July 18, 2014

When was the last time William K. Black appeared on US television?

William K. Black: Justice Department is the Dog that has Refused to Bark for a Decade

July 18, 2014

Thanks for putting words in my mouth.

I am surprised.

July 18, 2014

Why do you keep insisting I answer how you want? I would think my answer was obvious.

Perhaps a quote will help you:



So, it seems "Yes" and "No."
Yes, because that is what RT said. No, because mass media lie.
The reality is what I answered: I await the truth before venturing a guess.

July 18, 2014

''Treason'' is how LBJ put it.

The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'

By David Taylor
BBC.com, Archive On 4



Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing.

July 18, 2014

What Kind of Person Sells Terrorists Surface-to-Air Missiles?

These two. And they should've gone to prison.



500 HAWK missiles, at least.

July 17, 2014

Last we'll ever see that guy on tee vee.

And people wonder why I loathe Brian Williams.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ayman-mohyeldin-witnesses-gaza-airstrike-but-richard-engel-reports-on-nightly-news_b232276

July 16, 2014

What Exactly Are the Spy Agencies Doing with their Bag of Dirty Tricks?

Specific Examples of what they May Be Doing

SNIP...

CHANGELING: Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity. Fake an email from a privacy advocate to make it look like he’s proposing terrorism.

SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets. Fake an email from an opponent of bank bailouts to make it look like she’s proposing bombing a bank.

BURLESQUE: The capacity to send spoofed SMS messages. Fake a message from an an anti-war pacifist to make it look like he’s advocating sabotage of a military base.

CONTINUED...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-exactly-are-the-spy-agencies-doing-with-their-bag-of-dirty-tricks/5391555

Clothing for the virtual wolf.

July 14, 2014

From Gulf War 1 when SecDef Dick privatized "warfighting" so cronies' could make a killing.

Cheney's Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door

News: As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government.

By Robert Bryce
Mother Jones
August 2, 2000

EXCERPT...

In 1992, the Pentagon, then under Cheney's direction, paid Texas-based Brown & Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies -- like itself -- could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. BRS specializes in such work; from 1962 to 1972, for instance, the company worked in the former South Vietnam building roads, landing strips, harbors, and military bases. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the company an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, BRS won a massive, five-year logistics contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo, the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia.

After Bill Clinton's election cost Cheney his government job, he wound up in 1995 as CEO of Halliburton Company, the Dallas-based oil services giant -- which just happens to own Brown & Root Services. Since then, Cheney has collected more than $10 million in salary and stock payments from the company. In addition, he is currently the company's largest individual shareholder, holding stock and options worth another $40 million. Those holdings have undoubtedly been made more valuable by the ever-more lucrative contracts BRS continues to score with the Pentagon.

Between 1992 and 1999, the Pentagon paid BRS more than $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999, the US Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company's help in the Balkans, giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million.

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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/08/cheney.html

July 14, 2014

Snowden must produce his emails or until then he's just a big liar.

It's OK if NSA says it has them, but doesn't have to release the because of, ah, national security, that's it. The one that he has released, and now is confirmed by NSA, shows the guy knew what he was doing. The email shows he was concerned about authority and the chain of command. Any others, IMFO, are just icing on a very rancid cake.

So, focus on the sideshow, Patriot! Even though all Snowden has done is lift the lid on the secret government to expose the corrupt and undemocratic nature of the NSA.

The Big Con at Dealey Plaza by DUer Bill Kelly explains how the pros learned the trade.

(ETA first paragraph.)

July 13, 2014

For starters...

Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA

A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?

Trevor Timm
theguardian.com, Saturday 17 May 2014

If you blinked this week, you might have missed the news: two Senators accused the Justice Department of lying about NSA warrantless surveillance to the US supreme court last year, and those falsehoods all but ensured that mass spying on Americans would continue. But hardly anyone seems to care – least of all those who lied and who should have already come forward with the truth.

Here's what happened: just before Edward Snowden became a household name, the ACLU argued before the supreme court that the Fisa Amendments Act – one of the two main laws used by the NSA to conduct mass surveillance – was unconstitutional.

In a sharply divided opinion, the supreme court ruled, 5-4, that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs didn't have "standing" – in other words, that the ACLU couldn't prove with near-certainty that their clients, which included journalists and human rights advocates, were targets of surveillance, so they couldn't challenge the law. As the New York Times noted this week, the court relied on two claims by the Justice Department to support their ruling: 1) that the NSA would only get the content of Americans' communications without a warrant when they are targeting a foreigner abroad for surveillance, and 2) that the Justice Department would notify criminal defendants who have been spied on under the Fisa Amendments Act, so there exists some way to challenge the law in court.

It turns out that neither of those statements were true – but it took Snowden's historic whistleblowing to prove it.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/government-lies-nsa-justice-department-supreme-court

There's lots more, if you care to look.