May 2009

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Those 9/11 Commission Minders Again

New details have emerged about minders who sat in on 9/11 Commission interviews during a fact-finding trip to Canada. Commission heads Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton mentioned the minders generally in interviews during the panel’s lifetime, but a memo recently found in the National Archives and blogged here a couple of weeks ago showed how prevalent they were.

Another document, again found by History Commons contributor paxvector, provides more details of how the minders worked during a trip to Canada. The commission, which eventually recommended taking part of the CIA director’s responsibilities away and giving them to a Director of National Intelligence, was considering changes to the intelligence community and sent a team to Canada to examine how its intelligence services were organised and report back.

SHIP OF STATE OR SHIP OF FOOLS

SHIP OF STATE OR SHIP OF FOOLS

The Money Party at Work

We keep doing the same things over and over again and expect different results.

Michael Collins

Welcome to the USSR of Amerika: Justices Ease Rules on Questioning

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a long-standing ruling that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer was present, a move that will make it easier for prosecutors to interrogate suspects.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/26/us/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Lawyer-Request.html?_r=4&hp=&pagewanted=print

Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years By TOM CURLEY, Associated Press May 26th

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090526/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_iraq;_ylt=AqwTOWL32LORZgwr2cSsiH.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJjdmZ2OXZiBG...

Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years

By TOM CURLEY, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.

Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said the world remains dangerous and unpredictable, and the Pentagon must plan for extended U.S. combat and stability operations in two wars. "Global trends are pushing in the wrong direction," Casey said. "They fundamentally will change how the Army works."

He spoke at an invitation-only briefing to a dozen journalists and policy analysts from Washington-based think-tanks. He said his planning envisions combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade as part of a sustained U.S. commitment to fighting extremism and terrorism in the Middle East.

Obama still deciding how to prosecute 9/11 accused BY CAROL ROSENBERG MiamiHerald May 26th

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/courts/story/1064986.html

Obama still deciding how to prosecute 9/11 accused

BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com

President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members.

Meantime, a Pentagon-led prosecution team is using a White House freeze in war court proceedings to line up family members as witnesses in the 9/11 case and the USS Cole bombing, in the event Obama decides to go forward with military trials.

''As of now, the President has not decided whether to continue the prosecution of the 9/11 or the USS Cole cases in military commissions, or to move one or both of the cases to federal court. Until such a decision is made, we will continue to be your primary point of contact for news'' about those cases, said retired Navy Capt. Karen Loftus in an e-mail dated Friday, the eve of the long holiday weekend, posted on 9/11 victim web sites.

The New American Century .mpg - 1:34:22 - Apr 6, 2009

The New American Century .mpg - 1:34:22 - Apr 6, 2009
Massimo Mazzucco

The New American Century .mpg - 1:34:22 - Apr 6, 2009
Massimo Mazzucco

Obama officials gave Bilderberg briefings POLITICO.COM

http://truthalliance.net/Archive/tabid/67/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2772/Default.aspx

"It is illegal under the Logan Act for U.S. government officials to meet behind closed doors with leaders of foreign countries."

Another Establishment News Site Confirms Obama Officials Attended Bilderberg 2009 [Click to

By Kurt Nimo | Infowars.com | May 26, 2009

Politico has reported on a “handful” of Obama administration officials who were in attendance at this year’s Bilderberg meeting at the Astir Palace hotel in Vouliagmeni on the Aegean Sea in Greece. James Steinberg and Richard Holbrooke gave presentations on foreign policy while Paul Volcker addressed economic issues at the elitist confab, according to the news website.

It is illegal under the Logan Act for U.S. government officials to meet behind closed doors with leaders of foreign countries.

The F-16s That Failed to Protect Washington on 9/11: Was the Langley Jets' Emergency Response Sabotaged?

Langley Air Force Base was the second military base that launched fighter jets to defend America in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Three of its F-16s were ordered to take off toward Washington at 9:24 a.m. that morning, but by the time they were airborne, more than 40 minutes had passed since the first attack on the World Trade Center, and almost half an hour since the second.

Furthermore, the pilots were hindered by an extraordinary combination of confusion, communications problems, conflicting orders, breaches of protocol, and other difficulties. Consequently, when the Pentagon was hit at 9:37 a.m., the jets were further away from it than they'd been when they took off. According to witnesses on the ground, fighters did not arrive over the Pentagon until around 10:40 a.m.--more than an hour too late to protect it from the attack.

A close examination of publicly available accounts raises the possibility that deliberate attempts were made to sabotage the ability of the Langley jets to respond to the 9/11 attacks, thereby paralyzing normal, well-practiced procedures. In this article, I focus on three particular aspects of the jets' response.

LA Times- Review: 'New World Order' on Independent Film Channel

Posted in full for posterity; Fair Use, as this is about the 9/11 Truth Movement:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-new-world-order26-2009may26,0,1175219.story
TELEVISION REVIEW
Review: 'New World Order' on Independent Film Channel

The film focuses on Texas-based radio host Alex Jones and some of his peers, who are on a mission to expose what they believe to be a massive conspiracy that threatens the world.

A documentary listens to believers in government plots and ill-intentioned cabals.

By ROBERT LLOYD, Television Critic
May 26, 2009

“New World Order,” which premieres today on the Independent Film Channel, is a film about people battling with phantoms. They are volunteers in an "information war" who see as clearly, as John saw his four Apocalyptic horsemen and seven trumpeting angels, that 9/11 was an "inside job," that the military-industrial complex killed Kennedy, and that an international "power elite" is plotting to enslave us all, excepting for those it will kill outright.

William Pepper Submits Legal Opinion in Support of Spanish Torture Investigations

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(This story originally appeared in the Spanish Publico on May 9, 2009. Predictably, the U.S. press ignored it. Below find an English translation, and note that the translation is cross-posted at the Daily Kos, and DemocraticUnderground.com. -rep.)


U.S. Lawyers point to Bush for the tortures

The lawyer of Martin Luther King’s family contributes a thorough report to the Spanish lawsuit to reinforce the charge -- The American Civil Liberties Union offers their colaboration

Pere Rusiñol in Madrid (Público)
Translation: Lynn Strother

A group of lawyers in the United States, led by William F. Pepper, the veteran human rights lawyer linked to Martin Luther King’s family, have joined the Spanish lawsuit about Guantanamo and the tortures of the Bush administration. Pepper has contributed a 121 page document to the prosecution, in which he defends Spain’s right to investigate, and suggests that the proceedings be widened to charge former president George W. Bush directly.

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