrogation methods’ on Abu Zubaydah.” It is worth noting that up to that point, the CIA had used extreme isolation, sensory deprivation, denial of medical treatment and sleep deprivation on Abu Zubaydah. The “enhanced interrogation” torture had not even begun. Meanwhile, while the FBI agents present had complaints about CIA’s approach, they had participated in some of this up to mid-June 2002, when all the interrogators abruptly left, leaving Zubaydah in total isolation for over a month. (One FBI agent, Ali Soufan, had left even earlier, in May, upset over how the CIA was handling the interrogation.)

According to SSCI authors, at these July meetings Mitchell proposed a number of techniques that later became the full “enhanced interrogation program,” including at least one, “mock burial,” that was ultimately rejected. The techniques were drawn from the SERE program Mitchell had worked in for years. But instead of familiarizing students with what such torture should look like, and helping them practice ways to survive or resist such torture, now the techniques would be applied to break down prisoners.

Oddly, the CIA’s 2013 response to the SSCI on these matters, argued the turn towards torture did not originate with Mitchell. This is in contrast to mainstream reports about the origins of the EIT program, but it is consistent with the facts as stated by the SSCI itself in the report’s executive summary.

According to the CIA, “Drs. [SWIGERT] and [DUNBAR] [Mitchell and Jessen] had the closest proximate expertise CIA sought at the beginning of the program, specifically in the area of non-standard means of interrogation. Experts on traditional interrogation methods did not meet this requirement. Non-standard interrogation methodologies were not an area of expertise of CIA officers or of the US Government generally. We believe their expertise was so unique that we would have been derelict had we not sought them out when it became clear that CIA would be heading into the uncharted territory of the program” (italics and emphasis in original).”

The SSCI report editorializes: “As noted above, the CIA did not seek out SWIGERT and DUNBAR after a decision was made to use coercive interrogation techniques; rather, SWIGERT and DUNBAR played a role in convincing the CIA to adopt such a policy.”

Certainly Mitchell and Jessen “played a role,” but that is not the same as originating the program. Indeed, much later in the report, SSCI explains that in the April 1 meeting, the interrogation proposals then under consideration came from Mitchell/SWIGERT “and the CIA OTS Officer who had recommended SWIGERT to [1-2 words redacted].” Mitchell is said to be advocating even then the development of “learned helplessness” in CIA prisoners. (See pp. 463-464).

It is worth repeating: it was CTC and ALEC Station which initiated the request for “novel” techniques from OTS, and later apparently asked for Mitchell to come to Thailand.

I don’t think we know the full story yet. For instance, for some reason, the SSCI report does not include the fact that the OTS was the department of the CIA that sent data on the effects from SERE torture techniques to the Office of Legal Council, which under John Yoo was writing an opinion that would allow the CIA to “legally” use the controversial techniques, which the CIA knew could be considered torture.

OTS, MKULTRA, and SERE Research

OTS’s role in vetting the EITs was mentioned in the CIA’s Inspector General report on the interrogation program. Like other aspects of the torture scandal concerning the OTS division of the CIA, the press has generally ignored this. But this was something I reported on back in 2009, when the IG report was first released.

The fact OTS was involved in vetting the EITs to OLC gains greater significance when you realize that James Mitchell was working with OTS, and that OTS and their contractor Mitchell were intricately involved with both CTC and ALEC Station in creating the torture program.

There’s one final aspect to the OTS angle worth mentioning. OTS apparently told OLC that the SERE techniques would not seriously harm CIA prisoners. But that was certainly wrong. Moreover, it’s highly unlikely OTS didn’t know that.

OTS has been part of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T) since the early 1970s. It was transferred from the Directorate of Plans (clandestine operations, renamed around that time, the Directorate of Operations). OTS had earlier gone under other names itself, including Technical Service Staff and Technical Services Division. OTS and its predecessors had been involved in arranging the technical aspect of covert operations, including audio surveillance, forgery, secret writing, spy paraphenalia, sophisticated electronics, and assassination devices.

Then, there was the massive MKULTRA project, which had other names as well, and was coordinated in various ways with similar military programs. MKULTRA had well

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FBI's 2001 Anthrax Attack Probe Was Seriously Flawed
One genetic test had a 43 percent false negative rate, casting doubt on conclusions, says U.S. oversight report

December 29, 2014

|By Rebecca Trager and ChemistryWorld
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The scientific evidence that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) relied upon to investigate the October 2001 anthrax attacks – and ultimately identify the culprit after his suicide – was deeply flawed, according to a new report from the congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The GAO found that the FBI lacked a comprehensive approach or framework to standardize the genetic testing used to track down the culprit. It also found that each of the FBI’s four contractors developed different tests and there was no statistical confidence for interpreting the results.

These genetic analyses were used to link the material found in the anthrax-laden letters to the laboratory of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefence researcher at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. In February 2010, the FBI formally concluded that Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008, was solely responsible for the attacks.

‘The lack of an understanding of how bacteria change (mutate) in their natural environment and in a laboratory is a key scientific gap that remains and could affect testing conducted in future incidents,’ the GAO concluded. Specifically, the office said the significance of using such mutations as genetic markers to analyse samples to determine their origins remains unclear.

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THE PAINES' FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE PROMINENT INTELLIGENCE FIGURES
Michael's mother was with the Forbes family

Last time, we looked at the backgrounds of Michael and Ruth Paine. Who were the guiding forces in their lives?

Michael's mother Ruth Forbes was part of the prominent Forbes family. Ruth Forbes was active with the Universal World Federalists during the period right after World War II that legend maker #2 Cord Meyer was the group's leader.

Although he remained an avowed liberal, Meyer hewed towards a hardcore anti-Communist approach after surviving a bruising security investigation conducted by the FBI in the mid-fifties. During the late fifties and the sixties, Meyer served in the CIA as its covert action chief. In 1963, Meyer and Des FitzGerald were Richard Helms' two right-hand men in planning covert actions in Cuba.

Michael's birth father George Lyman Paine had belonged for many years to a Trotskyist socialist splinter group known as the Johnson-Forest Faction. Although Lyman was on the FBI's Security Index, it didn't prevent Michael from getting a security clearance at Bell Helicopter.

Ruth Forbes and Lyman Paine were good friends and drinking buddies with Mary Bancroft, a well-connected spy and the paramour of CIA chief Allen Dulles. If Cord Meyer had not known about Ruth and Michael Paine, it wouldn't have taken Dulles thirty seconds to fill him in.

Dulles was handed a long memo from a "source" about the Paines shortly after the assassination. The reference to knowing Michael personally "until he was seven years old" fits perfectly with when Ruth and Lyman separated. Other items in the report indicate that the source could have been Dulles' former paramour Mary Bancroft.

After the assassination, Fred and Nancy Osborn went to the FBI to vouch for the Paines' good character. Fred's father, Fred Osborn, Sr., had helped create Radio Free Europe, and later worked with Allen Dulles and Time/Life/Fortune officer C. D. Jackson to form the Crusade for Freedom (CFF), an early CIA project that was modeled after Radio Free Europe. CFF merged with Radio Free Europe in 1962.

Ruth's sister Sylvia, and brother-in-law John

In a heavily redacted document, the FBI was informed that Ruth's sister Sylvia Hyde Hoke was Naval Intelligence and was trying t o obtain a top secret clearance. As we will see, her family's relationship with an attorney allegedly involved with Soviet espionage killed that opportunity in 1958.

Hoke had clearances from AID for many years, and a CIA memorandum indicated that she was a CIA employee in 1961. Hoke had also worked with the Air Force as a personnel research technician in 1956-57 and had a final secret clearance.

Sylvia's husband John Hoke also worked with AID as a "communications resources specialist" . His obituary states that he was fired in 1962 for building a solar-powered boat and attacked by a congressman not yet ready for the notion. Besides working with AID, Hoke provided services to the CIA on a yearly basis with a top secret clearance until at least mid-1963.

Ruth's father William Avery Hyde was AID's Regional Insurance Adviser for all of South America. His job was to provide technical assistance to insurance cooperatives being set up by the State Department. For many years, Bill Hyde was employed by the NationwideInsurance Company, which was part of the Farm Bureau co-operative in Columbus, Ohio.

As mentioned in Chapter 7, it helps to take a look at two separate but closely linked entities. Bill Hyde's Nationwide Insurance Company was part of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), founded in 1922 and which still exists today. This is easily confused with the International Cooperation Administration (ICA), formed in 1954 and where legend maker #9 George de Mohrenschildt conducted petroleum intelligence in the fifties.

The International Cooperation Administration then merged with the Development Loan Fund and was re-named as the Agency for International Development (AID) as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The thing to remember is that these two organizations calling themselves "ICA" were very closely allied. The similarity of their names is not coincidental.

The Agency for International Development has been cited by Ohio governor and AID director John Gilligan as being filled with CIA agents "from top to bottom". The idea was to plant operatives in every kind of activity we had overseas, government, volunteer, religious, every kind."

The most famous example of a CIA man that used AID as cover was Dan Mitrione, who tortured the Tupamaros of Uraguay until he was kidnapped in a famous standoff that inspired Costa-Gavras' movie State of S iege.

Hyde was no Dan Mitrione. The CIA admitted on 12/3/63 that the International Organizations division of the CIA was considering using William Hyde for covert use in 1957; however, it claims that he didn't "receive a security clearance". This was the terrain of Cord Meyer, who was the IO chief for years and oversaw the division's name change to "Covert Action".

Based on information from the CIA's molehunting unit CI/SIG, the FBI wrote a telling report on William Hyde: "On December 4, 1963, CIA made available information to the Bureau Liaison that in 1957 CIA considered using this individual to operate a cooperative educational center in Vietnam but he was not used by the CIA. Investigation by CIA at that time concerning William Avery Hyde was favorable."

Ruth Paine commented: "The information about the CIA considering my father for Vietnam was a surprise. I doubt if he would have accepted such an invitation, if it was offered. He certainly didn't go. He went to Peru. He was working with the Agency for International Development. He helped to develop rural credit unions for the compasinos so that they could save enough money to make loans to themselves, instead of always paying the huge bank rates. He loved it. I know that USAID asked my father to appraise a situation in Georgetown, Guiana. He recommended against starting a project there, as he thought the local officials corrupt."

Bill Hyde was also a strong anti-communist. Dr. Richard Jenkins of the Psychiatric Evaluation Board in Washington DC went to Stanford with the Hydes, and said that "Bill Hyde had been active in the cooperative movement and therefore was aware of the attempts of the Communists to infililtrate the cooperative movement."

Like Hyde, the Hoke family was also involved in looking for communists. There is a 1955 memo to the CIA's Office of Security, discussing how William Avery Hyde was back in his hometown of Palo Alto visiting the Hokes. Brought into the circle was Dr. Jenkins and also Taylor Bielefeldt,

Bielefeldt was the CIA chief of the USSR Division of the Foreign Documents Division, who had spent a lot of time with Ruth's parents William and Carol Hyde in the 1920s and 1930s. Bielefeldt's division worked with the Joint Publications Research Service, a CIA unit that monitored public documents to study scientific and technical developments in the Soviet bloc.

Several people close to Oswald were also active in the Joint Publications Research Service. These people include legend maker #3 Priscilla Johnson, the NANA reporter in Moscow who befriended the Oswald family; legend maker #4 Richard Snyder, the American consul in Moscow; and the allegedly unwitting Spas Raikin, who greeted the Oswald family when they arrived in New York City from the USSR in 1962.

The 1955 memo mentions that Hoke, Bielefeldt and the aforementioned Dr. Richard Jenkins were all Stanford graduates. Hoke has been described as "a very brilliant person who is not very stable but who is very creative."

The focus of the 1955 meeting was about Paul and Violet Orr. Both were Communist Party members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Paul had just been harshly interrogated by HUAC earlier that year. Violet had worked in the 1930s in the CP-friendly American League Against War and Fascism, just as Harvey's informant Elizabeth Bentley had done. In more recent years, Violet had been part of the visible Communist Party leadership.

Two days after the memo, a wiretap revealed that former CP member Dorothy Wilson allegedly claimed that Ruth Paine's mother Carol Hyde - the aforementioned Unitarian minister - admitted to being a communist. Another neighbor later reported hearing this rumor.

Ruth's sister Sylvia admitted a year later that Dorothy Wilson worked at the publishing company run by her mother-in-law Helen Hoke Watts, and that Wilson had edited a book jointly written by her husband John Hoke and Mrs. Watts. Sylvia denied that her mother Carol Hyde was a communist, saying that her mother was suffering from a mental disorder.

At the time, Sylvia was supposedly working as a personnel research technician for the Air Force. However, a February 1957 memo revealed that Sylvia had been working in a semi-secret position for Naval Intelligence, and had lost her shot at a top secret position because of the Dorothy Wilson-Helen Hoke Watts relationship.

Ruth Paine made a point of telling FBI agent Jim Hosty in the weeks before the assassination that Oswald was a "Trotskyite communist". Although Oswald subscribed to both the Trotskyist newspaper and the Communist Party newspaper, he maintained that he was not a follower of either ideological persuasion.

It is reasonable to judge Ruth Paine by her family ties. Like legend maker #3 Priscilla Johnson and legend maker #9 George de Mohrenschildt, Ruth's family may have triggered too many security disapprovals for her to be put directly on the CIA payroll as an informant. Nonetheless, she had substantial ties to men such as Frederick Merrill and Fred Osborn at the State Department, and friends in common with Allen Dulles and Cord Meyer at the CIA.

There was nothing illegal about the Paines acting as an intelligence source about Soviet-related activities during the Cold War; or, at a minimum, being used as a witting or unwitting asset. That's why Hoover and the CIA treated Ruth and Michael with kid gloves, despite the Hyde family's deep left-wing background and the high-profile history of Lyman Paine in the Trotskyist movement.

The CIA made it its business to get to know people on the Left. Many of them provided the Agency with little gems about their Cold War enemies.

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How Ruth's machinations got Oswald the job at the Texas School Book Depository

Let's return to the story of what Oswald was doing in the weeks immediately leading up to 11/22/63.

When Lee needed a job in Dallas during October, 1963, the Warren Commission says that it was Ruth who set him up working the boxes on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository, thanks to a tip from neighbor Buell Wesley Frazier's sister Linnie Mae Randle. The Book Depository was an ideal spot along the motorcade route for a sniper to take a shot at the President.

Ruth said she bitterly regretted her role in finding Oswald the Book Depository job. I believe that is true, but the Commission ignored Randle's statement that she did not know of any jobs available at the depository during that time.

Furthermore, the Warren Commission suppressed the information that Paine hid from Oswald that Robert Adams from the Texas Employment Commission had left a message at her home in an effort to tell Oswald that a job was available with Trans Texas Airways which would have paid much more money than the Depository job. Paine would not admit receiving that message.

Adams remembered the details of this story in August 1964, after he had for some strange reasons denied telephoning for Oswald when originally quizzed by the Warren Commission in April.

There is a phone number in Oswald's phone book that should be Robert Adams' number, but it reads as "Robert Odum". This is beyond Oswald's normal misspellings. Did Odum have some kind of relationship with Oswald? Was this some kind of Freudian slip?

Odum was all over this case before and after 11/22. I will discuss more of Odum's post-11/22 actions in the epilogue.

By the end, even the general counsel of the Warren Commission realized something was deeply wrong with the Oswald story

What is particularly interesting to me is how even J. Lee Rankin, the general counsel of the Warren Commission, was forced to conclude in the last month of the investigation that something in the Oswald story was deeply wrong.

Deadlines had come and gone. LBJ had made it clear that the report had to be done by the end of September, well before the 1964 presidential election.

At the beginning of September, counsel Rankin wrote a four-page memo to Hoover, telling him that the Commission needed to review the evidence around several individuals: The grocer Leonard Hutchison, the barber Cliff Shasteen, the auto salesman Albert Bogard, and the gun owner Garland Slack. The backstory involving all four of these men led right back to the Paines. It would have been hard for Rankin to ignore it.

Special Agent Richard Rogge observed that these events are based on stories that "generally do not adhere to facts developed by us", and claimed that the re-investigation of these witnesses only further supported the FBI's version of the facts. Rogge testified that the reason that the FBI had jurisdiction in the JFK case was because of "presidential directive" from LBJ himself.

Rankin's concern was well-founded. The evidence involving these four men didn't add up.

Leonard Hutchison, the Irving grocer

The Irving grocer, Leonard Hutchison, remembered refusing "Harvey Oswald's" request trying to cash a $189 two-party check. It was not a payroll check. Oswald got paid $1.25 an hour at the book depository. That kind of money was beyond his means.

Hutchison also said that Oswald always bought a gallon of milk and cinnamon rolls, and only on weekdays in the early morning. Not only did no one remember seeing Oswald bring home those items, but Oswald was only in Irving on the weekends.

Hutchison identified Oswald as weighing 155-160 pounds, and indicated that he had plenty of hair. He was intrigued by how Oswald never said a word to him -- not even hello or goodbye - except for the time he tried to cash that big check.

[msfreeh]

Hebdo shooters were on terrorist watch lists, like Tsarnaevs

January 11 2015


A week after an apparently random shooting in Paris left 12 people dead in the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, talk is turning to the gunmens' documented history of terrorist convictions and activities.
Last week USA Today reported:
Cherif Kouachi was well known to French law enforcement. At 26, he was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise for his conviction in 2008 as part of a group of seven men. The group, known as the 19th Arrondissement Network for the working class Paris district where it was based, allegedly recruited young men, arranged for weapons training and helped them travel though Syria to Iraq. Police arrested Kouachi in January 2005, days before he allegedly planned to travel to Syria.
The report states that Kouachi helped recruit fighters for Al Qaeda in Iraq. Both Kouachi and his brother Said had just returned from Syria last summer. A third suspect drove the getaway car.
The UK Guardian notes:
All three had well-documented ties to extremist networks and Islamist preachers, and their journeys to radicalisation had been keenly mapped by the legal system.
The Guardian reports that both French and US spy agencies had classified the two brothers as “very high” priority terrorist suspects.
The presence of the suspects on multiple terrorist watch lists recalls the Boston Marathon bombing, when it emerged that the suspects, again two brothers, had previously been interviewed by the Boston counter-terrorism office of the FBI, and one of them, the deceased Tamerlan, had been placed on at least two terrorist watch lists by that office, just two years before the bombing.
Like the Paris shooters, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had also just returned from a violent jihadist hotspot, Chechnya, less than a year before the Boston attack. In that incident the FBI initially denied having had contact with the brothers


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[msfreeh]

notice spin....
FBI SPY Hunter....
sounds pretty awesome,

you know the media and judge are in on
the sentencing fix, eh?



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Judge: Ex-FBI 'spy hunter' can talk to witnesses


Jan 12 2015

WHITE PLAINS – A former FBI "spy hunter" from Sleepy Hollow has been given permission to talk to potential witnesses in his federal corruption case as he prepares for sentencing later this year.

Robert Lustyik, who pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to running a bribery scheme with his childhood friend, wanted contact with witnesses "to secure letters of support and other documents and information in preparation for sentence."
Lustyik, 52, is free on a combined $2 million bail as he awaits sentencing in the New York case and a separate case Utah. His bail conditions in New York prohibited him from contacting "witnesses or potential witnesses," and from having "contact with law enforcement officers except his brother" — a former Tarrytown police officer.
Lustyik's lawyer, Robert Soloway asked for those restrictions to be lifted last week, and U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccett approved the request on Monday.
Lustyik admitted that he agreed to release a confidential government report on a Bangladeshi political figure in exchange for bribes. Lustyik's childhood friend, Johannes Thaler, 51, a former Tarrytown resident, and a third man, Rizve Ahmed, were also indicted in 2013 and pleaded guilty earlier in the case.
In Utah, Lustyik and Thaler were charged in 2012 with collecting bribes to thwart an unrelated government probe of a controversial defense contractor. Federal prosecutors in Salt Lake City said they were paid $200,000 and were promised more from contractor Michael Taylor.
Lustyik, Thaler and Taylor all pleaded guilty to charges in that case.

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Why did the FBI detain Bob Graham?


Going to lunch with former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham can be hazardous to retirement.

And extremely interesting.

Take the recent Sunday when my husband and I met Graham, his wife, Adele, and daughter, U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham of Tallahassee, for lunch at Randevu, a small restaurant in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Over eggs benedict and cheese grits, Graham updated us on his continuing fight to force the FBI to disclose reports documenting the involvement of a Saudi Arabian family that left Sarasota in great haste 11 days before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Graham, a former legislator and governor who served in the Senate from 1987 to 2005, is absolutely convinced that the hijackers had outside help from Saudi Arabian officials. The official position of the U.S. government is that the 19 hijackers acted without assistance. He says high level law enforcement officials have told him to "forget it.''

And then he told us about the day in 2011 when he and Adele were heading to the Washington, D.C., area to spend Thanksgiving with one of their daughters.

As they stepped off an airplane at Dulles International Airport, two FBI agents approached and asked the Grahams to accompany them to a nearby agency office.

Graham had not informed the FBI that he was traveling to the Washington area and to this day does not know how they knew where he planned to spend Thanksgiving or what airplane he would be aboard.

A little scary huh? Perhaps his phone is on the NSA's list.

The agents escorted the Grahams to a nearby office where Sean M. Joyce, the deputy director of the FBI, awaited. The No. 2 guy in the entire agency had traveled out from the District of Columbia to meet him.

Graham said he didn't feel threatened by the sudden attention from FBI agents because he thought the agency was finally going to release information he had been requesting for months.

He had received an email from a White House aide on Sept. 15 saying the FBI would be in touch with him to answer questions he had raised in an attempt to get the White House to force release of the FBI's investigation into the situation in Sarasota on 9/11.

The FBI had told Graham that they had released the information to the 9/11 Commission and congressional investigators. He says both groups received nothing that mentioned Sarasota from the FBI.

So his immediate reaction to being stopped by federal agents was to hope they would finally respond to his questions.

When they reached the FBI office at Dulles, Mrs, Graham was placed in a room by herself while Graham was ushered in to see Joyce.

After some period of time Mrs. Graham knocked on the door of her cell-like room and asked for something to read. Someone gave her an FBI Training Manual, noting that was all they had lying around.

Meanwhile, Joyce was telling Graham that the FBI had done a thorough job investigating all of the events in Sarasota and concluded there was no communication between the Saudi family that fled and the 9/11 hijackers who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center.

Forgive Graham for doubting the FBI. But he had just seen some FBI reports and a Florida Bulldog story about the investigation of the Sarasota family. It included interviews with guards at the gated subdivision where the Saudi family lived and an allegation that cars linked to Mohamed Atta and other Saudi pilots who trained in Florida had been frequent visitors to the Saudi-owned house in Prestancia, south of Sarasota. Atta had trained at a nearby Venice airport where a member of the Saudi family also took flying lessons.

Graham had reason to be suspicious. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee when the 9/11 attacks occurred and co-chair of a joint congressional commission that investigated the attacks. From the very beginning, the commission and Congress requested all FBI reports on their investigation.

Graham said not one single report involving the Sarasota family was given to the commission until he began to ask questions 10 years later. He learned of the investigation from the Florida Bulldog authors. Later, after seeing some of the FBI reports, he tried to contact Gregory J. Sheffield, the FBI agent who wrote the report, only to find he had been transferred to Honolulu. He says the FBI also withheld reports involving a similar situation in San Diego, where two other hijackers lived.

The FBI has repeatedly claimed to find no connection between the Saudi family and the 9/11 hijackers. In a highly unusual move, the agency earlier this year issued a written statement calling that original FBI report "unsubstantiated and poorly written,'' a move that tossed their own agent under the bus.

In 2003, the commission that Graham co-chaired released a preliminary report on the hijackings, but a 28-page section of the report remains secret. Graham says the missing pages could buttress claims for justice by the families of 9/11 victims who filed suit against Saudi Arabia for allegedly financing the attacks. He has filed an affidavit supporting a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Florida Bulldog and other Florida newspapers seeking the missing pages.

Before his encounter with Joyce at Dulles in 2011, Graham left several messages for Sheffield that were not returned,

Graham says he told Joyce on that November day that he had seen two reports indicating that the ties between the family and the hijackers needed more investigation. He said Joyce told him that the reports were based on information that had been taken out of context by an agent and insisted Graham would understand if he saw the "full context.''

"I said I'd like to see the context,'' Graham recalled saying. Joyce scheduled a Dec. 7 meeting with Graham in Washington promising an agent would show him the "context.''

[Nebguy]

President Kennedy wasn't assassinated in Dallas. I have proof. He was whisked away via captured alien spacecraft from Area 51. He now resides with Elvis, Anastasia, and Bigfoot in the North Pole just down the street from Santa Claus. Save this post in case something happens to me. The FBI is using genetically cloned mutated nazis to make me "disappear". My guess is that they'll take me to the burmida triangle to the underwater command post the masons are using to control the moon! If I escape I'll contact you!

[msfreeh]

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FBI’s AMERITHRAX Case just unravelled. Ex-FBI agent who directed investigation suing FBI, turns whistleblower!!!
Posted April 8, 2015 8:40pm PDT by WashingtonsBlog

Preface by Washington’s Blog: See also 2 U.S. Government Agencies Say FBI’s Anthrax Case Is Full of Holes, and our archive of Anthrax articles.

By Meryl Nass, M.D. Dr. Nass is a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and expert in anthrax. Nass publishes Anthrax Vaccine.

Here is the Complaint, filed on April 2, 2015 alleging gross mishandling of the case on many levels, and concealment of evidence exonerating Bruce Ivins:

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Excerpts:

5. This complaint further details how Defendants’ derelict failure to perform their mandated legal duties to Plaintiff was driven by Defendants’ blinding animus toward Plaintiff for Plaintiff’s prior whistleblower reports of FBI and DOJ mismanagement of the FBI’s investigation into the anthrax attacks of 2001 (code named “AMERITHRAX”).

From pages 23 to 25:

50. In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New York were mailed on September 18, 2001, just seven days after the 9/11 attacks. The letters addressed to the senators were mailed 21 days later on October 9, 2001. A fifth mailing of anthrax is believed to have been directed to American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida based upon the death of one AMI employee from anthrax poisoning and heavy spore contamination in the building.

51. Executive management at FBI Headquarters assigned responsibility for the anthrax investigation (code named “AMERITHRAX”) to the Washington Field Office (WFO), dubbing it the single most important case in the FBI at that time.

52. In October 2002, in the wake of surging media criticism, White House impatience with a seeming lack of investigative progress by WFO, and a concerned Congress that was considering revoking the FBI’s charter to investigate terrorism cases, Defendant FBI Director Mueller reassigned Plaintiff from the FBI’s San Diego Field Office to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters and placed Plaintiff in charge of the AMERITHRAX case as an “Inspector.”While leading the investigation for the next four years, Plaintiff’s efforts to advance the case met with intransigence from WFO’s executive management, apathy and error from the FBI Laboratory, politically motivated communication embargos from FBI Headquarters, and yet another preceding and equally erroneous legal opinion from Defendant Kelley – all of which greatly obstructed and impeded the investigation.

53. On July 6, 2006, Plaintiff provided a whistleblower report of mismanagement to the FBI’s Deputy Director pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 2303. Reports of mismanagement conveyed in writing and orally included: (a) WFO’s persistent understaffing of the AMERITHRAX investigation; (b) the threat of WFO’s Agent in charge to retaliate if Plaintiff disclosed the understaffing to FBI Headquarters; (c) WFO’s insistence on staffing the AMERITHRAX investigation principally with new Agents recently graduated from the FBI Academy resulting in an average investigative tenure of 18 months with 12 of 20 Agents assigned to the case having no prior investigative experience at all; (d) WFO’s eviction of the AMERITHRAX Task Force from the WFO building in downtown Washington and its relegation to Tysons Corner, Virginia to free up space for Attorney General Ashcroft’s new pornography squads; (e) FBI Director’s Mueller’s mandate to Plaintiff to “compartmentalize” the AMERITHRAX investigation by stove piping the flow of case information and walling off task force members from those aspects of the case not specifically assigned to them – a move intended to stem the tide of anonymous media leaks by government officials regarding details of the investigation. This sequestration edict decimated morale and proved unnecessary in light of subsequent civil litigation which established that the media leaks were attributable to the United States Attorney for the District of the District of Columbia and to a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s National Press Office, not to investigators on the AMERITHRAX Task Force; (f) WFO’s diversion and transfer of two Ph.D. Microbiologist Special Agents from their key roles in the investigation to fill billets for an 18 month Arabic language training program in Israel; (g) the FBI Laboratory’s deliberate concealment from the Task Force of its discovery of human DNA on the anthrax-laden envelope addressed to Senator Leahy and the Lab’s initial refusal to perform comparison testing; (h) the FBI Laboratory’s refusal to provide timely and adequate scientific analyses and forensic examinations in support of the investigation; (i) Defendant Kelley’s erroneous and subsequently quashed legal opinion that regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) precluded the Task Force’s collection of evidence in overseas venues; (j) the FBI’s fingering of Bruce Ivins as the anthrax mailer; and, (k) the FBI’s subsequent efforts to railroad the prosecution of Ivins in the face of daunting exculpatory evidence. Following the announcement of its circumstantial case against Ivins, Defendants DOJ and FBI crafted an elaborate perception management campaign to bolster their assertion of Ivins’ guilt. These efforts included press conferences and highly selective evidentiary presentations which were replete with material omissions. Plaintiff further objected to the FBI’s ordering of Plaintiff not to speak with the staff of the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes or
investigative journalist David Willman, after both requested authorization to interview Plaintiff.

54. In April 2008, some of Plaintiff’s foregoing whistleblower reports were profiled on the CBS television show 60 Minutes. This 60 Minutes segment was critical of FBI executive management’s handling of the AMERITHRAX investigation, resulting in the agency’s embarrassment and the introduction of legislative bills calling for the establishment of congressional inquiries and special commissions to examine these issues – a level of scrutiny the FBI’s Ivins attribution could not withstand.

55. After leaving the AMERITHRAX investigation in 2006, Plaintiff continued to publicly opine that the quantum of circumstantial evidence against Bruce Ivins was not adequate to satisfy the proof-beyond-a-reasonable doubt threshold required to secure a criminal conviction in federal court. Plaintiff continued to advocate that while Bruce Ivins may have been the anthrax mailer, there is a wealth of exculpatory evidence to the contrary which the FBI continues to conceal from Congress and the American people. The FBI vehemently opposes Plaintiff’s position.

[Nebguy]

Still at it? Really? Still waiting on the "FBI assassinated Bambi's mom" thread.

[msfreeh]

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nday, September 7, 2015
The Real Afghanistan Surge is Increased Afghan Opium Production and a Surge in Overdoses and Addiction Since the US Occupation Began

Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything like it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents. Nationwide, CDC noted, "Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013."

I've heard stories on NPR about insufficient state funding of heroin treatment facilities. I've heard about plans to make Narcan injections available to iv drug users, for overdoses. Another popular angle (and one currently pushed by the US Drug Enforcement Agency) claims prescription narcotics became harder to get, so users switched to heroin, instead.

However, the DOJ-DEA 2014 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary notes that cocaine availability "remains stable at historically low levels throughout most domestic markets along the East Coast." So users are switching to heroin, but not switching to cocaine from prescription narcotics. Hmmm. Might this be because we have no large military-CIA presence currently in cocaine-trafficking areas, as we did during the 1980s Contra war in Nicaragua, when cocaine use was at high levels? (Coca leaves are only grown in Latin America.) According to a 2010 UN document, "Based on seizure figures, it appears that cocaine markets grew most dramatically during the 1980s, when the amounts seized increased by more than 40% per year". (See this 1987 Senate hearing and this for evidence of CIA and State Dept. connivance with cocaine trafficking by the Contras.)

You can frame stories about the current heroin problem in many ways. But the real heroin story isn't being discussed--which is that since the US military entered Afghanistan in 2001, its opium production doubled, per the UN Afghanistan Opium Survey, 2014 , p.34. The area under opium cultivation in Afghanistan tripled. And the resulting heroin appears to more easily make its way deep into our rural, as well as urban communities. The graph below is from the 2014 UN Opium Survey:



The world supply of opium increased 5-fold between 1980 and 2010, according to the UN."Afghanistan account for around 90% of global illicit opium production in recent years. By itself, Afghanistan provides 85% of the estimated global heroin and morphine supply, a near monopoly."(see pp 37-38).
“The narcotics trade poisons the Afghan financial sector and undermines the Afghan state’s legitimacy by stoking corruption, sustaining criminal networks, and providing significant financial support to the Taliban and other insurgent groups,” John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction, said in an October 2014 letter to the heads of the Departments of Defense, State and Justice, which have all played major roles in the failed drug intervention effort. “Despite spending over $7 billion to combat opium poppy cultivation and to develop the Afghan government’s counter-narcotics capacity, opium poppy cultivation levels in Afghanistan hit an all-time high in 2013."
Despite the (now) US $8.4 billion spent to defeat this trade, it just keeps growing. The costs of US reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan total "$110 billion, after adjusting for inflation, [which] exceeds the value of the entire Marshall Plan effort to rebuild Western Europe after World War II" according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, speaking in May 2015.

The Special Inspector General noted elsewhere that, "US reconstruction projects, particularly those devoted to “improved irrigation, roads, and agricultural assistance” were probably leading to the explosion in opium cultivation."

Only 1.2% of the acreage used for Afghan opium production (est. 224,000 hectares) was eradicated in 2014, according to the UN. Also according to the UN, Burma is the world's second largest producer of opium, currently growing only about 10% as much as Afghanistan. But Mexico has been increasing production.

According to the UN World Drug Report, in the 1990's Afghanistan supplied opium that was converted into half the world's heroin production. By 2010, it supplied 90% of the total.

But the DEA, White House and other official US sources claim that US heroin derives almost entirely (96%) from Latin American opium (based on seizures of shipments); the DEA in 2014 claimed that Latin America was the source for the vast majority of US heroin, with southwest Asia (i.e., Afghanistan) accounting for only 4% of US heroin in 2012.

This is highly unlikely. In 2008, the UN estimated that the US and Canada accounted for 13% of global heroin use. With about 95% of global heroin derived from Afghanistan, Burma, Thailand and Laos, Latin America (mainly Mexico with a small amount from Colombia) does not produce enough to supply the majority of US heroin, let alone 96%. In fact, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy undercuts this claim when it says Mexico had 10,500 hectares under poppy cultivation in 2012, while Afghanistan alone had 154,000 hectares in 2012 and 224,000 hectares in 2014, per UN estimates.

This DEA claim, based on heroin interdiction, suggests a different explanation. Perhaps heroin shipments from Afghanistan are at lower risk of being seized than heroin coming from Latin America. Might some be entering through government channels, when so much materiel and so many personnel (soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and contractors) fly directly between the US and Afghanistan?

Putting aside the issue of the provenance of the US heroin supply for the moment, surely we can look at heroin as we would any other global commodity.

Congruent with the US occupation of Afghanistan, Afghanistan expanded its opium production, and the global supply of heroin increased dramatically. The price dropped as a result. New buyers entered the market. And the US now has several hundred thousand new addicts. Russia and Europe have even more. The resulting social problems are hugely tragic and hugely costly for millions of families, and for our societies as a whole.

If we start being honest about why there is a major heroin epidemic, maybe we can get serious about solving the problem with meaningful eradication and interdiction. Aerial spraying of crops with herbicides or similar methods has been prohibited in Afghanistan, but it works.

Looking beyond the Mexican border for heroin, and inspecting all flights from southwest Asia, including military and CIA flights, could have a large impact on supply as well.

Serious measures are needed. Total world production of opiates always gets consumed: historically, the market for opiates has been extremely elastic. Land under poppy cultivation (in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Mexico) continues to increase. Without meaningful efforts to reduce opium production and entry of narcotics into the US, the epidemic of heroin addiction may become a considerably bigger problem than it is today.

I will have more to say about this subject in a later post.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 2:01 AM 0 comments
Saturday, September 5, 2015
"One Less" country--Japan--swallows Merck's lies about its HPV vaccine; Japan establishes guidelines and special clinics to treat HPV vaccine-injured girls/ Medscape
Vaccine injuries are real. They can be serious and often fail to respond to treatment. The most serious injuries are usually to the brain. Vaccine injuries may cause death. The US' federal vaccine injury compensation program has paid out $3.18 billion dollars in compensation for vaccine injuries since the program was established in 1988.
Yet with the stoking of fears over measles and the claimed desperate need for vaccine mandates in 2015, these truths about vaccine injuries have been overlooked, or deliberately ignored by the media.
It is hard to believe, but there is lack of proof that HPV vaccines actually prevent cervical cancer. That is why I have published an excerpt from FDA's initial Gardasil approval letter below. Gardasil HPV vaccine was licensed under "fast-track" authority by FDA in 2006 with limited data and its manufacturer, Merck, was required by FDA to collect data through 2017 to determine whether Gardasil really does prevent cancer:
You have committed to collaborate with the cancer registries in four countries in the Nordic Region ( Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark) to assess long-term outcomes following administration of GARDASI®. In this study, approximately 5,500 subjects enrolled in Protocol 015 (one half from the placebo group that will have been vaccinated shortly after approval) will be followed for a total of 14 years. Two major goals of this study are: 1) to assess the long-term effectiveness of GARDASIL® by evaluating biopsy specimens for presence of HPV 6/11/16/18-related incident breakthrough cases of CIN 2/3, AIS and cervical cancer, VIN 2/3 and vulvar cancer, and VaIN 2/3 and vaginal cancer; and 2) to assess whether administration of GARDASIL® will result in replacement of these diseases due to vaccine HPV types with diseases due to non-vaccine HPV types. This study is designed to accomplish these goals as discussed in the June 6, 2006, submission to your BLA. The final protocol for this study will be submitted by December 8, 2006. Patient accrual for this study was previously completed in the context of Protocol 015. This study will be completed by December 31, 2017, (14 years from initiation of the last patient enrolled in Protocol 015 in the four Nordic countries). The final study report will be submitted by December 31, 2018...--from FDA to Merck
Furthermore, the Gardasil label explicitly notes that recipients must still have regular PAP smears, precisely because it is not clear Gardasil prevents the development of cancer, while PAP smears enable early detection and treatment before a cervical lesion evolves into cancer:
"...Limitations of GARDASIL Use and Effectiveness:• GARDASIL does not eliminate the necessity for women to continue to undergo recommended cervical cancer screening..."
So the vaccine may work. Or it may not. But that has not stopped some states and countries from recommending or requiring this vaccine (intended for a sexually transmitted disease) for all children in junior high school. Rhode Island just mandated HPV vaccine for all 7th grade students in July 2015.

How safe are HPV vaccines? We lack reliable data, but there are many reports of serious injuries.

Now Japan (after 358 vaccine injuries judged serious and 2,000 adverse event reports) has not only rescinded its recommendation that girls receive this vaccine, but has also established guidelines and special clinics for evaluating and treating illnesses caused by the Gardasil and Cervarix HPV vaccines.
From Medscape:
"Japan has put in place a scheme to manage symptoms, especially generalized chronic pain, that have arisen after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination given to adolescents to protect against cervical cancer.
Although there have been assurances on the safety of HPV vaccination from many official medical bodies since the vaccines were first introduced — Gardasil (Merck & Co.) in 2006 and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) in 2009 — there have also been persistent reports of rare cases of adverse events. These include case reports in the medical literature of complex regional pain syndrome and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, as previously reported by Medscape Medical News.
In July 2015, the European Medicines Agency announced that it was conducting a safety review of HPV vaccines, which was requested by Denmark, where reports of adverse events after HPV vaccination have been widely reported in the media.
Japan withdrew its recommendation for HPV vaccine in 2013, and has not reversed that decision because of concerns from the public about adverse events, which included long-term pain and numbness, as previously reported by Medscape Medical News.
Since then, various symptoms, especially generalized chronic pain after injection, have been reported.
Last month, guidelines for the evaluation and management of symptoms that begin after HPV vaccine injection were issued to healthcare professionals. The guidelines were edited and approved by the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS).
In addition, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has issued a list of medical institutions where people can visit when they have symptoms after HPV injection; there is at least one in each prefecture. Healthcare workers at those selected institutions are educated by the JMA. However, this does not mean other institutions cannot accept those people with symptoms. The ministry has also issued information regarding HPV vaccine-related health problems and questions, with a telephone helpline..."
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 4:09 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

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FBI agent steals millions from crime scene.



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Murdered heiress, mystery, missing millions and more





September 19,2015
Nearly 40 years have passed since millionaire recluse Marjorie Jackson was murdered during a robbery of her home in the 6400 block of Spring Mill Road.

After all that time, questions still linger about the fate of some of the $3 million or more the killers got away with back in 1977 — loot that was part of an unbelievable cache Jackson kept hidden around her home after withdrawing about $8.6 million from the bank in the months before her murder.


“We’ve always thought there was at least $1.6 million that was never accounted for,” said retired Indianapolis police captain Steve Koers, a nephew of Jackson and co-executor of her estate.
“There could be a lot more than that out there. You just don’t know. But the $1.6 million, we know, because of the serial numbers and the amounts she withdrew from the bank.”
Now, an 81-year-old investigative reporter in Arizona has a hunch where at least some of the missing money went. And he thinks the FBI may be hiding key information to protect the reputations of the agency and a deceased former agent he suspects may have kept some of the loot after arresting one of the suspects.
The scenario laid out by Don Devereux is a doozie, for sure. Some will argue it’s nothing more than a wild notion. Others will see it as the fitting explanation for a fantastical case that has seemingly defied plausibility at every turn.
Central to Devereux’s claim are public records, including real estate and financial documents, as well as an FBI file detailing the Phoenix field office’s role in the apprehension of the man later convicted of killing Jackson.
Among the FBI records he obtained last year through a Freedom of Information Act request is a notice that the file was “partially destroyed” in 1993 — something Devereux said he has never encountered in more than 50 previous FOIA requests to the FBI. The agency so far has not provided any explanation for why that part of the file was destroyed, or what the missing documents may have contained.
Devereux said he can’t help but wonder if those missing pages contained information about the possibility of missing money in the Jackson case and whether the bureau believed one of its agents might be involved.
If his theory seems far-fetched, remember this: So was the tangled series of events that culminated in the summer of 1977 when a pair of FBI agents from Phoenix reported digging up $1.7 million buried under five feet of sand in the desert north of Phoenix.
The crime
The killing of Jackson, because of her eccentric lifestyle and the vast amount of money involved, attracted international attention.
It was reported at the time as — and may still be — the largest cash heist from a residential burglary in U.S. history.

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The home on Spring Mill Road where Marjorie Jackson was killed.
The case remains one of the most fabled crimes in Indiana history thanks to a cast of characters who seem like they jumped out of the script of a Coen brothers movie:
The eccentric grocery chain heiress who kept a table set in anticipation of the return of Jesus Christ, who covered doorknobs and heating vents with aluminum foil and stashed millions of dollars in trash bags, toolboxes, dresser drawers and garbage cans.
A pair of bumbling burglars, one characterized as a small-town hick and the other as a streetwise city hustler.
A sheriff nicknamed “Diamond Don,” who wore a jewel-studded vest and bragged about his past gambling exploits.
Even celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey.
Then there were the unbelievable — if they hadn’t been true — details and plot twists:
The crooks’ return to Jackson’s home to cart out even more cash, followed by a bungled attempt to set a fire to cover their tracks.
Their conspicuous spending sprees in the days after the deadly robbery.
The discovery of dozens of neatly wrapped gifts Jackson had left in her home with cards saying they were for “Jesus” and “God,” along with an additional $5 million the thieves had left behind.
A flight to Arizona, where one of the burglars buried at least $1.7 million in the desert — possibly in response to advice from Bailey.
The recovery of that money with the help of a woman who had at least twice married and divorced the suspect.
And, the speculation that millions of dollars from Jackson’s cache still remain unaccounted for all these years later.
Stash of cash
Marjorie Viola O’Connell Jackson’s money came from her husband Chester Jackson, a businessman and shrewd investor who amassed a fortune before his death in 1970.
Chester Jackson’s father, Lafayette Andrew Jackson, founded the Standard Grocery chain that grew to include more than 250 stores in Indianapolis and other cities around the state. Chester Jackson became the company’s president in 1931 after his father was shot and killed during a robbery of the chain’s flagship store in the 400 block of East Washington Street.
Jackson sold the chain in 1947 to the National Tea Co., according to the book “Notorious 92: Indiana’s Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties” by Andrew E. Stoner. The account says the sale “allowed (Jackson) to buy $14 million in coal stocks, $5 million in municipal bonds, $1 million in cash and Treasury bills, and other investments.”
“In all,” Stoner wrote, “the Jackson estate was worth more than $25 million.”
Chester Jackson was still married to his first wife when he met Marjorie O’Connell, former Indianapolis Star reporter and editor Dick Cady wrote in his book about the case, “Scavengers: A True Story of Money, Madness and Murder.”
Cady wrote that Marjorie, “who came from a hardscrabble background,” was working at a Murphy’s five-and-dime store in Downtown Indianapolis when they met.
The couple carried on a not-so-secret affair for years before Jackson finally obtained a divorce, according to the book. They were married — the second for both — in 1952. Two years later the couple, who had no children, purchased the home on Spring Mill.
When Chester Jackson died in 1970, Marjorie Jackson inherited an estimated $14 million, depositing most of the money in the Indiana National Bank.
What few knew at the time was that Chester Jackson, who didn’t like the IRS, had for years stashed cash at the couple’s home.
By some accounts, it may have been more than $2 million — but that was only a pittance compared to what was to come.
Marjorie Jackson, who was 60 when her husband died, continued to live at the couple’s home. But as the years went by, she became more reclusive and allowed the property to grow up in tall grass and weeds.

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Sgt. David Paschall of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department counts $236,000, more
Neighbors, quoted in news stories after her murder, said the widow talked to the birds and animals, practiced bizarre religious rituals, spouted racial epithets and even claimed to grow money out of the ground. She had two new Cadillacs in her garage, including one that she never even bothered to license.
In 1976, after a bank employee embezzled $700,000, Jackson began withdrawing her savings. She would show up at the bank and demand $500,0000 to $1 million at a time, taking the stacks of $100 bills home in a suitcase or grocery bags.
Over the course of about four months, Jackson withdrew everything she had in the bank. The total was nearly $8 million.
She hid the money all around her home — in closets, toolboxes, garbage cans and vacuum cleaner bags. The money was interspersed with an odd collection of gifts, from wash cloths to cakes to expensive jewelry, scattered around the house. The neatly wrapped packages had tags that read: “To Jesus Christ from Marjorie Jackson” and “To God from Marjorie.”
Indianapolis attorney Robert “Tommy” Thompson, who worked for the prosecutor’s office at the time, said bank officials, police, a judge and the prosecutor all tried to convince Jackson that keeping so much money at home was a risk. It could, they told Jackson, put her life in danger.
She told them to mind their own business.
Several months before she was murdered, two teens burglarized Jackson’s home. They got away with about $800,000, but she refused to prosecute them — even after one of the thieves confessed to a grand jury.
Thompson visited Jackson after that theft and found himself staring down the barrel of a pistol. It was one of the coldest days of the year, Thompson recalled, and Jackson greeted him and several lawmen in the driveway of her home dressed only in a nightgown.
Jackson denied any money was taken in the recent break-in at her home. When Thompson said one of the crooks admitted to stealing nearly $800,000, Jackson insisted the man was lying.
“Get off my property,” she instructed Thompson and the others.
The next time Thompson saw Marjorie Jackson was about four months later. This time, she was lying dead in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor.
The curious case of the robbery and killing of Jackson began to unfold on May 2, 1977, when an unlikely duo — Howard “Billy Joe” Willard, 38, Mooresville, and Manuel Lee Robinson, 29, Indianapolis — broke into Jackson’s home. The pair left with about $1 million in cash.
They were, according to Indianapolis attorney John M. Schwartz, a fascinating odd couple.
“You had Robinson, a hip, inner-city black,” Schwartz, who was the deputy prosecutor assigned to Robinson’s case, said in a 1987 story marking the 10th anniversary of the robbery and murder. “And then you had Willard, who I think was just an ignorant hillbilly.”
Schwartz, in an interview for this story, said he has mellowed a bit over the years in his assessment of Willard, calling him “a somewhat unsophisticated guy with a rural background.”
Emboldened by the ease of the first burglary — and the lure of the horde of cash they had left behind — the pair returned to Jackson’s home two days later. This time, they were confronted by the widow, and Willard shot her in the stomach with a .22 rifle.
Jackson bled to death — surrounded by the scores of gifts, as well as the fine china and cutlery she laid out in her dining room for her anticipated feast with Jesus.
The burglars tried to set the home on fire, but the small blazed smoldered for hours before it was discovered and firefighters were called. Jackson’s body was discovered after the fire was extinguished.
And despite Willard and Robinson making a return trip to the home, hauling out bags of cash — mostly $100 bills — police found they had left millions behind.
Exactly how much money Jackson had hidden, and how much of that money Willard and Robinson got away with, could never be confirmed, said Schwartz, the deputy prosecutor.
By some estimates, he said, there may have been as much as $15 million stashed at Jackson’s home. More than $5 million was recovered after the fire, Schwartz said, and Willard and Robinson were believed to have taken at least $2 million to $3 million each.
“No one ever really knew how much money she had there,” Schwartz said. “The big open question has always been: Is there more money out there, and where might it be?”
Paid cash for cars
It didn’t take police long to identify and arrest Willard and Robinson in Jackson’s murder.
The men got caught, Schwartz said, because they “were spending money like water” in the days and weeks after the robbery.
Robinson’s public defender, Arnold Baratz, said his client and Willard committed a crime almost impossible to solve, then left a trail nearly impossible to miss.
“If they hadn’t set fire to the house,” he said, “(the killing) might not have been detected for months and months because she was such a recluse.”
The tips that helped break the case came from Indianapolis car dealers. Salesmen became suspicious and alerted police after the men purchased new cars, paying cash. While that wasn’t unheard of at the time, what happened next was: They came back to buy other cars, and again paid in cash.
After Robinson was arrested, $1.6 million was found in a suitcase hidden under a bed at his apartment at 20th and Central. He claimed a man had given him the money to keep but denied knowing the person’s name.
As investigators pressed Robinson about the absurdity of his claim, he eventually said he had the man’s telephone number. It turned out to be the number for the Mooresville home of Willard’s ex-wife and current girlfriend.
Willard and the woman had fled by the time police came to their home but were caught in Arizona. Again, it was their lavish spending that got the couple in trouble. They had paid about $50,000 in cash to buy two used RVs.
Willard was brought back to Indiana, convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. He died in June 1987 after collapsing while jogging at the Indiana Reformatory.
His partner, Robinson, was acquitted on the murder charge but was convicted of burglary and arson. He was released from prison in 1988 but was arrested again in 1990 and sent back to prison for 10 years.
Robinson, who was last thought to be living in Florida, told Cady he believed law enforcement officials had kept about $450,000 of the cash he got in the Jackson robberies, according to Cady’s 2011 book.
Baratz, Robinson’s public defender, said his client had insisted from the start that he still had some of the loot stashed.
“He always claimed,” Baratz said, “that the police never got all of his money.”
Buried treasure
It was Willard’s ex-wife who led two FBI agents to a spot not far off of I-17 north of Phoenix where they reported finding $1.7 million in cash.
The recovered money had been hidden in two boxes buried in the desert.
At Willard’s trial, according to Cady’s book, the woman testified that celebrity attorney Bailey advised Willard to divide up the money and bury it in several locations to protect the couple from thugs wanting to get their hands on the stash.
That testimony, Cady wrote, prompted Bailey to issue a statement.
“I told him (Willard) I would represent him only if he would surrender and return the money,” the statement said. “ ... I suggested for the safety of the child (who was traveling with them) he place the money somewhere for safe keeping while I negotiated his surrender and not keep the money in the camper.”
According to Devereux’s theory, one of the FBI agents may have found much more cash than they reported — and spirited it off to a Swiss bank account.
The FBI file indicates the recovered money came from only one location. Devereux said it is possible the agent skimmed some money from that find, or went back into the desert later and dug up money from other locations where Willard may have buried it.
Years later, after the investigator had retired, Devereux suspects the money was transferred back to the agent from the Swiss bank account, coming through a Caribbean tax haven, and then used to purchase valuable real estate in Phoenix.
Devereux has property and other financial records in the former agent’s name that show money transferred from Switzerland to the Netherlands Antilles was used to purchase property in the agent’s name. That property was then transferred back to an off-shore holding company he suspects was associated with a trust established by the now-deceased agent.
“The crucial question,” Devereux wrote in a letter to the FBI in April, “... should be whether the ultimate source of those funds was the money still ostensibly missing from the Jackson robbery/homicide.”

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Grassley Says FBI Fails to Inform U.S. Congress on Clinton Probe


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September 23, 2015 — 9:09 PM ED

Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, questions witnesses during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley chastised the FBI for not keeping Congress informed on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, including that it recovered personal messages she said were deleted.

“The Justice Department is giving us less information than normal when they should be giving us more,” Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a statement Wednesday.

The senator’s comments came in response to a Bloomberg News report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that the FBI recovered personal and work-related e-mails from a private computer server used by Clinton during her time as secretary of state.

That report Tuesday said the Federal Bureau of Investigation, part of the Justice Department, has been able to salvage at least some of the roughly 30,000 personal e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted from her server.

The bureau’s success raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate’s correspondence eventually could become public. Such disclosures could further inflame controversy over her conducing official business on a private e-mail system.

Grassley’s comments also highlighted an unusual turf fight between the State Department and the FBI over Clinton’s use of the private e-mail system. In December 2014, Clinton’s team turned over paper copies of about 30,000 work-related e-mails to the State Department.
Electronic Copies

Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, promised in a June 15, 2015, letter to the State Department that he would also hand over electronic copies of those e-mails. That transfer never took place. Instead, Kendall surrendered the thumb drive containing the e-mails to the FBI.

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Judge casts doubt on evidence in border agent's killing

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Judge casts doubt on evidence in border agent's killing

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September 25 2015



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— A federal judge in the trial of two men accused in the death of a Border Patrol agent questioned Friday whether the prosecution can prove the defendants committed some crimes alleged in the charges.

Judge David C. Bury said prosecutors would need to provide sufficient evidence on several of the nine charges the men face, including first-degree murder.

Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza, also known as Lionel Portillo-Meza, and Ivan Soto-Barraza are the first to go on trial in the killing of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose death brought to light a government operation that allowed criminals to buy weapons with the intention of tracking them.

Instead, federal agents lost about 1,400 guns, including two found at the scene of Terry's killing.

The judge questioned the charges of attempted interference of commerce by robbery filed by the prosecution over claims that

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Shurtleff prosecutor accuses FBI, Justice Dept. of withholding evidence in corruption case
Posted 10:29 am, September 28, 2015,

SALT LAKE CITY -- Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings is accusing the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice of not handing over evidence in the corruption case against former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.

In a strongly worded motion filed just before Shurtleff's court appearance on Monday, Rawlings said the Justice Department is not turning over evidence he's requested as part of the case, unless he files specific requests with the U.S. Attorney's Office for Colorado.

Rawlings points out the FBI conducted the corruption investigation into Shurtleff and his successor, former Utah Attorney General John Swallow. Yet the Justice Department declined to prosecute them, leaving it up to Rawlings and his co-counsel, Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill.

"It appears the DOJ has built fences, with little gates that only they can lock and unlock, around related persons, events and investigations (or possibly the lack thereof). They control what the state prosecutors know and with respect to whom," Rawlings wrote.

Read the Davis County Attorney's motion here:

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Argentina warns US to cooperate in heightened search for fugitive spy chief

President Cristina Fernández said US must be ‘protecting’ Antonio Stiuso, who reportedly fled to Miami soon after star prosecutor’s mysterious killing
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Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez addresses the UN general assembly on Monday.

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Argentina’s government has stepped up efforts to track down a fugitive former spymaster who is reported to be in hiding in Miami, warning the US that it is putting its relationship with the South American country at risk.

Antonio Stiuso, a former operations chief of the now-disbanded intelligence secretariat, fled Argentina following the death in January of star prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a still-unsolved mystery which triggered a political earthquake.

Nisman was found shot dead in his bathroom on 18 January, days after accusing president Cristina Fernández of conspiring to cover up alleged Iranian involvement in a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
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Fernández has claimed that Nisman’s death may have been stage-managed by Stiuso in order to incriminate her and destabilize her government. Stiuso’s exact whereabouts have been unknown since shortly after he testified at the judicial inquiry into Nisman’s death. Media reports have alleged that he is in Miami.

On Wednesday, Argentina’s cabinet chief of staff, Anibal Fernández, said that the US had failed to respond to eight formal requests for details on the missing spy chief’s whereabouts.
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“We ask ourselves sometimes: ‘Is the United States ready to allow the bilateral relations between it and Argentina to worsen for a man they all say has no importance, no strategic value for the United States?’” he told reporters.

Oscar Parrilli, head of the Fed

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FBI Destroyed Records Detailing Alleged Haredi Fraud
October 1, 2015

The FBI destroyed records indicating potential Medicaid fraud among haredi Orthodox Jews in upstate New York’s Orange County because they came from an unauthorized investigation.

Justin Rodriguez, a spokesman for Orange County, told MidHudson News on Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had destroyed materials submitted by a county social services employee, Nicole Latreille.

Latreille filed a lawsuit last month against the county alleging that she was penalized for being a whistleblower after reporting evidence of $40 million in fraud among residents of Kiryas Joel, a predominantly Hasidic village inside the town of Monroe.

Rodriguez said Latreille was suspended temporarily and given a lateral assignment for using county computers and restricted databases “not pursuant to her official duties, but as a private citizen.”

Latreille’s allegations, Rodriguez said, “while populist, are not legally tenable and in fact may have compromised ongoing investigations.”

According to Rodriguez, the FBI informed the county that it had destroyed the materials sent by Latreille earlier this yea

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Hillary and Bill Clinton own the FBI.

The Clintons covered up the FBI coverup of
the FBI Mass Murder at Waco.

The FBI covered up their murder of Vince Foster
for the Clinton's.

The Clinton's covered up the 1993 FBI bombing of
World Trade Center.


The Clinton's cover up the 1995 FBI Oklahoma City
Bombing.


The Clinton's coverup of the FBI coverup
of TWA Flight 800 downed by a US Military missile
over Long Island.


ELECTION 2016
New book offers more evidence of Clinton criminality
Ed Klein's 'Unlikeable' unpacks 'the problem with Hillary'


Oct 3 2015


Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff writer. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Who Really Killed Kennedy?"




hillary-bookNEW YORK – The Clinton Foundation scandals form a centerpiece of investigative journalist Ed Klein’s new book on Hillary Clinton, “Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary,” providing additional support to the series of articles published by WND reporting Wall Street analyst and investor Charles Ortel’s research alleging the Clinton Foundation is a “vast criminal conspiracy.”

Klein discloses that an FBI investigation regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state also includes a probe into conflicts of interest in the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of foreign donations while she was secretary of state.

Klein believes Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett were behind Obama’s decision to launch the FBI investigation.

“Both Michelle and Val thought that the FBI and the Justice Department should be ordered by the president to investigate the Clintons’ conflict of interest,” Klein wrote. “Valerie argued that Hillary had deliberately lied to the president about not taking foreign donations for the foundation while she was secretary of state, and that she had ignored warnings about the use of her private email account.”

Klein reported that Obama “flinched at the idea of an official investigation,” worried it could cost the Democrats the 2016 presidential elections.

“It was awkward, but the two women got what they wanted,” Klein concluded. “At least some investigation of the Clinton Foundation would move forward.”

‘Embarrassment of riches’

“Like everything else that Bill and Hillary touched, the foundation was a sketchy operation that skirted legality and often fell over the edge,” Klein wrote, noting that for every $10 the Clinton Foundation collected, only $1 actually went to charitable causes.

The other $9, he said, were spent on “euphemisms like ‘office supplies’ and ‘travel.’”

“With its embarrassment of riches – [the Clinton Foundation] had collected $2 billion since its creation – it was able to do a smattering of good work, especially in the areas of healthcare, AIDs, and addressing poverty in America,” Klein noted. “But it spend money indiscriminately, and mostly on itself.”

In May, WND reported Ortel called for the Clinton Foundation to be “shut down” for having violated stat

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We brought Leonard Gates to speak at Bates College.
He was committing voter fraud for the FBI.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Were Kansas voting machines programmed like VWs to record votes incorrectly only under certain conditions?/ IVN

We Can’t Trust Companies To Do The Right Thing, But We Trust Their Voting Machines?

by David Yee at IVN:

The VW case of tampering with the computing in their automobiles for emission tests once again highlights just how easy it is for a computer to “do” whatever it’s programmed to do — even if for nefarious reasons. With a simple switch inserted into the program, the output is factual when circumstances are one way and are tainted when it’s another way.

This is the fundamental claim that Dr. Beth Clarkson is making in the Kansas voting recount case. While Republicans were ahead, the votes were counted correctly, while Democrats (and independent Greg Orman) were ahead, it was almost like a switch was turned on to skew the results back to Republican.

So what’s the fundamental difference? Both the U.S. and German governments have pounced on VW’s software issues, launching full investigations, and assessing huge fines.

What has happened in any of the cases involving likely voter tampering of machines? Nothing.

Dr. Clarkson stated in her latest news letter that she now has both legal representation and a date for discovery — so the case is moving through the wheels of justice slowly.
But this is a sad reality. We jump on statistical anomalies that alert us to potential food contamination in our food supply, we test our water supplies daily for the same reason, and we test cars to make sure they are upholding legal emission standards. So why on earth are we not testing voting machines, something that has a complete and irreparable impact on our republican form of government?

The unwillingness of state officials, including Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (the chief election officer), to do anything is only making this worse. And the problems will continue to get worse as America’s voting machines continue to age — with the oldest being about 15 years on average. These machines use outdated and unsupported operating systems, but they are still deemed “safe” for elections?

There has to be a balance between the quick delivery of election results on election night and the integrity of the vote itself. Because once human eyes are taken out of the equation, the fraud becomes greater and much harder to find.

For me, I’m alright with going to bed on election night not knowing the winner if it means that the system is more secure and our republic isn’t being ruled by “cyber-criminals” the next day.

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We welcome you to the 20th annual JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference held November 20-22 at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

For the past 21 years, JFK Lancer has gathered the world's leading JFK researchers, teachers, authors, and eye-witnesses to share their knowledge on the events surrounding John F. Kennedy's presidency and assassination. We believe in the importance of combining historical evidence and cutting-edge research to shed light on the mysteries of the turbulent 1960s.

Whether you are a student of JFK history or simply curious, we invite you to join us on November 20, 2015 at the Adophus Hotel when we will gather once more in Dallas to share knowledge and challenge the status quo.


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Conference Schedule
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Friday, November 20, 2015
4:00-5:00 Registration
5:00-6:00 David Talbot
6:00-7:00 Russ Baker
7:00-8:00 Pat Speer
8:00-9:00 Bill Simpich
9:00-10:00 William Law and Jim Jenkins

Saturday, November 21, 2015
8:30-9:30 Jacob Carter
9:30-10:30 Sherry Feister
10:30-11:30 John Hunt
11:30-12:30 Jim DiEugenio (tentative)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 David Mantik
2:30-3:30 Mike Chesser
3:30-4:30 William Law (New Bethesda interviews)
4:30-5:30 Bill Ganet and Parkland Doctors
5:00-7:00 Awards, Authors tables/mixer with local Guests/ Dinner break
7:00-8:00 Gary Murr
8:00-9:00 Larry Hancock

Sunday, November 22, 2015
9:00am Guided Walking Tour of Dealey Plaza with Larry Hancock.

12:00pm "JFK United" ceremony and information on resourses at the Knoll side of Elm Street. Hosted by JFK Lancer and Trine Day Publications.

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Tamir Rice family attorney says expert reports have 'tainted grand jury process'

Newly unearthed comments about deadly police shootings made by the two experts who defended an Ohio officer’s killing of Tamir Rice have intensified criticisms of prosecutors for selecting them to review the 12-year-old’s death.

One appeared to publicly cast doubt on whether the officer who killed Rice was at fault even before he was commissioned to write a report on the case, the Guardian has learned. The other had her interpretation of a key US supreme court ruling on police shootings rejected by the Justice Department as too generous to officers.

Attorneys for the family of Rice, who was killed by police officer Timothy Loehmann while holding a pellet gun in a park in Cleveland in November last year, said the pair of external reports had “tainted the grand jury process” that is considering criminal charges against Loehmann.
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“It’s clear to the Rice family that these so-called experts were selected to present a point of view to defend the officer’s conduct,” said Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the family.

Chandra said the unusual decision to request and publish the external reports by Timothy McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, was “an unprecedented thing for a prosecutor to do on behalf of someone potentially facing a murder charge”.

McGinty, who is overseeing the grand jury process, released the two reports on Saturday. They were written by S Lamar Sims, the senior chief deputy district attorney for Denver, Colorado, and Kimberly Crawford, a retired FBI agent who teaches criminal justice at Northern Virginia Community College.
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Sims concluded in his report that Loehmann’s actions were “objectively reasonable” due to his stated belief that Rice was holding a real firearm and posed a threat. Crawford wrote that the shooting “falls within the realm of reasonableness” defined under the US constitution. McGinty said his office was “not reaching any conclusions” from the reports and would present all evidence to a grand jury.

The reports were swiftly condemned by activists who have campaigned for a criminal prosecution over the death of Rice, who was shot within a second of Loehmann arriving at Cudell Commons and leaping out of his patrol car.

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Hastert guilty plea could hush secrets

A written plea agreement should be completed by Monday, attorney John Gallo told a federal judge during a brief status hearing. At the attorney's request, the judge set Oct. 28 as the date for the 73-year-old Illinois Republican to change his plea.

Defendants typically agree to plead guilty in hopes of a more lenient sentence. A plea deal would also avert a trial that could divulge more about the alleged misconduct behind the criminal charges.

Neither Gallo nor prosecutors offered details about any possible deal, including which counts Hastert would plead guilty to or whether the man who was once second in the line of succession for the presidency would go to prison. Hastert did not attend Thursday's hearing.

He faces one count of breaking banking laws and one count of lying to the FBI about agreeing to pay $3.5 million to someone referred to in the indictment only as "Individual A." The money was supposedly to hide claims of unspecified past misconduct.

A plea deal would mean that Individual A, who has never been identified, would not have to testify about receiving any of the money. The Associated Press and other media, citing anonymous sources, have reported that the payments were meant to conceal claims of sexual misconduct.

In all, Hastert withdrew $1.7 million from 2010 to 2014, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors are probably seeking a prison sentence. It would be unusual for them to entertain the possibility of probation on such serious charges. Each count is punishable by up to five years behind bars.

When Hastert was charged in May, the indictment noted he had taught and coached high school wrestling from 1965 to 1981 in close-knit Yorkville. That strongly suggests the charges are linked to that history.

Those acquainted with Hastert from his days in Yorkville have tended to express sympathy for him.

Helene McNeive, whose husband taught at Yorkville High School with Hastert and now lives in Arizona, said

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Contemporary Sociology
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Reviewed Work: Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. by Frank Donner
Review by: Jim Thomas
Contemporary Sociology
Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 88-89
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David Burnham

David Burnham

David Burnham — a writer, investigative reporter and researcher — is the co-founder and co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and an associate research professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

TRAC, a data-gathering and distribution organization associated with the university, began operating in 1989. Concrete government information, much of its obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, has been central to Burnham’s work as both a reporter and a researcher.

He started as a reporter in 1958, working for UPI, Newsweek, CBS News and other organizations. From 1968 to 1986, he was an investigative reporter with The New York Times in New York and Washington. He has written three books and numerous magazine articles. His most recent book, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, was published in January 1996 by Scribner. His investigative book on the Internal Revenue Service — A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS — was published in 1990 by Random House. A third book, The Rise of the Computer State, was published in 1984.

Over the years, Burnham has received a number of professional honors, including the George Polk Award for Community Service, Long Island University, 1968; the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, 1987; the Best Investigative Book of 1990, Investigative Reporters and Editors, 1990; and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, 1992. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Church leaders 'expected more of a response' to spate of fires near Ferguson

Reverend from one of six majority-black churches burned this month near St Louis said he expected more outreach from faith community
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Deacon Clinton McMiller, left, and Pastor David Triggs carry a cabinet back into the church after a fire at the New Life Missionary Baptist church in St Louis on 18 October. Photograph: JB Forbes/AP

Ryan Felton in St Louis


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Several weeks after a spate of fires begun at churches in north St Louis and with no known suspects, the Rev Rodrick Burton sensed “lethargy” in his community at the New Northside Missionary Baptist church.

Burton said he “expected more of a response” from the faith community to the fires, just several miles from Ferguson and six of seven in majority-black churches. Since 8 October, an alleged arsonist has targeted the cluster of churches in the city of 318,000, a series of incidents that has left investigators puzzled, with no suspect or known motive to date.

“A number of the congregation are people who lived through an era where church fires were not taken seriously by the authorities,” Burton told the Guardian of the New Northside working-class neighborhood. “I got folks from Arkansas, my mother’s from Alabama, for some of the people, they’re waiting to see what is the motivation [behind the fires].”

It’s too early to tell if race has played a part in the alleged arsonist’s motive, he said.

“But I say that it could’ve [done more] for race relations across this area … if people of the majority culture reached out and said, ‘We’re concerned about this happening in the African American community,’” Burton said.

Burton was heartened, however, by the response from the one majority white church affected by the fires, Shrine of St Joseph.
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Shrine of St Joseph, the one majority white church affected by the fires. Photograph: Ryan Felton for the Guardian

On Sunday, the Rev Dale Wunderlich asked congregants to consider a donation for the other damaged churches on the city’s north side. Volunteers passed out collection baskets that were promptly filled.