February 2009
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Mixed Reaction to James Bamford’s Spy Factory – Precious Truths Surrounded by a Body of Secrets
I just watched PBS Nova’s Spy Factory with James Bamford and I have a number of comments about it, both good and bad.
Starting off with the good, having been writing about al-Qaeda’s communications hub in Yemen for the last two years, I was thrilled to actually see it on the screen. Bamford actually went to Yemen and filmed it from the outside, shame he didn’t go in.
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The first and most glaring omission is Alec Station deputy chief Tom Wilshire, who was not mentioned at all in the programme. It went into some detail about the blocking of the cable written by Doug Miller, an FBI detailee to Alec Station, to FBI headquarters about Almihdhar’s US visa, but this was attributed merely to the CIA officer we refer to as “Michelle.” Wilshire was her boss, she blocked the cable on his orders, and Bamford knows this well—he wrote it in the book this programme was based on.
Obama To Meet Victims, Relatives Of 9/11 Attacks
Source: washingtonpost.com
Michael D. Shear, Peter Finn and Dan Eggen
The Washington Post
Thursday, February 5, 2009; 6:23 PM
President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said.
President Obama Likely to Order Military Commission Charges Dropped Against Terrorist Suspect Al-Nashiri Friday
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/president-oba-2.html
Political Punch
from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper
President Obama Likely to Order Military Commission Charges Dropped Against Terrorist Suspect Al-Nashiri Friday
February 05, 2009 5:46 PM
ABC News has learned that on Friday, President Obama will likely order the Department of Defense's Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges may later be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody.
The announcement will not be made until after President Obama meets with the families of victims of terrorist attacks on 9/11 and on the U.S.S. Cole, where he will assure them that this step is not being done to be lenient towards al-Nashiri. The move is being done to stop the continued prosecution of al-Nashiri in a court system that his administration may ultimately find illegitimate, not for any other reason, sources told ABC News.
Fox News commentator says David Sunjata "would make an awesome Nazi"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487906,00.html
'Rescue Me' From 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
By Greg Gutfeld
An upcoming episode of the drama "Rescue Me" is about 9/11 being an inside job. The actor who spews the theories on camera, Daniel Sunjata, actually believes in it too. "They're not discussed a lot in the press," Sunjata says of the theories, in between eating his own hair.
But, that's not what chaps my chaps.
I just hate how the media treats those who spout such theories as risk-takers — when they're really just cowards.
Peter Tolan, the show's producer, defends Sunjata as "well read" and thinks it's great that "he's passionate about it." I guess if you feel strongly about something, then it's OK if you're wrong. See Mark David Chapman.
Look, the fact is, actors who barf this crap are doing it for their own egos. It makes them feel smart, because for once they're spouting something provocative instead of puerile. Never mind that it's an insidious insult to the victims of 9/11 — as it is to the rest of us, who may or may not be guilty, according to Sunjata's theory.
UK judges accuse Obama Administration of suppressing torture claim
UK judges accuse Obama Administration of suppressing torture claim
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5661291.ece
The US has threatened to withhold intelligence from the UK if evidence of the alleged torture of a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay is made public.
Details of how the “terrorist” detainee was allegedly tortured — and what UK intelligence services knew about it — must remain secret because of the American threats, the High Court ruled yesterday.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones said lawyers for the Foreign Secretary had told them that the threat by the US still applied under President Obama. Oppostion MPs accused the Government of giving in to blackmail.
The disclosure that the US has threatened to re-evaluate sharing intelligence with Britain came only 24 hours after Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, lavished praise on the special relationship between the two countries.
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Noting that it is contrary to the rule of law not to release the evidence, the judges said that it must remain secret otherwise “the public of the United Kingdom would be put at risk”.
New video: Something to tell the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT8cg62iKyg
An animated message from Rabbi Weiss, expressing what a real Jew feels towards the Arab and Muslim people of the world!
Watch the full speech here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vqBJTBIUtM8
And another great one by Rabbi Weiss here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=M9OIqy6md9w
High Quality download here (WMV):
http://www.zshare.net/video/55116745d516ac59/
AP Story - Study: 9/11 lung problems persist years later
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_re_us/attacks_health
Study: 9/11 lung problems persist years later
By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer, February 4, 2009
NEW YORK – Researchers tracking Sept. 11 responders who became ill after working at the World Trade Center site found many had lung problems years later in a study the authors said proves persistent illness in people exposed to toxic dust caused by the twin towers' collapse.
The study by the Mount Sinai Medical Center's medical monitoring program examined more than 3,000 responders between 2004 and 2007, repeating exams conducted between the middle of 2002 and 2004.
Slightly more than 24 percent of the patients had abnormal lung function, the study found. In the earlier examinations, about 28 percent of the patients had similar results.
"We know people we are following are still sick. It's confirming what we've been seeing clinically," said Dr. Jacqueline M. Moline, who treats ailing responders and co-authored the study.
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Cheney is preparing this country for 9/11 Version 2.0
Cheney is going to make sure another massive "terror attack" occurs so that Obama
will be forced to do everything that the bush crime family has done and destroy this country once and for all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN576dlQ7u4
And the American sheeple will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
The United States Has a New Attorney General
"Eric H. Holder Jr. was sworn in as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States on February 3, 2009 by Vice-President Joe Biden." -US Department of Justice website
Office of the Attorney General - 202-353-1555
E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Attorney General Eric H. Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With each change of personnel, there is the chance -- however slight -- that the new appointee will NOT be okay with high treason perpetrated by the former regime.
It is incumbent upon us to contact and to inform the new Attorney General of the facts of the case in the simplest, most easily digestible terms. This is not a place for conspiracy theories, claims that cannot be proven, or sloppy language.
It is a place for simple, straightforward facts that indicate wrongdoing on the part of Bush et al.