Sunday, October 09, 2005
What a Bunch of Bull! (Rove and Bush Whitehouse, not the Newsweek Article)
CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com
CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com
CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com
What I want to know is why killing them in the first place doesn't produce at the very least similar charges of obscenity.
Informed Comment: "What I want to know is why killing them in the first place doesn't produce at the very least similar charges of obscenity."
Power Line: Michael Barone is listening
Power Line: Michael Barone is listening
Blogger Thoughts: Michael Barone - Complete MSM Whore for Bush
Blogger Thoughts: Michael Barone - Complete MSM Whore for Bush
Power Line: Faith-based hypocrisy?
Power Line: Faith-based hypocrisy?: "Dionne and Captain Ed raise a serious point, but in the end I don't see the hypocrisy. "
Blogger Thought: P. Mirengoff has the integrity to not dismiss Dionne's point entirely early on, but follows up in true counterfeit Repub style by pooh poohing it. But no, he doesn't see this as hypocrisy. Guess he has to tread softly since Captain Ed is saying the same thing?
This whole Regime is so full of hypocrisy that it is an ocean that we are drowning in.
By and by, Mirengoff unbridled attack mode returns and he says:
"UPDATE: If there's a hypocite here, surely it's Dionne. He advocated that the Senate interrogate Roberts regarding the implications of his Catholicism on his judging. Now he thnks it's "good news" that some conservatives think the White House shouldn't even mention Miers' religion.?"
Blogger Thought: P. Mirengoff has the integrity to not dismiss Dionne's point entirely early on, but follows up in true counterfeit Repub style by pooh poohing it. But no, he doesn't see this as hypocrisy. Guess he has to tread softly since Captain Ed is saying the same thing?
This whole Regime is so full of hypocrisy that it is an ocean that we are drowning in.
By and by, Mirengoff unbridled attack mode returns and he says:
"UPDATE: If there's a hypocite here, surely it's Dionne. He advocated that the Senate interrogate Roberts regarding the implications of his Catholicism on his judging. Now he thnks it's "good news" that some conservatives think the White House shouldn't even mention Miers' religion.?"
Power Line: Negative capability
Power Line: Negative capability
Blogger Thougths: It's bad taste to cheer when one sees arguably honorably intentioned people writhe in the pain of seeing the Bush Admin for what it is. At the same time, they have supported this murderous Regime. And, if a little writhing will have them wake up and smell the coffee, so be it.
Blogger Thougths: It's bad taste to cheer when one sees arguably honorably intentioned people writhe in the pain of seeing the Bush Admin for what it is. At the same time, they have supported this murderous Regime. And, if a little writhing will have them wake up and smell the coffee, so be it.
Clinton aides battle Freeh over '60 minutes' book
Clinton aides battle Freeh over '60 minutes' book
Blogger Thoughts: Flash! You Dems may not get this, but Freeh, Sandy Berger, and Clinton are all as corrupt as Delay, Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney. So, take all of this with a grain of salt.
Blogger Thoughts: Flash! You Dems may not get this, but Freeh, Sandy Berger, and Clinton are all as corrupt as Delay, Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney. So, take all of this with a grain of salt.
Oklahoma City Bombing and the Middle East (Disinfo, but very important)
Oklahoma City Bombing and the Middle East
(Audio links require subscription, I believe)
http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=classic/02/08/GLENNBECK4WIN20020807_CLIP0.WMA&site=glennbeck&type=windows_od
http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=classic/02/08/GLENNBECK4WIN20020807_CLIP02.WMA&site=glennbeck&type=windows_od
Report: OKC Bombing Was TapedA Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh may have had accomplices at the scene.
9-11 panel confronts about OKC-Iraq linkSept. 11 Commission testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to an investigative reporter whose new book on the subject was addressed at the hearing.
Iraqis linked to Oklahoma CityCompelling evidence ex-Saddam soldiers directly involved in execution of '95 blast
Specter asks probe of Iraq links to WTC-Okla. attacksU.S. Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for a probe into allegations of a possible Iraqi connection between the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City six years earlier.
Congressmen pick up pace of OKC bombing probeIndiana congressman Dan Burton, as chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, continues to push for an explanation of allegations that foreigners were involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The Iraq ConnectionWith the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism.
Congress has Oklahoma witness tapesThis article outlines the prior warning issued by the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare that corroborate the witnesses' testimonies who tie Middle Eastern accomplices to McVeigh and Nichols.
The FBI knew in '95, why didn't we?Eleven months after Timothy McVeigh was put to death for the Oklahoma City bombing, a startling revelation has come to light.
Congress steps in to probe '95 bombingCongress can no longer ignore the evidence that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had foreign help in blowing up the Oklahoma City federal building.
Congressional hearing to examine possible Middle East linkRepresentative Dan Burton, (R-Indiana) is planning to hold congressional hearings into whether a conspiracy, with Middle East connections, was behind the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.
A few questions before FBI agent exitsAn FBI supervisor facing discipline for the bureau's failure to disclose thousands of documents to the defendants in the Oklahoma City bombing case is getting out of the kitchen while it's still hot.
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Missing evidence from Oklahoma CityThe FBI doesn't want to talk about it, but the evidence keeps mounting.
The Middle Eastern connection to Oklahoma CityEver since the country was savagely attacked on Sept. 11, the FBI has relentlessly investigated flight schools, airports, universities, mosques, Middle Eastern charities and Muslim communities, looking for connections to al-Qaida or other jihadist groups.
Are the OKC Bombing & 9/11 Linked?Former CIA officer and Deputy Director of the State Department's office of Counter Terrorism outlined some of the links Jayna Davis discovered between the Iraqi suspects in OKC and the WTC attacks of 9-11 as a guest on the O'Reilly Factor (May 7, 2002).
Warning Before 1995 Oklahoma BombingJust weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show.
Ex-CIA agent believes in a John Doe 2Though the U.S. government clings to the notion that Timothy McVeigh, acting alone, set off the horrendous explosion on April 19, 1995, that pancaked the nine-story Oklahoma City federal building, a former high-ranking CIA official says there's solid evidence to indicate he worked with an Iraqi John Doe No. 2.
An Oklahoma MysteryNew hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists
The Terrorist MotelThe I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta
Oklahoma City blast linked to bin LadenArticle dated March 20, 2001. Reporter Jayna Davis says FBI refused to accept evidence of foreign terror connection.
Oklahoma City linked to bin LadenArticle dated November 21, 2001. Soon after the fall of Kabul, journalists discovered two houses in an upscale neighborhood, one bearing the seal of the Taliban and the Ministry of Defense, where a lot of interesting documents, papers and notebooks had been left behind when the Taliban made their hasty departure.
FBI refused 22 witness testimoniesEvidence implicating Mideast connection created 'discovery problem'
FBI Refuses EvidenceTerry Nichols' defense attorneys argued Tuesday that prosecutors have ignored evidence favorable to Nichols because they would be legally obligated to share it with him.
OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11?Evidence links the OKC bombing to Middle Eastern terrorists, and the failure of officials to examine this evidence in 1995 may have set the stage for the September 11th attacks.
OKC Bombing Suspect Worked at 9-11 AirportA former State Department anti-terrorism prober now claims that a missing suspect in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing is a former Iraqi soldier who later secured a job at Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9-11 hijackers boarded planes they later commandeered and slammed into the World Trade Center.
(Audio links require subscription, I believe)
http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=classic/02/08/GLENNBECK4WIN20020807_CLIP0.WMA&site=glennbeck&type=windows_od
http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=classic/02/08/GLENNBECK4WIN20020807_CLIP02.WMA&site=glennbeck&type=windows_od
Report: OKC Bombing Was TapedA Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh may have had accomplices at the scene.
9-11 panel confronts about OKC-Iraq linkSept. 11 Commission testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to an investigative reporter whose new book on the subject was addressed at the hearing.
Iraqis linked to Oklahoma CityCompelling evidence ex-Saddam soldiers directly involved in execution of '95 blast
Specter asks probe of Iraq links to WTC-Okla. attacksU.S. Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for a probe into allegations of a possible Iraqi connection between the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City six years earlier.
Congressmen pick up pace of OKC bombing probeIndiana congressman Dan Burton, as chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, continues to push for an explanation of allegations that foreigners were involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The Iraq ConnectionWith the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism.
Congress has Oklahoma witness tapesThis article outlines the prior warning issued by the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare that corroborate the witnesses' testimonies who tie Middle Eastern accomplices to McVeigh and Nichols.
The FBI knew in '95, why didn't we?Eleven months after Timothy McVeigh was put to death for the Oklahoma City bombing, a startling revelation has come to light.
Congress steps in to probe '95 bombingCongress can no longer ignore the evidence that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had foreign help in blowing up the Oklahoma City federal building.
Congressional hearing to examine possible Middle East linkRepresentative Dan Burton, (R-Indiana) is planning to hold congressional hearings into whether a conspiracy, with Middle East connections, was behind the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.
A few questions before FBI agent exitsAn FBI supervisor facing discipline for the bureau's failure to disclose thousands of documents to the defendants in the Oklahoma City bombing case is getting out of the kitchen while it's still hot.
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Missing evidence from Oklahoma CityThe FBI doesn't want to talk about it, but the evidence keeps mounting.
The Middle Eastern connection to Oklahoma CityEver since the country was savagely attacked on Sept. 11, the FBI has relentlessly investigated flight schools, airports, universities, mosques, Middle Eastern charities and Muslim communities, looking for connections to al-Qaida or other jihadist groups.
Are the OKC Bombing & 9/11 Linked?Former CIA officer and Deputy Director of the State Department's office of Counter Terrorism outlined some of the links Jayna Davis discovered between the Iraqi suspects in OKC and the WTC attacks of 9-11 as a guest on the O'Reilly Factor (May 7, 2002).
Warning Before 1995 Oklahoma BombingJust weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show.
Ex-CIA agent believes in a John Doe 2Though the U.S. government clings to the notion that Timothy McVeigh, acting alone, set off the horrendous explosion on April 19, 1995, that pancaked the nine-story Oklahoma City federal building, a former high-ranking CIA official says there's solid evidence to indicate he worked with an Iraqi John Doe No. 2.
An Oklahoma MysteryNew hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists
The Terrorist MotelThe I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta
Oklahoma City blast linked to bin LadenArticle dated March 20, 2001. Reporter Jayna Davis says FBI refused to accept evidence of foreign terror connection.
Oklahoma City linked to bin LadenArticle dated November 21, 2001. Soon after the fall of Kabul, journalists discovered two houses in an upscale neighborhood, one bearing the seal of the Taliban and the Ministry of Defense, where a lot of interesting documents, papers and notebooks had been left behind when the Taliban made their hasty departure.
FBI refused 22 witness testimoniesEvidence implicating Mideast connection created 'discovery problem'
FBI Refuses EvidenceTerry Nichols' defense attorneys argued Tuesday that prosecutors have ignored evidence favorable to Nichols because they would be legally obligated to share it with him.
OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11?Evidence links the OKC bombing to Middle Eastern terrorists, and the failure of officials to examine this evidence in 1995 may have set the stage for the September 11th attacks.
OKC Bombing Suspect Worked at 9-11 AirportA former State Department anti-terrorism prober now claims that a missing suspect in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing is a former Iraqi soldier who later secured a job at Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9-11 hijackers boarded planes they later commandeered and slammed into the World Trade Center.
Newsmax "rubs up against the truth" (5/2004)
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Blogger Thoughts: This spin is all about those evil Muslims, but the truth that ties it all together is just a few twists away.
Tags: OK City Islam terror Nichols McVeigh 9/11 09/11/2001 Murrah
Blogger Thoughts: This spin is all about those evil Muslims, but the truth that ties it all together is just a few twists away.
Tags: OK City Islam terror Nichols McVeigh 9/11 09/11/2001 Murrah
Interview with Schippers about 9/11
WorldNetDaily: Middle East-OKC connection
Blogger Thoughts: More info related to blog entries that follow.
Blogger Thoughts: More info related to blog entries that follow.
Wizblog: Jayna Davis' OKC Evidence
Wizblog: Jayna Davis' OKC Evidence
Blogger Thoughts: Take a look at this, especially the comments by Lisa Ghariani
(recent url http://possibilityx.com/lg/sheehan.htm)
Blogger Thoughts: Take a look at this, especially the comments by Lisa Ghariani
(recent url http://possibilityx.com/lg/sheehan.htm)
Jayna Davis - The Third Terrorist (Book about OK City Bombing)
Jayna Davis - The Third Terrorist
Blogger Thoughts: Here's the quote from David Schippers:
“It is my honest opinion that if the Department of Justice and the federal investigative agencies had not ignored Jayna Davis and instead accepted the mass of creditable evidence compiled by her, indicating direct Middle Eastern involvement in the bombing, the course of future events may have been altered. Had those investigators taken their duties seriously and followed up on the investigation of that information, it is entirely likely that the Twin Towers would still be standing.”
What a wanker!!!!! This quote is evidently from after 9/11, yet he is supporting this misdirection blaming Iraq and Islam, and not saying a peep about the support from inside the US, and subsequent cover-up. I hadn't paid much attention to Schippers before, but I thought he had a clear record of trying to warn Ashcroft about 9/11 before it happened. What does all this mean? Who a disinfo agent, and who is honest?
Tags: Oklahoma City Murrah Building 09/11/2001 Inside Job Traitor disinfo lies
Blogger Thoughts: Here's the quote from David Schippers:
“It is my honest opinion that if the Department of Justice and the federal investigative agencies had not ignored Jayna Davis and instead accepted the mass of creditable evidence compiled by her, indicating direct Middle Eastern involvement in the bombing, the course of future events may have been altered. Had those investigators taken their duties seriously and followed up on the investigation of that information, it is entirely likely that the Twin Towers would still be standing.”
What a wanker!!!!! This quote is evidently from after 9/11, yet he is supporting this misdirection blaming Iraq and Islam, and not saying a peep about the support from inside the US, and subsequent cover-up. I hadn't paid much attention to Schippers before, but I thought he had a clear record of trying to warn Ashcroft about 9/11 before it happened. What does all this mean? Who a disinfo agent, and who is honest?
Tags: Oklahoma City Murrah Building 09/11/2001 Inside Job Traitor disinfo lies
Conglomerate Blog: A Clue
Conglomerate Blog: A Clue
Blogger Thought: Gordon Smith didn't get the memo: Bush is a puppet in this thouroughly corrupt Regime.
Blogger Thought: Gordon Smith didn't get the memo: Bush is a puppet in this thouroughly corrupt Regime.
Althouse: "You know, once you start to think 'Bush is an idiot,' it becomes a pervasive organizing principle."
Althouse: "You know, once you start to think 'Bush is an idiot,' it becomes a pervasive organizing principle.": "Ann Althouse said...
Let's not forget, it was a choice between two men. You had to pick one. Or, put better, you could only reject one. I had to reject Kerry, and I don't regret that."
Blogger Thought: This raises a question that I hadn't seriously considered: If say Dean rather than Kerry had been the Dem. nominee, would that have made a difference in the voting of what I would call the "I'll vote for anyone before Kerry" voters? My guess is that those who have an unfavorable view of Dems to begin with are abusing Kerry by representing his candidatcy as the great evil, when in fact that would voted against any number of Dems as the nominee.
Let's not forget, it was a choice between two men. You had to pick one. Or, put better, you could only reject one. I had to reject Kerry, and I don't regret that."
Blogger Thought: This raises a question that I hadn't seriously considered: If say Dean rather than Kerry had been the Dem. nominee, would that have made a difference in the voting of what I would call the "I'll vote for anyone before Kerry" voters? My guess is that those who have an unfavorable view of Dems to begin with are abusing Kerry by representing his candidatcy as the great evil, when in fact that would voted against any number of Dems as the nominee.
FBI Penetrated; Again! - by Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole
FBI Penetrated; Again! - by Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole
Highlights
Staying or Leaving: Rep. Ron Paul
The Police State Is Closing In: Paul Craig Roberts
FBI Penetrated; Again!: Sibel Edmonds/John Cole
Saving Face: Gordon Prather
WWI: Root of All Wars: Charley Reese
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October 8, 2005
FBI Penetrated; Again! by Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole
U.S. Marine Leandro Aragoncillo, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked in the vice president's office and later at the FBI as an analyst, was arrested last month and accused of downloading classified FBI reports and sending them to political figures in the Philippines.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has continued to make short shrift of personnel security on the heels of the well-known Robert Hanssen Spy scandal, and in the middle of a war on terrorism. Despite several IG reports, congressional inquiries, and media reports on several other recent cases of alleged espionage activities, the bureau's inability to secure even its own offices continues today. Here is an agency that is in charge of defending our national security and protecting our safety, but it has yet to prove it is capable of securing itself. The following incidents are glaring examples of the FBI's failure to address its own security vulnerabilities and its unwillingness to hold its management accountable.
FBI & Uninvestigated Espionage Cases
Report by Sibel D. Edmonds, Former Language Specialist; FBI:
Melek Can Dickerson, a Turkish Translator, was hired by the FBI after September 11, and was placed in charge of translating the most sensitive information related to terrorists and criminals under the Bureau's investigation. She was granted Top Secret Clearance, which is supposed to be granted only after conducting a thorough background investigation. However, according to FBI officials, she had previously worked for semi-legit organizations that were FBI's targets of investigation, and had on going relationships with two individuals who were FBI's targets of investigation. For months she blocked all-important information related to these semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with. She stamped hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to these targets as "Not Pertinent," and attempted to prevent others from translating these documents – important to the FBI's investigations and our fight against terrorism. Further, she and her husband attempted to recruit others, including myself, to work for the FBI target under investigation.
Dickerson, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, Mike Feghali, took hundreds of pages of top-secret sensitive intelligence documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients. She, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, forged signatures on top-secret documents related to certain 9/11 detainees. Even after these incidents were confirmed and reported to FBI management, she was allowed to remain in her position, to continue the translation of sensitive intelligence received by the FBI, and to maintain her Top Secret Clearance. Apparently, bureaucratic mid-level FBI management and administrators decided that it would not look good for the Bureau if this security breach and espionage case was investigated and made public, especially after Robert Hanssen's case (FBI spy scandal). The Dickerson case was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Please refer to Senator Leahy and Grassley's letters dated June 19 and August 13, 2002, and Senator Grassley's statement on CBS-60 Minutes in October 2002), and received major coverage by the press. According to Director Mueller, the Inspector General criticized the FBI for failing to adequately pursue this espionage report regarding Dickerson (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation).
Today, almost four years since the Dickerson incident was reported to the FBI, and more than three years since this information was confirmed by the United States Congress and reported by the press, the administrators in charge of FBI personnel security and language departments in the FBI remain in their positions and in charge of translation quality and translation departments' security. Dickerson and several FBI targets of investigation hastily left the United States in 2002, and the case still remains uninvestigated criminally. This case was not referred to the FBI Counterespionage division, as it is required by the FBI's own protocol. It needs to be investigated and criminally prosecuted – it is a clear case of espionage. The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies; important "chit-chats" and "chatters" are being intentionally blocked.
Report by John M. Cole, Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist; FBI:
While assigned to the FBI's South East Asia counterintelligence program I was asked to provide risk assessments on applicants applying for language specialists' positions within the FBI. These applicants, all of whom were born foreign nationals and naturalized U.S. citizens, applied for language specialist positions within the FBI. One of these applicants, with the initials HR, was an individual originally from Pakistan. In reviewing HR's application I suspected that there were several areas that had not been fully investigated. Upon further investigation, such as simply running name checks on HR's family members, this suspicion was reinforced. When running HR's father's name through the FBI's Automated Case System (ACS) several hits came up. Upon further review it was determined that HR's father was a retired Pakistani general. What was more disturbing was the fact that his name came up as having formerly been the defense military attaché at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington D.C. Having worked the Pakistani program it was well known that all Pakistani defense military attaches were Pakistani intelligence officers. I wrote this all up and submitted it to the FBI's Security Programs Division. In fact the personnel security specialist that reviewed my findings thanked me and stated "I also reviewed this file and felt there were major problems." A week later the security specialist telephoned me to ask who in the Counterterrorism Division should also review the applicants file. (One of the recommendations made was to have the FBI's Counterterrorism Division also prepare a risk assessment on the applicant) I gave the personnel security specialist the name of the Counterterrorism Specialist at which time she stated "not that it matters because HR has been hired and reported to work today." She went on to further state that HR has been given a Top Secret clearance and access to sensitive compartmental information. A few weeks later there was information that arrived from an FBI Field Division that someone had provided the Pakistanis with classified information. The case was open as an UNSUB (unknown subject) case.
Despite my findings on several of the risk assessments that I completed the FBI continued to hire and provide top clearances and accesses to these individuals. I had written letters regarding these security lapses to the Security programs and up the FBI's Chain of Command to include Director Mueller. Unfortunately, nothing was ever done. Instead FBI management decided to come after me, the "kill the messenger" culture that exists in the FBI. I continued to bring these security and mismanagement issues to management and to the Senate. Due to my persistence FBI management decided to reorganize the programs. In doing so they took the Southeast Asian program away from me and gave me the Sub-Sahara African program. Needless to say there was not much going on in that program. However, after reviewing the cases within the program an individual brought me an espionage case involving the Sub-Sahara African area.
I began reviewing the case and realized that the case involved a former FBI language specialist. The case was out of the FBI's Washington Field Division. It seemed odd that the case was classified a preliminary inquiry instead of a full investigation. I state this because there was overwhelming evidence to justify a full investigation. In fact I believe there was sufficient evidence to convict the subject. I state this for several reasons. The FBI had several well-placed reliable sources that confirmed that the subject was working and providing information to a foreign intelligence service. In fact, one source informed the FBI that while he/she was in the presence of the foreign intelligence officer, he/she was informed not to say anything while at the foreign mission. When the source inquired why the intelligence officer informed him/her that " the FBI is monitoring the mission and has it wired." When the source asked the intelligence officer how he/she knew this the intelligence officer stated "we know because we have a translator within the FBI that is working for us." Despite this information and the confirmation of the name of the FBI's language specialist nothing was ever done. When I inquired about the case and asked why there was not a full investigation on the subject, why wasn't the FBI Field division aggressively pursuing the case, etc. my supervisor took the case away from me. After that I was relieved from my program responsibilities.
Report by Behrooz Sarshar, Former Language Specialist; FBI:
According to Behrooz Sarshar, Retired FBI Translator for Farsi Language, in 2001 an Iranian translator working for the FBI-New York Field Office was found to be working for the target(s) of FBI counterintelligence and criminal investigations. This translator was providing the FBI targets with tips/information, and was tampering with intelligence/information in Farsi gathered by the FBI. The FBI asked this translator to resign and leave quietly. NO criminal investigation and NO damage assessment were conducted.
In January 2002, Mr. Sarshar reported to the Department of Justice Inspector General Office incidents involving a certain Middle-Eastern translator who regularly removed Top Secret Documents/Audio Tapes and Laptop containing classified and extremely sensitive intelligence from the FBI premises. This individual reportedly shared these TS documents with foreign individuals outside the FBI. Mr. Sarshar and Ms. Pari Pakravan (Former translator, FBI-WFO) repeatedly reported these security breaches to the FBI management and security for several years (1997-2001), but NO action was taken.
Reports by Special Agent Donald Levy & Special Agent Robert Wright; FBI:
Donald Lavey, who worked in counterterrorism for 20 years at the FBI, said wiretap translations by Mideast-born agents should have a "second opinion," because their backgrounds may "prejudice" their interpretation and analysis.
"We are at war, and we need more than one translator for each subject under electronic surveillance," he said. "We are relying too heavily on single Arab translators for significant information, and worse yet, investigative guidance." Levy recalls a problem with a former Arab translator in the FBI's Detroit office who tried to back out of secretly recording a fellow Muslim suspected of terrorism by claiming the subject had threatened his life. Levy also cites the more recent case of Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim, who twice refused on religious grounds to tape-record Muslim terrorist suspects, hindering investigations of a bin Laden family-financed bank in New Jersey and Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, recently indicted for his ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
A fellow FBI agent, Robert Wright, said Abdel-Hafiz finally explained to him that "a Muslim does not record another Muslim," after first claiming he feared for his life. Other agents said he contacted Arab subjects under investigation without disclosing the contacts to the agents running the cases. Despite his divided loyalties, the FBI subsequently promoted Abdel-Hafiz by assigning him to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, a critical post for intelligence-gathering. Three-fourths of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. After Wright and another agent blew the whistle in the media, he was put on administrative leave.
Reports by the Department of Justice Inspector General:
According to The Justice Department Inspector General Report on November 15, 2002: " A language Specialist was dismissed for unauthorized contacts with foreign officials and intelligence officers, receipts of things of value from them, and lack of condor in his 'convoluted and contradictory responses' to questions about his contacts." [DOJ-OIG Report, November 15, 2002]. However, the report does not mention any criminal investigation and/or prosecution regarding this case. Like all other cases mentioned above, this case was not referred to the FBI-Counterespionage Division.
Also, according to the Justice Department Inspector General Report in August 2003: " In our review, we observed serious deficiencies in nearly every aspect of the FBI's internal security program, from personnel security, to computer security, document security, and security training and compliance." The report includes 21 recommendations for the FBI aimed at improving its ability to detect and investigate security breaches and potential espionage. "Some of the most serious weaknesses still have not been fully remedied and expose the FBI to the risk of serious compromises by other moles." [DOJ-OIG Report, August 2003].
Additional Information:
1) Letter from Senator Patrick Leahy on August 13, 2002: "Ms. Edmonds alleged that a contract monitor once worked for an organization under FBI's counter-intelligence investigation and that this monitor had contacts with a foreign national who was a member of the target institution." The letter states that even after verifying these allegations, "the FBI downplayed the importance of this matter and seemed to imply that it ceased to looking into the complaints as a security matter until after the Inspector General finished their investigation." [See Attached, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the Letter to AG Ashcroft on August 13, 2002]
a)"Ms. Edmonds has alleged that this contract monitor in her unit 'chose' not to translate important, intelligence-related information, instead limiting her translations to unimportant and innocuous information. The FBI has verified that this monitor indeed failed to translate certain material properly, but has attributed the failure to a lack of training."
b)The subject translator continued to work for the FBI Washington Field Office with full access to Top Secret intelligence information/documents for 6 months after the start of IG investigation and after the FBI confirmed her ties to the subjects of FBI investigation and her other security violations.
2) Letter From Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy on June 19, 2002: "Ms. Edmonds has reported, and the FBI has confirmed, that another contract linguist in the FBI Unit failed to translate at least two communications reflecting a foreign official's handling of intelligence matters. The FBI has confirmed that the contract linguist had "Unreported contacts" with that foreign official." [See attached letter from Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Charles Grassley on June 19, 2002]
Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI
John M. Cole, Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist worked for 18 years in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division as an Intelligence Operations specialist. Beginning in 1999, he discovered and began reporting serious issues of mismanagement, gross negligence, waste of government funds, security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. He wrote these issues in several letters to FBI management, to include Director Mueller to no avail. After he reported these acts to FBI management, he was retaliated against, suspended and ultimately left the FBI in March 2004.
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Sibel Edmonds began working for the FBI shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Until the spring of 2002 she worked in the FBI's Washington field office translating top-secret documents pertaining to suspected terrorists. She first gained wide public attention in October of that year when she appeared on '60 Minutes' on CBS and charged that the FBI, State Department, and Pentagon had been infiltrated by agents of a Turkish intelligence officer suspected of ties to terrorism. She also accused members of the FBI's translation services of sabotage, intimidation, corruption and incompetence. On October 18, 2002, at the request of FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General Ashcroft imposed a gag order on Ms. Edmonds, citing possible damage to diplomatic relations or national security.
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October 8, 2005
FBI Penetrated; Again! by Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole
U.S. Marine Leandro Aragoncillo, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked in the vice president's office and later at the FBI as an analyst, was arrested last month and accused of downloading classified FBI reports and sending them to political figures in the Philippines.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has continued to make short shrift of personnel security on the heels of the well-known Robert Hanssen Spy scandal, and in the middle of a war on terrorism. Despite several IG reports, congressional inquiries, and media reports on several other recent cases of alleged espionage activities, the bureau's inability to secure even its own offices continues today. Here is an agency that is in charge of defending our national security and protecting our safety, but it has yet to prove it is capable of securing itself. The following incidents are glaring examples of the FBI's failure to address its own security vulnerabilities and its unwillingness to hold its management accountable.
FBI & Uninvestigated Espionage Cases
Report by Sibel D. Edmonds, Former Language Specialist; FBI:
Melek Can Dickerson, a Turkish Translator, was hired by the FBI after September 11, and was placed in charge of translating the most sensitive information related to terrorists and criminals under the Bureau's investigation. She was granted Top Secret Clearance, which is supposed to be granted only after conducting a thorough background investigation. However, according to FBI officials, she had previously worked for semi-legit organizations that were FBI's targets of investigation, and had on going relationships with two individuals who were FBI's targets of investigation. For months she blocked all-important information related to these semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with. She stamped hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to these targets as "Not Pertinent," and attempted to prevent others from translating these documents – important to the FBI's investigations and our fight against terrorism. Further, she and her husband attempted to recruit others, including myself, to work for the FBI target under investigation.
Dickerson, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, Mike Feghali, took hundreds of pages of top-secret sensitive intelligence documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients. She, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, forged signatures on top-secret documents related to certain 9/11 detainees. Even after these incidents were confirmed and reported to FBI management, she was allowed to remain in her position, to continue the translation of sensitive intelligence received by the FBI, and to maintain her Top Secret Clearance. Apparently, bureaucratic mid-level FBI management and administrators decided that it would not look good for the Bureau if this security breach and espionage case was investigated and made public, especially after Robert Hanssen's case (FBI spy scandal). The Dickerson case was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Please refer to Senator Leahy and Grassley's letters dated June 19 and August 13, 2002, and Senator Grassley's statement on CBS-60 Minutes in October 2002), and received major coverage by the press. According to Director Mueller, the Inspector General criticized the FBI for failing to adequately pursue this espionage report regarding Dickerson (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation).
Today, almost four years since the Dickerson incident was reported to the FBI, and more than three years since this information was confirmed by the United States Congress and reported by the press, the administrators in charge of FBI personnel security and language departments in the FBI remain in their positions and in charge of translation quality and translation departments' security. Dickerson and several FBI targets of investigation hastily left the United States in 2002, and the case still remains uninvestigated criminally. This case was not referred to the FBI Counterespionage division, as it is required by the FBI's own protocol. It needs to be investigated and criminally prosecuted – it is a clear case of espionage. The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies; important "chit-chats" and "chatters" are being intentionally blocked.
Report by John M. Cole, Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist; FBI:
While assigned to the FBI's South East Asia counterintelligence program I was asked to provide risk assessments on applicants applying for language specialists' positions within the FBI. These applicants, all of whom were born foreign nationals and naturalized U.S. citizens, applied for language specialist positions within the FBI. One of these applicants, with the initials HR, was an individual originally from Pakistan. In reviewing HR's application I suspected that there were several areas that had not been fully investigated. Upon further investigation, such as simply running name checks on HR's family members, this suspicion was reinforced. When running HR's father's name through the FBI's Automated Case System (ACS) several hits came up. Upon further review it was determined that HR's father was a retired Pakistani general. What was more disturbing was the fact that his name came up as having formerly been the defense military attaché at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington D.C. Having worked the Pakistani program it was well known that all Pakistani defense military attaches were Pakistani intelligence officers. I wrote this all up and submitted it to the FBI's Security Programs Division. In fact the personnel security specialist that reviewed my findings thanked me and stated "I also reviewed this file and felt there were major problems." A week later the security specialist telephoned me to ask who in the Counterterrorism Division should also review the applicants file. (One of the recommendations made was to have the FBI's Counterterrorism Division also prepare a risk assessment on the applicant) I gave the personnel security specialist the name of the Counterterrorism Specialist at which time she stated "not that it matters because HR has been hired and reported to work today." She went on to further state that HR has been given a Top Secret clearance and access to sensitive compartmental information. A few weeks later there was information that arrived from an FBI Field Division that someone had provided the Pakistanis with classified information. The case was open as an UNSUB (unknown subject) case.
Despite my findings on several of the risk assessments that I completed the FBI continued to hire and provide top clearances and accesses to these individuals. I had written letters regarding these security lapses to the Security programs and up the FBI's Chain of Command to include Director Mueller. Unfortunately, nothing was ever done. Instead FBI management decided to come after me, the "kill the messenger" culture that exists in the FBI. I continued to bring these security and mismanagement issues to management and to the Senate. Due to my persistence FBI management decided to reorganize the programs. In doing so they took the Southeast Asian program away from me and gave me the Sub-Sahara African program. Needless to say there was not much going on in that program. However, after reviewing the cases within the program an individual brought me an espionage case involving the Sub-Sahara African area.
I began reviewing the case and realized that the case involved a former FBI language specialist. The case was out of the FBI's Washington Field Division. It seemed odd that the case was classified a preliminary inquiry instead of a full investigation. I state this because there was overwhelming evidence to justify a full investigation. In fact I believe there was sufficient evidence to convict the subject. I state this for several reasons. The FBI had several well-placed reliable sources that confirmed that the subject was working and providing information to a foreign intelligence service. In fact, one source informed the FBI that while he/she was in the presence of the foreign intelligence officer, he/she was informed not to say anything while at the foreign mission. When the source inquired why the intelligence officer informed him/her that " the FBI is monitoring the mission and has it wired." When the source asked the intelligence officer how he/she knew this the intelligence officer stated "we know because we have a translator within the FBI that is working for us." Despite this information and the confirmation of the name of the FBI's language specialist nothing was ever done. When I inquired about the case and asked why there was not a full investigation on the subject, why wasn't the FBI Field division aggressively pursuing the case, etc. my supervisor took the case away from me. After that I was relieved from my program responsibilities.
Report by Behrooz Sarshar, Former Language Specialist; FBI:
According to Behrooz Sarshar, Retired FBI Translator for Farsi Language, in 2001 an Iranian translator working for the FBI-New York Field Office was found to be working for the target(s) of FBI counterintelligence and criminal investigations. This translator was providing the FBI targets with tips/information, and was tampering with intelligence/information in Farsi gathered by the FBI. The FBI asked this translator to resign and leave quietly. NO criminal investigation and NO damage assessment were conducted.
In January 2002, Mr. Sarshar reported to the Department of Justice Inspector General Office incidents involving a certain Middle-Eastern translator who regularly removed Top Secret Documents/Audio Tapes and Laptop containing classified and extremely sensitive intelligence from the FBI premises. This individual reportedly shared these TS documents with foreign individuals outside the FBI. Mr. Sarshar and Ms. Pari Pakravan (Former translator, FBI-WFO) repeatedly reported these security breaches to the FBI management and security for several years (1997-2001), but NO action was taken.
Reports by Special Agent Donald Levy & Special Agent Robert Wright; FBI:
Donald Lavey, who worked in counterterrorism for 20 years at the FBI, said wiretap translations by Mideast-born agents should have a "second opinion," because their backgrounds may "prejudice" their interpretation and analysis.
"We are at war, and we need more than one translator for each subject under electronic surveillance," he said. "We are relying too heavily on single Arab translators for significant information, and worse yet, investigative guidance." Levy recalls a problem with a former Arab translator in the FBI's Detroit office who tried to back out of secretly recording a fellow Muslim suspected of terrorism by claiming the subject had threatened his life. Levy also cites the more recent case of Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim, who twice refused on religious grounds to tape-record Muslim terrorist suspects, hindering investigations of a bin Laden family-financed bank in New Jersey and Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, recently indicted for his ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
A fellow FBI agent, Robert Wright, said Abdel-Hafiz finally explained to him that "a Muslim does not record another Muslim," after first claiming he feared for his life. Other agents said he contacted Arab subjects under investigation without disclosing the contacts to the agents running the cases. Despite his divided loyalties, the FBI subsequently promoted Abdel-Hafiz by assigning him to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, a critical post for intelligence-gathering. Three-fourths of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. After Wright and another agent blew the whistle in the media, he was put on administrative leave.
Reports by the Department of Justice Inspector General:
According to The Justice Department Inspector General Report on November 15, 2002: " A language Specialist was dismissed for unauthorized contacts with foreign officials and intelligence officers, receipts of things of value from them, and lack of condor in his 'convoluted and contradictory responses' to questions about his contacts." [DOJ-OIG Report, November 15, 2002]. However, the report does not mention any criminal investigation and/or prosecution regarding this case. Like all other cases mentioned above, this case was not referred to the FBI-Counterespionage Division.
Also, according to the Justice Department Inspector General Report in August 2003: " In our review, we observed serious deficiencies in nearly every aspect of the FBI's internal security program, from personnel security, to computer security, document security, and security training and compliance." The report includes 21 recommendations for the FBI aimed at improving its ability to detect and investigate security breaches and potential espionage. "Some of the most serious weaknesses still have not been fully remedied and expose the FBI to the risk of serious compromises by other moles." [DOJ-OIG Report, August 2003].
Additional Information:
1) Letter from Senator Patrick Leahy on August 13, 2002: "Ms. Edmonds alleged that a contract monitor once worked for an organization under FBI's counter-intelligence investigation and that this monitor had contacts with a foreign national who was a member of the target institution." The letter states that even after verifying these allegations, "the FBI downplayed the importance of this matter and seemed to imply that it ceased to looking into the complaints as a security matter until after the Inspector General finished their investigation." [See Attached, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the Letter to AG Ashcroft on August 13, 2002]
a)"Ms. Edmonds has alleged that this contract monitor in her unit 'chose' not to translate important, intelligence-related information, instead limiting her translations to unimportant and innocuous information. The FBI has verified that this monitor indeed failed to translate certain material properly, but has attributed the failure to a lack of training."
b)The subject translator continued to work for the FBI Washington Field Office with full access to Top Secret intelligence information/documents for 6 months after the start of IG investigation and after the FBI confirmed her ties to the subjects of FBI investigation and her other security violations.
2) Letter From Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy on June 19, 2002: "Ms. Edmonds has reported, and the FBI has confirmed, that another contract linguist in the FBI Unit failed to translate at least two communications reflecting a foreign official's handling of intelligence matters. The FBI has confirmed that the contract linguist had "Unreported contacts" with that foreign official." [See attached letter from Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Charles Grassley on June 19, 2002]
Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI
John M. Cole, Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist worked for 18 years in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division as an Intelligence Operations specialist. Beginning in 1999, he discovered and began reporting serious issues of mismanagement, gross negligence, waste of government funds, security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. He wrote these issues in several letters to FBI management, to include Director Mueller to no avail. After he reported these acts to FBI management, he was retaliated against, suspended and ultimately left the FBI in March 2004.
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FBI Whistleblower Edmonds Files New Lawsuit3/17/2005
Statement of Sibel Edmonds3/3/2005
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to Testify Before Congress for First Time Wednesday3/2/2005
Demand Accountability1/27/2005
FBI Audit Leaves Vital Questions Unanswered10/7/2004
Whistleblower Sues for Release of 9/11 Info 9/22/2004
National Security Experts Demand to Be Heard9/14/2004
An Open Letter to the 9/11 Panel8/2/2004
The Puzzling 9/11 Report7/24/2004
Our Broken System7/9/2004
An Interview with Sibel Edmonds7/1/2004
Sibel Edmonds began working for the FBI shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Until the spring of 2002 she worked in the FBI's Washington field office translating top-secret documents pertaining to suspected terrorists. She first gained wide public attention in October of that year when she appeared on '60 Minutes' on CBS and charged that the FBI, State Department, and Pentagon had been infiltrated by agents of a Turkish intelligence officer suspected of ties to terrorism. She also accused members of the FBI's translation services of sabotage, intimidation, corruption and incompetence. On October 18, 2002, at the request of FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General Ashcroft imposed a gag order on Ms. Edmonds, citing possible damage to diplomatic relations or national security.
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Godless Mom in the Bible Belt: This is what it has come to.
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"The most disgusting thing about the situation however is the MSM coverage of the event.."
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Many curious local friends inquire about my lack of exhibitionism.
Of not wanting to promote the industry of beauty so called tourism.
I just merely 'forget' to tag my images properly.
Resort-names, Country, climate, environment, etc...
Well.
I see no point. To me, beauty is everywhere.
Bangkok to Bombay. Kuala-Lumpur to Kandy(Sri-Lanka).
Beautiful.
A person who waits to unwrap his/her camera until a pre-conceived target is reached, is merely following a hollow dream.
"If I was in your location..."
"If I had your kind of camera..."
Many such comments are targeted at my photos.
Instead, I'd rather look around me.
The immediate me.
Faces, shapes, skies, land, landmarks... God.
Why does memory cards have to be limited to GBs. Why can't we have
Terabytes of storage?
There is just so much to shoot!
Of not wanting to promote the industry of beauty so called tourism.
I just merely 'forget' to tag my images properly.
Resort-names, Country, climate, environment, etc...
Well.
I see no point. To me, beauty is everywhere.
Bangkok to Bombay. Kuala-Lumpur to Kandy(Sri-Lanka).
Beautiful.
A person who waits to unwrap his/her camera until a pre-conceived target is reached, is merely following a hollow dream.
"If I was in your location..."
"If I had your kind of camera..."
Many such comments are targeted at my photos.
Instead, I'd rather look around me.
The immediate me.
Faces, shapes, skies, land, landmarks... God.
Why does memory cards have to be limited to GBs. Why can't we have
Terabytes of storage?
There is just so much to shoot!
Petty Larseny: New Evidence of Harriet Miers' Position on Abortion
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Blogger Thought: I find Larsen's evidence unconvincing.
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