Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It?

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Harman, AIPAC, NSA: What did I Know, and When Did I Know It?

By Jeff Stein, CQ Politics, April 21, 2009

21 Apr 2009 // The tremendous interest [1] in my story [2] yesterday about a 2005 NSA wiretap picking up California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman [3] conversing with a suspected Israeli agent took me by surprise, frankly.

It's always gratifying to find so many people [4] paying attention to things like this when Carrie Prejean [5] is only a click away.

The first thing I want to dispel, though, is the apparently widespread notion that the timing of my story Monday was somehow related to: (1) the upcoming trial of former AIPAC [6] lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman; (2) the raging debate over the NSA's warrantless wiretaps, (3) the Justice Department/CIA's torture memos; (4) anything else.

More on that later.

But first, The New York Times [7] weighed in Monday night, confirming my story in all important aspects and moving it forward a notch.

Here's the lede [8] from Neil A. Lewis and Mark Mazzetti:

"One of the leading House Democrats on intelligence matters was overheard on telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency agreeing to seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage, current and former government officials say."

Note: That's their own sources they're referring to, I guess, not mine, since there's no reference to my own story -- yet.

And they go on, filling in the back story:

"The lawmaker, Representative Jane Harman of California, became the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee after the 2002 election and had ambitions to be its chairwoman when the party gained control of the House in 2006."

Here, it's important to remember that Harman absolutely denied every aspect of my story, calling it a "recycled canard" dredged up by people "who should be ashamed of themselves."

But then Lewis and Mazzetti dug around and found the same thing I did, tapes and all:

"One official who has seen transcripts of several wiretapped calls said she appeared to agree to intercede in exchange for help in persuading party leaders to give her the powerful post," they wrote.

"One of the very few members of Congress with broad access to the most sensitive intelligence information, including aspects of the Bush administration's wiretapping that were disclosed in December 2005, Ms. Harman was inadvertently swept up by N.S.A. eavesdroppers who were listening in on conversations during an investigation, three current or former senior officials said."

Here again, they add: "It is not clear exactly when the wiretaps occurred; they were first reported by Congressional Quarterly [9] on its Web site [10]."

True enough, but it muddies the issue of whether The Times found its own sources, or if it's alluding here to mine. But Lewis and Mazzetti seem to be saying they independently confirmed my reporting.

They reinforce that idea with this:

"The official with access to the transcripts said someone seeking help for the employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent pro-Israel lobbying group, was recorded asking Ms. Harman, a longtime supporter of its efforts, to intervene with the Justice Department. She responded, the official recounted, by saying she would have more influence with a White House official she did not identify."

Now, the "White House official" was new to me. I'd reported that Harman said she would try to persuade lesser Justice Department officials to reduce the charges against Rosen and Weissman, scheduled for trial in June.

Read the rest of The Times story here. [11]

Now comes Foreign Policy's [12] daunting and extremely well-sourced Laura Rozen, who adds important confirmation [13] to a critical background detail in my story.

"A former intelligence official familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy on condition of anonymity Monday that Goss had been asked due to the unavailability of FBI director Robert Mueller to certify a FISA warrant that was seemingly triggered by a captured communication between Harman and someone who was already being surveilled by the U.S. government (presumably, the suspected 'Israeli agent'). Furthermore, the former intelligence official said, longstanding protocol involving the separation of powers required that when intelligence exists that includes a member of Congress, that the heads of the body in which that member sits, in this case, the top Republican and Democratic in the House of Representatives, then House speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL) and minority leader Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA) be informed."

"It's hard, at this point, to know what to make of the allegations," The National Interest's [14] Jacob Heilbrunn writes, understandably, at Huffington Post [15].

"That Harman, who did not become intelligence committee chair, would risk her reputation and career seems implausible. But wackier things have happened in Washington."

Yes indeed, it's been that way since Bill Clinton [16] took a bite of Monica Lewinsky's [17] pizza a dozen years ago.

Wired's Kim Zetter [18] really put her finger on what fascinated me about this story from the beginning.

"Those who have long felt there was a suspicious back story behind Congress's support of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping may feel their suspicions are closer to being confirmed this week."

But of the all aggregations of the exploding coverage, the best may belong to Glenn Greenwald [19], the gifted legal analyst over at Salon.com [20], in my opinion. He and I have had our differences on some national security/civil liberties issues, but to me he's always articulate, thorough and thought-provoking -- one of the best on the Web at dissecting the Bush Justice Department's tortured memos on interrogation limits (or lack thereof), in my opinion.

In Monday's blog Greenwald offered [21] a useful reminder.

"Back in October, 2006, [Time's Tim Burger] reported [22] that the DOJ and FBI were investigating whether Harman and AIPAC 'violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee' and 'the probe also involves whether, in exchange for the help from AIPAC, Harman agreed to help try to persuade the Administration to go lighter on the AIPAC officials caught up in the ongoing investigation.' So that part has been known since 2006."

He then offers this necessary context, which I only touched on:

"[A]s I've noted many times, Jane Harman, in the wake of the NSA scandal, became probably the most crucial defender of the Bush warrantless eavesdropping program, using her status as 'the ranking Democratic on the House intelligence committee' to repeatedly praise the NSA program as 'essential to U.S. national security' and 'both necessary and legal.' She even went on Meet the Press to defend the program along with GOP Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Pete Hoekstra, and she even strongly suggested that the whistleblowers who exposed the lawbreaking and perhaps even the New York Times (but not Bush officials) should be criminally investigated, saying she 'deplored the leak,' that 'it is tragic that a lot of our capability is now across the pages of the newspapers,' and that the whistleblowers were 'despicable.' And Eric Lichtblau himself described how Harman, in 2004, attempted very aggressively to convince him not to write about the NSA program."

In relation to that, The Plum Line's [23] Greg Sargent [24] claimed to find something for one nanosecond that "deals the story a blow."

Sargent called Times editor Bill Keller to ask whether, as I reported, Jane Harman had tried to kill the warrantless wiretapping story.

Good idea, actually.

"Ms. Harman," Keller told [25] Sargent through a spokeswoman, "did not influence my decision. I don't recall that she even spoke to me."

I direct Sargent to this passage [26] in the Times' own story [27] today:

"Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement Monday that Ms. Harman called Philip Taubman, then the Washington bureau chief of The Times, in October or November of 2004. Mr. Keller said she spoke to Mr. Taubman -- apparently at the request of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then the director of the National Security Agency -- and urged that The Times not publish the article. "She did not speak to me," Mr. Keller said, 'and I don't remember her being a significant factor in my decision.'

But then Lewis and Mazzetti add:

"Shortly before the article was published more than a year later, in December 2005, Mr. Taubman met with a group of Congressional leaders familiar with the eavesdropping program, including Ms. Harman. They all argued that The Times should not publish."

Meanwhile, there seemed to be as much interest in the timing of my story as the facts in it.

Some journalists poked through the entrails and came away certain that my story "surfaced" now to effect the upcoming Rosen-Weissman trial or, for Ron Kampeas at Capital J [28], Harman's dissent on waterboarding.

No-it-wasn't.

I was asked about it a couple of times during an online chat [29] Monday at CQ Politics [30].

Claire from Washington DC: Why are your sources coming forward now? There must be some reason why they have waited almost three years.

Me:

Thanks. I've seen a lot of speculation about that online. The fact is, there is no "timing" to any "leak." No sources "came forward," so to speak. I learned about this quite a while ago and was just recently able to turn my full attention to it. Total coincidence.

Sandy from Brooklyn: Why is all this stuff coming out now?

Me: No special reason. The story was not "planted" on me to influence any other events -- in particular the looming AIPAC trial or things related to the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. I've known about it for some time but just not been able to pull it together until now for various reasons.

I also discussed this, and other background on my story, on Glenn Greenwald's Podcast [31].

Where does it go from here?

"I think it's safe to say that investigations will be underway shortly," blogger Ataru [32] ventured at the Blog for Democracy [33].

If he means a Justice Department or congressional investigation, I doubt it.

People: Jane Harman is a Democrat. Last time I checked, the White House and Congress were in the hands of the Democrats.

And tell me this: How will the Republicans reopen this can of worms when one of their own wriggling at the bottom is Alberto Gonzales?

They can't.

My CQ colleague David Corn [34] tried to tease something out of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs at Monday's daily feeding.

But alas, Corn wrote [35]:

"Gibbs did not choose me for a query today. Even so, he might have only reiterated some version of the time-to-look-ahead-not-behind mantra the White House has been making much use of lately. Here is yet one more reason--beyond the torture memos and the firings of the US attorneys--for the internal investigators of the Justice Department to focus their attention on the fellow who ran the department for George W. Bush."

But, this being Washington, fear not: Someone will investigate something somehow.

As Corn noted [36]:

"One DC watchdog is calling for an investigation. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [37] on Monday afternoon requested a congressional ethics inquiry. CREW's [38] executive director, Melanie Sloan, told Mother Jones [39], 'She was willing to use a criminal investigation as a tool just to get a chairmanship. Obviously there's political gamesmanship on Capitol Hill, but it has to end before you get to the Grand Jury store. That's really beyond the pale.'"

CREW announced [40] it had "faxed a request to the Justice Department asking for an investigation of what happened with Gonzales and the initial Harman investigation."

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[6] http://www.aipac.org/
[7] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21harman.html?_r=1&hp
[8] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lede
[9] http://www.cq.com/mycq.do
[10] http://www.cqpolitics.com/
[11] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21harman.html?hp
[12] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
[13] http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/20/bush_era_cia_officials_push_back
[14] http://www.nationalinterest.org/
[15] http://www.huffpost.com/
[16] http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/clinton
[17] http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article3185449.ece
[18] http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/doj-nixed-inves.html
[19] http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/index.html
[20] http://www.salon.com/
[21] http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/index.html
[22] http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1549069,00.html
[23] http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/
[24] http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/new-york-times-denies-harman-helped-persuade-bill-keller-to-hold-wiretapping-story/
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[26] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21harman.html?_r=1&hp
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[28] http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/04/20/1004501/did-harman-dissent-from-pelosi-and-goss-on-waterboarding
[29] http://innovation.cqpolitics.com/liveonline/54/landing
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[31] http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/index.html
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[34] http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/about.html
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[39] http://www.motherjones.com/
[40] http://www.citizensforethics.org/

Basically, we have here a "representative" for a state in the United States of America who seems to be beholden to a foreign nation.

Does anyone else see a problem here?

We Are NOT All Israelis!

From Travis:

I just received this missive, recounting an Israeli Mossad agent's warning to America -- terrorist attacks are coming to the homeland! -- and how we all can learn to defend ourselves by adopting Israeli habits.

"So, what can America do to protect itself?" he asks.


I have the answer to that -- stop supporting Israeli atrocities that the whole world condemns and blames the United States for -- our weapons, our money and our diplomatic support granted without oversight, spurning nearly unanimous world opinion and 40 U.N. resolutions calling on Israel to end the illegal occupation and strangulation of Palestinian land. That would be the number-one motive for terrorists attacking this country, as al Jazeera broadcasts the results, like these, around the world:


You can see more here, by the hundreds, if you can bear it:
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/phopto-gallery-of-gazas-martyred-children/

Yes, this has become very personal now, which is why I will no longer remain silent -- in order to support a militant band of right-wing Zionist crazies intent on settling the remainder of Palestinian land and creating Eretz Israel, MY FAMILY and LOVED ONES must be put into jeopardy.

To hell with you, Mr. Aviv -- no, we are not all Israelis.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mr. X>
Date: January 10, 2009 4:14:53 PM MST
To: Recipients
Subject: Fwd: THE NEXT ATTACK ON AMERICA A MUST READ


Mr. X

"The fall of Wall Street is to market
fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin
Wall was to Communism." Joseph Stiglitz

From a retired FBI instructor that I went to high school with.


Begin forwarded message:


Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie "Munich" was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.

In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.

He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.

Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.

Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.

Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.

For example:

1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.

2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! Every strategy we have is 'reactionary.'

3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.

Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.

Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i. e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as rural America this time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).

The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas , they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.

Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts.

The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.

On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.

He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown' -- having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U. S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.

Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terroristic threats we will, inevitably, face. America still has only have a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.

So, what can America do to protect itself?

From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.

Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!

In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.

Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about ours schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)

He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event of a terroristic emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as they do in Israel .

Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.

Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.

How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak? You need to have a plan.

Meanwhile...you NEVER heard about the 200 MOSSAD agents captured around the time of the events of September 11th, 2001...did you?

Is Dominic Suter On The Loose Again?

Could it be?

LWB wrote a post recently, and I can't be sure if it's satire or not.

So, I've done some research into the original posting, and found this link. It details his original involvement into the events of September 11th, 2001.

Why this tool is not under a jail, much less in one, is beyond me.

Wayne Madsen has done some research into this, as well.

I will post some exclusive information here, when it comes...and this could blow the entire operation open, dear readers.

For now...here are the financial details of his SBA loan in 2001:

Expanded Detail on Individual Transactions for FY 2001
Award Or Aggregate #1

Recipient Information Section help link
Recipient Name URBAN MOVING SYSTEMS INC
Recipient City Name BAYONNE
Recipient County Name HUDSON
Recipient State Code New Jersey
Recipient Zip Code 07002
Congressional District NJ90: New Jersey unknown districts
Recipient Category Individuals
Recipient Type individual

Project and Award Info Section help link
Major Agency Small Business Administration
Agency Code 7300: Small Business Administration
Agency Name SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Federal Award ID 45966540
State Application ID Number SAI EXEMPT
CFDA Program Number 59.012: Small Business Loans
CFDA Program Title SMALL BUSINESS LOANS
Assistance Category Loans (both direct and guaranteed)
Assistance Type guaranteed/insured loan
Project Description TO AID SMALL BUSINESSES WHICH ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN FINANCING IN THE PRIVATE CREDIT MARKETPLACE

Action Section help link (Award or Aggregate #1)
Fiscal Year 2001
Action Type new assistance action
Federal Funding Amount $498,750 * SBA loan help link
Non-Federal Funding Amount $166,250
Total Funding Amount $665,000
Obligation / Action Date 06/22/2001
Starting Date 06/22/2001
Ending Date 06/22/2024
Record Type individual action
* Note: The Small Business Administration appears to include loans that have been authorized but for which no disbursement of funding was made in their spending data that is reported to the U.S. Census Bureau. We have alerted SBA of this problem in its data and are working with them to resolve it.

Principal Place Section help link
Principal Place Code 3403580
Principal Place State NEW JERSEY
Principal Place County or City BAYONNE

By the way...the loan was never repaid.

9/11 Coincidences (Part Eight) UPDATE

Oh, dear...it looks as if the dam is fit to burst, eh, dear readers?

The scuttlebutt on this video is that it's being removed faster than Jenna Bush's underwear at a frat house (I was gonna say Lindsey Lohan, but I LOVE that girl...and I don't like our scumbag lapdog media trying to portray her in a similar light as our recently-married cum-dumpster...oh...THAT'S gonna leave a mark!); but this should convince even the retarded among us that the three buildings that "failed", "blew up", "came down", whatever bloody euphemism one wishes to use, WERE BROUGHT DOWN BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.

PERIOD.

In case the video is "Orwellized" as in the Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition Rant, please find it here - 9-11 Coincidences (Part Eight) UPDATE.

From a previous rant:

As far as the buildings...how does one reconcile the actual physics and chemistry involved? And those are my weakest science subjects!

I wonder if people realize that they paid to hear Rudolph Giuliani lie to them for over six years? Maybe that's why his campaign went into the shitter! Ha ha, scumbag!

You see, for me, it's a matter of these fucking retards lying to my face about what occurred - the whole story is a farce from beginning to end.

Some idiot ex-CIA guy is actually the leader of some rebel force that is so fearsome, they named themselves after a toilet - this guy is also on a dialysis machine, yet is able to elude any and all forces sent to detain him! Wow! Colonel Kurtz's got nothing on this guy!

Now...he informs the Israelis, and they are able to send out a warning...how nice.

Meanwhile, back in NYC, it's a crystal-clear day...four planes take off from Logan Airport...security managed by an Israeli firm...hey...did they get that warning, too?

Willie Brown knows not to fly.

The Senate is on Cipro.

Salman Rushdie is barred from flying.

First plane impacts with WTC2 - The Monkey King states that he saw the first impact as it occurred...imagine that.

There are Israelis doing the frickin' Riverdance all over the city. Some are so excited, they left their businesses in the WTC buildings! Some, days earlier.

White vans with "non-Arab Middle Easterners" pop up like Sir Charge in that not-so-great Whack-A-Octogenarian commercial (the first Sir Charge commercial was genius...but they "jumped the shark" on the concept already). Ooohh...the bomb-sniffing dogs are going wild! Too bad that they had been removed from the WTC complex in the weeks before the infamous "event".

Binyamin Netanyahu realizes, "Hey - this is frickin' great - now the whole damn world will stop criticizing us on our "appropriation" of Palestine...eh...what? No, schmuck, I meant Jerusalem!"

Another plane...er...where's our air defense?

Richard B. "Skeletor" Cheney: "Hey...just for laughs, let's have a commercial plane totally violate the air space of the NERVE CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES' DEFENSE DEPARTMENT!!! Then let's hide all of the video! The CT's will be eating their own feces trying to figure out what happened!"

Oh, crap! You mean the frickin' passengers got into the cockpit and saw that NO ONE'S FLYING THE DAMN PLANE?!? Shite! SHOOT THAT FUCKER DOWN! And get Ted Olson's wife to do a reading for us...you have that voice-morphing software ready to go? Let's start with this Mark Bingham guy..."

Hey...bonanza! Not only did we happen to pop the trunk of the guy who took the terrorists to the airport; we got two, count 'em, TWO, passports! Geez, I need a suit made out of this stuff.

Folks...I could rant on and on...but it's annoying, I'm sure, to constantly listen to someone sound so bloody self-righteous all the time, yes? I believe that this is the main problem facing the various September 11th Truth Factions. You see...right-wing radio shows conduct what they call "drive-by" broadcasts, saying whatever crap they can make up at the time, then having sycophants to cement said issue in the "minds" of the dittoheads/Factor fans, etc; while left-wing broadcasters heap boring-ass fact after boring-ass fact onerously one after another, until even the most die-hard truth-seeker is dulled into a coma.

Well...my case is a bit different than most.

I DON'T LIKE BEING LIED TO BY IDIOTS.

And understand this: anyone who thought that after watching those damned buildings come down in the fashion that they did, that they were felled by AIRPLANES...ahh...you really are a complete dullard. You DESERVE to be euthanized, sterilized, and relegated to being a "useless eater", and you should consider yourself a complete waste of oxygen.

That's all for now.

UPDATE: Senator Ted Kennedy is relaxing in a hospital after reports that he was suffering from seizures...so, I'm watching CNN, and of course, the candidates are taking this opportunity to give their well wishes to their fellow senator...but I was INCENSED to see Shillary STANDING IN FRONT OF MAKER'S MARK WHISKEY BARRELS AS SHE GAVE HER "BEST WISHES"!

One might think that it was a nice thing to do, considering if one knows anything about Senator Edward Kennedy, he likes his booze (much as a certain political upstart does, as well), but I consider it a subconscious dig at her fellow senator. If anyone has a screenshot, please send it my way...I need a new wallpaper for my iBook.

Senator Kennedy, I hope to see you in a new man-tailored shirt soon, er ah...

The Escape Of Israeli Terrorist Dominik Suter...How Competent Is Our FBI? (repost)

In the Christopher Ketcham piece published by Counterpunch about Israel's Urban Moving Company Spies, we learned that US law enforcement personnel apparently fear Zionists in our own country. We were told that the investigation of Israel's spies can be a real career wrecker. How much confidence then should we have in the FBI's investigation of the Urban Moving Company Mossad Spies? Could the FBI's fear of Zionists also explain how Dominick Suter, an Israeli Spy complicit in the attacks on 9/11, found it so easy to escape our country in the days following the attacks. Suter was the owner of Urban Moving Company in New York? Five of his employees were arrested driving a white Chevrolet Van with Urban's logo by the Bergen County Police Police on 9/11. When arrested the police said that the Israelis had maps indicating a foreknowledge of the attacks. Suter's employees had been arrested because a New Jersey resident saw three of them in Liberty Park celebrating the attacks. The license plate number of the van was reported to the police. These celebrants and two additional employees were picked up later that day. The spies we were told had videotaped the celebration. With regard to Suter, Ketcham in his article told us this:

Meanwhile, two days after the men were picked up, the owner of Urban Moving Systems, Dominik Suter, a 31- year-old Israeli national, abandoned his business and fled the United States for Israel. Suter's departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage. Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may have known something about the attacks.

I of course am not a law enforcement expert, but I would have thought that after their initial interview with Suter someone with the FBI might have been keeping an eye on him. You know like a tail or some kind of law enforcement investigation stuff like that. This was after all the most heinous attack on our country since Pearl Harbor. Shouldn't the FBI have figured that the owner of Urban, an Israeli, whose employees (also Israelis) picked up that day with reported foreknowledge of the attack, was also a serious suspect?

Ah, but when the FBI returned to the scene of the crime, the leader of Mossad's terrorist operation had vanished. Abandoned his business. Sounds like an innocent man to me. He would later turn up on a list of terrorists wanted by our Government. But unlike you and I in days after 9/11, Suter had no problem catching a plane back to the terrorist State of his employment, Israel.

Later a retired attorney by the name of Gerald Shea, for no other reason than he loved his country, took it upon himself to map the locations of the Mossad spies and the hijackers, pointing out that the Mossad spies had been living and working on top of the 9/11 hijackers for one year before the attacks. Although this information was submitted to the 9/11 commission it was apparently never considered. Damn, if only someone with our FBI had put that all that together. We might have a real idea who was behind 9/11. Maybe we could even punish them.

Now can you imagine if those Urban Moving Company employees had been Russians, Chinese or Italian how this investigation would have been handled differently. Maybe our news media would actually have reported the facts concerning these matters in some meaningful way.

Israel has of course declared its innocence regarding any complicity in the attacks, just as they denied there invovement in the Jonathon Pollard matter. Our own Government has parroted Israeli claims that it was innocent. But notwithstanding these claims the video tapes that Suter's employees took of themselves along with the maps indicating their foreknowledge of the attacks are classified by our Government. So don't bother making a freedom of information request.

The five Mossad spies working for Suter returned to the terrorist state a few months after 9/11. Ketcham told us that the Bush Administration negotiated the release of these men with Israel. How do you negotiate with a country complicit in the murder of 3,000 Americans?

Can you imagine how popular Israel would be in America if our news media actually reported stuff like this? Is objective reporting regarding Israel possible some day?

This was taken from Liberal White Boy's blog...just take a look at the first comment, and you can see that the scumbags are already at the fore, ready to defend to the death their superiority to all else.

This reminds me of a line from a page I've promoted recently: "To muse means to think; to be amused means not to think..."...which is exactly what the consumption of the various mind-dulling drugs advocated by this little piece of human garbage will do to anyone:

"LOL! There were no Israeli spies or Israelis of any kind "complicit in the attacks on 9/11".

It was Arab Muslims murdering infidels of all races, colors, and creeds.

Don't forget to take your Clozaril, Loxitane, Zyprexa, Seroquel,or whatever you need to be taking."

Sure...walk around, not curious about anything, amused by EVERYTHING. Does that really sound like a fruitful existence? Or are We The People finally accepting the role of the Useless Eaters?

Well, I for one, refuse that nomenclature - I am my own man, and I do fine without the presence of the idiot box, and without pharmaceuticals that leaves one without the ability to REASON.

THAT is the ONLY explanation for people being dulled into believing the "official" story of the occurrences of September 11, 2001. Or...everyone else in the US has stores of Budweiser and all of the hog maws they can stand, and to HELL with anyone else!

Let's see:

An ex-CIA asset also happens to be the leader of a terrorist organization which first idea for a name is the highly-original "The Base"; who then decide that the name just doesn't denote enough terror, so they go back to the drawing board, where they come up with the truly terrifying "The Toilet". Oh...did I forget to mention that the leader is also bedridden and on a dialysis machine?

This same bedridden spook was able to:

Obscure the cameras at Logan Airport, so that there isn't any evidence of Arabs boarding the four doomed flights;

Produce boxcutters that don't set off metal detectors;

So totally impress the wife of Ted Olson, Barbara, aboard Flight 93, that she is able to make an impossible phone call from her cell phone;

So completely confuse one of the doomed passengers on the selfsame flight, he calls his mom and gives HIS FULL NAME AS IDENIFICATION;

Penetrate the NERVE CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'S DEFENSE...with a commercial jetliner...though, to be fair, he did receive assistance from Vice pResident Richard "Skeletor" Cheney, according to Norman Mineta's testimony;

Completely disregard the established law of physics to cause THREE STEEL-CONSTRUCTED BUILDINGS TO COLLAPSE INTO THEIR OWN FOOTPRINTS...from two airline impacts...I can go on and on, but the general idea is this:

IT'S ALL COMPLETE AND UTTER HORSESHITE.

But...they do constitute a large number of the scumbags who have set out to destabilize the U.S.A. - the dual-citizenship being the crux of their power. AIPAC should be registered as a FOREIGN LOBBY, considering the length and breath of the "Art Student" Spy scandal; Ariel Weinmann, Ben-Ami Kadish, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman - but most of all - Lewis "Scooter" Libby. I wasn't aware that even a president could pardon someone who committed TREASON against the U.S.A. - fucking scumbags!

Now, some would like to take me to task about not crossing the line into Anti-Semitism...hahaha! Good one. When have you heard me say anything against a TRUE SEMITE?!?

If you don't like BMWs - are you Anti-German?

If you can't stand sushi - are you Anti-Japanese?

If you won't eat watermelon - are you Anti-Negro? (had to throw that in...)

If you absolutely can't stand fried rice - are you Anti-Chinese?

If you won't walk your dog past that Korean family, because the last time your pooch strolled by, that frickin' Korean had a bib on with a dog's head on a platter embroidered on it - are you Anti-Korean? Yeah, maybe...c'mon!

If you always root for John Wayne in the movies - are you Anti-Amerind?

If you spit on tacos - are you Anti-Mexican?

If you get cranky-ass every time you hear a J-Lo song - are you Anti-Puerto-Rican?

If you've never ordered a screwdriver - are you Anti-Russian?

So...I am vehemently against stealing other people's land - I wouldn't want someone to break into my apartment, and because the person's in my apartment, and I have the key...I CAN'T RECLAIM IT, BECAUSE POSSESSION IS 9/10ths OF THE LAW? I'm an Anti-Semite because I KNOW that their appropriation of the land was fraudulent? The Golan Heights was claimed against conventions of war? Olive trees being uprooted and stolen, leaving farmers to starve and DIE?

I CAN'T CRITICIZE THOSE ACTIONS, BECAUSE...IT'S SIMPLY ANTI-SEMITIC?

FUCKING BULLSHIT.

I'm done...bring on the booze.

Update: The queen of the Scumbags is hanging out in Florida.