| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: Bush appoints John Negroponte to Director of National Intel |
| February 18, 2005
Axis Power, the United States, Chooses Israeli National to Head Secret Police, Forces Prepare For Further Global Conquest
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
In the latest frightening internal move by the United States against the world, we have come to learn that President Bush has appointed the Jewish Israeli national John to be the head of all 15 of the their intelligence organizations, and which includes the CIA.
Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel. To such a strange circumstance this has brought to America we can even read in this newspaper article from the Los Angeles Times about how this effects even the United States, “Galvis was attempting a feat perhaps unprecedented in American politics: holding two elected offices simultaneously in two countries. He is, after all, a citizen of both places, with a pair of passports to prove it. "I was going to travel back and forth," said Galvis, who runs a travel agency in Hackensack. "I saw this as a good opportunity to keep some ties to the homeland there."
Equally not known to the American people is that John Negroponte is known throughout the Central American countries as the “Ambassador to Death Squads”, and as we can read, "During his years in Honduras, Negroponte acquired a reputation, justified, as an old-fashioned imperialist, and devoted to Realpolitik. At the time Mr. Negroponte was in Honduras, Honduras was a military dictatorship. Kidnapping, rape, torture and executions of dissidents was rampant. The military top and middle ranks were U.S-trained at the School of the Americas (SOA), the Harvard version of the CIA, based in Fort Benning, Georgia. According to Human Rights Watch, graduates of the SOA are responsible for the worst human rights abuses and torture of dissidents in Latin America."
Of these Jewish secret police masters we are well familiar with here in our country. No family in Russia was left untouched during the sadistic Jewish Communist reign of the People's Commissariat Internal Affairs, NKVD, under the brutal direction of the Jewish head of the organization Lavrenti Beria, and of which has been truly reported;
"Beria was Stalin's party associate and confidante from their native Georgia. In 1938 he was put in charge of the dreaded NKVD. Beria was responsible for the infamous Katyn massacre of captive Polish soldiers and intellectuals. Beria was also in charge of the Gulag prison system that sent millions to oblivion. Beria was noted for having his bodyguards kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka office, which doubled as a torture chamber."
Once again the world is facing a terrifying American militaristic regime headed by cruel Jewish masters who will now control the secret polices forces for the whole country and to the citizens of this insane country there is no protest. It is too easy to say, and even still easier to believe, that the entire citizenship of this once great Nation has gone completely insane.
These are not idle or speculative words either, and as their own government reports about them, “Is America the most medicated nation on Earth? Could be, according data just released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that at least half of all Americans takes at least one prescription drug, with one in six taking three or more medications."
And if it is possible to have ‘insanity within insanity’ we are shown such a case today with these Americans in that the very drugs they use to dull their senses are in fact killing them, and as we can read as reported by their MSNBC News Service, "Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients."
The most medicated people on earth, medicated with drugs that kill them, in control of the worlds most powerful militaristic regime, who can not give up their rights as free citizens fast enough, who believe every lie their propagandists tell them, watch silently as their neighbors disappear into their gulag, give no protests to their military's invasions of other countries, preach ‘democracy’ to the world, while at the same time their own allies are some of the most brutal dictatorial regimes on earth, and they wonder why they are feared and despised in the world? Is this not madness?
To their great Middle East ally Egypt this week the American Secretary of State, Rice, has ‘criticized’ the Egyptians for imprisoning an opposition party member prior to the presidential elections in that country, and to which Egypt has replied, and as we read in this Reuters News Service report, "Egypt on Thursday brushed aside U.S. criticism of its detention of an opposition party leader, saying it would not allow any outside intervention in legal proceedings."
Even the American newspaper the Washington Post has said about this dictator, in an article titled, “'Enough' in Egypt”, "Mr. Mubarak's renomination would be a serious blow to the Bush administration's project for promoting democratic change in the Middle East -- and would again raise the question of whether President Bush intends to connect U.S. policy with his rhetoric."
Should we now expect these freedom loving Americans to now come to the aid of the common Egyptian peoples, and who have suffered for over 20 years the brutal tyranny of the dictator Mubarak to come with their sanctions and military might?
Of course not, because if the Americans didn't have enough to fear they are now talking about the dangers that India and Pakistan may pose for them, and as we can read from the Indian New Kerala News Service, "The [US] House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in one of its rare open hearings, identified Asia, and specifically India and Pakistan as well as China, as potential threats and sources of instability."
And if you are thinking that the insanities of America could not get any worse you would be wrong, because today we have learned from the Washington Post Foreign Service that, "The United States and Japan will declare Saturday for the first time in a joint agreement that Taiwan is a mutual security concern, according to a draft of the document. Analysts called the move a demonstration of Japan's willingness to confront the rapidly growing might of China."
By this action the transformation of Japan from a once peaceful nation, since the Great War (World War II), to one of militaristic ambitions is now complete, and as I had previously detailed to you in my past article, "The United States, Israel and Japan Complete New Axis of Power for World Conquest".
Even in the writing of this article to you more reports are coming into us that American war madness is increasing by the hour, and as we can read from the British News Service, The Independent, and which is reporting, "President George Bush has called on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon - the latest effort by Washington to increase pressure on a country it accuses of supporting terrorism."
This ratcheting up of American war rhetoric is in response to this week's terrorist murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri by a powerful bomb explosion in Beirut, and which the Americans and Israelis have blamed on Syria and have since the bombing removed their American ambassador from Syria.
It goes without saying that this American and Israeli blaming of this bombing on Syria, which had no motive for this killing, was done prior to any investigation by the government authorities of Lebanon. But to this investigation, and which the Lebanese government is being assisted by Switzerland, we are learning today, and as reported by the French News Service Agence France-Presse, "LEBANON is hunting six people who flew from Beirut for Australia, leaving traces of explosives on aircraft seats, hours after a powerful bomb killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. "Six people left for Australia from Beirut airport a few hours after the attack and traces of TNT powder were recovered from the seats used by some of them," Justice Minister Adnan Addum said."
It is of course logical that Syrian backed terrorists would not return to Syria after the bombing, which is but a few hundred kilometers, but instead fly thousands of miles from Lebanon right into the heart of a country solidly backing the war aims of the Americans and leaving a trail involving various international travel documents, isn't it?
Or is it more logical that if these were in fact Israeli terrorist bombers they would fly into a country like Australia who's government intelligence services are presently in chaos due to massive Israeli spy penetration, and as reported by the Australian newspaper Sunday Herald Sun, and which says;
"ASIO has cracked a spy ring in Canberra after tailing an Israeli diplomat who was suspected of being an agent of Mossad, Israel's espionage service. Amir Lati, the second secretary at the Israeli Embassy, was secretly expelled from Australia last month. He is known to have seduced a senior Defence Department official who is believed to have had access to classified documents. It is believed he intended to use the woman to gain US intelligence and military technology given to Australia. The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation put the junior Israeli diplomat – and other embassy officials – under surveillance after he visited two suspected Israeli spies who were arrested in New Zealand. The scandal has rocked Canberra's intelligence community, and Defence has launched a major investigation into the affair."
To all of these events the American people pay no attention nor do they protest. As we all draw nearer to this global war of American making the American people remain in their drug induced stupors, totally ignorant to the horrifying fate that awaits them. To the very few resistance fighters in their own country they do not even give comfort or assistance.
As I have previously stated, and should the Americans lose this war, many will there be of these common American citizens brought before the International War Crimes Tribunals for their support of their militaristic regime. Like their Nazi German counterparts of last century they too will claim their innocence and say, “We didn't know about these things.”
But to their faces the world will shout at them, “You DID know, you just did nothing.”
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I just saw Oliver Stone's 1986 film ('Salvador') about the death squads (75,000 were killed) in El Salvador as Negroponte knew that it was going on via a rightest regime that the current neocons (like Elliott Abrams) supported under President Ronald Reagan:
Elliott Abrams: The Neocon's Neocon:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/02/11/elliott-abrams-the-neocon-s-neocon.php
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CNN BREAKING NEWS:
Bush appoints John Negroponte to Director of National Intelligence.
Bush says the Director of the CIA will report directly to John Negroponte.
Negroponte was U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Bush Picks Negroponte for Intelligence Chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has picked John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, for the new position of director of national intelligence, an intelligence source said on Thursday.
Bush will also nominate National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden as Negroponte's deputy, the source told Reuters.
Negroponte has been ambassador to Baghdad for less than a year and met Bush at the White House this week.
The newly created intelligence chief position will oversee 15 U.S. intelligence agencies and emerged as a central recommendation of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks last year.
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7662463
Also, please read this about Negroponte:
Iraq: Negroponte's parallel CIA
Kuwait Times
February 17,2005 - Senior US Defense Department sources say US Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte has set up his own parallel intelligence service in Iraq that is separate from the CIA and not officially part of the Pentagon. The new service reports directly to Negroponte, who created it because he does not trust the CIA station chief in Iraq. If true, Negroponte's move is sneaky but not especially surprising.
There already are a few separate "intel shops" being run within the US government, buried deep within various agencies. These exist because government officials often do not trust other agencies to provide quick, reliable intelligence, and thus often look to their own personnel to run separate operations and collection efforts. A sense of territoriality also is to blame, with agencies reluctant to give up turf or share information.
As a result, the government's intelligence efforts are constantly undermined and fragmented. Running a separate government intelligence service - often without the knowledge or approval of the CIA or even the Pentagon - is nothing new. In late January, the existence of the Pentagon's Strategic Support Branch (SSB) within the Defense Intelligence Agency became public knowledge. The SSB reportedly is responsible for intelligence collection related to counter terrorism efforts all over the world and was established by the Pentagon because US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld expressed concerns that he was not receiving the intelligence he needed from the CIA.
According to a senior government official, Negroponte has brought in old friends from his Foreign Service days, most likely to manage intelligence operations and collection. Negroponte's efforts likely are supported - if only tacitly - by Rumsfeld, with whom he has a close relationship and who also has endorsed the use of separate-but-parallel intelligence entities. A US Senate Intelligence Committee report released in July 2004 blasted the CIA for intelligence failures before the invasion of Iraq, and it appears that the agency has yet to improve its shoddy reporting - or at least its tarnished image. The number and structure of insurgent groups in Iraq is still relatively unknown, as are the whereabouts (or even the existence) of insurgent leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. CIA intelligence also has failed to provide information on Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
Even if the intelligence has been collected, it likely is not being properly reported or analysed - meaning that valuable information could be slipping through the agency's hands. If government officials continue to establish their own methods of intelligence collection, it will not only undermine the efforts of official agencies - such as the CIA - but also provide too many fragments of information that cannot be examined side by side. There already are problems with information sharing between the Defence Department, FBI and CIA. The establishment of separate, parallel services - who do not necessarily have to answer to congressional oversight - adds another kink in the flow of information.
It also sets up the new national intelligence director (NID) - yet to be appointed - for failure. As long as government agencies and on-the-side intel projects undermine each other, the NID will not be able to bring all intelligence efforts under one umbrella. The proliferation of small, separate intelligence groups also hurts collection efforts by impeding the government's ability to paint a clear picture of the realities on the ground - in Iraq and elsewhere. (Stratfor)
:: Article nr. 9737 sent on 17-feb-2005 14:47 ECT
Ray McGovern: Who Will Read to the President in the Morning
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505G.shtml
Joe Conason | Bush's Social Security Mess
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505H.shtml
Maximum Pain is Aim of New U.S. Weapon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505I.shtml
John Cavanagh | Why Wolfowitz Would Be a Good World Bank President
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505Y.shtml
Frank Rich: What's Missing from the News
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505Z.shtml
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Ray McGovern | Who Now Will Read to the President in the Morning?
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| That Negroponte sure knows a lot about terrorism
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That Negroponte sure knows a lot about terrorism
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That Negroponte sure knows a lot about terrorism
Breaking news:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently the administration’s top representative in Iraq, to be America’s first national intelligence director.
.... Announcing the move at the White House, Bush said that Negroponte understands global intelligence needs because he’s had a long career in the foreign service. “John will make sure that those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions,” Bush said. “We’re going to stop the terrorists before they
strike.”
Negroponte is certainly a good choice to get inside the mind of a terrorist, since as U.S. ambassador to Honduras under Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, he reportedly collaborated with a top-secret Army death squad, ominously called Battalion 316, that kidnaped, tortured and killed hundreds of civilians there. Honduras was a key ally for the Reagan crowd in its covert "contra" effort to topple Nicaragua's leftist government.
The Baltimore Sun nailed the story, and the Embassy's role under Negroponte, in this 1995 expose:
"By 1983, when Alvarez's oppressive methods were well known to the U.S. Embassy, the Reagan administration awarded him the Legion of Merit for 'encouraging the success of democratic processes in Honduras.'" ...A CIA officer based in the U.S. Embassy went frequently to a secret jail known as INDUMIL, where torture was conducted..."
There's a lot more about America's odious behavior in Honduras during the Reagan/Negroponte years in this piece by Stephen Kinzer in the New York Review of Books. We'd like to make this case that elevating Negroponte to such a key post is surely sending the wrong message to a U.S. wary world about our government's position on torture.
But sadly, it sends the right message about where the Bush crowd is at.
Posted on February 17, 2005 10:48 AM
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001464.html | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:05 am Post subject: Coming Soon to the United States? Plan Condor, the Sequel |
| Just saw the following at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
Coming Soon to the United States? Plan Condor, the Sequel
It may seem strange now that Elliot Abrams and John Negroponte would have facilitated Argentinian fascists (who refined their torment of Jewish victims back in Buenos Aires by torturing them beneath portraits of Adolf Hitler). But Abrams and Negroponte did just that. Argentinian officers trained members of the Honduran army in techniques of mass repression while John Negroponte was ambassador in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa from 1981 to 1985. There he worked closely with Honduran armed forces chief Gustavo Alvarez Martinez to impose a "national security" state on the Argentine model – that is, a police state based on extra-judicial murder. As US ambassador in Honduras, John Negroponte displayed cynical contempt for US Congress and legitimacy, shamelessly violating the 1983 Boland Amendment restricting aid to the Contra. On Negroponte's recommendation, the Reagan government gave Alvarez Martinez the Legion of Merit in 1983 for "encouraging democracy." Alvarez Martinez was reponsible for disappearing over 140 trades unionists, students and other leaders of the Honduran popular movement between 1981 and 1984. In 1989, in a test case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights convicted Honduras of forcibly disappearing four people between 1981 and 1983. During that period, under Negroponte's proconsulship, Argentinian and Israeli terrorists helped the Honduran military refine their techniques of repression.
Posted Feb 17, 2005 04:18 PM PST
Category: ISRAEL
http://www.doublestandards.org/solo5.html
Coming Soon to the United States? Plan Condor, the Sequel
by Toni Solo
28 September 2003
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When Shimon Peres celebrated his 80th birthday on September 22nd, there at the top of the guest list, ahead of Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, South Africa's F.W. De Klerk, and Australia's Bob Hawke was Carlos Bulgheroni. Bulgheroni is head of the Argentinian energy company Bridas. [1] If terrorism cropped up in their conversation, Bulgheroni and Peres had plenty to reminisce about. Israel and Argentina served as US proxies training terrorists in Central America through the 1970s and 1980s.
Argentinian death squad trainers based in Guatemala were reported to have masqueraded as Bridas employees. During that time Peres served as Israel's Defence Minister, Prime Minister, deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister – well aware of Israeli military commitments in the Americas. Reviewing the background to US sponsored Argentinian and Israeli terrorism reveals how the fictional "war on terror" is just another pretext for the pillage of Latin America by the US government and its favoured multinational corporations.
Argentina – 30,000 reasons to cry
Three years after destroying democracy by instigating the military coup against Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, Henry Kissinger was in Santiago for a meeting of the Organization of American States. There he met the Argentinian military junta's foreign minister. According to Robert Hill, then U.S. Ambassador in Argentina, "Kissinger asked how long it would take ... to clean up the (terrorist) problem....Kissinger gave the Argentines the green light ... The Secretary wanted Argentina to finish its terrorist plan before year end." [2] Hill should know. It was he who served as intermediary between organizers of the Guatemalan death squads and leading figures in the Argentinian government. [3]
Between 1976 and 1983, under the military dictatorship, the Argentinian armed forces killed over 30,000 civilian members of the country's political opposition. Around 500 babies of women who gave birth in detention were distributed among their parents' murderers. In over 300 camps and detention centres, victims were tortured to death and then dumped in mass graves or flown out to be dropped into the Atlantic from military transport planes. Their property and goods were divided up among their torturers and murderers – over US$70m worth.
Plan Condor – some history
US determination to destroy opposition to its domination in Latin America stemmed from its defeat in Vietnam. The 1972 team in Paris helping Kissinger negotiate with the Vietnamese included current US ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, and Vernon Walters, later a key adviser to Ronald Reagan, then Army Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In those days George Bush Sr. was ambassador to the UN.
By 1975 Bush Sr. was head of the CIA and working together with Kissinger and Vernon Walters to develop Plan Condor – a coordinated operation against opposition movements throughout Latin America. [4] Plan Condor involved using illegal covert means such as the assassination team coordinated between the Chilean DIN security service and Miami Cuban terrorists like Orlando Bosch, Guillermo Novo and Luis Posada Carriles. [5] It also meant supporting brutal government policies of mass repression in countries throughout South America. Plan Condor was an ambitious and successful attempt to coordinate that repression.
Plan Condor moves to the Isthmus
By 1980, the priorities for President Reagan's Latin American team were to defeat the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, stop the revolutionary movements in Guatemala and El Salvador and to wipe out the popular movment in Honduras. By the end of 1981 many now familiar people were in place. Elliot Abrams (now Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs on the National Security Council) was Assistant Secretary of State for, incredibly, human rights and humanitarian affairs. John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras and John Maisto ambassador to Nicaragua. John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Otto Reich, Roger Noriega, all worked on Latin America under Reagan. All were brought back into the White House by George W. Bush after the Republican packed Supreme Court effectively validated the Florida voting fraud in the 2000 US presidential elections.[6]
Early in 1980, Argentinian army and naval officers arrived in Guatemala to provide counterinsurgency training for the Lucas Garcia regime. Together with advisers from Chile and Israel they assisted the Guatemalan death squads, originally created by the CIA in the 1960s. An estimated 200,000 people were killed by the Guatemalan military during the long popular resistance to that country's US supported dictatorships. In August 1981, the deputy director of the CIA, Vernon Walters, arranged a meeting in Guatemala City with the aim of consolidating an anti-Sandinista terrorist force with training from Argentina. [7]
Between 1981 and 1983, members of Argentina's Battalion 601, the unit responsible for much of the terror in Argentina itself, worked with Israeli trainers out of Guatemala. In El Salvador they helped train murderers like Roberto D'Aubuisson (who organised the killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero). In Honduras they helped organise both the notorious death squad Battalion 3-16 and the mass murderers of the Nicaraguan Contra. From 1983 onwards, the Israelis trained Carlos Castaño and other current leaders of the Colombian AUC paramilitary death squads. [8]
John Negroponte – fascist proconsul
It may seem strange now that Elliot Abrams and John Negroponte would have facilitated Argentinian fascists (who refined their torment of Jewish victims back in Buenos Aires by torturing them beneath portraits of Adolf Hitler). But Abrams and Negroponte did just that. Argentinian officers trained members of the Honduran army in techniques of mass repression while John Negroponte was ambassador in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa from 1981 to 1985. There he worked closely with Honduran armed forces chief Gustavo Alvarez Martinez to impose a "national security" state on the Argentine model – that is, a police state based on extra-judicial murder.
As US ambassador in Honduras, John Negroponte displayed cynical contempt for US Congress and legitimacy, shamelessly violating the 1983 Boland Amendment restricting aid to the Contra. On Negroponte's recommendation, the Reagan government gave Alvarez Martinez the Legion of Merit in 1983 for "encouraging democracy." Alvarez Martinez was reponsible for disappearing over 140 trades unionists, students and other leaders of the Honduran popular movement between 1981 and 1984. In 1989, in a test case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights convicted Honduras of forcibly disappearing four people between 1981 and 1983. During that period, under Negroponte's proconsulship, Argentinian and Israeli terrorists helped the Honduran military refine their techniques of repression.
Saudi and drugs paymasters
That training did not come free. Who paid for it? Mostly the US taxpayer via military aid to Argentina and Israel. But when legal funds were hard to come by, illegal sources served, including drugs proceeds and money siphoned through the fraudulent Bank of Commerce and Credit International, courtesy of links between George Bush Sr., the Saudi royal family and the Bin Laden family. [9] BCCI folded afer revelations that it laundered money from the Colombian Medellin drugs cartel, later to figure in the Iran Contra affair.
At this time, both Colombia and Taiwan also gave training. But the principal countries involved were Argentina and Israel. To help things along, Israel set up a plant in Guatemala to manufacture Galil rifles. Under an agreement reached in October 1981, 200 Guatemalan army officers took anti-insurgency courses in Buenos Aires including use of "interrogation techniques". Among their "instructors" was Ricardo Cavallo.
The Cavallo Scandal
On June 11th this year the Mexican authorities confirmed an extradition order against Ricardo Cavallo by the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for crimes against humanity during the terror in Argentina. [10] Cavallo is accused of 337 political kidnappings, 227 forced disappearances and the theft of children of political prisoners. Cavallo's story stems from Plan Condor and threads back to the current Bush administration.
Cavallo and his colleagues, Jorge Radice, Jorge Acosta and others were torturers in the Argentine armed forces. They forced their victims to sign authorities permitting them to dispose of their property, bank accounts and belongings. Cavallo also worked closely with the Bolivian army under Luis Garcia Meza in the early 1980s when Bolivia was virtually run by drugs traffickers.
With their illict capital, Cavallo and his friends set up the security and data control businesses Martiel and Talsud in Argentina. They made deals with Seal Lock, an Argentine company representing US based Advantage Security systems. Martiel represented Casa de la Moneda of Brazil, CONSAD of Argentina, Ciccone Calcográfica [11] and the French smart card firm Gemplus. [12] Talsud and Martiel were virtually interchangeable, both worked on the deal to emit the New Zaire currency for CIA favourite President Mobutu in Zaire in 1993.
In 1995, Bridas subsidiary TTI and Seal Lock helped Talsud secure lucrative deals in Argentina's Mendoza province. In 1996, Talsud got the contract to issue driving licenses in Argentina's Rioja province. Among Seal Lock's clients were the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Argentine Central Bank, The National Registry of Bolivia, Shell Paraguay and Israel's ZIM maritime line. Cavallo and his brother Oscar also set up a business in El Salvador called Sertracen, closely linked to the Salvadoran military. Sertracen issues driver and gun licenses in El Savador.
In August 1998, Cavallo entered Mexico as a tourist, miraculously managing to process his residency within a month. Within a year his Talsud company was bidding for the Mexican driver licensing authority (RENAVE), together with Gemplus and the Mexican company CIFRA. On September 7th 1999, they won the contract guaranteeing an estimated annual turnover of US$400 million
The Cavallo/RENAVE scandal broke in Mexico earlier this year amid mounting evidence of irregularities. Commerce Vice-Minister Raul Tercero, who authorised the RENAVE deal, was found in a wood near Mexico City with his throat cut. He left behind several letters defending himself against accusations of corruption.
Cavallo's business associates have an unfortunate tendency to die violently. In October 1998, during a bribery scandal involving IBM, Marcel Cattaneo, brother of the owner of Cavallo client CONSAD was found hanging from a lamp post. That apparent suicide followed similar suspicious deaths. In June 1998 a friend of President Carlos Menem, leading businessman Alfredo Yabran, associated with De La Rue subsidiary Ciccone Calcografica, was found dead. In August of the same year Jorge Estrada, Cavallo's former chief at the ESMA torture centre and a shareholder in Martiel was found dead, another apparent suicide.
Plan Condor veteran in Mexico
Like Cavallo, someone else arrived in Mexico in 1998, but not as a tourist, US ambassador Jeffrey Davidow. [13] Davidow was a political adviser at the US embassy in Chile from 1971 to 1974. In Santiago, he was an embassy insider when the CIA and the DIN Chilean security agency were organising the assassination gang that later murdered leading Chilean opposition figures, Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and Orlando Letelier in Washington. In Mexico Davidow continued honing the skills he learned in Chile, covering up human rights abuses in Chiapas and cultivating dubious relationships with drug dealing businessmen – all to be expected of a Plan Condor veteran.
The Cavallo scandal sharpened concern in Mexico and the rest of Latin America relating to reports that US data mining company Choicepoint has been purchasing confidential information from companies like Talsud and Martiel on whole populations of Central and South American countries. People fear violations of the legitimate privacy of Latin American people travelling to or living in the United States. Choicepoint is the company whose DBT subsidiary spoiled the electoral roll in Florida enabling George Bush to win that 2000 presidential election. [14]
Data abuse – the Choicepoint link
It is hard to get precise details on who is selling Choicepoint this confidential information. [15] But some idea of the use to be made of all that data can be inferred from the role envisaged by John Poindexter for his Total Information Awareness program (TIA) in the developing John Ashcroft police state. While Poindexter, convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran Contra hearings, may be off the public scene after the DARPA "terrorism futures" fiasco, TIA soldiers on under different guises, like the MATRIX program in various US states, notably Florida.
Richard Armitage, one of the Iran-Contra plotters, was a board member of Database Technologies (DBT)/ChoicePoint Inc before taking office under George Bush Jr. Now he is Colin Powell's deputy Secretary of State. Choicepoint is a partner of data mining company SAIC whose web site proclaims it has "developed a strategic alliance with ChoicePoint Incorporated to provide our clients with quick and effortless information retrieval from public records data. ChoicePoint Incorporated maintains thousands of gigabytes of public records data." [16] SAIC's clients include The U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve, United States Marine Corps and BP Amoco. Before becoming Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld was on BP Amoco's advisory board.
BP-Amoco? Sounds like Bridas-Pan American Energy....
Back at the conversation between Shimon Peres and Carlos Bulgheroni, their terrorist reminiscences over, maybe the conversation turned to oil and gas. Funny how times change and erstwhile friends fall out.
In the early 1990s Bridas obtained oil exploration concessions in Turkmenistan. By 1997 they were negotiating with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to build a pipeline there. Bridas found itself in competition vying for Taliban favor with Unocal, a US oil company heavily criticised for its operation in army controlled Myanmar (Burma).
Richard Armitage [17] worked for Unocal along with another Iran-Contra figure, Robert Oakley. The Taliban favoured a deal with Bridas. Bridas and Unocal ended up fighting it out in the US courts. Bridas lost. At the same time, through 1997 and 1998, US policy on Afghanistan turned sour. [18] Between November 2000 and August 2001, Argentina had its financial guts ripped out by US banks and the international finance markets. [19] In October 2001 the US invaded Afghanistan.
This is a fine illustration of the Bush Doctrine: no country will be permitted to pose a threat to the perceived interests of the United States, not even a friendly former terrorist client state like Argentina. Bridas could see how things were going and went with the flow. In 1997 it teamed up with BP-Amoco. Reborn as Panamerican Energy, Bridas is working with BP-Amoco to exploit gas and oil reserves throughout Latin America, but mainly in Argentina and, controversially, Bolivia. BP-Amoco gets the benefit of Bridas assets in Central Asia.
Plan Condor – alive and well
The progression from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay through Central America to present day Venezuela and Colombia is clear. The same actors appear time after time. Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, John Maisto Roger Noriega and Otto Reich all move between comfortable jobs in US government and the corporate plutocracy that dictates US government policy.
Every one of them participated one way or another in the Iran Contra conspiracy to mislead Congress. Abrams was indicted and found guilty by the Congressional investigating commission but pardoned by George Bush Sr. Richard Armitage escaped prosecution because the investigating commission lacked resources. They were exhausted nailing former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger, also pardoned by Bush Sr. Now Powell, Armitage, Maisto, Noriega and Reich are plotting the overthrow of democratically elected Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and attempting to deepen US military engagement in Colombia. In Guatemala, an old associate, mass murderer Rios Montt is threatening violent overthrow of the country's hard-won democratic governance.
None of this has anything to do with any "war on communism" or "war on drugs" or "war on terror". The United States and the European Union are in Latin America for the same reasons as the Spanish, Portuguese, British, French and Dutch colonialists before them – natural resources and cheap labour, compounded these days by neo-colonial extraction of forcibly contrived "debt". The methods are privatisation, dismantling of domestic agricultural economies, and open markets imposed by the IMF and World Bank through local clients to favour multinational corporations like BP-Amoco, Monsanto, Cargill and other all too familiar names.
For people in the United States the lessons of Latin America should be very clear. French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote that people in Europe were shocked by the Nazis because the Nazis applied to Europe the methods European powers practiced in their colonies. Now it's the turn of the United States. The banal, evil individuals currently running the White House are steadily putting into practice at home what they have done for three decades while facilitating terror in Latin America.
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NOTES
1. Bridas is an energy production and exploration company. It operates in Latin America and Central Asia. It has a joint exploration & production venture with BP Amoco called Pan American Energy. The company owns 40% of Pan American Energy (60% owned by BP Amoco). Pan American Energy LLC is a company registered in Delaware, USA. (From BP-Amoco and related web sites.)
2. For Hill quote see : www.icai-online.org/72616,46136.html among many others
3. "Guatemala: Laboratorio estadounidense del terror", February 2002.
Gustavo Meoño Brenner, Nuevo Diario, Guatemala. This article cites:
Ariel C. Armony "La Argentina, los Estados Unidos y la Cruzada Anti-Comunista en América Central, 1977-1984" Editorial Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1999.
Stella Calloni "Operación Cóndor, pacto criminal" Ediciones La Jornada, Ciudad de México, 2001.
"Las intimidades del proyecto político de los militares en Guatemala". Jennifer Schirmer, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Guatemala, 1999.
4. The same team helped set up in 1975 the Committee on the Present Danger, in which Paul Wolfowitz was a leading figure.
5. Hernando Calvo Ospina, "Pinochet, la CIA y los terroristas cubanos", 23 de agosto del 2003, www.rebelion.org.
6. Colin Powell is Secretary of State. Richard Armitage is Deputy Secrteary of State. John Maisto is US representative to the Organization of American States. Roger Noriega is Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Otto Reich is US Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives.
7. Testimony of Edgar Chamorro, former Contra organizer to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, September 5th 1985.
8. Jeremy Bigwood, Narco News, "Israel y los paramilitares colombianos" from www.rebelion.org August 15th 2003
9. The Reagan administration also used BCCI to channel funds to the Afghan mujaheddin in the days when Bin Laden was a US hero. Two former CIA directors, Richard Helms and William Casey were involved in BCCI before it folded following revelations that it laundered money for the Medellin drugs cartel. William Casey died before the Iran Contra hearings took place. Among various sources:
"US arms group heads for Lisbon" The News, Portugal's English language Weekly, 4 April 2003. www.globalresearch.ca
"À qui profite le crime? Les liens financiers occultes des Bush et des Ben Laden" Réseau Voltaire 11 septembre 2001
10. Sources for information on Cavallo:
Article by Olga Viglieca, Hector Pavon and Guido Braslavsky. Clarín-Zona. Argentina September 10th 2000
"Renave: los porqué de un fracaso" Jorge Fernández Menéndez. Semanario Milenio. Mexico, September 14th 2000
"El largo brazo de la mafia argentina", José Steinsleger La Jornada. Mexico September 24th 2000
"Se expanden las empresas del ex marino Ricardo Cavallo licencia." Mario Fiore. Los Andes. Mendoza. Argentina August 17th 2001.
"Tiene Cavallo Información Estrategica" Jorge Carrasco A. La Reforma. Date unclear.
11. A subsidiary of De la Rue producing passports for the Mexican government. De La Rue now own the US Sequoia computerised voting systems company, part owned by Carlyle group partner, US investment firm Madison Dearborn who took over Jefferson Smurfit's share of Sequoia
12. Fort Worth based Texas Pacific Group recently made a huge private equity investment between $300 and $500 million into Gemplus to expand Gemplus presence in the international wireless communications, e-commerce and Internet security markets.
13. "Borderline behavior", Al Giordano. The Boston Phoenix. December 16-23, 1999
14. Greg Palast, November 2nd 2002,"The re-election of Jim Crow: How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again" and his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
15. "Imperio de control", Dieter Drüssel. www.rebelion.org, September 1st 2003. Drussel mentions Costa Rican owned Silnica in Nicaragua. In El Salvador and Guatemala public concern has centred on Sertracen and InforNet.
16. SAIC web site
17. Iran-Contra Special Counsel's report, "Independent Counsel declined to prosecute Armitage because the OIC's limited resources were focused on the case against Weinberger and because the evidence against Armitage, while substantial, did not reach the threshold of proof beyond a reasonable doubt."
18. Various web sites
"Afghanistan, Turkmenistan Oil and Gas, and the Projected Pipeline",
ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q7.html
Timeline, www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
www.thedubyareport.com/oilwar.html
"Enron played key role in events presaging war", Martin Yant. Columbus Free Press. April 10, 2002
19. "Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own – Wall Street Pushed Debt Till the Last", Paul Blustein. The Washington Post. August 3rd 2003
(Toni Solo is an activist based in Central America. Contact tonisolo52@yahoo.com.) | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: Heil, Heil The Gang's All Here, Ray McGovern |
| Heil, Heil The Gang's All Here, Ray McGovern
Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here
Ray McGovern
February 18, 2005
The appointment of John Negroponte to be director of National Intelligence is the latest evidence that President Bush is strengthening his cabinet's capacity to mislead Congress and trample civil liberties. Ray McGovern, 27-year veteran of the CIA, examines the meaning of the Negroponte appointment and the dark trend it confirms.
Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He chaired National Intelligence Estimates in addition to preparing the president's Daily Brief.
The nomination of John Negroponte to the new post of director of National Intelligence (DNI) caps a remarkable parade of Bush administration senior nominees. Among the most recent:
Alberto Gonzales, confirmed as attorney general: the lawyer who advised the president he could ignore the US War Crimes Act and the Geneva Conventions on torture and create a “reasonable basis in law...which would provide a solid defense to any future prosecution.”
Michael Chertoff, confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security: the lawyer who looked the other way when 762 innocent immigrants (mostly of Arab and South Asian descent) were swept up in a post-9/11 dragnet and held as “terrorism suspects” for several months. The dictates of PR trumped habeas corpus; the detentions fostered an image of quick progress in the “war on terrorism.”
John Negroponte: the congenial, consummate diplomat now welcomed back into the brotherhood. Presently our ambassador in Baghdad, Negroponte is best known to many of us as the ambassador to Honduras with the uncanny ability to ignore human rights abuses so as not to endanger congressional support for the attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of Nicaragua in the '80s. Negroponte's job was to hold up the Central American end of the Reagan administration's support for the Contra counterrevolutionaries, keeping Congress in the dark, as necessary.
Introducing...Elliot's Protégé
Stateside, Negroponte's opposite number was Elliot Abrams, then assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs, whose influence has recently grown by leaps and bounds in the George W. Bush administration. Convicted in October 1991 for lying to Congress about illegal support for the Contras, Abrams escaped prison when he was pardoned, along with former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger (also charged with lying to Congress), former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and three CIA operatives. Indeed, their pardons came cum laude , with President George H. W. Bush stressing that “the common denominator of their motivation...was patriotism.” Such “patriotism” has reached a new art form in his son's administration, as a supine Congress no longer seems to care very much about being misled.
President George W. Bush completed Elliot Abrams’ rehabilitation in December 2002 by bringing him back to be his senior adviser for the Middle East, a position for which the self-described neoconservative would not have to be confirmed by Congress. Immediately, his influence with the president was strongly felt in the shaping and implementation of policy in the Middle East, especially on the Israel-Palestine issue and Iraq. Last month the president promoted him to deputy national security adviser, where he can be counted on to overshadow—and outmaneuver—his boss, the more mild-mannered Stephen Hadley.
It is a safe bet that Abrams had a lot to do with the selection of his close former associate to be director of National Intelligence, and there is little doubt that he passed Negroponte's name around among neocon colleagues to secure their approval.
As mentioned above, like Abrams, Negroponte has a record of incomplete candor with Congress. Had he been frank about serious government-sponsored savagery in Honduras, the country would have forfeited U.S. aid—thwarting the Reagan administration's use of Honduras to support the Contras. So Negroponte, too, has evidenced Abrams-style “patriotism.” Those in Congress who still care, beware.
Civil Liberties At Stake
The liberties that Gonzales, Chertoff and Negroponte have taken with human rights are warning signs enough. The increased power that will be Negroponte's under the recent intelligence reform legislation makes the situation still more worrisome.
How many times have we heard the plaintive plea for better information sharing among the various intelligence agencies? It is important to understand that the culprit there is a failure of leadership, not a structural fault.
I served under nine CIA directors, four of them at close remove. And I watched the system work more often than malfunction. Under their second hat as director of Central Intelligence, those directors already had the necessary statutory authority to coordinate effectively the various intelligence agencies and ensure that they did not hoard information. All that was needed was a strong leader with integrity, courage, with no felt need to be a “team player,” and a president who would back him up when necessary. (Sadly, it has been 24 years since the intelligence community has had a director—and a president—fitting that bill.)
Lost in all the hand-wringing about lack of intelligence sharing is the fact that the CIA and the FBI have been kept separate and distinct entities for very good reason—first and foremost, to protect civil liberties. But now, under the intelligence reform legislation, the DNI will have under his aegis not only the entire CIA—whose operatives are skilled at breaking (foreign) law—but also a major part of the FBI, whose agents are carefully trained not to violate constitutional protections or otherwise go beyond the law. (That is why the FBI agents at Guantanamo judged it necessary to report the abuses they saw.)
This is one area that gives cause for serious concern lest, for example, the law enjoining CIA from any domestic investigative or police power be eroded. Those old enough to remember the Vietnam War and operation COINTELPRO have a real-life reminder of what can happen when lines of jurisdiction are blurred and “super-patriots” are given carte blanche to pursue citizen “dissidents”—particularly in time of war.
Aware of these dangers and eager to prevent the creation of the president's own Gestapo, both the 9/11 Commission and Congress proposed creation of an oversight board to safeguard civil liberties. Nice idea. But by the time the legislation passed last December, the powers and independence of the “Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board” had been so watered down as to be a laughingstock. For example, the Board's access to information from government agencies requires the approval of the DNI and the attorney general, who can withhold information from the Board for a variety of reasons—among them the familiar “national security interests.” In addition, the Board lacks subpoena power over third parties. Clearly, if the Board does not have unfettered access to information on sensitive law enforcement or intelligence gathering initiatives, the role of the Board (primarily oversight and guidance) becomes window dressing. In short, the Board has been made lame before it could take its first step.
“What the hell do we care; what the hell do we care” is the familiar second line of “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here.” Suffice it to say that, with Chertoff, Abrams and now Negroponte back in town, those concerned to protect civil liberties here at home and to advance them abroad need to care a whole lot.
Corruption, Politicization of Intelligence
Gen. William Odom, one of the most highly respected and senior intelligence professionals, now retired, put a useful perspective on last summer's politically driven rush into wholesale intelligence reform. In a Washington Post op-ed on Aug. 1, he was typically direct in saying, “No organizational design will compensate for incompetent incumbents.” I believe he would be the first to agree that the adjectives “careerist and sycophantic” should be added to “incompetence,” for incompetence often is simply the handmaiden of those noxious traits. And the failure of the 9/11 Commission and the Congress to insist that real people be held accountable is a major part of the problem.
Intelligence reform in a highly charged political atmosphere gathers a momentum of its own, and the reform bill Congress passed late last year is largely charade. The “reforms” do not get to the heart of the problem. What is lacking is not a streamlined organizational chart, but integrity. Character counts. Those who sit atop the intelligence community need to have the courage to tell it like it is—even if that means telling the president his neocon tailors have sold him the kind of suit that makes him a naked mockery (as with the fashion designed by Ahmed Chalabi).
Is John Negroponte up to that? Standing in the oval office with Gonzales and Chertoff, will Negroponte succumb to being the “team player” he has been...or will he summon the independence to speak to the president without fear or favor—the way we used to at CIA?
It is, of course, too early to tell. Suffice it to say at this point that there is little in his recent government service to suggest he will buck the will of his superiors, even when he knows they are wrong—or even when he is aware that their course skirts the constitutional prerogatives of the duly elected representatives of the American people in Congress. Will he tell the president the truth, even when the truth makes it clear that administration policy is failing—as in Iraq? Reports that, as ambassador in Baghdad, Negroponte tried to block cables from the CIA Chief of Station conveying a less rosy picture of the situation there reinforces the impression that he will choose to blend in with the white-collar, white, White House indigenous.
The supreme irony is that President Bush seems blissfully unaware that the politicization that Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and he have fostered in the intelligence community has lost them an invaluable resource for the orderly making of foreign policy. It pains me to see how many senior careerists at CIA and elsewhere have made a career (literally) of telling the White House what they think it wants to hear.
If that proves just fine with the new DNI and he contents himself with redrawing wire diagrams, the security of our country is in greater danger. If, on the other hand, Negroponte wants to ensure that he and his troops speak truth to power–despite the inevitable pressure to fall in line with existing policy—he has his work cut out for him. At CIA, at least, he will have to cashier many careerists at upper management levels and find folks with integrity and courage to move into senior positions. And he will have to prove to them that he is serious. The institutionalization of politicization over the last two dozen years has so traumatized the troops that the burden of proof will lie with Negroponte.
The President's Daily Brief
The scene visualized by President Bush yesterday for his morning briefing routine, once Negroponte is confirmed, stands my hair on end. I did such morning briefings for the vice president, the secretaries of State and Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Assistant from 1981 to 1985—each of them one-on-one. Our small team of briefers was comprised of senior analysts who had been around long enough to earn respect and trust. We had the full confidence of the CIA director; when he was in town we would brief him just before lunch, hours after we had made the rounds downtown.
When I learned a few years ago that former director George Tenet was going down to the oval office with the briefer, I asked myself, “What is that all about?” The last thing we wanted or needed was the director breathing down our necks. And didn't he have other things to do?
We were there to tell it like it is—and, in those days, at least, we had career protection for doing so. And so we did. If, for example, one of those senior officials asked if there was good evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we knew that the serious, honest analysts thought not, we would say “No sir.”
But you ask, “Even if the director has said it was a ‘slam dunk?’” Yes. Even after the director had said it was a slam dunk! But bear in mind that in those days the task was not so heroic. We did not have the director standing behind us to “help.”
From what President Bush said yesterday, John Negroponte, the man farthest removed from substantive intelligence analysis—not to mention the background and genesis of the briefing items chosen for a particular day—will be the president's “primary briefer.” I am told that President Bush does not read the President's Daily Brief, but rather has it read to him.
Who will do the reading? Who will attempt to answer the president's questions? Will there be a senior analyst there in a supporting role? Will s/he have career protection, should it be necessary to correct Negroponte's answers? Will Negroponte ask CIA Director Porter Goss to participate as well? Will the briefer feel constrained with very senior officials there? Will s/he be able to speak without fear of favor, drawing, for example, on what the real experts say regarding Iran's nuclear capability and plans? These are important questions. A lot will depend on the answers.
We had a good thing going in the '80s. Ask those we briefed and whose trust we gained. It is hard to see that frittered away. Worst of all, the president appears oblivious to the difference. I wish he would talk to his earthly father. He knows.
http://www.tompaine.com/print/hail_hail_the_gangs_all_here.php
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http://www.nowarforisrael.com/ | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: Intelligence Nominee Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny on Human R |
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February 19, 2005
Intelligence Nominee Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny on Human Rights
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 - Human rights advocates repeated longstanding criticisms on Friday of John D. Negroponte, President Bush's nominee as director of national intelligence. They said accusations that he covered up abuses as ambassador to Honduras in the 1980's had a new importance after recent cases of American abuse of detainees.
In Honduras, Mr. Negroponte "looked the other way" when evidence of rights violations came to light, said Reed Brody, counsel to Human Rights Watch.
"Unfortunately," Mr. Brody said, "today the United States is involved in serious human rights crimes committed in the process of collecting intelligence. Is he just going to look the other way again?"
Sandra Coliver, executive director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights law center in San Francisco that has aided Honduran torture victims, said the nomination would hurt the United States' image in Central America.
"In Central America," Ms. Coliver said, "Negroponte is indelibly remembered for his role in increasing the amount of U.S. aid to the Honduran military at the very time that the military's role in supporting brutal death squads was becoming abundantly clear. What kind of a message will this appointment send to the people of Central America? That the U.S. is willing to overlook massive human rights atrocities in the name of collecting intelligence in pursuit of U.S. national interests."
Mr. Negroponte, 65, now ambassador to Iraq, is a career diplomat who has worked all over the world in his 40-year career. He has faced repeated scrutiny for his work as envoy to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, when Honduran military units, some trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, carried out kidnappings, torture and killings.
As the first director of national intelligence, Mr. Negroponte would oversee the C.I.A. and the other 14 agencies that are part of the nation's estimated $40 billion spying enterprise. The post is the centerpiece of intelligence reorganization undertaken chiefly because of the failure to warn of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The C.I.A. and military are also under intense scrutiny because of evidence that detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere have been tortured in questioning and in a few cases have died in custody. Questions have also been raised about whether the intelligence agency has handed over prisoners to third countries, where they might be tortured.
At confirmation hearings for previous posts, Mr. Negroponte has adamantly denied that he tolerated or covered up any abuses.
He said at a hearing in 2001 that his top priority as envoy to Honduras was "encouraging Honduras's return to civilian democratic rule, including protection of human rights."
Efforts to contact Mr. Negroponte through the State Department were not successful.
He has won easy confirmations in the past, and the Honduras record is not likely to be a major obstacle to his confirmation in the new position.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was not particularly troubled by Mr. Negroponte's record there.
"People grow and change over 20 years," Mr. Rockefeller said, adding that the panel would conduct a "thorough" review of the nominee.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who pursued the Honduran questions in 2001, when Mr. Negroponte was confirmed as delegate to the United Nations, issued a statement on Thursday praising him and not mentioning Honduras.
Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee, described Mr. Negroponte in a telephone interview as "a person who has a great deal of credibility." Jack R. Binns, who preceded Mr. Negroponte as ambassador to Honduras, said he opposed the confirmation because he believed that Mr. Negroponte had misled Congress in past testimony and because he might slant intelligence to suit administration policies.
"Based on his performance in Honduras, there's that possibility," said Mr. Binns, who was ambassador from 1980 to 1991 and is now retired and living in Arizona.
Oscar Reyes, whom the Honduran military seized in 1982 and tortured along with his wife, Gloria, said he was dismayed to learn of Mr. Negroponte's nomination.
"He'll say, 'I didn't know,' " said Mr. Reyes, 69, who now publishes a Spanish-language newspaper in Washington. "But the U.S. embassy knew everything that was going on."
Douglas Jehl contributed reporting for this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/politics/19intel.html?pagewanted=print&position= | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:58 am Post subject: Negroponte, a Neo-Con? Shocking!! |
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Negroponte, a Neo-Con? Shocking!!
Feb 19 2005
Memo To: Sen. Joe Biden, Senate Foreign Relations
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Questions for Negroponte
You may remember, Senator, I posted a memo on the margin to you on April 27, 2004, when I learned that John Negroponte, the US Ambassador to the U.N., was nominated to be the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. I told you then that, from what I could see, he was a loyal agent of the megalomaniac neo-con Cabal to run the world, and we would regret putting him in charge of promoting "democracy" in Iraq. He was actually "placed" there not by President Bush, but by his real boss, Richard Perle, to promote a puppet government that would do the bidding of Perle and his Cabal (Cheney, Wolfie, Rummy, etc.) As I tried to explain to you back then, Senator, Negroponte came up through the bureaucratic ranks by doing exactly as he was told by the neo-cons, and now President Bush has been snookered yet again into doing the bidding of the Cabal. He has appointed Negroponte to be the Biggest Cheese of all in the National Intelligence Community, the CZAR of national intelligence!!!
Negroponte is and always has been a "capo" in the Perle mafia, and now because he looks "respectable," a public servant who has worked for both Democratic and Republican presidents, he gets to be King of the Mountain. Don`t be a dope, Senator. It will be still be Perle and the neo-cons pulling his strings, as they always have. And once he is confirmed, we are being told he will be President Bush`s "primary" briefer, coming into the Oval Office every morning to tell Mr. Bush what Richard Perle & Co. want him to hear. Where are the enemies? Which are the rogue states? Who shall we bomb today?
I`m not sure how the confirmation process is going to work, Senator. Maybe you will not be able to get a question in edgewise. But as ranking Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations, you should at least be able to find out when John Negroponte first met Richard Perle, and what the occasion was. What I mean to say is this is a good shot at turning over the rock and finding out what is slithering beneath. Perle and his pals would like nothing more than to have a few questions tossed at Negroponte about his role in the Honduras, back in the Cold War. He probably lied through his teeth, but what the heck, we were in a Cold War, and I will give him all those lies. But he was at the U.N. in 2003 when every other diplomat in the world could see there was no reason to go to war with a toothless Iraq. Except Negroponte, who showed up every day to say whatever it was in his instructions from Perle and the neo-con Cabal. Poke around, Senator.
Here`s that old memo I mentioned earlier:
April 27, 2004
Just Who is John Negroponte?
Memo To: Sen. Joe Biden, Senate Foreign Relations
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: John Negroponte = Ahmed Chalabi
Of course the President’s nomination of John Negroponte to be U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad will sail through the confirmation process that began today. It would normally take weeks at least to get the Senate’s rubber stamp for such a high post in such a delicate situation, but the way has been greased for Negroponte, the current UN Ambassador, on the grounds that time’s a wastin’. You surely know the real reason for the short-cut is to deny the many serious opponents of his nomination a chance to speak their piece, as it might soon become clear that he is NOT the right man for the job. In a sense, Negroponte is the foster brother of Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi foster child of Richard Perle, as Negroponte has also climbed the diplomatic ladder with assistance every step of the way from Perle and the neo-cons.
Perle continues to control his network -- which controls the Bush administration’s foreign policy, even though Perle had to resign his 16-year post at the Defense Policy Board. So too, Negroponte will be able to run Iraq as proconsul in the Perle/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld empire even if his brother Chalabi gets cut out of the interim government to be named June 30. I noticed the New York Times this morning finally took note that Chalabi is not currently in favor at the White House, which is having trouble explaining why it has invested so much power and money in a convicted felon who would spend decades in prison if he ever set foot in Jordan, our erstwhile ally. Never mind, the neo-cons saw this coming, so they rush-rushed their man Negroponte to the Ambassador slot. There he can cut through all the red tape that Chalabi needs cutting in his megadeals in post-war Iraq. That is, if the there ever is a post-war Iraq.
You were there at the hearings today, Senator, when Andres Thomas Conteris, a Latin American human-rights activist jumped up in the audience to denounce Negroponte for the role he played on behalf of the Cold Warriors when he was ambassador to Honduras during the the Nicaragua Contra war in the early 1980s. He was detained, removed from the hearing room, and released elsewhere in the Capitol, but not before an exchange occurred, which I wonder if we will see in the papers tomorrow.
At the hearing your Republican colleague Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) asked Negroponte if "the sovereign Iraqi government of July 1 would not have veto authority over military involvement in [a situation like] Fallujah? ... If they have sovereignty, Mr. Ambassador, what does that mean? ..." Negroponte responded: "That is why I use the term `exercise of sovereignty.` I think in the case of military activity, their forces will come under the unified command of the multinational force. That is the plan...." U.S. forces, said Negroponte, "are going to be free to operate in Iraq as they best see fit." Situations like Fallujah would have to be the "subject of real dialogue between our military commanders, the new Iraqi government and the U.S. Mission as well."
It’s here that Conteris spoke up, objecting to such a "dialogue," he said: "We need to support nonviolence, not the violent polices of the United States. There is no sovereignty Mr. Ambassador if the U.S. continues to exercise security. Senators, please ask the ambassador about Battalion 316. Ask him about a death squad in Honduras that he supported." Conteris was then removed from the hearing room by the Capitol Police.
According to the Institute for Public Accuracy, an antiwar outfit in Washington, Conteris said later: "I spoke up because Negroponte at that moment was talking about sovereignty. I lived in Honduras for five years, I know the impact Negroponte`s policies had there in the early 1980s. At the time Honduras was known as the USS Honduras, basically an occupied aircraft carrier. Negroponte has been involved in subverting sovereignty in several other countries: Vietnam, the Philippines; he worked on Mexico`s adoption of NAFTA and tried to subvert Panamanian control over the canal."
Now I’m not going to get into all that Honduras stuff, Senator. If you want to refresh yourself, you can read up on it at http://www.coha.org, the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. The fact that we were up to our keisters in the Cold War back then does excuse a certain amount of trimming, assassinations, death squads, etc., which we should try to forget about. Indeed, back then when I was associate editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, I stood shoulder to shoulder with Perle, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, and the rest of the gang. But I broke ranks and became a dove when the Cold War ended. And as a dove, I have to tell you I think the Negroponte nomination has a fairly unpleasant odor about it, which I think the Senate – or at least Senate Democrats – will come to regret.
News of Negroponte’s background and performance in previous wars – not to mention the yeoman work he did for the Perle Cabal in greasing the skids for any diplomatic solution at the United Nations last year – is already making its way through the ranks of Iraqi insurgents, even as their mosques are bombed in Fallujah. I note Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International, another peacenik outfit, said today: “The appointment of Negroponte is likely to inflame the outrage of many Iraqis, and rightly so." During the Cold War, I used to hurl epithets at peaceniks like Awad. But now it seems I am one of them and I agree that another choice of ambassador would be much less likely to stoke the jihad underway in Iraq. But if stoking is what you think necessary, go right ahead, but please don’t come around saying you’re sorry it didn’t turn out too well when it doesn’t.
If we are going to have any chance of getting out of the mess in Iraq, we will have to permit an Iraqi government elected next January to have the right to invite the U.S. military to leave forthwith. It is Negroponte`s job to make sure that does not happen, and we all know that, don`t we?
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UK Diplomat: 'Britain Part of Worldwide Torture Plot' •
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Aboard Air C.I.A.
By Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry
Newsweek
28 February 2005 Issue
The agency ran a secret charter service, shuttling detainees to interrogation facilities worldwide. Was it legal? What's next? A NEWSWEEK investigation.
Holding pattern: The agency has been operating a Boeing 737 as part of a top-secret global charter.
(Photo: Graphic by Newsweek; Plane photo: Konstantin von Wedelstaedt)
Like many detainees with tales of abuse, Khaled el-Masri had a hard time getting people to believe him. Even his wife didn't know what to make of his abrupt, five-month disappearance last year. Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, says he was taken off a bus in Macedonia in south-central Europe while on holiday on Dec. 31, 2003, then whisked in handcuffs to a motel outside the capital city of Skopje. Three weeks later, on the evening of Jan. 23, 2004, he was brought blindfolded aboard a jet with engines noisily revving, according to his lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic. Masri says he climbed high stairs "like onto a regular passenger airplane" and was chained to clamps on the bare metal floor and wall of the jet.
Masri says he was then flown to Afghanistan, where at a U.S. prison facility he was shackled, repeatedly punched and questioned about extremists at his mosque in Ulm, Germany. Finally released months later, the still-mystified Masri was deposited on a deserted road leading into Macedonia, where he brokenly tried to describe his nightmarish odyssey to a border guard. "The man was laughing at me," Masri told The New York Times, which disclosed his story last month. "He said: 'Don't tell that story to anyone because no one will believe it. Everyone will laugh.' "
No one's laughing these days, least of all the CIA. NEWSWEEK has obtained previously unpublished flight plans indicating the agency has been operating a Boeing 737 as part of a top-secret global charter servicing clandestine interrogation facilities used in the war on terror. And the Boeing's flight information, detailed to the day, seems to confirm Masri's tale of abduction. Gnjidic, Masri's lawyer, called the information "very, very important" to his case, which is being investigated as a kidnapping by a Munich prosecutor. In what could prove embarrassing to President Bush, Gnjidic added that a German TV station was planning to feature Masri's tale ahead of Bush's much-touted trip to Germany this week. German Interior Minister Otto Schily recently visited CIA Director Porter Goss to discuss the case, and German sources tell NEWSWEEK that Schily was seeking an apology. CIA officials declined to comment on that meeting or any aspect of Masri's story.
The evidence backing up Masri's account of being "snatched" by American operatives is only the latest blow to the CIA in the ongoing detention-abuse scandal. Together with previously disclosed flight plans of a smaller Gulfstream V jet, the Boeing 737's travels are further evidence that a global "ghost" prison system, where terror suspects are secretly interrogated, is being operated by the CIA. Several of the Gulfstream flights allegedly correlate with other "renditions," the controversial practice of secretly spiriting suspects to other countries without due process. "The more evidence that comes out, the clearer it is that there's been a stunning failure of accountability," says lawyer John Sifton of Human Rights Watch.
CIA officials are increasingly fretful about being saddled with this secret prison network at a time of intense pressure from lawyers and human-rights activists. The CIA's anxiety only deepened last week when President Bush named John Negroponte, his ambassador to Iraq, as the country's first director of national intelligence. Negroponte, a demanding career diplomat, will take over the coveted president's daily brief, or PDB, from Goss. Bush sought to reassure the CIA that it would still be welcome in the Oval Office. But Bush also signaled that Negroponte would preside over a major shift in power in intelligence gathering. "John and I will work to determine how much exposure the CIA will have to the Oval Office," the president told reporters.
While it battles for influence in Washington, the agency is also fighting a rear-guard action against critics at home and abroad. Some CIA officials fear the White House is now exposing them to legal peril. New Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under pressure while he awaited his confirmation hearings late last year, repudiated a controversial August 2002 memo that CIA officials carefully solicited from the Justice Department for legal authorization on renditions and the agency's treatment of Qaeda prisoners. Today the CIA has dozens of detainees it doesn't know how to dispose of without legal procedures. "Where's the off button?" says one retired CIA official. "They asked the White House for direction on how to dispose of these detainees back when they asked for [interrogation] guidance. The answer was, 'We'll worry about that later.' Now we don't know what to do with these guys. People keep saying, 'We're not going to shoot them'."
The new evidence supporting Masri's case will only inflame the debate. According to data filed with European aviation authorities, the Boeing 737 landed in Skopje on Jan. 23, 2004, after a flight from the island of Majorca off Spain (a U.S.-friendly government), and left that night. Masri's passport has a Macedonian exit stamp for Jan. 23. The flight plan shows that the plane landed the next day in Baghdad and then went onto Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 25, which also conforms to Masri's account. According to Federal Aviation Administration records, the jet was owned at the time by Premier Executive Transport Services, a now-defunct Massachusetts-based company that U.S. intelligence sources acknowledge to NEWSWEEK fits the profile of a suspected CIA front.
Czar in waiting: Negroponte will preside over a major shift in intelligence gathering.
(Photo: Charles Ommanney / Newsweek)
The Boeing flights are part of a detailed two-year itinerary for the 737 obtained by NEWSWEEK. The jet's record dates to December 2002 and shows flights up until Feb. 7 of this year. The Boeing 737 may have served as a general CIA transport plane for equipment and supplies as well. Among the stops recorded are Libya, where the U.S. government has been dismantling
Muammar Kaddafi's clandestine nuclear program; and Jordan, where the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that high-level Qaeda detainees, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were being held. (A Jordanian spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.) The Boeing also landed at Guantanamo.
Ironically, many U.S. officials say, the CIA secret facilities have proven very effective for quietly interrogating a handful of known Qaeda suspects. But when such rough practices "migrated" to Iraqi war detainees and bigger facilities like Abu Ghraib prison - under the direction of the Defense Department - the public backlash compromised the CIA's intel-gathering efforts. Today the agency's cover has been blown and critics are questioning why no full-time CIA employees have been prosecuted despite several cases of serious abuse linked to the agency.
Among these cases is that of Manadel al-Jamadi, the Iraqi whose corpse was notoriously photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib last year. An Associated Press report last week said that documents show Jamadi died under CIA interrogation while suspended by his wrists at the prison. But only the Navy SEALs who delivered him to Abu Ghraib are currently being investigated, officials say.
U.S. officials insist the CIA has stopped rendering suspects to countries where they believe torture occurs. NEWSWEEK has learned that shortly after a Canadian jihadi suspect of Syrian origin, Maher Arar, was shipped back to Syria in September 2002, officials began having grave second thoughts about rendering suspects to that nation. As a result, the administration made a secret decision to stop sending suspects to Syria. But officials acknowledge that such scruples are being ignored when it comes to rendering suspects to allies like Egypt and Jordan, even though some officials do not believe "assurances" from these nations that they were not mistreating prisoners. Now the CIA may have to supply many more assurances - and Khaled el-Masri, among others, is waiting for them.
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A UK Diplomat says Britain is Part of a Worldwide Torture Plot. Is He Telling the Truth?
By Raymond Whitaker
The Independent U.K.
Sunday 20 February 2005
Our former ambassador to Uzbekistan refuses to go quietly. The Government should come clean about interrogation methods, he tells Raymond Whitaker.
Craig Murray is a very undiplomatic diplomat. Former ambassadors are supposed to be tending their flowers in Home Counties gardens, but this one is not. He is, instead, making extraordinary allegations, the most damaging of which is that Britain is using information obtained from torture to imprison people indefinitely. So convinced is he of the truth of this and other claims that he plans to stand against his former employer, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, at the general election.
Not for this man the emollient, languorous language normally associated with his profession. Our former ambassador in Uzbekistan is nothing if not forthright. "Unreliable information, obtained under torture in countries where it is routine, can be used against people in Britain," he told The Independent on Sunday in his first interview since leaving the Foreign Office last week with a £315,000 payoff. "On the basis of such information, they can be detained in Belmarsh prison or in future be put under house arrest for life. It impacts here in the UK."
The departure of Mr Murray, 46, from the diplomatic service is the culmination of an extraordinary two-year battle with his masters. His public denunciations of the Uzbek regime, and private complaints at American and British support for it, led to a confrontation in which he was accused of drunkenness and trading visas for sex with local women, and told to "resign or be sacked". The charges were leaked; when his marriage broke up over his relationship with a 23-year-old Uzbek hairdresser, Nadira Alieva, who now lives with him, that got out too. Now he plans to expose Britain's "hypocrisy" in the "war on terror".
"We have abandoned the notion of a foreign policy based on the rule of international law, in favour of one which says might is right, that there is one superpower and we'll be its best friend," he says. "I want to put these issues in front of the voters."
The ex-envoy's stand is almost the only sign of dissent in official circles over Britain's role as America's closest partner in the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq. Not only has the Government departed from European human rights law to detain foreign terror suspects without trial, it is implicated in what critics call a "web of illegality" spun by the Bush administration. The abuses at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad created a scandal, but evidence continues to emerge that this was simply the worst example of a pattern of mistreatment that extends from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Bagram in Afghanistan and other facilities around the world, some undisclosed, in which hundreds of suspects are held in legal limbo.
The latest revelations concern the practice of "extraordinary rendition". Using unmarked planes, the CIA is delivering prisoners to regimes which practise torture and then making use of the information produced. "There is increasing evidence that America is shipping people round the world to be tortured," Mr Murray says. "I saw it in Uzbekistan because I happened to be there, but it's also happening in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia."
Britain is unapologetic about making use of such information. The Foreign Office line is that while it totally condemns torture, it cannot rule out using any reliable intelligence, wherever it comes from, if it will save lives. But it is the reliability of the information that Mr Murray questions. In a scathing final memo to the Foreign Office, he wrote: "We receive intelligence obtained under torture from the Uzbek intelligence services, via the US. We should stop. It is bad information anyway. Tortured dupes are forced to sign up to confessions showing what the Uzbek government wants the US and UK to believe, that they and we are fighting the same war against terror ... we are selling our souls for dross."
Eight months later, he says: "What really seems to have angered them is that I was disputing the quality of the intelligence they were receiving. I began saying this at the time Britain was putting forward its dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They were keen on intelligence that exaggerated the threat." He adds that he has "a good deal of experience" in intelligence analysis. "During the first Gulf war, I worked full-time on analysing Iraq and its WMD."
Mr Murray was Britain's youngest ambassador when he was appointed to Tashkent in mid-2002, and it did not take him long to realise the nature of the regime. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, the old Communist Party boss, Islam Karimov, remains in charge of a Stalinist dictatorship which treats all devout Muslims as potential subversives, and has been known to boil prisoners alive. A couple of weeks after he arrived, the new ambassador attended a political trial, at which he met an old man. "Two of his children had been tortured in front of him until he signed a confession on the family's links with Bin Laden," he told the Foreign Office. "Tears were streaming down his face. I have no doubt they had as much connection with Bin Laden as I do."
After three months he said publicly that Uzbekistan was "not a functioning democracy". The major political parties were banned, and there were between 7,000 and 10,000 political and religious prisoners. The Americans - who were pouring money, warplanes and military personnel into Uzbekistan, valuing its position near central Asia's huge reserves of oil and gas - were upset, but in public the Foreign Office backed him.
Behind the scenes, however, he was getting into a worsening dispute with his employers over the question of torture. In October or November 2002, he says, he saw intelligence about an Uzbek dissident, his cell and its connections with Bin Laden. "I could see from the codes that it had gone from Uzbek intelligence to the CIA, and was then issued by MI6 as part of intelligence sharing. I remembered the old man, and a light went on." He sent his deputy to check with the CIA head of station in Tashkent whether the agency had any safeguards against receiving information obtained under torture. "He told her, yes, it probably is obtained under torture, but the CIA doesn't see that as a problem."
Mr Murray says he was probably naive. "I honestly thought that it was only a matter of pointing out to London how this material was sourced, and they wouldn't have any truck with it." But he heard nothing from the Government, which was preoccupied with the rush to war in Iraq. After several more complaints, he was summoned to London for a meeting at the Foreign Office in March 2003. He was told the information was useful and not illegal to obtain, although it could not be used in a court of law. His line manager later told him he was "unpatriotic".
He continued to speak out about human rights in Uzbekistan until the Foreign Office accusations against him - later withdrawn - and the subsequent breakdown of his health, which kept him in London for most of the second half of 2003. When he returned to Tashkent, he says, he was determined to "keep my head down". But after the Abu Ghraib revelations last year, which led the Foreign Office to remind its diplomats that they should report torture by allies, he discovered that a meeting in London, which he had not been told about or asked to attend, had decided to continue receiving Uzbek intelligence material.
"This is morally, legally and practically wrong," he wrote in his final memo. "It exposes as hypocritical our post-Abu Ghraib pronouncements and undermines our moral standing. It obviates my efforts to get the Uzbek government to stop torture [if] they are fully aware our intelligence community laps up the results." When this memo was leaked to the press, the Foreign Office argued that he could no longer stay in Tashkent.
Now he is free to pursue the issue as a private citizen, Mr Murray says: "We argue that we don't carry out or instigate torture ourselves, but if information from it comes our way, we won't refuse it. But in criminal law, when a known thief asks you to buy a stolen TV for £10, it is no defence to say that I didn't ask him to steal it and I wasn't there when he stole it - I just bought the stolen goods."
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| February 18, 2005
Axis Power, the United States, Chooses Israeli National to Head Secret Police, Forces Prepare For Further Global Conquest
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
In the latest frightening internal move by the United States against the world, we have come to learn that President Bush has appointed the Jewish Israeli national John to be the head of all 15 of the their intelligence organizations, and which includes the CIA.
Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel. To such a strange circumstance this has brought to America we can even read in this newspaper article from the Los Angeles Times about how this effects even the United States, “Galvis was attempting a feat perhaps unprecedented in American politics: holding two elected offices simultaneously in two countries. He is, after all, a citizen of both places, with a pair of passports to prove it. "I was going to travel back and forth," said Galvis, who runs a travel agency in Hackensack. "I saw this as a good opportunity to keep some ties to the homeland there."
Equally not known to the American people is that John Negroponte is known throughout the Central American countries as the “Ambassador to Death Squads”, and as we can read, "During his years in Honduras, Negroponte acquired a reputation, justified, as an old-fashioned imperialist, and devoted to Realpolitik. At the time Mr. Negroponte was in Honduras, Honduras was a military dictatorship. Kidnapping, rape, torture and executions of dissidents was rampant. The military top and middle ranks were U.S-trained at the School of the Americas (SOA), the Harvard version of the CIA, based in Fort Benning, Georgia. According to Human Rights Watch, graduates of the SOA are responsible for the worst human rights abuses and torture of dissidents in Latin America."
Of these Jewish secret police masters we are well familiar with here in our country. No family in Russia was left untouched during the sadistic Jewish Communist reign of the People's Commissariat Internal Affairs, NKVD, under the brutal direction of the Jewish head of the organization Lavrenti Beria, and of which has been truly reported;
"Beria was Stalin's party associate and confidante from their native Georgia. In 1938 he was put in charge of the dreaded NKVD. Beria was responsible for the infamous Katyn massacre of captive Polish soldiers and intellectuals. Beria was also in charge of the Gulag prison system that sent millions to oblivion. Beria was noted for having his bodyguards kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka office, which doubled as a torture chamber."
Once again the world is facing a terrifying American militaristic regime headed by cruel Jewish masters who will now control the secret polices forces for the whole country and to the citizens of this insane country there is no protest. It is too easy to say, and even still easier to believe, that the entire citizenship of this once great Nation has gone completely insane.
These are not idle or speculative words either, and as their own government reports about them, “Is America the most medicated nation on Earth? Could be, according data just released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that at least half of all Americans takes at least one prescription drug, with one in six taking three or more medications."
And if it is possible to have ‘insanity within insanity’ we are shown such a case today with these Americans in that the very drugs they use to dull their senses are in fact killing them, and as we can read as reported by their MSNBC News Service, "Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients."
The most medicated people on earth, medicated with drugs that kill them, in control of the worlds most powerful militaristic regime, who can not give up their rights as free citizens fast enough, who believe every lie their propagandists tell them, watch silently as their neighbors disappear into their gulag, give no protests to their military's invasions of other countries, preach ‘democracy’ to the world, while at the same time their own allies are some of the most brutal dictatorial regimes on earth, and they wonder why they are feared and despised in the world? Is this not madness?
To their great Middle East ally Egypt this week the American Secretary of State, Rice, has ‘criticized’ the Egyptians for imprisoning an opposition party member prior to the presidential elections in that country, and to which Egypt has replied, and as we read in this Reuters News Service report, "Egypt on Thursday brushed aside U.S. criticism of its detention of an opposition party leader, saying it would not allow any outside intervention in legal proceedings."
Even the American newspaper the Washington Post has said about this dictator, in an article titled, “'Enough' in Egypt”, "Mr. Mubarak's renomination would be a serious blow to the Bush administration's project for promoting democratic change in the Middle East -- and would again raise the question of whether President Bush intends to connect U.S. policy with his rhetoric."
Should we now expect these freedom loving Americans to now come to the aid of the common Egyptian peoples, and who have suffered for over 20 years the brutal tyranny of the dictator Mubarak to come with their sanctions and military might?
Of course not, because if the Americans didn't have enough to fear they are now talking about the dangers that India and Pakistan may pose for them, and as we can read from the Indian New Kerala News Service, "The [US] House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in one of its rare open hearings, identified Asia, and specifically India and Pakistan as well as China, as potential threats and sources of instability."
And if you are thinking that the insanities of America could not get any worse you would be wrong, because today we have learned from the Washington Post Foreign Service that, "The United States and Japan will declare Saturday for the first time in a joint agreement that Taiwan is a mutual security concern, according to a draft of the document. Analysts called the move a demonstration of Japan's willingness to confront the rapidly growing might of China."
By this action the transformation of Japan from a once peaceful nation, since the Great War (World War II), to one of militaristic ambitions is now complete, and as I had previously detailed to you in my past article, "The United States, Israel and Japan Complete New Axis of Power for World Conquest".
Even in the writing of this article to you more reports are coming into us that American war madness is increasing by the hour, and as we can read from the British News Service, The Independent, and which is reporting, "President George Bush has called on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon - the latest effort by Washington to increase pressure on a country it accuses of supporting terrorism."
This ratcheting up of American war rhetoric is in response to this week's terrorist murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri by a powerful bomb explosion in Beirut, and which the Americans and Israelis have blamed on Syria and have since the bombing removed their American ambassador from Syria.
It goes without saying that this American and Israeli blaming of this bombing on Syria, which had no motive for this killing, was done prior to any investigation by the government authorities of Lebanon. But to this investigation, and which the Lebanese government is being assisted by Switzerland, we are learning today, and as reported by the French News Service Agence France-Presse, "LEBANON is hunting six people who flew from Beirut for Australia, leaving traces of explosives on aircraft seats, hours after a powerful bomb killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. "Six people left for Australia from Beirut airport a few hours after the attack and traces of TNT powder were recovered from the seats used by some of them," Justice Minister Adnan Addum said."
It is of course logical that Syrian backed terrorists would not return to Syria after the bombing, which is but a few hundred kilometers, but instead fly thousands of miles from Lebanon right into the heart of a country solidly backing the war aims of the Americans and leaving a trail involving various international travel documents, isn't it?
Or is it more logical that if these were in fact Israeli terrorist bombers they would fly into a country like Australia who's government intelligence services are presently in chaos due to massive Israeli spy penetration, and as reported by the Australian newspaper Sunday Herald Sun, and which says;
"ASIO has cracked a spy ring in Canberra after tailing an Israeli diplomat who was suspected of being an agent of Mossad, Israel's espionage service. Amir Lati, the second secretary at the Israeli Embassy, was secretly expelled from Australia last month. He is known to have seduced a senior Defence Department official who is believed to have had access to classified documents. It is believed he intended to use the woman to gain US intelligence and military technology given to Australia. The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation put the junior Israeli diplomat – and other embassy officials – under surveillance after he visited two suspected Israeli spies who were arrested in New Zealand. The scandal has rocked Canberra's intelligence community, and Defence has launched a major investigation into the affair."
To all of these events the American people pay no attention nor do they protest. As we all draw nearer to this global war of American making the American people remain in their drug induced stupors, totally ignorant to the horrifying fate that awaits them. To the very few resistance fighters in their own country they do not even give comfort or assistance.
As I have previously stated, and should the Americans lose this war, many will there be of these common American citizens brought before the International War Crimes Tribunals for their support of their militaristic regime. Like their Nazi German counterparts of last century they too will claim their innocence and say, “We didn't know about these things.”
But to their faces the world will shout at them, “You DID know, you just did nothing.”
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