Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action From: John F. McCreary Subject: Legal Misconduct and Possible Malpractice in the Select Committee [...] On 9 April 1992, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, in response to a protest by other members of the Select Committee, told the Select Committee members that "all copies" would be destroyed. [...] At 2130 on 16 April, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, convened a meeting with the intelligence investigators, who told him personally of their concern that they might have committed a crime by participating in the destruction of the briefing texts at the order of the Staff Director. Senator Kerry stated that he gave the order to destroy the documents, not the Staff Director, and that none of the Senators present at the meeting had objected. He also stated that the issue of document destruction was "moot" because the original briefing text had been deposited with the Office of Senate Security "all along." . . .
A copy of the text was not deposited in the Office of Senate Security until the afternoon of 16 April . . . after receiving a copy of a memorandum from Senator Bob Smith to Senator Kerry in which Senator Smith outlined his concerns about the destruction of documents.
Phillips gets in to the intelligence and financial connections of S&B and the Bushes. Robbins talks about the initiation ceremony and Kerry's connections to the order. (Both his wives were directly related to another Bonesman!)
A death row inmate who had extensive contacts with convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh over a 23-month period has completed a manuscript . . .
According to the author, Secrets Worth Dying For was written with McVeigh’s explicit permission on the condition the work not be published until after McVeigh’s execution . . .
The manuscript provided this newspaper details a wide array of conspirators . . .
McVeigh says the men who assisted him in the bombing were persons with close connections to Elohim City – a Christian Identity enclave in eastern Oklahoma near Muldrow.
In a chapter titled, Blood Makes the Grass Grow, Hammer writes: “On October 12th 1993, McVeigh and Terry Nichols drove from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Elohim City. They were met there by (Andreas) Strassmeir, who Tim called ‘Andy’, or ‘Andy the Krout.’ [...] “A short time later, a meeting was convened to discuss a “direct action against the federal government.” Those in attendance included McVeigh, Nichols, Strassmeir, Richard Guthrie and Pete Langan.
McVeigh and Strassmeir emerged as leaders at this meeting . . .
Hammer later includes other Elohim City residents in the group’s plans, including Kevin McCarthy, Scott Stedeford and Mike Brescia – young men recruited by Aryan Nations leader Mark Thomas of Penn. . . .
It also includes references to three men that the inmate says McVeigh told him were central to the conspiracy – men with close ties to the U.S. military.
Unfortunately, McVeigh, Hammer writes, went to his death claiming he did not know the true identities of these men – only their code names. . . .
One of these men, McVeigh claims, contacted him shortly after his discharge from the army.
Referring to him only “the major,” McVeigh said he was invited to work with the shadowy figure during a meeting the two had at Camp McCall. . . on the grounds of Fort Bragg, N.C. . . .
McVeigh . . . was told of an off-budget defense department project the Major wanted to invite him to join. The Major said McVeigh would be involved in gathering intelligence for the government on members of the radical rightwing in the U.S., specifically members of the KKK and Aryan Nations. . . .
Within a matter of months of the ‘93 Elohim City meeting, Guthrie, Langan and McVeigh were robbing banks and gathering explosives and a vast arsenal of weapons. [...] McVeigh’s recollections of the terrorist conspiracy also includes the startling admission that Nichols did not provide meaningful assistance to the group after McVeigh says the Oklahoma City office structure was chosen as a target for bombing. [...] Regarding McVeigh’s version of events he gave two reporters from his hometown newspaper – an account clearly at odds with this one –Hammer told this newspaper, “He (McVeigh) used them at that time, just as he did Terry Nichols. He told us he used them to advance his goals, which included protecting the identities of those who could have helped him later.
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: I'm not sure what all to make of this. All this chatter about skinheads does not change the fact that internal charges had to be placed on the Murrah building in order to bring about the resultant damage, as per Gen. Benton Partin. (And local tlelevision broadcasts featured to recovery of unexploded ordinance.) Also, don't forget that the CIA's MK-ULTRA psychiatrist, Dr. Louis Jolyn West, visited McVeigh in prison, leaving suspect any utterings he may or may not have made to cellmates. There are some more interesting todbits in the full article at the source link.
Congressman warns CDC on cover-up of mercury-vaccines/autism link
From the PROVE mailing list, 2004 01 21: Florida Congressman (and physician) Curt Weldon's letter to the Centers for Disease Control.
Dear Dr. Gerberding:
I am writing to ask that you post-pone the February 9, 2004, Institute of Medicine (IOM) Immunization Safety Review Committee meeting. Pressing forward with this meeting at this time, I believe, will further undermine the credibility of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on matters of vaccine safety and do damage to the reputation of the IOM. I believe the proposed date of this meeting, which you have the ability to change, is in the best interests of no one who is seeking the truth about a possible association between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
Recent actions and statements by officials within the CDC's National Immunization Program (NIP) office, the timing of the IOM meeting, and the agenda for the IOM meeting raise serious questions about the purpose, value and objectives of this meeting.
Presently, the NIP is engaged in what amounts to an investigation of their own actions, which does not create an air of confidence.
The actions of the CDC regarding their November 3, 2003, article in Pediatrics raise serious concerns about the objectivity of the CDC's top vaccine safety officials and the value of their input on this issue. They are the very ones driving the IOM meeting and agenda.
On the day the Pediatrics study was released, a top CDC researcher and a coauthor of the study was quick to declare in news articles that appeared across this nation, "The final results of the study show no statistical association between thimerosal vaccines and harmful health outcomes in children, in particular autism and attention-deficit disorder." Unfortunately, the study does nothing of the sort, and when called to account eight weeks later, this CDC official was forced to recant. When asked if the children in the study were too young to have received an autism diagnosis, this coauthor stated that yes they were too young. He went on to admit that the study also likely mislabeled young autistic children as having other disabilities thus masking the number of children with autism. There are a host of other flaws in the study that are raised in the attached articles and letters to Pediatrics, which I urge you to personally review.
The CDC's top vaccine officials spent four years developing this study, and it is a seriously flawed study by their own admission. The fact that the CDC's top vaccine safety research officials produced such a seriously flawed study does not build confidence in the ability of the CDC to conduct proper vaccine safety monitoring or investigations of past decisions. Even worse, some critics have leveled serious charges that perhaps officials within the NIP manipulated data to "disprove" a theory they find objectionable. A review of the NIP's July 2000 Simpsonwood meeting, the various iterations of the Pediatrics study, and internal e-mails appear to give support to this claim.
In his December 17, 2003, letter to Pediatrics, Dr. Neal Halsey outlined a number of concerns about the study. Furthermore, in extensive discussions my staff has held with the CDC, your staff made it clear that the CDC will not hand over - to already approved independent researchers - the raw data used by CDC in developing the Pediatrics study. CDC is providing only limited access to the altered data. The NIP's failure to provide the raw data for reviewing only raises further suspicions.
It appears to me not only as a Member of Congress but also as a physician that some officials within the CDC's NIP may be more interested in a public relations campaign than getting to the truth about thimerosal. At present, I have lost confidence in the ability of officials at the CDC to give an honest evaluation of the matters at hand. It is not just me raising these concerns about public confidence, but also Dr. Neal Halsey who in his letter conveys his concerns about loss of confidence in the NIP.
Further eroding the CDC's objectivity is the apparent bias in the information shared with the public on the CDC's NIP website. A review of the information on the website regarding possible associations between thimerosal and autism and the MMR and autism demonstrates a clear bias towards building confidence in the safety of vaccines rather than providing an objective presentation of the data. The CDC's website presents a very selective reporting of the science. The information provided to the public generally ignores and discounts studies raising safety concerns while focusing instead on highlighting epidemiology studies favoring their position.
Given these concerns, the CDC's contributions to the IOM discussion would be viewed as suspect and non-objective. Furthermore, the fact that this meeting is being held at this time and according to the parameters put forth by the NIP officials is disturbing. I have already heard concerns expressed by those in the general public that the timing of this meeting is being driven by a desire to short-circuit important research and draw premature conclusions. If the purpose of this meeting is to seriously consider and address these concerns, then this will not be accomplished.
I have reviewed the research recommendations set forth in the IOM's earlier reports on these issues. The federal government has invested very few resources into examining these areas of research. Furthermore, the research that has been conducted to date by the NIP seems to be tainted by a desire to disprove a theory that they find objectionable.
Additionally, I am concerned that the agenda set forth in the meeting is inadequate and incomplete. With respect to the MMR/autism concerns, the IOM is dedicating one hour. Two witnesses are woefully inadequate to update the committee on the research to date. The time set aside for a discussion of epidemiology relating to thimerosal and autism is heavily biased against those who have raised these concerns and will not allow for a fair and balanced discussion of the literature. The time set aside for a discussion of the biological mechanisms of thimerosal and autism is inadequate to allow a full discussion of the issue. To consider two issues of such significance in only seven hours does not serve the public interest. To the outside observer it does not appear to be a serious effort to examine these critical issues. Any conclusions drawn from this meeting, including any report issued, will be viewed as suspect given the very limited time dedicated to examining very incomplete information.
Again, I am very concerned that the drive to conduct this meeting at this time and force a report by this summer may not only further undermine confidence in the CDC, but it may also harm the IOM's very good reputation.
I ask that you give these concerns your highest consideration and that you postpone the meeting until after additional research has been conducted. Given the slow pace of research and lack of federal support for this research, conducting this meeting prior to late 2004 to early 2005 is premature. The value of any such report at this time would be very limited. We must give the research time to progress if the report is to give meaningful insight into this matter.
Here is the money behind the new top dog in the Democratic dog pound, John Kerry’s Top Ten Career Patrons calculated by the Center for Public Integrity, Washington.
1. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC, Boston $223,046 2. Fleet Boston Financial Corp., Boston $172,387 3. AOL Time Warner Inc., New York $134,960 4. Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston $123,258 5. Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos Inc., Boston $119,300 6. Harvard University $108,700 7. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, NY $105,150 8. Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Minneapolis $103,450 9. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., NY $100,000 10. Piper Rudnick, Baltimore $92,300
Here's the complete text of the New York Court's decision denying the press' right to access the complete oral histories/interviews taken of firefighters' and other workers about 9/11 -- as well as access to phonecalls made to 911 on that day.
Before the records of the oral histories are released to the press, all mention of the opinions and recommendations of those interviewed will be deleted first, so the press will only get the interviewees' "personal expressions of feelings".
In other words, if a firefighter who was interviewed said, "I heard what sounded like explosions and I think it was bombs that took down those towers, it was all so horrible", the press will merely get the portion that says: "it was all so horrible".
Additionally, transcripts of tapes of the calls that people made to 911 on that day will not be released at all because the Court said they would invade the privacy of the surviving families - even though surviving family members indicated to the Court that they waived such rights to privacy.
This decision could be appealed to the New York Court of Appeals, but . . . no reports on whether the New York Times plans on appealing.
These same records will not even make it to the 9-11 Commission without deletions. From what I remember, the deal the Commission made with NYC is that the corrupt Commissioners will be able to view the records in NYC in their entirety but only be able to take back redacted portions and without names of people interviewed, etc., and of course we can't count on the Commission to release to the public even the redacted portions of records they receive.
A federally funded Internet-based voting system due for release in less than two weeks is inherently flawed and should be scuttled because of weak security, according to a report by a team of computer scientists.
The system, called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voter Experiment, or SERVE, is designed to allow U.S. military personnel and civilians living overseas to log onto a computer terminal and cast an absentee ballot. [...] The online nature of SERVE could easily allow a hacker to tamper with the voting results. [...] The Federal Voting Assistance Program, part of the Defense Department, is moving ahead with the system. [...] The report's authors are computer scientists David Wagner, Avi Rubin and David Jefferson from the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, respectively, and Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and leading technology policy consultant. . . .
The system is targeted for use in 50 counties and seven states during this year's primary and general elections, and could handle up to 100,000 votes. . . .
First tryout is slated for February 3 during South Carolina's presidential primary.
Associated Press takes over vote-tallying chores for the defunct Voter News Service, the exit poll consortium that previously provided network news divisions with race projections. VNS was funded by the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CNN. [...] AP refined the Sun Microsystems computer system to analyze results more closely for vote drops, inconsistencies, changes in leadership in races, order-entry mistakes and other nuances, Mr. Jory said. Algorithms built into the computer system should be able to pinpoint data that seems off, but the people running the system on election night also must be vigilant when eyeballing information.
Voter News Service was co-owned by the networks. You know -- Sir Rupert Murdoch; the military-industrial complex's General Electric; Colin Powell and Ted Turner's TimeWarner. Now, those same fine folks have instead paid Associated Press to run something called VoteStream exclusively for them. According to this report, Votestream runs on SunMicrosystems. SunMicrosystems is heavy in Homeland pork, ca$hing in on USA PATRIOT Act and RFID snoopware.
So, the software is 'new,' though essentially owned by the same people and corporations as before. How does the wetware, the human factor, fit in to counting votes in Iowa?
Now-dead votefraud investigator Jim Condit reported on the Iowa Caucuses in 2000:
The Republican Caucus, broadcast on C-Span from Precinct 3 in Decorah, Iowa, showed the Caucus Temporary Chairman, Jim Burns, responding to a question about WHERE he was calling the precinct vote. Mr. Burns responded that the Party had set up a "Central Location" in Des Moines into which results were to be called and punched in on the touch tone phone. On the screen, as a subheading superimposed on the precinct, C-Span showed this quizzical statement: "At each of the precinct caucuses, the chairmen phones the results to a central location in Des Moines." ? Run by who? Does the phone forward the call to New York City? We don't know. ? Significantly, the EXACT same wording was displayed on the screen during the Democratic Caucus which C-Span broadcast from Ames, Iowa. This heightens our suspicion that this "central location in Des Moines" is a "touch tone" front for Voter News Service, which entity, we suspect, is counting both Caucuses. Probably this has been obscured from even the rank and file in both parties. [...] They have made a touch tone telephone system the reporting system, thus taking the county chairmen out of the loop - if C-Span was given proper information that all precinct chairmen report straight to the touch tone system. This touch tone system would make it even more difficult to check the results, since only each Precinct Chairman and the "Central location" would have the results. This makes it a near Herculean task for the average citizen to be able to verify the results, unless County Chairmen went to the extra effort to track down all their precinct chairmen and get the results separately. And then check them against the published results [. . .] News reminder: The overwhelming number of Big Media polls until the last week or so told everyone that G.W. Bush had 60% to 70% of support in the Iowa GOP. Near-final results show both at only 41%.
ANALYSIS: Given the information about George W. Bush (Bones name, "Temporary"), how surprising is it, really, that Bonesman John Kerry came from being in the doghouse just days ago to winning the Iowa caucus vote?
Kerry was built up over the past week as magically "coming from behind" due to the veterans' vote. (Kerry committed atrocities as a Lieutenant in Vietnam before he became a Senator.) Watching the foxwarchannel coverage of the Kerry victory in Iowa was very interesting. Neocon Trotskyite imperialist William Kristol smirks that he had called a Kerry win a week ago. Veteran Democrat strategist Susan Estrich remarks on how odd the results are, given that tons of Howard Dean people were visibly swarming everywhere throughout the day. Veteran Beltway election analyst Michael Barone said that it was the Saddam capture psy-op that turned people to Kerry.
Check out this RealVideo clip from the PBS documentary, "America Rebuilds." In it, Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder on the World Trade Center complex in Manahattan, admits that WTC 7 was "pulled," that is, intentionally demolished:
I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.
The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue.
MEMPHIS -- The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. finally has what it has sought for years -- a jury verdict saying the civil rights leader was the victim of a murder conspiracy, not the lone gunman. [...] The Kings had sued Loyd Jowers, a retired Memphis businessman who claimed six years ago that he paid someone other than confessed killer James Earl Ray to kill King.
The trial, which began Nov. 15, for the first time gave a jury the opportunity to hear theories of a murder conspiracy in the 1968 assassination at a Memphis motel. [...] The suit named Jowers and other "unnamed conspirators" . . . William Pepper, the Kings' lawyer, told jurors that Jowers, 73, was part of a vast conspiracy involving the Mafia and agents of the federal government. He said King was targeted because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and plans for a huge "poor peoples' march" on Washington.
A cover-up following the assassination involved the FBI, CIA, the news media and Army intelligence, as well as many state and city officials, said Pepper, who represented Ray for years. [...] Juror Robert Tucker said the assassination was too complex for one person to handle.
He noted Pepper's assertions that King's police guard was pulled back shortly before the murder and that Army agents had King under surveillance at the time he was felled by a single rifle shot.
"All of those things added up, it wasn't just one guy acting alone," Tucker said.
Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reveal that Northwest Airlines, in clear violation of its stated privacy policy, provided the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with personal data about millions of its passengers. The federal agency retained the information for almost two years, and returned it to the airline only after the public outcry that followed the revelation that JetBlue Airways had made similar disclosures of passenger data. [...] The massive disclosure, which likely involved information about more than 10 million Northwest passengers, clearly violated the privacy policy posted on the airline's website. . . .
While it is unclear how NASA may have used the passenger information, the data formed the basis of NASA research contained in a published study. The agency continues to withhold an unspecified number of documents detailing its receipt and use of the personal data.
This week, EPIC will file suit against NASA to seek release of the withheld material.
H. Paul Rico, the retired Boston FBI agent who created Stephen "The Rifleman'' Flemmi's double life as an informant in 1965, died yesterday at a Tulsa Hospital while awaiting trial on charges he conspired with his ex-informants to commit murder.
Tulsa police said no cause of death has been determined . . .
Police launched an investigation into Rico's death and were forced to retrieve his body from a funeral home yesterday. His body should have gone directly to the medical examiner's office. . .
A judge on Friday had put the case on hold until Rico faced a competency evaluation . . .
Rico was accused of conspiring with Flemmi and James ``Whitey'' Bulger to kill World Jai Alai owner Roger Wheeler in 1981 in a bid to take over Wheeler's gambling fronts . . .
"I'm about to join the grassy knoll club myself here,'' said Frank Libby, attorney for the Wheeler family, yesterday.
Said retired FBI agent Mike McPheters of Moses Lake, Wash., . . . "He had to die for something that no one knows he ever did.'' [...] Rico's death cancels a raft of subpoenas for testimony that could have shed more light on the Boston FBI's use of murderous informants and Rico's bond with Flemmi and Bulger after his 1975 retirement from the FBI.
Transcript: Kerry on Skull & Bones ['Meet The Press']
[UPDATED - transcript added.]
In this RealVideo you will hear Senator John Kerry admit on the Aug. 31, 2003 edition of NBC's "Meet The Press", that he, with President George W. Bush, is a member of the secret society named 'Skull & Bones'.
RUSSERT: You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?
SEN. KERRY: Not much, because it's a secret.
RUSSERT: Is there a secret handshake? Is there a secret code?
SEN. KERRY: I wish there were something secret I could manifest there.
"If we had an animal ID and tracking system that was uniform and nationwide and enforceable, we'd have all those animals by now," said Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America.
Cows' ear tags can also fall out and producers are not required to use the same number.
Because of the added impetus from mad cow, most people in the cattle industry believe the ID system will come soon - they just aren't sure what type of system it will be. The objective is to set up a centralized database that would track the animals . . .
"Animal ID is coming," said Maralee Johnson, executive vice president of the Illinois Beef Association, at a recent IBA meeting held in Freeport. [...] The IBA believes the ID system would serve as a uniform, basic framework from which more sophisticated information could later be retrieved.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags maintain an assortment of animal data, including breeding, age and medical history. The information is sent to a computer database through sensors at feed lots, slaughterhouses, or any point in between.
There is also a company, Optibrand Ltd., that has devised a system using retinal scans with positioning chips to identify the cattle. Chips that can be implanted - similar to those used with dogs and cats - are another option.
It is estimated by industry researchers that the RFID tag systems could cost owners of small herds about $25 per head. The cost would drop to about $4 per head in larger herds.
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS:Note how this also prices out smaller producers, gearing the market toward ConGlomCo cows and their concomitant Illuminati masters.
The executive director of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has become a witness in the inquiry and has been interviewed by his own staff about his involvement in shaping the Bush administration's early counterterrorism strategy, officials said on Wednesday. [...] Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband died in the World Trade Center and who has helped lead a group of survivors pushing for more answers about the attacks, said the situation called into question the independence of the commission.
"He has a huge conflict of interest," Ms. Breitweiser said when told that Mr. Zelikow had been interviewed. "This is what we've been concerned about from Day 1."
Her concern, Ms. Breitweiser said, is that the commission report "is going to be a whitewash."
"What we want to know is why they didn't investigate Osama bin Laden sooner," she added.
Her group plans to meet commission officials on Thursday, and family members are likely to raise their concerns about possible conflicts, she said.
RealAudio link 
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Higher-res mpg on another server
From the Northwest Journal-Record [Ill.]
