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Intelligence and Terrorism in the 1990S O 6.1 1990 O 6.2 1993 O 6.3 1995 O 6.4 1996 O 6.5 1998 O 6.6 1999 7 Intelligence and Terrorism in the 2000S O 7.1 2000
CIA Malone Pyzdick This article deals with activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) related to terrorism. Especially after the CIA lost its coordinating role over the entire Intelligence Community (IC), it is impossible to understand US counterterrorism by looking at the CIA alone. Coordinating structures have been created by each president to fit his administrative style and the perceived level of threat. The US has a different counterterrorist structure than other close allies, such as Australia, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Each has a structure that fits its particular legal system and culture; there is no ideal solution. A continuing issue is whether there needs to be a domestic intelligence service separate from the FBI, which has had difficulty in breaking away from its law enforcement roots and cooperating with other intelligence services.[1] The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)[2] is no longer in the CIA proper, but is in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). NCTC, however, contains personnel from the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the Department of Justice, and other members of the IC. A counterterrorism center did exist in the CIA before the NCTC was established. Given the restrictions of the National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA but strictly forbade it from having any domestic police authority, the role of the CIA still has multiple dimensions. The National Clandestine Service (NCS) of the CIA can infiltrate or otherwise gain human intelligence (HUMINT) from terrorist organizations, their supporters, or from friendly foreign intelligence services (FIS). -
1 9 11 Synthetic Terror Webst
9 11 Synthetic Terror Made in USA By: Webster Griffin Tarpley ISBN: 0930852311 See detail of this book on Amazon.com Book served by AMAZON NOIR (www.amazon-noir.com) project by: PAOLO CIRIO paolocirio.net UBERMORGEN.COM ubermorgen.com ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO neural.it Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 I THE MYTH OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened." Orwell, 1984, 127. With the publication of the Report of the Commission to Investigate Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (also known as the Kean-Hamilton Commission after its chairman and vice-chairman), the pattern of cover-up and incompetence on the part of the officially constituted investigative agencies of the United States Government is complete. Since September 11, 2001, no part of the United States Government has offered a convincing, coherent, or complete explanation of the events of that day, and of other events related to them. Indeed, no US government agency has ever so much as proposed to prove the truth of the official account, not even in the way the Warren Commission attempted to demonstrate the veracity of its version of the Kennedy assassination. -
Maine Woods-Spring 2002
THE MAINE WOODS “In wildness is the A Publication of the Forest Ecology Network preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau Volume Six Number One • Spring 2002 Free Eastern Marsh Spring Brook in Cutler. Photo by Paul Donahue “Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river The Forest Ecology Network’s Herbicide Project - page 3 has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only Update on Forestry Herbicides - page 4 then you will find that money cannot be eaten.” What Everyone Should Know About Roadside Herbicides - page 5 Cree Indian Proverb What Everyone Should Know About Utiltity Herbicide Use - page 6 Legal Right to Emit 20,000 Pounds of Air Pollution Purchased - page 8 Forest Ecology Network Bush Rollbacks Threaten National Forests - page 9 P.O. Box 2218 NON-PROFIT ORG. Mercury Pollution - An Environmental Health Tragedy - page 10 US POSTAGE PAID Augusta, ME 04338 AUGUSTA, ME How Corporte Law Inhibits Social Responsibility - page 12 http://www.powerlink.net/fen PERMIT NO. 75 The California Heritage Tree Preservation Act - page 14 [email protected] Luna - 17 Months Since Being Cut, and Still Doing Well - page 15 Model Forestry and Right-of-Way Herbicide Ordinances - page 16 More Oil Wars - The Bush-Cheney Oligarchy’s Energy Policy - page 18 Something Stinks in Maine - Fighting Toxic Sludge - page 24 THE MAINE WOODS - Spring 2002 PAGE 1 A Voice in the Wilderness by Jonathan Carter DISPENSERS OF POISON Some fifteen years ago in late August I set out with big corporate producers (Monsanto and Dupont) of these friends to canoe the Dead River from below Grand toxic chemicals continue a disinformation campaign in Falls to the Forks. -
The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11Th, 2001
1 How and Why America was Attacked, September 11th, 2001 Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Tree of Life Publications Joshua Tree, California A Media Messenger Book A Public Interest Initiative of the Institute for Policy Research & Development The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11th, 2001 www.Thewaronfreedom.com, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnFreedom Copyright © 2002 Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Executive Director, Institute for Policy Research & Development Suite 414, 91 Western Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2NW, United Kingdom, E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.globalresearch.org. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, written, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. “Backword” Copyright © 2002 John Leonard Edited & Published by Tree of Life Publications, PO Box 126, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.treeoflifebooks.com In cooperation with Media Monitors Network, www.mediamonitors.net Cover Design Michael Mursell, a fish in sea PO Box 22398, London, W13 9XL, England [email protected] International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 0-930852-40-0 Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2002107291 A Media Messenger Book Printed in the United States of America by BooksJustBooks.com First printing, June 2002 Unabridged edition. 3 Critical acclaim for THE WAR ON FREEDOM “This riveting and thoroughly documented study is a ‘must’ resource for everyone seeking to understand the attack on the World Trade Center of New York on September 11, 2001 and ‘America’s New War’ since. -
GRAHAM Well, Thank You Very Much. I'm Looking Forward to This Conversation
GRAHAM Well, thank you very much. I'm looking forward to this conversation. JON Excellent. OK, I'm going to read your bio for everyone. Senator Bob Graham is the former two-term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This, combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature, for a total of 38 years of public service. As governor and Senator, Bob Graham was a centrist committed to bringing his colleagues together behind programs that serve the broadest public interest. He was recognized by the people of Florida when he received an 83 percent approval ranking as he concluded eight years as Governor. Bob Graham retired from public service in January 2005, following his Presidential campaign in 2003. He has written four books, including a nonfiction book Intelligence Matters, a novel Keys to the Kingdom, drawing on his experiences as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and America the Owner's Manual: A Guide to Effective Citizenship, written while he was a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Since leaving the Senate in 2005, Graham has been chair of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, a member of the Congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Florida and Harvard Law School, he established the Center for Public Service at the University of Florida to enhance civic engagement and prepare the next generation of public and civic leaders. -
9/11 Whistleblower Michael Springmann Revealed That 14 out of 19 Hijacker Visas Came out of One Office in the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
9/11 Whistleblower Michael Springmann Revealed that 14 Out of 19 Hijacker Visas Came out of One Office in the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia J. Michael Springmann, who worked for the State Department, issued visas from 1987 to 1989 from the US Jeddah consulate in Saudi Arabia. He says his job was threatened when he refused to issue visas to suspicious characters. He later learned that the Jeddah consulate was being used by the CIA to issue visas to associates of Osama bin Laden who was creating the predecessor to al-Qaeda – for training in the US against the Soviet Union. The US Jeddah consulate had a history of issuing visas to terrorists at the request of the CIA, and Jeddah was the same office that issued 14 out of 19 of the visas that were used by the alleged hijackers on 9/11. -GEG TRANSCRIPT In the days after September 11th, 2001, while the toxic dust was still settling on Lower Manhattan, details began to emerge about the terrorists who had allegedly hijacked the fateful 9/11 flights. Names and pictures were released to the public and broadcast around the world. Ziad Jarrah. Hani Hanjour. Marwan al-Shehhi. Mohamed Atta. Even before the official story had begun to coalesce, the foreign faces and unfamiliar names flashing across the screens seared themselves into the consciousness of a traumatized public and left little doubt: This attack was the work of Muslim terrorists. But at the same time, information began to come out that created problems for this narrative. Reports of these devout Muslim fundamentalists drinking alcohol and partying in strip clubs. -
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 by Alan Miller, [email protected]
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 by Alan Miller, [email protected] Official Account of 9/11: “Terribly Flawed,” “Laced with Contradictions,” “a Joke,” “a Cover-up” May 18, 2009 – More than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and most have called for a new investigation. It is outrageous that most Americans are entirely unaware of their publicly stated concerns -- a direct result of the refusal of national print and broadcast news organizations to cover this extremely important issue. There is no denying the credibility of these individuals or their loyalty to their country as demonstrated by their years of service collecting and analyzing information and planning and carrying out operations critical to the national security of the United States. These 41 individuals formerly served in the U.S. State Department, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the branches of the U.S. Military. They are listed below by their branch of service. U.S. State Department Terrell E. Arnold, MA – Former Deputy Director of Counter- Terrorism and Emergency Planning, U.S. State Department. Mr. Arnold is a leading expert on terrorism and counter-terrorism and the author of several books on the subjects. In an extensive article in July 2007, Mr. Arnold wrote, “Washington leadership keeps the American people fixated on the events of 9/11. They have brought us no closer than we were on September 12, 2001, to resolving how it was executed and by what enemy. -
Zeitgeist: the Movie Companion Source Guide
ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE COMPANION SOURCE GUIDE This material is protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Part One: The Greatest Story Ever Told DIRECTOR’S NOTE: Zeitgeist: The Movie - Part 1: “The Greatest Story Ever Told” presents historical data relating to the astronomi- cal/astrological origins of the Judeo-Christian theology (which can be extended to Islam as well), along with the understanding that these respective stories, beliefs & traditions are really an adaptation-extension of prior Pagan beliefs. In other words, evidence shows that these modern religions are really composites of earlier religions with their stories and symbolisms “borrowed” as the new traditions evolved. Of course, believers of theistic religions have a inherent, self-preserving interest to disagree with such a notion, for it brings their reli- gion out of the context of the supernatural and novel - and into the context of a singular, serial intellectual evo- lution of information where many religions begin to share a common symbolic and literary basis. From such a perspective, naturally, the idea that “Jesus” or “Osiris” or “Dionysus” were real, supernatural figures of a larger order metaphysic becomes a distant reality. Regardless, this section isn’t really about whether “God” exists or any such issue - it is about the firm reality that religions have been borrowing and building upon each other, while the central origin of these theologies almost always comes back to stellar and solar fascination, in part. When we track these literary/ritual characteristics, we find that most religions of the world have been spawned from the interpretation/misinterpretation of the natural world and its dynamic phenomena. -
Dear Friends and Loved Ones, Today, Nov 22, 2013, Is the 50Th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A
Dear Friends and Loved Ones, Today, Nov 22, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. About 6 years ago, quite by accident, I took a passing interest in the assassination of JFK. My research into the assassination of JFK took me on a path into the dark underbelly of the CIA, and from there, I traced a web of criminality that ran throughout the huge sections of federal government, the political power structure, and the business interests that control our country. As I researched more, I learned that the criminal network behind JFK’s assassination did not retire after his killing. Instead, the need to cover up past crimes has motivated them to commit more crimes in a never ending cycle that continues to this present day. I have tracked this criminal network through time, and I have learned that this cabal has been the most significant political force in the United States for the last 50 years. Yet most people don’t have any idea that it exists. My research project has grown to be a major interest in my life. I have a total of 180 books on the topics of the JFK assassination and the ensuing actions of the criminal cabal that seized control of our government. 70 of these books I have read cover to cover, and the rest I have either read a particular section or skimmed. I have dozens and dozens of books on my “to read” list, as I am continually researching different strands of government criminality. -
Visas for Al Qaeda
This is Guns and Butter. I think it’s bigger than I even suspected. I had thought originally that it was a small, rogue operation and as time went by and I talked to people and started researching the book I saw that it was bigger than ever. Given the pushback and the blocking of people, I really think that it goes wider and deeper than even I suspect. I think one of the reasons for this is that nobody wants to believe the entire government is corrupt from top to bottom, that you can talk about Edward Snowden or Tom Drake or William Binney and the very focused, very tightly organized situations for a particular person for a particular item. What I’m saying is that the United States of America and all of the branches – the executive, the judicial, and the legislative – know about this and are covering up essentially state sponsored terrorism, and nobody wants to hear this. Nobody wants to go any deeper in it than I’ve got. I'm Bonnie Faulkner. Today on Guns and Butter, J. Michael Springmann. Today'- s show: Visas for Al Qaeda. Michael Springmann is a former diplomat in the State Department’s Foreign Service, with postings to Germany, India, Saudi Ara- bia, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington, D.C. He was Chief of the Non-Immigrant Visa Section in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1987 to 1989. In his position in Jeddah, he was routinely overruled by superiors when he denied visa applications submitted by unqualified travelers to the United States. -
A Citizens' Critique: the 9/11 Commission Process
A Citizens’ Critique: The 9/11 Commission Process 9/11 CitizensWatch P.O. Box 772 Washington, DC 20044 [email protected] www.911citizenswatch.org A Citizens’ Critique Commission weaknesses: Families and public push for an investigation Comparison to earlier investigations The Joint Inquiry and “intelligence failure” PL 107-306 – The Commission Legislation Obstacles, limited time and funding Obstruction from White House and executive agencies Conflicts of interest: Chairman Thomas Kean Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste Commissioner Jamie Gorelick Commissioner James R. Thompson Commissioner Fred F. Fielding Executive Director, Phillip Zelikow Senior Counsel, Dietrich Snell Flawed premises: Procedures: Presidential testimony Lack of transparency Public hearings and alternate witnesses Lack of accountability Bush administration secrecy Evidence destroyed, concealed Release of evidence Credibility and public acceptance: Congressional oversight Assumptions and conclusions Investigative teams Unasked and unanswered questions Omissions and Contradictions: Historical context Afghanistan, Carter and Brezezinksi The Roots of Al-Qaeda Suspects and plot Foreknowledge and Forewarnings “Intelligence failure” or breach of procedure?: John O’Neill Planes as weapons threat and White House response, caught unawares? NORAD/FAA Response PNAC and New Pearl Harbor Strategy of tension Anthrax attacks Commission policy recommendations: Centralization of intelligence functions, White House “czar” Foreign and Domestic Policy