April 2009

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Swine Flu Is Deadly Mix Of Never-Before-Seen Viruses - Possible Rumsfeld Connection

Swine Flu Is Deadly Mix Of Never-Before-Seen Viruses

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
April 25, 2009

http://www.infowars.com/swine-flu-is-deadly-mix-of-never-before-seen-viruses/

Clues that the virus may be a synthetic creation are already manifesting.

According to reports, the virus is a “never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses” which consists of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

“CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before,” according to an Associated Press report.

Day of 9/11 - Additions to the 9/11 Timeline as of April 26, 2009

Most of the recently published entries at the 9/11 Timeline focus on the day of the attacks. The Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), which had been briefed on the possibility of a plane hitting the WTC at some time before 9/11, asked Langley Air Force Base to get a third plane ready to launch at 9:10 or shortly after, meaning that the unit there would have no supervisor of flying. It also took control of Washington airspace and directed the Langley fighters to the White House at 9:36, around the same time tankers refuelled jets launched from Otis Air Force Base near New York.

Torture used to try to link Saddam Hussein with 9/11

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/torture-used-to-try-to-link-saddam-with-911/

When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former CIA Director Michael Hayden had confirmed that the Bush administration only waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirit for one minute each. I told Franks that I didn’t believe that. Sure enough, one of the newly released torture memos reveals that Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times and Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times. One of Stephen Bradbury’s 2005 memos asserted that “enhanced techniques” on Zubaydah yielded the identification of Mohammed and an alleged radioactive bomb plot by Jose Padilla. But FBI supervisory special agent Ali Soufan, who interrogated Zubaydah from March to June 2002, wrote in the New York Times that Zubaydah produced that information under traditional interrogation methods, before the harsh techniques were ever used.

Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission, and Effectiveness

Many hyperlinks at original; firedoglake has been covering this issue consistently

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/25/zelikow-the-911-commission-and-effectiveness/

Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission, and Effectiveness
By: emptywheel Saturday April 25, 2009 4:00 am

If you've been paying attention, you know I've been poring through the 9/11 Report to figure out how useful the interrogation reports from the waterboarded detainees were, and when they made them.

That exercise shows that the 9/11 Report found just 10 pieces of intelligence from Abu Zubaydah's interrogation reports informative and credible; it found just 16 pieces of such intelligence in al-Nashiri's interrogation reports. And while the Commission did find KSM's interrogation reports to be incredibly useful, an incomplete index (I'm working on this, but it's on the back burner for the next week) of the references to KSM show that many of his most productive interrogation sessions came long after he was waterboarded. And, as Philip Zelikow made clear in a memo relating to the torture tape destruction, there were abundant other problems with the quality of the interrogation reports coming from CIA, too.

Dr. Steven Jones speaks in California - April 30 and May 1 (2009)

Dr. Steven Jones speaks in California on;

Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m. at the Colonial Heights Library - community room, 4799 Stockton Boulevard [Sacramento]

and

Friday, May 1, 7 p.m. at the UC Davis Social Sciences & Humanities Building - lecture hall, Room 1100.

Both events are free.


Steven Jones public lecture, February 1, 2006, Utah State Valley College, Orem, Utah.

CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks

CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks

By Mark Seibel and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers - Friday, April 24, 2009

WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos.

That undercuts assertions by former vice president Dick Cheney and other former Bush administration officials that the use of harsh interrogation tactics including waterboarding, which is widely considered torture, was justified because it headed off terrorist attacks.

The risks and effectiveness of waterboarding and other enhanced techniques are at the center of an increasingly heated debate over how thoroughly to investigate the CIA's secret detention and interrogation programs.

Continued...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66895.html

How the current Bybee memo scandal in MSM relates to 9/11 truth in five video parts:

I've made this collection of videos because there's been much debate lately about the issue of torture due to the release of the infamous Jay Bybee "torture memos" that I feel relates to the issue of 9/11. Please watch these recent clips I've gathered mostly from earth2obama.org and see if you agree, I'd love to see some discussion around this.

In this video, author Ron Suskind and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell discuss torture being used to create a link between 9/11 and the case for war in Iraq, 8 months before the methods were "approved" by the Justice Department.

Architects of a New Republic.

Watch This!

When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOp_9VfR6o

CBC: McCain defends Napolitano, insists 9/11 perpetrators came from Canada

McCain defends Napolitano, insists 9/11 perpetrators came from Canada

Last Updated: Friday, April 24, 2009 | 6:04 PM ET

Arizona Senator John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the Sept. 11, 2001, attackers entered the United States through Canada.

Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the perpetrators took a Canadian route to the U.S. eight years ago, McCain defended her by saying that, in fact, the former Arizona governor was correct.

"Well, some of the 9/11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know," McCain, last year's Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News on Friday.

The Arizona senator's remarks prompted the Canadian embassy to immediately reissue remarks made Tuesday by Ambassador Michael Wilson, who reminded Americans once again that none of the attackers came to the U.S. via Canada.

"Unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9/11 terrorists came from," Wilson said.

Torturing detainee may have produced false terror alerts Muriel Kane Raw Story April 24, 2009

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Was_Abu_Zubaydah_tortured_before_Bybee_0424.html

Torturing detainee may have produced false terror alerts
Muriel Kane
Published: Friday April 24, 2009

As the nation struggles to make sense of a wave of new revelations regarding the "harsh interrogation techniques" brought to bear on detainees by the CIA, two very different narratives are shaping up to describe the treatment of captured al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in April and May of 2002.

On one hand, there is what might be called the "official" version, as presented in a timeline released by the Senate Intelligence Committee and summarized by the Washington Post. According to this version, Abu Zubaydah was subjected only to traditional interrogation methods until an August 1 memo from Justice Department lawyer Jay Bybee gave a green light for the use of waterboarding and other aggressive techniques.

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