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  • Introduction:   Franklin /AIPACgate                 
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  •  United States v.  Lawrence A. Franklin, Stephen J. Rosen and Keith Weissman indictment
  • Charged with a little known provision of the Espionage Act are a former Pentagon official and two former employees of a pro-Israel lobby organization, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC).  Arraigned Aug 16, 2005. .. 
  • WMR "Plame leak damaged a major CIA investigation linking senior Bush administration officials to WMD proliferation. U.S. intelligence insiders have pointed out that the White House is using "Rovegate" and "Who in the White House said what to whom?" as a smoke screen to divert attention away from the actual counter-proliferation work Mrs. Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates team were engaged in." and WMR Plame and Edmonds were looking at the same covert network  and   ....  WMR June 13, 2006, WMR reported: "There is also evidence that some of the highly classified CIA information convicted Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed through American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman to Israeli agents attached to the Israeli embassy in Washington dealt with Iranian nuclear development and that CIA sensitive sources and methods not disclosed by the outing of Plame Wilson/Brewster Jennings were discovered in the leak of the CIA documents to AIPAC and the Israelis."
  • Dissident Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky), in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office (Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi society and state, and its capacity to support the Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power (at a very high cost to the United States)."  These indictments just a predictable course of events in the fascist neo-con plans for the Middle East.
  • Elizabeth Cheney, Iran Syria Operations Group Iraq is just a stepping stone to Iran attack? Go to NFU research
  •     Go to U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Phase II, final report, searchable text file and pdf. "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.". AIPAC was highly complicit in this effort.
  • WayneMadsenReport "BAE Systems part of effort to cook bogus intelligence against Saddam Hussein" search terms: mobile trailers designed to manufacture hydrogen for weather balloons, British Ministry of Defence scientist David Kelly aware of this, 'suicided', Southmoor, 2003,  Norman Baker investigation confirmed, trailers, Kuwait, other equipment moved into Iraq, BAE-Marconi, radar systems, frame-up, laundered thru Ministry of Defense contracts, Abbey Wood, Bristol, England ... phony contract to provide radar trailers to Tanzania, bribery scandal, World Bank, Tony Blair. also Saudi, Al Yamamah BAE Systems arms deal, Riggs Bank, Jonathan J. Bush, former Riggs executive, George W. Bush's uncle, defense contracts grease, campaign contributions to Duncan Hunter, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, US shipped VX nerve gas to Iraq 1988-89, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 598, Iraq / Iran war, Mukhabarat, VX aerial bombs, parachute-born, pre-set height, Bilad, shipped from US, canisters removed from Iraq by the British, Turkey, Valerie Plame, CIA Counter-Proliferation Division, stopped shipment into Iraq, reason for her outing ..." see WMR for connecting details.
  • Federal prosecutors allege that the defendants obtained classified government reports for five years, beginning in 1999, on various issues relevant to American policy, including al-Qaeda, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia and U.S. policy in Iran. Findlaw  Jerusalem PostAmerican Prospect
  • Franklin would eventually plead guilty in October 2005.  CICentre also see list of books on Israeli intelligence.
  • Franklin also allegedly passed a draft national security presidential directive (NSPD) on Iran to AIPAC, which then passed it to Israel. It is believed to be written by Michael Rubin (AEI) ElectronicIntifada
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives The Iraqi Jewish Archive Harold Rhode's and Judith Miller's Little Charity Project
  • The probe began April 1999. Indictment   Was it intentionally leaked to the press Aug 2004? CBS News search Larry Franklin, 10+ stories , Antiwar  The cast of characters in Plamegate and AIPAC / United States v. Franklin, Rosen & Weissman are predictably similar.   "The post-9/11 decision to invade Iraq was a terrible mistake.." 
  • "The Franklin indictment is a sign that [Bush adviser Karl] Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Valerie Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act,"  The Nation, David Corn
  • Aug 2006 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University "Kit Bond's anti-whistle blower, anti-accountability bill  ...   Senate Bill 3774 is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security. Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), it would criminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretion to the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute. It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press.  search AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman
  • See Miller, Franklin, Gilon links and Indymedia
  • Michael Ledeen is the one who leaked the information about Plame to Rove who leaked it to Novak. This means that AIPAC knew about Plame’s CIA cover. Any dimwit can guess that they got this information from Franklin who got it from his bosses Feith and Perle who both decided to resign.." Craigslist:
  •   911, Brewster Jennings, Whistleblowers    
  • The investigation was first led by U.S. Attorney David Szady, then transferred to U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty.  
  • CBS News was tipped off about the probe and the first news of it appeared on the eve of the Republican National Convention in August 2004. Manipulated news....was the glitter of the convention overwhelming the news release? da... Forward
  • When the American public finally connects (1) Plamegate, (2) the AIPAC / Franklin /Rosen / Weissman indictment and (3) Bush's 2003 State of the Union lies about Niger yellow cake, then finally we could see the resignation of Bush... and see Cooperative Research, Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group. .. and see  Common Dreams: Rendon Group, selling the war.
  • How are the AIPAC and Plame/Wilson cases connected?  Larry Franklin worked for Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith (Office of Special Plans ('cooking' Iraq intelligence center) who worked with Ahmad Chalabi who worked with Judith Miller and Libby , who is protecting a leak source (Libby) in White House about Plamegate. NationAnswers.com, New York Times  Israel and AIPAC deny everything.  Research: Douglas Feith, Ahmad Chalabi, Miller connections.  see Wanniski Report  Findlaw
  • see also Saudi Arabia connections to 9/11 and push to Iraq War.  What happened to Prince Bandar?
  • Is Miller a link between AIPAC- Pentagon mole probe and Plamegate?  An important question: Was Miller 'laundering' leaks from Cheney, Libby, the National Security Council...? Propaganda was a critical component of the neocon rush to war.  Judith Miller and the New York Times were at the forefront.  And how does AIPAC, AEI, Rosen and Weissman and Israel fit into all the propaganda efforts?   Why is Miller in jail?  Who is she protecting?  Judith Miller worked for years on some basis with most of the people in both cases.  See "Judy Miller's War"  Counterpunch and also: Global Research  'Treason In High Places: Pentagon Zionists, AIPAC And Israel'. and Community Currency "Plamegate investigative reach into AIPAC / Franklin".  Antiwar Israel and 9/11, Raimondo
  • Kwiatkowski: Israeli Military Generals were free to come and go at the Office Of Special Plans without the requirement to record evidence of their visits in the guest register log book. Links: ISPNews and Indymedia
  • And in another event that involves Judith Miller and many of the characters in both cases:  In 2002 Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accused of supporting terrorism __ the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation.  But just before his investigators could swoop in with warrants, two of the charities in question were tipped off and destroyed a lot of evidence.  Were Judith Miller and another New York Times reporter were used to launder leaks in this case?
  • Another view: Cheney, the National Security Council, AIPAC, Israel were retaliating against the CIA / FBI elements that did not back their neocon Iraq intelligence lies, and retaliating for Wilson's whistleblowing by 'outing' Plame and stopping the work of Brewster Jennings Associates.  They used Rove, Miller and Novak to accomplish this.  see by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar
  • Whitehouse / CIA tensions will finally surface as a factor in outing Plame,..not till Oct 2005  CBS News
  • What are links between 'Franklin', Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the forged Niger yellowcake documents that former Ambassador Wilson (Plamegate) questioned?  Is Judith Miller the  'member of the media' in the Indictment  see Ledeen  Niger, forged yellowcake documents  Search net: Simone Ledeen  Washington Post Simone Ledeen, CPA, Coalition Provisional Authority, "Managing a $13 Billion Budget With No Experience", Michael Ledeen forged Niger yellowcake docs.
  • What are Judith Miller's links to the Office of Special Plans (OSP, set up by Douglas Feith, #3 Pentagon) also William Luti (Cheney staffer and Near East and South Asia Policy Office, NESA) and Harold Rhode....all interviewed by FBI for passing highly classified information to the Israeli government. Washington Times
  • Franklin was key link between the Defense Dept and Ahmed Chalabi (Iraqi National Congress. and  Judith Miller relied on Chalabi (INC) far all NY Times reporting on Iraq.  Judith Miller / Libby / Rove?....Plamegate. The NationAnswers.com, New York Times  and what are the connections to  Naor Gilon (head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.  Juan Cole
  • There is a tangled web of contacts in both cases.  A timeline can be helpful in understanding the links.
  • 1940  Found to be helping finance the Nazi’s and had their assets frozen for violation of trading with the enemy act october 1942. Prescott (dumbya’s grampa) profited directly from slave labor.
  • 1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as “hearsay." Actuarial Outpost
  • 1948 Miller Wikipedia "(born 1948 in New York City) is a journalist for the New York Times. A controversial figure[1], Miller has garnered criticism for her false reporting on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) claims which supported the Iraq War, and both acclaim and criticism for her staunch defense of confidential sources related to the Valerie Plame scandal" other search terms: Sulzberger, Steven Rattner, Cairo bureau chief, special correspondent to Gulf crisis, 2002 Pullitzer prize.
  • 1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets. Actuarial Outpost
  • 1953 See Conk Websearch, Encyclopedia entry on AIPAC, supporters, critics and quotations. Original name was American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
  • 1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv. Actuarial Outpost
  • 1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.
  • 1954 "The Lavon Affair". Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset US-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion. Actuarial Outpost
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  • 1960 Apollo, enriched uranium, Pennsylvania. EIR
  • 1964 Gulf of Tonkin (in justification for Vietnam War) study remains secret New York Times  file "The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes".
  • 1965 Israel apparently illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC Corporation. (Washington Post, 6/5/86, Charles R. Babcock, "US an Intelligence Target of the Israelis, Officials Say.") Actuarial Outpost and Shalom Center and copy.
     
  • 1970                        TOP  & Latest Entries
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  • 1970 Mueller Timeline  Richard Perle (as staff member of Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, Senate Foreign Relations Committee), picked up in wiretap of Israeli Embassy.  Discussing classified info ...  search NSC, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 1967, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR.  
  • 1970  "Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970)" Arab News
  • 1972 Michael Ledeen's (American Enterprise Institute,AEI) first book: "Universal Fascism", and previously studied under George Mosse, European cultural history...who "studied the manner in which fascists wan mass support not through their ideas but through mastery of public spectacle" Dual Loyalties
  • 1972 Michael Ledeen was denied tenure at Washington University in St. Louis in 1972 for plagiarism Agonist
  • July 1973: In an attempt to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Olympics, Mossad agents kill an innocent Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway. Five of the 15 agents involved in the operation serve sentences in Norwegian jails. LA Times
  • 1970's  continued  Franklin        TOP
  • 1976  search terms:. AIPAC, Morris Amitay, Senator Abourezk, Foreign Agents Registration Act. also Brad Gordon, Marin Feuer
  • Richard Burt, boy-toy of Judith Miller, worked as national security reporter for Times from 1977-80. Ambassador to Germany. Village Voice Miller had intimate connections with Hollinger, Chicago Sun-Times.  Robert Novak, columnist for Sun-Times. 
  • 1978  Paul Wolfowitz, probe dropped into his passing classified docs to AIPAC to Israeli government.  Mueller Timeline  & Washington Times
  • 1978  Stephen Bryen,... DC hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials.....Richard Perle see *The Armageddon Network* (Amana Books) by Michael Saba. Shalom Center and copy
  • 1978-82  Rosen was a social scientist at the Rand Corporation, was granted U.S. government Secret security clearance in 1978 and was granted a Top Secret clearance in 1979, issued by DISCO.  And granted a Secret Industrial security clearance in 1980 and completed all necessary steps for the security clearances.  The secret industrial security clearance was terminated in 1982.  Indictment and The New Yorker
  • "Rosen is not merely another AIPAC official. He joined the lobby 20 years ago after the struggle over the sale of AWACS surveillance equipment to Saudi Arabia, a struggle that AIPAC lost but that put it on the map at Capitol Hill.Weissman was the organization’s top Iran expert."  Arab News
  • 1978 Arab News (Jan 06) Rosen and Weissman will consider a lawsuit against AIPAC who has backed off paying their legal fees.  "One of the lawyers AIPAC hired to handle their legal defense was lawyer Nathan Lewin, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978." 
  • July 31, 1979  Franklin signs Defense Intelligence Agency Secrecy Agreement  Indictment
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  • Judy and the Little Tubes of Terror, by James Moore: excerpt: The timing was a thing of pure political beauty. President George W. Bush was only a few days away from speaking to the United Nations’ General Assembly about Iraq’s renewed efforts to acquire banned weaponry. And, in a month, the president was going to Congress to seek a resolution approving of a war against Iraq. A Sunday morning story, September 8, 2002, in the New York Times made the U.N. speech and the congressional debate much easier for the White House. Under the headline, “Threats and Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts,” a 3603 word story by Michael R. Gordon and Judith Miller detailed the administration’s case against Saddam Hussein related to weapons of mass destruction. America was about to be scared. Citing “administration officials,” “Iraqi defectors,” and “intelligence sources,” Gordon and Miller wrote that Iraq had attempted to buy the type of aluminum tubes needed for the construction of a gas centrifuge to develop nuclear materials. [...] To create the beginnings of war hysteria and nuclear phobia, the White House Iraq Group had planned to immediately execute a tactic that created a media echo chamber. The same Sunday morning that the tubes story was splattered on the front page of the Times, the Bush administration dispatched the vice president, the national security advisor, and the secretary of state, to elevate the buzz on the network talk shows. A false story had been planted, was given credibility by a leading publication, and then the people who benefited from the one-sided information appeared on national television to corroborate the value of their bad evidence. [...]
  • and Crisis Papers search: Miller
  • Washington Post  Iraq's Nuclear Threat,
  • 1992  How to sabotage a special prosecutor (Iran-Contra style):  Consortium NewsThe notion of constraining the work of a special prosecutor by gaining control of his oversight is not unprecedented.

    After Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh broke through a long-running White House cover-up of that scandal in 1991, Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist engineered a behind-the-scenes coup against the senior judge overseeing Walsh.

    In 1992, Rehnquist ousted moderate Republican Judge George MacKinnon as chief of the three-judge panel that picked and oversaw independent counsels. MacKinnon had staunchly backed Walsh, another old-time Republican jurist, as he peeled back the secrets of the complex Iran-Contra schemes, which threatened George H.W. Bush’s reelection.

    At that key moment, Rehnquist replaced MacKinnon with Judge David Sentelle, one of President Ronald Reagan’s conservative judicial appointees and a protégé of Sen. Jesse Helms, then one of the most right-wing Republicans in the U.S. Congress

 

  • 1980  Franklin, Rosen Weissman                 TOP & Latest Entries
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  • Libby...."found his way into government in the early 1980s through his mentor Paul D. Wolfowitz, now president of the World Bank, whom he met when Wolfowitz was teaching at Yale. An undersecretary of state at the time, Wolfowitz hired him as a speechwriter and later brought Libby to the Defense Department with him." Washington Post  (Libby in WHIG with Hadley ...who worked with AIPAC...to Franklin). Washington Report
  • Franklin regularly was a Feith's office (Office of Special Plans) attended by Rhode, Luti, Shulsky, Perle and Wolfowitz  Global Research
  • Paul McNulty, Virginia district attorney in charge of Franklin probe.  A Republican political appointee, worked in the office of Former Congressman Bill McCollum of Florida in the 80's.  
  • 1970's, Neo-con assault on Jimmy Carter, source WayneMadsenReport: file ... 'Scoop' Jackson, Richard Perle, Eliot Abrams, ...Boeing, Israel, Frank Gaffney, William Kristol, Derail SALT II, Coalition for the Democratic Party (DLC), Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Oklahoma Senator David Boren, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Ben Wattenberg, Irving Kristol, Max Kampelman, Richard Pipes, John Roche, Samuel Huntington, and James Woolsey. In 1976, the CDM helped form the Committee on the Present Danger ... reactivated in 2004 by Lieberman, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl, Laurie Mylroie, Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Boeing, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. ... While the traitors in the Washington office of Jackson and Ledeen in Rome were conspiring against President Carter, George H. W. Bush, Carter National Security Council staffer Robert Gates, and William Casey criminally conspired with the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to keep 52 hostages held in Tehran captive in return for a shipment of weapons. A meeting between Casey, Gates, and Bush and Iranian agents was held in Paris on October 19, 1980, in what became known as the "October Surprise.
  • 1980, cont.
  • Iran-Contra  Rumsfeld confirmed that Franklin was one of two Pentagon officials who met in 2001 with Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Middle Eastern arms dealer and ontime intermediary in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 80's.  Ghorbanifar, who has said he remained in contact with Franklin is seeking U.S. support to overthrow Iran's government.  Answers.com
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • Early 1980's "Of particular interest in that connection (sensitive, dual-use military tech) are derivatives of a powerful case-management software called PROMIS that was produced by INSLAW Inc. in the early 1980s and acquired by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, which then sold its own versions to other foreign intelligence agencies in the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe". Shalom Center and copy
  • 1980's Early corruption: Both BCCI and Saudi Arabia's Mahfouz have historical connections the the Bush family, also InterMaritime Bank, bailed out Harken Energy in 1987 with $25 million.  Harken Energy then got a no-bid oil lease in 1991, George W. Bush promptly sold his shares and made a small fortune....Brewster Jennings & Associates (Plame) will uncover Bush connections to build up of Iraq War ... will this lead to Plame's outing?  and see Wayne Madsen Report  and  The Randi Rhodes Show
  • Jul 1982  Steven Rosen (Wikipedia) was employed as the Director of Foreign Policy Issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Indictment
  • Stephen Rosen and Richard Perle may have worked together as early as 1982 Dailykos and The New Yorker
  • The Big Chill, by Laura Rozen, The Nation.   Linking Judith Miller's jailing to the AIPAC / Franklin investigation.  In early 80's Rosen shifted AIPAC to far right ideology, and focused on Iran. 
  • Martin Indyk formed a research department for AIPAC EIR and see WINEP.  see also Leon Fuerth. 
  • 1982  Douglas Feith was fired from the NSC for leaking classified data to Israel.  Washington Times "FBI Probes DOD"
  • 1983  FBI has 1983 Rosen (AIPAC) memo that reveals he was informed of a classified draft of a WH position on Mid East, and that that knowledge could enhance their influence.  Franklin only a little fish used to getting Rosen.  The Nation
  • 1983 "Marc Rich, .... He's the American financier who skipped out of the United States in 1983, one step ahead of a $48-million tax bill and a 51-count indictment for various skullduggeries, including trading with Iran amidst the American hostage crisis" Newsday  Libby was his attorney. see docs Findlaw
  • Rudolph Giuliani was the prosecutor in the Marc Rich case  Newsday  Clinton eventually pardoned Rich, then Bush / Cheney hired him.
  • 1983  Rumsfeld, private citizen, met SH, delivered Reagan's personal support message, discussed oil pipeline venture, Bechtel Group, Dishonor Role Corporations doing business with Sadam Hussein.
  • 1985 "In 1985 Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO was indicted on charges of smuggling nuclear timing devices to Israel (*Washington Post*, 10/31/86)" Shalom Center and copy
  • 1986 'Spin' ..."the word was first discussed by Nixon speech writer-cum-journalist William Safire in a 1986 New York Times column" Kenneth Hicks, Rogers State U.
  • 1987  Jonathon Pollard gets life sentence CNN
  • 1987 April 24 Wall Street Journal headline: "Role of Israel in Iran-Contra Scandal Won't be Explored in Detail by Panels  Georgia Informer and full Israeli spy timeline.  and see also Shalom Center
  • 1998-2003  Scoop  - John McCain enthusiastically espoused the delusion about cheap and easy Middle East wars, and sponsored Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.) organization, even though the CIA had cut it off for producing faulty intelligence.
  • 1988 search AIPAC, ex-Jerusalem Post reporter) Barbara Amouyal, Jesse Jackson, CBS, 60 Minutes
  • 1990's  continued  Franklin, Rosen, Weissman         
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  • 1990-2005  AfroCubaWeb, Israeli Spying Chronology, 1990-2005
  • 1990-2004  "The Center for Responsive Politics, a public-policy group, estimates that between 1990 and 2004 these pacs gave candidates and parties more than twenty million dollars". The New Yorker
  • 1990, Laurie Mylroie more co-authored with  Miller  Iraq book: “Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf" William Bowles  and  Laurie Mylroie. ..Regan Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, released her book in paperback. Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox News Channel, which booked Laurie Mylroie as an Iraq expert during the build-up to the war.  WorldNetDaily  Links between Gulf War and Iraq War..??
  • Laurie Mylroie, Wikpedia
  • Rosen, Cooperative Research, timeline, neocon run-up to war.
  • Chalabi contributed to NYT articles (Judith Miller?) as early as 1991. NYTimes admits hype and American Journalism Review.   ... also Newt Gingrich scandal, 90's
  • 1992 AIPAC president David Steiner had to resign when he  was tape recorded boasting about his political influence with U.S., getting billions in aid 'goodies'.  Story broke in Washington Times.
  • 1992 Chalabi, Iraqi National Congress founded. New Yorker
  • 1992 "In 1992, the *Wall Street Journal* reported that Israeli agents apparently
    tried to steal Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system (1/17/92, Edward T. Pound and David Rogers).". Shalom Center
  • 1992 "As late as 1992, Stephen Bryen was serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant — with security clearance — on exports of sensitive US technology. (*Wall Street Journal*, 1/22/92, Edward T. Pound and David Rogers)" Shalom Center
  • 1995 Miller and Gordon co-wrote 'The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflicts in the Gulf', and see retired general Bernard Trainor.
  • 1995 Chalabi began spending his CIA money to create a Kurdish militia, and launched failed coup attempt,  and another crushing blow from SH in 1996 by SH. CIA cut off funding. Chalabi and Brooke then cozied up to the neocons,  New Yorker
  • "THE REED-ABRAMOFF CONNECTION:...Abramoff often turned to a longtime friend and business associate whose ties....to Karl Rove--were far better than his: former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, who TIme declared "the Right Hand of God." TIME: An Unholy Alliance?" TIME: An Unholy Alliance?
  • 1996  Richard Perle chaired a working group that included Douglas Feith (OSP, #3 Pentagon), which advised Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that removing Saddam Hussein would ensure keeping occupied territories.  NYU  Globalbeat Mid-East Realities war planning?
  • 1996. Report: why removal of Saddam is crucial to Israel. Written by Feith, Wurmser and Fairbanks. Delivered in person by Perle to the Israeli Prime Minister.  Zfacts
  • 1996 "Wurmser, whose Israeli-born wife Meyrav is director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, is the principal author of a by-now-famous 1996 policy paper, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," prepared for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic Political Studies."  Antiwar
  • 1996   Iran Libya Sanction Act of 1996  referenced in PetitionOnline Sen Rick Santorum.  in The Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2004, Michael Ledeen was consultant to Alexander Haig in Iran Contra era. 
  • 1997-present - Scoop  The McCain campaign’s chief publicist, Charlie Black, a powerful GOP lobbyist, has protected and promoted the cause of Ahmad Chalabi’s I.N.C. organization in Washington since 1997, and also played a major role in spreading I.N.C. disinformation.
  • 1997  CIA, Clear Vision, focus on delivery systems for germ warfare. more war planning?
  • Wurmser wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal: "Iraq Needs a Revolution", Sourcewatch.  Wurmser was a 'special assistant' to John Bolton who provided much content for Judith Miller articles in the NY Times.  Also Wurmser was a research fellow at AEI...Mylroie's book was first published in 2000 by AEI Press. ... In 1990, Mylroie co-authored with Judith Miller another Iraq book called "Saddam Hussein
  • 1997 Gerecht, writing under the pseudonym of Edward Shirley, wrote the 1997 book Know Thine Enemy: A Spy’s Journey into Revolutionary Iran PNAC and Right Web profile, war planning?
  • 1997. PNAC founded. Principles signed by: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Abrams.  Zfacts
  • 1997 and Mega Group, (Martin Indyk?) Clinton administration mole hunt, search terms: Yatom, Mossad, NSA, Warren Christopher, Arafat, Hebron withdrawal, Mr. X - Pollard's inside controller, Monica Lewinsky, Amdocs, Comverse Infosys, blackmail,  EIR
  • 1997 Counterpunch Amdocs installed Whitehouse telephone system  and see Franklin Amdocs page.
  • 1997 (Feith) "published a lengthy article, "A Strategy for Israel",... where Feith argued that Israel should repudiate the Oslo accords and move to re-occupy those parts of the West Bank and Gaza that had been transferred to the Palestinian Authority Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • Feb 1997 United Jersalem (conservative) article: "Supposed spies for Israel have included David Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jew and engineer who worked at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren Michigan. Tenenbaum was charged with passing sensitive information on the Patriot missile and advanced armor to Israel. (Detroit Free Press, Feb. 20, 1997) More than a year later the case was quietly dropped, with the FBI stating only that "The case is closed. No criminal charges have been filed." United Jersalem (conservative)
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  • 1998  Wurmser and Perle called for Chalabi INC support. see (Wikipedia, Ilyad Allawi for Wormser) and Mother Jones, Lie Factory.
  • 1998  "Judith Miller apparently knew David Kelly rather well. She had quoted him in several of her earlier articles going back to 1998, and according to the Globe article referenced above, Kelly had helped her write her book about Weapons of Mass Destruction published several years before"  Dailykos
  • Feb 19, 1998 Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf authors: Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Armitage... Open Letter to the President:  ....."require the U.S. to:.....Recognize a provisional government of Iraq based on the principles and leaders of the Iraqi.  war planning? National Congress (INC, Chalabi). NewsMax   Iraq War Plan, 1998   New Yorker 
  • AEI helped draft Iraqi Liberation Act
  • 1998  Chalabi 'forged a close bond with VP Cheney ...Wolfowitz ...Luti...' INC received nearly $100 million....'paid Chalabi to fool ourselves'. ....Francis Brooke (Chalabi's unofficial lobbyist)...Rendon Group, to influence global political opinion against SH....create opposition group (Chalabi, INC)..... New Yorker 
  • Chalabi intelligence fed neocons....agenda.
  • Oct 7, 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, drafted by Trent Lott, Chalabi, Brooke,and Republicans.  Congress passed bills giving $97 million support to Iraqi National Congress, Chalabi. Zinni called it ridiculous, Germans, Curveball, mobile trucks...etc hype...etc....New Yorker
  • 1998 Judith Miller and William Broad report on Iraq bioweapons and Miller met with Khidhir Hamza, William Bowles 
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  • All this a good spy thriller.  For years FBI was tracking Israeli espionage cell and Franklin stumbled into it  when he showed up at the Tivoli Restaurant and met Rosen and Weissman.  Franklin revealed to them classified  information about possible Iranian-sponsored attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.  Franklin just wanted the U.S. to harder line towards Iraq.  American Conservative, Justin Raimondo
  • Franklin moved to OSP under Feith....and along with fellow neocons cooked Iraq intelligence and fed it to the Whitehouse.  see Dec 2001 on Harold Rhode, Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar, 4-5000 documents.  American Conservative
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • 1999. Neocon book on U.S./Israeli strategic interest in Iraq "Iraq also has large, proven oil reserves, water, ..." —Wurmser PNAC Memo: "Above all, only ground forces can remove Saddam."  Zfacts
  • Dec 8, 1999  Franklin signed a Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, Standard form SF-312  Indictment
  • 1999   FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. ..... sources tell Fox News that in 1999, the super secret National Security Agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands in Israel, in particular Jambooty
  • 1999 Rosen surveillance begins.  The first alleged "overt act" occurred when Rosen met an unnamed "Foreign Official 1."  see indictment Indictment  
  • Franklin, on second tour of duty at the U.S. Embassy in Israel, was kicked out of the country after repeated incidents of of unauthorized meetings with Israeli intelligence officers. Global Research
  • 1999 'Deconstructing Cynthia McKinney', "Tension with AIPAC" Jewish Times
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  • UK Indymedia 'The Israeli Art Students and Movers Story', by Wayne Madsen.  During 2000 and 2001 before 9/11....  young Israelis with specialized military and and intelligence backgrounds, cased the offices and homes of federal law enforcement officials.  They were concentrated in the same locations as the 19 WTC hijackers.  Search DEA (nothing), or Physics911 and copy Suspicious Activities by Israeli Art Students text.
  • 2000 Martin Indyk, stripped of security clearance?  What are Rove, Novak ties to Rosen? 
  • Mid 2000 Able Danger, Zaman Two out of three 9/11 terrorist cells id'd one year before 9/11 event, according to Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, but Pentagon lawyers cancelled meetings to report the info. 9/11 Commission ignored Able Danger reports.  Zaman
  • and see NewsFollowUp.com Able Danger page.
  • Nov 1, 2000 DOJ  "...indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 1, 2000."
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  • 2001 "The historian's (N.S.A. historian, Robert J. Hanyok) ,conclusion is the first serious accusation that communications intercepted by the N.S.A., the secretive eavesdropping and code-breaking agency, were falsified so that they made it look as if North Vietnam had attacked American destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash. President Lyndon B. Johnson cited the supposed attack to persuade Congress to authorize broad military action in Vietnam..." New York Times  file
  • 2001-2003 - Scoop  - 1998 - McCain was a co-sponsor of the Iraq Liberation Act that led to the creation of a false intelligence factory that replaced CIA Iraq reporting. He led charges in the Senate about Iraqi WMD programs that U.S. intelligence was reporting didn’t exist. ....Using $100 million allocated by the Act cosponsored by McCain, Ahmed Chalabi’s I.N.C. generated the false intelligence about nonexistent mobile bioweapons labs cited as part of the case for the Iraq invasion. I.N.C. Chalabi’s group was paid $335,000 a month in the lead-up to the Iraq war to gather intelligence.   
  • 2001  Franklin assigned to Pentagon as Iran desk officer at the Near East South Asia (NESA) policy office, under Assistant Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Deputy Assistant Secretary William Luti, who transferred from Office of VP Cheney. 
  • Franklin regularly was a Feith's office attended by Rhode, Luti, Shulsky, Perle and Wolfowitz  Global Research
  • Jan , 2001 break-in at the Niger Embassy in Rome.  Letter head and seals were stolen.  Infowars
  • Franklin was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies while Paul Wolfowitz was the dean of that institution.
  • Palestine Media Watch 60 art students with Israeli high tech industry connections and details
  • Jul 17, 2001  Franklin signed a SCI Nondisclosure Statement in conjunction with employment at DoD/OSD  Indictment
  • Sept 4, 2001  New York Times by  Miller, Engelberg, Broad, Sept 2001 article: " U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits",  search words, Clear Vision, secret program to mimicked creation of biological (anthrax) arsenal. other search terms: Batelle Memorial Institute, defensive research loophole, Gene Johnson, ended in 2001.  Also Project Jefferson, track dangers of bioweapons.  
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  • Sept 9, 2001  Rice, called for investigation?
  • Information Clearing House report  (ICH) A report by Jewish Telegraphic Agency.... ....Rice demands leak investigation, which will eventually lead to the indictment of Pentagon Iran desk officer Larry Franklin.  And it is expected to lead to the indictments of Steve Rosen and Kenneth Weissman formerly of AIPAC.  American Conservative
  • Sept 9, 2001  New York Times article by Jane Perlez: major shift away from  Clinton policy to broker peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.  After many refusals Bush agreed to meet Arafat but 9/11 WTC nixed it.  hmmm?  The Nation The Big Chill, July 14, 2005
  • Judy Miller's War, Dissident Voice, "Lay all Judith Miller's New York Times stories end to end from late 2001 to June 2003 and you get a desolate picture of a reporter with an agenda, both manipulated and being manipulated by US government officials, Iraqi exiles and defectors, an entire Noah's Ark of scam artists" Alexander Cockburn.
  • Sept 2001 World Net Daily, Hadley mentioned, Weldon, prior knowledge of 911 information on Atta in Rep. Weldon (Republican) Book "Countdown to Terror" Shaffer stopped from testifying about Able Danger data mining. 
  • Sibel Edmonds, Just a Citizen, official site .."FBI Penetrated Again" search: whistleblower, her translations may have prevented 9/11 WTC.
  • SourceWatch on Sibel Edmonds: "Justice Department's Inspector General's report on Edmonds found that many of her claims 'were supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough." 
  • Sept 11, 2001  9/11 WTC ...go to details
  • Sept 2001  Newsday will report Sep 2003 on first Rome meeting of  Franklin, Rhode, Ledeen  contacts with Manucher Ghorbanifar and other Iranian exiles .info exchange...all in warring administration camps on 'regime change' in Iran versus a more cautious approach.  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will eventually start investigation...on ...Rogue faction in DOD trying to work outside normal channels to advance 'regime change' in Iran.  Washington Monthly  see Ledeen / Iran Sep 01   Sep 03Sep 04
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  • Oct. 7, 2001 The war in Afghanistan begins
  • John Bolton was a regular source for national security reports to Miller   
  • Oct 14, 2001 Miller/ Engelberg/ Broad book "Germs, The Ultimate Weapon", climbing best seller lists.  And Miller gets 'white powder' envelope, not anthrax.  by Oct 28, Germs #1.Counterpunch and Abrams
  • Miller, David Kelly? Spiked Online and see Huffington  Post timeline on links between UK / Blair / Kelly suicide and Miller  article
  • Oct 21, 2001 DOJ  "...indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi, Pakistan with hacking into AIPAC's computer server in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 1, 2000."
  • see NewsFollowUp.com on Bioport?  
  • Oct 28, 2001 Miller/ Germs a bestseller, Miller, Engelberg, Broad,  and also envelope with white powder...hmmm.....Bioport?  NewsFollowup
  • NewsMax Spies Tap Phones and copy, Amdocs, Comverse Infosys, CALEA wiretaps
  • Early December, 2001 "Formally sanctioned" 3-day meeting in Italy with Ghorbanifar and Iranians, "in response to an Iranian government offer to provide information relevant to the war on terrorism." MORE: The meetings are arranged by Michael Ledeen: "Ghorbanifar called me, and at first I said, 'Are you insane?'" ... "But he said he could arrange meetings with Iranians with current information about what Iran was doing. It wasn't information coming from him. He was just arranging the meetings;" Tenet, Armitage, and Hadley are all aware of the meetings. MORE: Franklin, Rhode, and Ledeen attend, as do Nicolo Pollari (head of SISMI) and Antonio Martino (Italian Minister of Defense). [Rumsfeld would, on Aug. 8, 2003, pretend to confuse this meeting with the Paris meeting (of June 2003) when answering a reporter's question.] Dailykos
  • Dec20, 2001 Miller published a Times front-page story about an Iraqi engineer who claimed knowledge of twenty WMD sites in Iraq, with many caveats,  but all later shown to be just hype, and see Abrams
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying ArchivesWhat Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • AJR article: Judith Miller, Washington bureau chief for The Progressive magazine.  Will eventually be compared to Jason Blair.  Abrams
  • Hollinger International, Conrad Black, Lady Barbara Amiel Black.  Hollinger publishes Chicago Sun-Times (Robert Novak), Jerusalem Post, Sydney Morning Herald.   Iraq4u
  • Karl Rove & Co, and Praxis List Company.  Bush Texas re-election campaign.  Texas Observer
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  • After 9/11, Bush wanted a preemptive strike on Iraq, and received Chalabi intelligence briefings.  The  Information Collection Program for INC (Iraqi National Congress. funded by State Dept) was transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency  New Yorker
  • Common Dreams: Rendon Group, selling the war
  • see New York Mag to tie Miller to Chalabi, then to Feith, (Office of Special Plans), and finally to Franklin, who worked for Feith.
  • 2002 The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices What Really Happened Mother of All Scandals. and search DEA  and Cryptome nd AntiWar Antiwar pdf file art students, Israeli spies. Suspicious activities involving Israeli art students at DEA facilities copy
  • 2002  Laurie Mylroie? Co-authored books with Judith Miller, Laurie Mylroie and Regan Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, released her book in paperback. Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox News Channel, which booked Laurie Mylroie as an Iraq expert during the build-up to the war.  WorldNetDaily
  • 2002 in 2002 an Information Collection Program for INC intelligence, was transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency...Franklin?.   New Yorker 
  • 2002 MSNBC "Why did some administration officials—including Vice President Dick Cheney—still lend credit to disputed reports of an April 2001 Prague meeting between 9/11 leader Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi spy even after the 9/11 Commission concluded the encounter probably didn't occur? Administration critics have long suspected that a secret briefing on an alleged Iraq-Qaeda connection, prepared by the Pentagon in 2002, helped keep the tale alive."
  • 2002  "....Bush is a born-again Evangelical Christian — Stand for Israel is looking to become the Christian counterpart to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby." Forward  and Spokesman Hussein Ibish of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, however, accused the Christian right of "fomenting conflict between Jews and Muslims in the hopes of provoking a massive conflagration along the lines of Armageddon." and Democracy Now on Ralph Reed.  see AIPAC page
  • 2002 Paris, Michael Ledeen, AEI, brokered meetings with Iranian dissidents, Franklin and Ghorbanifar were present.  The purpose of the meeting was to 'undermine...Whitehouse...negotiations' with Iran on al-Qaeda and the Mujahideen fighters in Iraq.  Answers.com
  • 2002 Backfilling article about Atta, Prague meetings, Cheney deception. (from Jan 2006)  Prague Daily Monitor
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • see New York Mag to tie Miller to Chalabi, then to Feith, (Office of Special Plans), and finally to Franklin, who worked for Feith.
  • Jan 18 2002  Miller New York Times  article:  David Satterfield, deputy chief of the United States Mission in Bhagdad, is USGO-2. indictment
  • February, 2002 "Stephen Hadley a the NSC, "sent word to the officials in Feith's office and to Ledeen to cease all such activities [i.e. the Ghorbanifar meeting in Rome]" (by this time, Hadley had received multiple accounts of the Dec. 2001 meeting--from the CIA, State, and from Tenet personally. Tenet had been contacted privately by the head of SISMI, Pollari, who also attended the meeting.)"  Dailykos
  • February, 2002 In Nov 2005 the Senate Democrats will force GOP to finish Iraq intelligence manipulation investigations of Feb 2002 data. search terms: Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, chemical, biological, DIA, misleading, deceptive.
  • February, 2002 Franklin was previously assigned to a Pentagon Iraq policy unit William J. Luti, the controversial deputy undersecretary of defense, Iraq war diehard, became a nationally known figure in early 2003 after the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh published a story about Luti's intelligence work in the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a secretive Pentagon outfit whose players  included Douglas Feith (RightWeb)and Abram Shulsky.(RightWeb) According to Hersh's expose, Luti and his OSP cohorts were charged with digging up intelligence on Iraq that would support the administration's arguments for going to war.   RightWeb
  • March 3, 2002  Electronic Intifada  "AIPAC, ADL refuse to condemn inclusion of ethnic cleansers in new Israel government Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 3 March 2003  Leading pro-Israeli organizations in the United States have pointedly refused to condemn Ariel Sharon's inclusion in his new government of the National Union alliance parties whose members ran for election on a platform openly advocating the "transfer" -- or ethnic cleansing -- of the Palestinians. The National Union is made up of three parties, Moledet, Tekuma and Israel Beitenu and won seven seats in the recent Israeli election.   ....   The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), widely regarded as the most influential pro-Israeli group on Capitol Hill, did not issue any statement marking the formation of the new government. Rebecca Needler, AIPAC's press secretary explained to me that, "we don't comment on domestic Israeli issues." When I asked her if she thought that the inclusion in the Israeli government of a party that openly espouses ethnic cleansing would make AIPAC's advocacy work more difficult, Needler replied, "Israel's coalition government is representative of a true democracy."  ....   Abraham Foxman The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which boasts of "90 years fighting anti-Semitism, bigotry and extremism," also remained publicly silent. When I called for a comment, a woman named Sarah in the media relations office initially told me that, "we don't usually issue statements on changes of government in democratic countries." I later received a call from ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. I asked Foxman if his organization planned to issue a statement commenting on the inclusion of the National Union parties in the Israeli government. Foxman's first reply was "Why would we?" I countered, "because they ran on a platform in favor of physically removing all the Palestinians from their homeland."  
  • Mar 8 2002 Foxnews Israeli spies and screenprint also: Foxnews Cameron story no longer available screen print
  • DEA Report, 'Suspicious activities involving Israeli art students at DEA facilities'  pdf copy from Antiwar
  • Foxnews Israeli spies and screenprint
  •    Go to U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Phase II, final report, searchable text file and pdf. "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.". AIPAC was highly complicit in this effort.
  • Mar 12 2002  Miller New York Times  article:  David Satterfield, deputy chief of the United States Mission in Bhagdad, is USGO-2. indictment
  • Apr 2002  Miller and a team of 10 NYT reporters receive Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Middle East after 9/11.  Barnard News Center
  • Jun 13,  2002 Dawn "Cost of Israel to Americans  By Richard Curtis  By now many Americans are aware that Israel, with a population of only 5.8 million people, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, and that Israel’s aid plus US aid to Egypt’s 65 million people for keeping the peace with Israel has, for many years, consumed more than half of the US bilateral foreign aid budget worldwide.   ....   What few Americans understand, however, is the steep price they pay in many other fields for the US-Israeli relationship, which in turn is a product of the influence of Israel’s powerful US lobby on American domestic politics and has nothing to do with US strategic interests, US national interests, or even with traditional American support for self-determination, human rights, and fair play overseas.  ...   The Israel-US relationship has cost a significant number of American lives. The incidents in which hundreds of US service personnel, diplomats, and civilians were killed in the Middle East have been reported in the media. But the media seldom revisits these events, and scrupulously avoids analyzing why they occurred or compiling the cumulative toll of American deaths resulting from our Israel-centerd Middle East policies. " AIPAC American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
  • June 26, 2002  Chalabi's INC, Senate Appropriations Committee received letter from  Entifadh Qanar (INC), ...credit for 108 news stories between Oct 2001 and May 2002...???... William Luti also received the reports....and also John Hannah (Cheney's office) New Yorker
  • Miller claims many WMD sources  William Bowles
  • Aug 26, 2002 Cheney speech, widely interpreted as main signal of Bush / Iraq war,  WMD, bio, chemical, nuclear.
  • Aug 2002 Creation of the Whitehouse Iraq Group.  Three known members coordinated response to Wilson's 2003 op-ed piece.  Downing Street Memo  and  True Blue Liberal
  • August 30, 2002 . Israel says that Franklin appropriately met with Naor Gilon (Israeli embassy and specialist on Iran's nuclear programs).  FBI then targeted Franklin.   Answers.com
  • see New York Mag to tie Miller to Chalabi, then to Feith, (Office of Special Plans), and finally to Franklin, who worked for Feith.
  • Sept 8, 2002 NewYork Sun  Miller and Gordon write article that Bush administration believed SH was on 'quest' for nuclear weapons.  Cheney referred to the story on  Meet the Press'....slick... AJR
  • CBS also ran a story, but with Scott Ritter, debunked tube BS. 
  • Miller, got a secret clearance from the Pentagon, and then became an embedded reporter with the 75th Exploitation Task Force in Iraq. AJR
  • Miller Pipes Feith connection? 
  • Sept 2002 Miller, with another reporter broke aluminum tubes and bio-weapons trailer story New York Times? Both stories completely discredited.  Chalabi (INC) was source of this information and was funneled to WH thru OSP.  Salon  and NYTimes admit lies
  • Sept 2002 Franklin moves from NESA to OSP, staff told not to disclose the name OSP, but to call it the 'Expanded Iraq Desk'  Daily Kos Kwiatkowski 
  • Chalabi contributed to NYT articles as early as 1991.
  • Sept 9, 2002 "The Bush administration has always insisted it did not know the uranium documents sent it from Italian intelligence were forgeries. But La Repubblica, the Italian newspaper, last Tuesday (Nov 28, 205) revealed that the documents came from Nicolo Pollari, head of that nation's military intelligence service.The paper said Pollari met secretly on September 9, 2002, with Hadley, at the time the deputy security adviser. A month later, forged papers were cabled to Washington from the U.S. embassy in Rome. Village Voice  and see Niger forged docs page
  • Sept 12, 2002 President George W Bush, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002 • "Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles. . .We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States."
  • Sept 19, 2002 "The point is this: we know Iraq possesses biological weapons, and chemical weapons, and is expanding and improving their capabilities to produce them. That should be of every bit as much concern as Iraq’s potential nuclear capability." — Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Testimony before SASC, September 19, 2002 • "For eleven years he’s claimed he has had no weapons and, yet, we know he has." — President George W Bush, Remarks in Trenton, New Jersey, September 23, 2002 • "We know they [the Iraqi regime] have weapons of mass destruction. We know they have active programs. There isn’t any debate about it." — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Department of Defense Press Conference, September 26, 2002 • "[Saddam Hussein’s] got chemical weapons; he needs to get rid of them, all of them. He’s got biological weapons; he needs to destroy all of them. There’s no doubt in my mind he wants to have a nuclear weapon, and he’s got some capacity. I’m not saying he’s got one yet, but he’s developing the capacity, as we learned right after Desert Storm...The burden of proof is on Saddam Hussein." — President George W Bush, Remarks in Houston, Texas, September 26, 2002 • "We can have debates about the size and nature of the Iraqi stockpile, we can have debates about how long it will take him to reach this level of readiness or that level of readiness with respect to these weapons, but no one can doubt two things: One, they are in violation of these resolutions. There’s no debate about that. And secondly, they have not lost the intent to develop these weapons of mass destruction, whether they are one day, five days, one year, or seven years away from any particular weapon, whether their stockpile is small, medium or large, what has not been lost is the intent to have such weapons of mass destruction." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, September 26, 2002
  • Oct, 2002 More Miller war hyping.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Oct, 2002  Scoop  Prior to advocating in favor of the October, 2002 Iraq War Resolution, McCain read the classified CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), and was briefed on multiple occasions about it. While he knew that U.S. intelligence was split over Iraq WMDs, McCain never said anything publicly about the other view contained in the classified documents in which he had been given special access.
  • In November of 2005 Bush will be under intense pressure to justify war to Democrats that are finally attacking his decision to go to war.  He will make false claims about who had what 'intelligence' and get very close to calling the opposition unpatriotic.  His approval ratings will be in the mid 30's.  Common Dreams.
  • Nov, 2002 More Miller war hyping.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Nov, 2002 Guam investigation, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Bush removed prosecutor, probe ended.  more search terms: Frederick Black, sweatshops, Governor Gutierrez, Rapadas, Guam Republican Party, 
  • Dec, 2002 More Miller war hyping.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Dec 19, 2002 Bolton Antiwar and Uruknet
  • What is CSE? Committee for a Strong Europe? and copy
  • 2003  
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  • Rosen, Cooperative Research, neocon run-up to war.
  • Franklin, Defense Intelligence Agency?  New Yorker
  • Scoop  2003 - McCain and four other Republican Senators made an appeal to Bush to “personally clear the bureaucratic roadblocks within the State Department” that stood in the way of even more funding for the I.N.C. McCain acted as a character witness for Chalabi, stating “He’s a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart.”
  • Chalabi smear campaign begins.
  • Jan 23, 2003 More Miller New York Times article: wrote that Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri claimed that chemical and biological weapons labs were hidden beneath hospitals and inside palaces. see Wikipedia Richard Perle.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Bush wanted to go target other countries beyond Iraq, including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Pakistan and Iran  Guardian
  • "What kind of game was George Tenet playing? Why did he force Hadley to take the uranium references out of the Cincinnati speech but let the State of the Union address slip by without any comment? Did he say nothing because he thought it would not do any good? Was the CIA happy to see the White House put their foot in it?" Xymphora  (conservative) and Common Dreams, AIPAC links to OSP, WHIG: "Feith, whose law partner is a spokesman for the settlement movement in Israel, has long been a fierce opponent of the Oslo peace process, while WINEP has acted as the think tank for the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which generally follows a Likud line."
  • Feb 12, 2003 FBI alleges this is the date that Franklin disclosed classified information to Rosen and Weissman at the Tivoli restaurant in Virginia.  They found 83 classified documents in his home on May 3, 2005.  Indictments
  • Franklin walked into a FBI counterintelligence surveillance of Rosen, Weissman.  Phone conversations were monitored.  From Feb 12, 2003 until July 9, 2004, Franklin had dozens of telephone conversations and meetings, and at least on faxed doc.
  • Larry Franklin Answers.com 
  • Feb 2003 More Millerler war hyping.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Mar, 2003 More Millerwar hyping.... Dissident Voice,.AJR
  • Both Mylroie and Miller are connected to the Middle East Forum, a right-wing pro-Israeli lobbying group that describes its mission as "promoting American interests in the Middle East." The key figure in this organization is Daniel Pipes
  • Mrs Jason Epstein (Judith Miller) was a key player in Israel helping orchestrate Iraq war.  Huffington Post discussions Answers.com
  • Jack Shafer, Slate The Time Scoops That Melted, Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller. July 25, 2003.  
  • Miller and Gordon article "Whitehouse Lists Iraq Steps To Build Banned Weapons",  on aluminum tubes, biolabs, defectors Hamza, Saeed, Perle and Chalabi slam CIA for ignoring INC.  Soviet smallpox, Atropine auto-injectors, Mobile Exploitation Team.   Slate  Miller war-hyping.  Chalabi major source of her stories.
  • Mar, 2003 Ledeen speech to AEI "What we hate is not casualties but losing"  Dual Loyalties
  • March 7, 2003 "So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership of Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not." — Secretary of State Colin Powell, United Nations Security Council, March 7, 2003 • "But we also have to address the question of where might these terrorists acquire weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons? And Saddam Hussein becomes a prime suspect in that regard because of his past track record and because we know he has, in fact, developed these kinds of capabilities, chemical and biological weapons. We know he’s used chemical weapons. We know he’s reconstituted these programs since the Gulf War. We know he’s out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda organization." — Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 • "lntelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." — President George W Bush, Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003 • "The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." — President Bush, Report in Connection w/ Presidential Determination under PL 107-244, March 19, 2003 
  • Apr 21, 2003 New York Times, Judith Miller, "Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is /Said to Assert" More Miller war-hyping?
  • Bolton didn't testify before leak grand jury or was interviewed about it, but was interviewed about a State Dept probe into pre-war intelligence. see FOI Missouri.edu Bolton was major source of national security info to Miller
  • May  2003 05/03 – present - Scoop Even after the Iraq WMD deception and failed occupation became clear, McCain has refused to acknowledge that he had been wrong all along about the justifications for the Iraq War, and says he would vote again for that war, and again vote to fund Chalabi   ... 1997-present - The McCain campaign’s chief publicist, Charlie Black, a powerful GOP lobbyist, has protected and promoted the cause of Ahmad Chalabi’s I.N.C. organization in Washington since 1997, and also played a major role in spreading I.N.C. disinformation.
  • May 8, 2003 Howard Kurtz reporting on the way Miller ferociously fought to keep Chalabi, to herself and the anger it caused the paper. NYT still on her side. 
  • see New York Mag to tie Miller to Chalabi, then to Feith, (Office of Special Plans), and finally to Franklin, who worked for Feith.
  • May 6: The American Enterprise Institute, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, and the Hudson Institute co-sponsor a forum, "The Future of Iran: Mullarchy, Democracy, and the War on Terror," aggressively promoting regime change in Tehran. Among the speakers are: Michael Ledeen, Meyrav Wurmser, Morris Amitay, Reuel Marc Gerecht, and Ambassador Uri Lubrani, an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
  • May 8, 2003    CounterPunch  AIPAC Hijacks the Roadmap How Israel's US Lobby is Stacking the Deck By JEFFREY BLANKFORT  It would be a mistake to view the Israeli cabinet's narrow approval of the Bush administration's "road map" on Sunday, (or Sharon's use of the word "occupation") as steps towards resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict or as a victory for President Bush. If there is any gloating to be done, it will be by Israel's domestic US lobby and it will largely be done in private.  ....  Had the administration not surrendered on Friday to Ariel Sharon's demands for significant revisions in the "road map," the Israeli cabinet might not even have taken the vote. Moreover, the president would not have been forced to make those concessions had not the Israeli prime minister been backed solidly by the pro-Israel lobby and by the majority of both houses of Congress. And thus, the supposedly immutable "peace plan" has foundered at the starting gate.  ... 
  • June, 2003 Howard Kurts article how Miller could get military to jump with Rummy threats? 
  • June 4, 2003 Dual Loyalties post : US DOD: Feith and Luti on U.S. Intelligence Issues in Iraq and Iran 6/4 meeting. Feith and Luti trying to debunk, OSP, Iran, MEK, WMD rumors in press. see also IraqWatch.
  • Washington Post story by reporter Walter Pincus: Wilson (unnamed diplomat) had "given a negative report" on the Niger yellowcake claims. Common Dreams
  • Jun 2003  In October 2005 it will be reported that Fitzgerald questioned these Cheney staffers: "Fitzgerald has questioned Cheney's communications adviser Catherine Martin and former spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise and ex-White House aide Jim Wilkinson about the vice president's knowledge of the anti-Wilson campaign and his dealings on it with Libby."  Bloomberg
  • June 3, 2003 conversation at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, between Larry Franklin and Naor Gilon about Judith Miller included a reference to Valerie Plame.  Portland Indymedia
  • June 8, 2003 Condoleeza Rice, NSA, attempts to refute story on Meet the Press.  She made "in the bowels of the agency" remark and said Niger claims were true.  
  • How are the AIPAC and Plame/Wilson cases connected?  Larry Franklin worked for Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith (Office of Special Plans ('cooking' Iraq intelligence center) who worked with Ahmed Chalabi who worked with Judith Miller (now in jail), who is protecting a leak source in Whitehouse about Plamegate. Nation,
  • 5. On or about June 9, 2003, a number of classified documents from the CIA were faxed to the Office of the Vice President to the personal attention of LIBBY and another person in the Office of the Vice President. The faxed documents, which were marked as classified, discussed, among other things, Wilson and his trip to Niger, but did not mention Wilson by name. After receiving these documents, LIBBY and one or more other persons in the Office of the Vice President handwrote the names "Wilson" and "Joe Wilson" on the documents. indictment
  • Jun 10, 2003 A classified State Dept (INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research) memo created for Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Mark Grossman contained Plame's id. 
  • Miller, Libby conversations in June 2003 will not be disclosed until October of 2005, Yahoo
  • Jun 11, 2003   6. On or about June 11 or 12, 2003, the Under Secretary of State orally advised LIBBY in the White House that, in sum and substance, Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and that State Department personnel were saying that Wilson's wife was involved in the planning of his trip.  indictment
  • Jun 11, 2003   7. On or about June 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke with a senior officer of the CIA to ask about the origin and circumstances of Wilson's trip, and was advised by the CIA officer that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and was believed to be responsible for sending Wilson on the trip.  indictment
  • Jun 11, 2003   On or about June 11, 2003, LIBBY was informed by a senior CIA officer that Wilson's wife was employed by the CIA and that the idea of sending him to Niger originated with her;
  •  On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was informed by the Under Secretary of State that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA;  indictment
  • Jun 12, 2003 "On June 12, 2003, the day of the conversation between Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby, The Washington Post published a front-page article reporting that the C.I.A. had sent a retired American diplomat to Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Iraq had been seeking to buy uranium there. The article did not name the diplomat, who turned out to be Mr. Wilson, but it reported that his mission had not corroborated a claim about Iraq's pursuit of nuclear material that the White House had subsequently used in Mr. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address"  (New York Times Oct 25, 2005 article)
  • Jun 12, 2003   8. Prior to June 12, 2003, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus contacted the Office of the Vice President in connection with a story he was writing about Wilson's trip. LIBBY participated in discussions in the Office of the Vice President concerning how to respond to Pincus.  indictment
  • Jun 12, 2003   9. On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. LIBBY understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA.  indictment
  • Jun 12, 2003   10. On June 12, 2003, the Washington Post published an article by reporter Walter Pincus about Wilson's trip to Niger, which described Wilson as a retired ambassador but not by name, and reported that the CIA had sent him to Niger after an aide to the Vice President raised questions about purported Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium. Pincus's article questioned the accuracy of the "sixteen words," and stated that the retired ambassador had reported to the CIA that the uranium purchase story was false.  indictment
  • Scoop, Truthout, Jason Leopold  more denials will come from Bush administration about sources?...and more info about widespread mid June 2003 knowledge of Plame identity within top officials surfaces.  (November 2005 reports)  file
  • more on Cheney, Fitzgerald continues on Rove trail well into November 2005 file
  • It won't be disclosed until October of 2005 that Cheney and Libby spoke of Plame on June 12, 2003  Reuters.  This can only help Fitzgerald's conspiracy investigation...it contradicts Libby's earlier testimony..
  • Jun 13, 2003 from a Aug 2006 CBS story: CBS   "Calendar May Offer Key CIA Leak Clue  ...The calendar released to the AP is the first confirmation that Woodward and Armitage met during the key time (June 13, 2003) in the CIA leak case that was the focus of Fitzgerald's probe ..."
  • Jun 14, 2003  11. On or about June 14, 2003, LIBBY met with a CIA briefer. During their conversation he expressed displeasure that CIA officials were making comments to reporters critical of the Vice President's office, and discussed with the briefer, among other things, "Joe Wilson" and his wife "Valerie Wilson," in the context of Wilson's trip to Niger.  indictment
  • Jun 14, 2003 On or about June 14, 2003, LIBBY discussed "Joe Wilson" and "Valerie Wilson" with his CIA briefer, in the context of Wilson's trip to Niger;  indictment
  • Jun 17, 2003, "a CIA memo for the Director of Central Intelligence said, "we no longer believe that there is sufficient other reporting to conclude that Iraq pursued uranium from abroad."  Christian Science Monitor Nov 2005
  • Throughout the investigation Cheney will deny knowing Wilson in 2003,  but see Baltimore Chronicle: “I don’t know Joe Wilson,” Cheney said. “I’ve never met Joe Wilson." But that's quite simply not true. Cheney sat in on many White House briefings with Wilson during the lead-up to the first Gulf War."  file
  • Jun 19, 2003   12. On or about June 19, 2003, an article appeared in The New Republic magazine online entitled "The First Casualty: The Selling of the Iraq War." Among other things, the article questioned the "sixteen words" and stated that following a request for information from the Vice President, the CIA had asked an unnamed ambassador to travel to Niger to investigate allegations that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger. The article included a quotation attributed to the unnamed ambassador alleging that administration officials "knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie." The article also was critical of how the administration, including the Office of the Vice President, portrayed intelligence concerning Iraqi capabilities with regard to weapons of mass destruction, and accused the administration of suppressing dissent from the intelligence agencies on this topic.
  • and five years later: "Most recently, former Bush administration press secretary Scott McClellan has acknowledged that the Bush administration had indeed decided to attack and invade Iraq just days after 9/11, pursued deceptive means to accomplish this, and that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby were lying about their role in illegally revealing CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the press"  .... as reported in June of 2008, Ventura County Star
  • June 26, 2003New York TimesAnswers.com Forward reports on Franklin being confronted by FBI and agreeing to cooperate with the government.
  • June 26, 2003 The criminal complaint and an accompanying FBI affidavit, filed at U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, alleges that on June 26, 2003, Franklin had lunch at a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia with two individuals. At the lunch, Franklin allegedly disclosed classified information designated Top Secret related to potential attacks upon U.S. forces in Iraq to the two individuals, neither of whom had the security clearance to receive that information. Franklin allegedly told the two individuals that the information was “highly classified” and asked them not to “use” it. DOJ Press Release 05-238
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • Adam Ciralsky, former CIA attorney, joined CBS as a reporter
  • see NewsFollowUp.com for extensive detail on July 2003, Miller, Cooper, Rove, Libby, Wilson, Novak....etc.
  • Miller, David Kelly? Spiked Online and see Huffington  Post timeline on links between UK / Blair / Kelly suicide and Miller  article
  • July 8, 2003 Miller has meeting with Libby.  What did she tell them about Plame, and why didn't she write a story.  Newsday and Huffington Post
  • see NewsFollowUp.com for extensive detail on July 2003, Miller, Cooper, Rove, Libby, Wilson, Novak....etc.
  • Turtle Bay?
  • Lewis “Scooter” Libby, top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, whose wife also is an AEI scholar. William Bowles (Miller, war-hawk)
  • Jul 13, 2003  Miller subpoena "On August 12 and August 20, 2004, grand jury subpoenas were issued to reporter Judith Miller and her employer, the New York Times, seeking documents and testimony related to “conversations between Miller and a specified government official occurring between on or about July 6, 2003 and on or about July 13, 2003, concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred to by name or by description) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.” Information Clearing House
  • Sep 2003  Newsday reported on Franklin, Rhode contacts with Manucher Ghorbanifar and other Iranian exiles .info exchange...all in warring administration camps on 'regime change' in Iran versus a more cautious approach.  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence starts investigation.  ...Rogue faction in DOD trying to work outside normal channels to advance 'regime change' in Iran.  Washington Monthly  Ledeen / Iran Sep 01   Sep 03Sep 04
  • Sept 29, 2003 NYT Douglas Jehl, reported that a study by the Defense Intelligence Agency found that Chalabi intelligence "was of little or no value".  William Bowles
  • Iraqi Jewish Archive The Iraqi Jewish Archive Harold Rhode's and Judith Miller's Little Charity Project
  • Oct 7, 2003  Common Dreams Bush said Plame 'outing' was a criminal matter, and the Justice Dept had begun an investigation into the source of the leak.
  • Nov 2003 CIA Press Releases 28 November 2003, Culling Hard Facts from Soft Myths
  • OSP disbanded Fall of 2003 Daily Kos Kwiatkowski interview 
  • See Ted Olson connections to Jonathan Pollard.  Flight 77 Pentagon.  Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel.   Perle, Wolfowitz, Lehman and Feith held high posts at the Pentagon during the same years as Pollard.  Lehman was on 9/11 Commission.  Serendipity
  • The Nation Olson, Scaife, Whitewater, American Spectator, Clinton, Vince Foster, Arkansas Project, Emmit Tyrrel, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
  • see New York Mag to tie Miller to Chalabi, then to Feith, (Office of Special Plans), and finally to Franklin, who worked for Feith.
  • AfroCubaWeb, Israeli Spy Chronology, 1990-2005
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  • September 11, 2001 details  source: The New Liberator to see full article  back
  • August 6, 2001 (B): Richard Perle, head of the Defense Policy Board and foreign policy advisor to Bush, is asked about new challenges now that the Cold War is over. He cites three: "We're concerned about Saddam Hussein, we're concerned about the North Koreans, about some future Iranian government that may have the weapon they're now trying so hard to acquire..." [Australian Broadcasting Corp., 8/6/01] Note that these three nations are the same three named in Bush's famous January 2002 "axis of evil" speech (see January 29, 2002). [CNN, 1/29/02] High US officials are later talking about attacking all three, even though there are almost no connections between any of them and al-Qaeda. [Newsweek, 8/11/02] Meanwhile, bin Laden and most top leaders of al-Qaeda and the Taliban remain at large. Was the 9/11 attack an excuse for the US to go after its enemies?
  • September 11, 2001 (W): Five Israelis are arrested for "puzzling behavior" related to the WTC attacks. They are arrested around 4:30 P.M. after having filmed the burning WTC from the roof of their company's building near Liberty State Park, then shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery. They were spotted by a neighbor, who called police and the FBI. The police tracked them down in a van with the words "Urban Moving Systems" written on the side. [Bergen Record, 9/12/01, Ha'aretz, 9/17/01] One man was found with $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another had two passports on him, and a box cutter was found in the van. [ABC News, 6/21/02] Investigators say that, "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted... It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen." [Bergen Record, 9/12/01] One of these Israelis later says, "Our purpose was to document the event." [ABC News, 6/21/02] The FBI later concludes at least two are Mossad agents and all were on a Mossad surveillance mission. The FBI interrogates them for weeks. [Forward, 3/15/02] They are held on immigration violation charges and released 71 days later. [ABC News, 6/21/02] Their names are later identified as Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron Shmuel. [Forward, 3/15/02]

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  • Note: The Grand Jury is again indebted to Paul Thompson. For his full compilation and access to his sources, go to Unanswered Questions
     
  • The new weapons and technology available only to Bush and Sharon

    A. The THEL Infra Red Laser

    Note: The Grand Jury is indebted to investigative reporter Christpher Bollyn of the American Free Press for the following information. For the full article, go to "Laser Beam Weapons and the Collapse of the World Trade Center" by Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press  February 14, 2002. The following are portions of Mr. Bollyn's article:
  • 1998 (D): "The Air Force has begun a series of wargames entitled Global Engagement at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama." The same article mentions that the military is working on a "variety of new imaging and signals intelligence sensors, currently in advanced stages of development, deployed aboard the Global Hawk, DarkStar, and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)..." [Department of Defense Annual Report, 1998] What is the relevance of this? Global Hawk is a technology that enables pilotless flight and has been functioning since at least early 1997. [Department of Defense, 2/20/97] To read the source document, go to Paul Tompson's Unanswered Questions
    April 23, 2001: A Global Hawk (equipped Boeing 737) plane flies 22 hours from the US to Australia without pilot or passengers. A Global Hawk manager says, "The aircraft essentially flies itself, right from takeoff, right through to landing, and even taxiing off the runway" (see 1998 (D) and September 25, 2001). [ITN, 4/24/01]

     
  • Airborne Warning and Control System (AWAC)

    Available to Bush and Sharon

    The U.S. and Israel each have a fleet of AWAC aircraft with the capacity to utilize electro-magnetic pulsing (EMP) to disable on-board flight controls and communications of targeted aircraft and then to fly the targeted aircraft by remote control.

    The Special Intelligence available to Bush and Sharon via the Israeli "art students."

    There were 200 or more Israeli spies from Israel's CIA, Mossad operating in the United States prior to 9-11. Some agencies of the U.S. such as DEA were not privy to what was going on, arrested them and made a report of the many contacts of these spies with DEA. When arrested, they were sent back to Israel by the CIA. Nobody knows how many more spies there were who were not caught. There is evidence that some of these spies were attractive females who partied with the hi-jackers, drank with them, supplied them with the drug Ecstasy, and slept with them. It is alleged that these Israeli spies supplied Sharon and Bush with detailed precise plans of the hijackers well in advance of 9-11. To read the source documents, go to Paul Thompson's site: Unanswered Questions
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
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  • Miller, Franklin, Gilon links from DailyKOS
  • "On or about June 3, 2003, Franklin met with FO-3 [Naor Gilon] at the POAC [Pentagon Officers Athletic Club], and the discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A."

    If Franklin and his Israeli handler - a nuclear weapons specialist - were talking about a woman whose "thoughts concerning the nuclear program" of a certain "Middle Eastern country" had some significance, then surely Judith Miller is a likely candidate. When we add in the business about "certain charity efforts in Foreign Nation A," the identification becomes even more credible: "Foreign Nation A" is Israel, the "charity efforts" consist of work on behalf of the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a joint project undertaken by Miller, Harold Rhode (Franklin's associate - and fellow suspect - in Feith's policy shop), and Ahmed Chalabi.

 
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  • 1990-2004  "The Center for Responsive Politics, a public-policy group, estimates that between 1990 and 2004 these pacs gave candidates and parties more than twenty million dollars". The New Yorker
  • Bellaciao timeline, Chalabi, Libby, Miller, Cheney
  • 2004 Roy Blunt said in 2004: "Now the situation is more problematic, not because of Larry Franklin, but because of AIPAC's role."
    A Congressional investigation A top ranking Republican member of the House of Representatives, Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, has indicated that Congress could at some point launch its own probe into the Franklin affair.  Jonathan Pollard.com
    At the same time, congressional sources have said that no inquiry is likely unless the FBI turns up substantive evidence of wrongdoing.  Does Franklin pleading guilty in 2005 measure up?  see AIPAC-Cheney page
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • John W. Dean, book, Lies and Liars
  • 2004   Simone Ledeen (daughter of Michael Ledeen) will go to Baghdad, and leave just before the CPA was dissolved.  Washington Post Simone Ledeen, CPA, Coalition Provisional Authority, brat pack, 
  • 2004 The Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2004, Sen Santorum, PetitionOnline
  • Jan1, 2004 ,Asher  Karni (Israeli citizen) was arrested  (and will be sentenced (Aug 5, 2005) by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina to three years in prison for trying to ship the nuclear triggers  to the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan.  originally arrested Jan 1 2004  Wired News
  • Asher Karni ties to neocons? search "Asher Karni" "Douglas Feith" reaped 87 hits....and  Portland Indymedia
  • Jan 17, 2004 Just Peace on Seymour Hersch New Yorker article, Iran, war mongering, Cheney, excerpts
  • more  110th Congress S. Report 2nd Session SENATE 110- REPORT ON WHETHER PUBLIC STATEMENTS REGARDING IRAQ BY U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE SUBSTANTIATED BY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION together with ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS June _2008.   John D. Rockefeller IV "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses."
  • Feb 5, 2004 ,Common Dreams, "Cheney's Staff Focus of Probe" article:  Prosecutors have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by John Hannah and 'Scooter' Libby.  Hannah was major player.
  • Mar 2004.  (AIPAC) "Its last conference of March 2004 was attended by 103 members of the House of Representatives, 43 senators and 15 officials (including secretary of state Colin Powel)". Gulf News
  • Apr 26, 2004 ,David M. Satterfield nominated to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiarty....of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Dual Loyalties
  • May 20, 2004 U.S. severs ties with Chalabi.  A week later Times admits its war coverage too reliant on Chalabi, 10 of 12 flawed stories written by Miller.  Bush addressed  AIPAC members on May 18, 2004.  Answers.com
  • May 21, 2004 "DeLay also promised new U.S. efforts to topple Mideast despots, saying the administration will not stop with Iraq" Jewish Week
  • New York Magazine, and Arianna Huffington search on (Adam Ciralsky)ties. and Talkleft  newsfollowup.com
  • Late May 2004 FBI monitoring Franklin, stemming from CBS   inquiry about Iran's intelligence activities in Iraq   Forward  Antiwar (Adam Ciralsky)? Ciralsky Miller TPM Cafe
  • Late June 2004 FBI (Szady counterintelligence unit) confronted  Franklin and he agreed to a sting.  List may have six names.  Forward
  • approximately 83 separate classified U.S. government documents were found during a search of Franklin’s West Virginia home in June 2004 DOJ Press Release 05-238
  • AIPAC conference: attended by ninety members of the House and thirteen senior Administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who drew a standing ovation when he declared in Hebrew, "The people of Israel live."
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • All meetings Franklin had with Rosen and Weissman were controlled by FBI between the June confrontation and Aug 3, 2004 DOJ Press Release 05-238
  • Jewish Telegraphic Agency investigation revealed stings.
  • Jun 30, 2004 Franklin held a Top Secret security clearance and access to classified information until that clearance was suspended on June 30, 2004  DOJ Press Release 05-238
  • McCain and Chalabi were close and highly involved in manipulating the Iraq War launch... more
  • Jun 30, 2004 Iraq, transfer of authority to an interim government, crafted for Bush's election campaign. 
  • July  2004 Franklin telephones Perle (and Chalabi),  to warn  that conflict between the counterintelligence community and the neocons and the Chalabi camp was spinning out of control  Forward 
  • July  2004 One of the unnamed reporters is Glen Kessler, Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, (see June 3, 2005  WP), Rosen and Weissman jointly called Kessler and passed information about possible Iranian attacks against Israelis who were operating undercover in Iraq.  Kessler did not publish on the tip.  FBI sting was operating at time of call. The They predictably passed the information given to Franklin by the FBI onto Israel.  Washington Post  David Ignatius
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  • War promoting hirelings of Likud, compiled by Jeffrey Blankfort.
  • July 21, 2004 Sting:? Weissman met with Franklin outside a Nordstrom's outlet in the Pentagon City mall in Arlington, Va. Franklin delivered warning about Iran agents in Kurdish Iraq.  Franklin / FBI sting. ICH.   Was warning real?
  • July 21, 2004, two pro-Israel lobbyists called Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler to pass on information that they said was from "an American intelligence source"  Washington Post  file ... FBI wiretap....
  • Sept 1 2004  "F.B.I. INTERVIEWS 2 SUSPECTED OF PASSING SECRETS TO ISRAEL By David Johnston  New York Times September 1, 2004 WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted..."  Shalom Center
  • Sept 7,  2004  Bellaciao Neocons go bananas over AIPAC spy scandal, but there’s a method to their madness 6 comments by Justin Raimondo  "F*cking crazies" - that’s how Colin Powell described the neoconservatives to Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during the run-up to the Iraq war, according to The Accidental American : Tony Blair and the Presidency, by BBC broadcaster James Naughtie, due to be released this week in the U.S. To which one can only add : you got that one right, brutha.  The neocons are certainly crazed in the megalomaniacal sense to suggest that the American response to 9/11 must be to somehow "democratize" at gunpoint a region that has never gotten out of the Middle Ages and launch a worldwide struggle against a religion of a billion-plus adherents. But crazy also implies out-of-control, and that is most certainly not what is occurring here : in the case of the neocons, we’re talking crazy like a fox....  Sure it was crazy to go into Iraq, with no credible plan, against the advice of senior military commanders, in a way that virtually ensured the disaster we are now seeing unfold in all its bloody, criminal futility. Powell and his realist confreres in the national security bureaucracy saw this early on. But what they didn’t see - or didn’t let us in on at the time - is that there’s a method to this madness.  
  • Aug 3, 2004? Iraq, Sting: Rosen or  Weissman were told diplomats at the Israeli Embassy in Washington about the "classified" information, which claimed Iranians were monitoring and planning to kidnap and kill Israelis operating in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq,.  It's unclear whether this is true or not? Jerusalem Post, Forward
  • Aug 12, 2004 Judith Miller received subpoena to testify about conversations she might have had with government officials concerning undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame  New York Times 
  • Aug  2004 was directed by FBI to launch sting against Chalabi advisor Francis Brooke.  Miller?
  • Aug 27, 2004 the FBI raided (first of two raids) the office of AIPAC director Steve Rosen, copied his hard drive. 
  • Aug 27, 2004 CBS  Investigator said they want AIPAC information on contacts between Franklin, Feith and Wolfowitz.  An Israeli spokesperson denied everything.  CBS 
  • Wolfowitz and Feith
  • Dan Rather, CBS issue, check dates? smokescreen? Rathergate.
  • National Review by Michael Ledeen on "my pal' Larry Frankln, ho hum. Aug 31 04
  • August 29, 2004 United Jersalem (conservative)"Allegations of Israel spying Usually go away"  see indictment
  • August 29, 2004"..... Feith has been a target of criticism from Democrats who claim that two offices in his branch -- the Office of Special Plans, headed by Luti, and the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group -- sought to manipulate intelligence to improve the Bush administration's case for war against Iraq. House and Senate intelligence committee investigators found no evidence for allegations that the Pentagon offices tried to bypass the CIA or had a major impact on the prewar debate. But in the Senate panel's report on prewar intelligence" Washington Postfile
  • Sept  2004,  Franklin probe went dark?
  • Sept 1,  2004 "FBI SEIZES COMPUTER FROM AIPAC OFFICES By Janine Zacharia The Jerusalem Post September 1, 2004 NEW YORK — FBI agents on Friday copied the computer hard drive of a senior staffer at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who has been questioned in relation to the case of a Pentagon official suspected of turning over a classified document either directly to Israel, or via the pro-Israel lobby group".  Shalom Center
  • Sept 1, 2004 article search terms: Office of Special Plans, David Wurmser (see Cheney), 'A Clean Break' Netanyahu, Likud, Road Map,  Counterpunch
  • Larry Franklin, Defense Intelligence Agency, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith, reports to William Luti
  • Sept 6, 2004MSNBC story: "In the Pentagon, a suspected spy allegedly passes secrets about Iran to Israel".  Larry Franklin turns up while FBI monitoring lunch conversation.  Was there an Abu Ghraib smokescreen story?  Newsweek  interviews Ledeen on the story and he says Franklin charges are "nonsensical".  and Newsweek tries to spin Franklin as a loner in the case and supports view that Israel no longer spies on U.S.  Linked Franklin to Luti, Gingrich, Feith and Likud.  and also Washington Monthly  Franklin, Rhode were involved in contacts with Manucher Ghorbanifar and other Iranian exiles ....all in waring administration camps on 'regime change' in Iran versus a more cautious approach. Ledeen / Iran Sep 01   Sep 03Sep 04  Latest Entries
  • Sept 7, 2004,  Financial Times story? Whitehouse and Ashcroft leaned on FBI to 'apply the brakes' to the investigation.
  • and see Convertino whistleblower lawsuit against Ashcroft for violating the federal Privacy Act by leaking information involving him.  Their terrorism trial fell apart because of prosecutorial misconduct. ABC News
  • search: Michael Rubin of Office of Special Plans, Coalition Provisional Authority, AEI, editor for The Middle East Quarterly (Daniel Pipes)
  • Sept 11,  2004 Forward, (conservative) Coleman, Spector on AIPAC 'smear'
    White House Draws Fire From Congress, Officials Over Leak of FBI Probe - Wexler: Community 'Broadbrushed'
  • Sept 11,  2004,  Frankl Arab News
  • Oct, 2004 Franklin stopped cooperating with authorities, and sought  the legal council of Plat Cacheris. Jerusalem Post
  • Oct 5, 2004 ABC News "CIA Questions Saddam's Ties to Al Qaeda, Bush Administration Claims That Zarqawi Sought Safe Haven in Iraq Put in Doubt"
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  • Nov. 19: The New York Times, story by Steven Weisman, identifying Iran as a major foreign policy challenge for Bush second term, writes, and Tehran's support of violence in Israel and insurgents in Iraq."
  • Dec 1, 2004 FBI raided the offices of AIPAC again.
  • TIME article?
  • Dec 4, 2004 Jerusalem Post story published, FBI / Franklin sting to get Rosen and Weissman to accept classified  information?  see July 21 2004  Said unclear whether the classified info was real or bogus  Jerusalem Post
  • What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives
  • One of the AIPAC pair then told diplomats at the Israeli Embassy in Washington about the "classified" information, which claimed Iranians were monitoring and planning to kidnap and kill Israelis operating in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq, the Post has been told.  newsfollowup.com
  • Dec 8, 2004  Miller subpoena "On August 12 and August 20, 2004, grand jury subpoenas were issued to reporter Judith Miller and her employer, the New York Times, seeking documents and testimony related to “conversations between Miller and a specified government official occurring between on or about July 6, 2003 and on or about July 13, 2003, concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred to by name or by description) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.” Information Clearing House
  • Dec 9, 2004 Washington Post article on Dec 1 AIPAC raid.  Answers.com  and UPI said investigations began when FBI discovered new Israeli spying operations on the East Coast.
  • Dec 10, 2004 Washington Times article, FBI steps up AIPAC probe.
  • AfroCubaWeb, Israeli Spying Chronology, 1990-2005
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  • Jan 1, 2006 Arab News  Rosen, Weissman, AIPAC
  • Washington Post Bush spying, NSA, DIA...
  • U.S./ Bush planning Mar 2006 Iran attack? WorldNetDaily Aljazeera "U.S.’s Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss asked Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to support the air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2006 ... Over the past few weeks, DDP says, Washington contacted the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman and Pakistan seeking the same kind of cooperation." and Common Dreams watch for Bush bogus Iran / Al Queda links, and study relations between Saudi Arabia and Iraq Shiites.
  • Jan 3, 2006 Truthseeker, Syria, Lebanon, Jacobs Engineering, airbase in northern Lebanon watch? reprinted from Wayne Madsen and 7iwarforum search Aoun.
  • MSNBC "Why did some administration officials—including Vice President Dick Cheney—still lend credit to disputed reports of an April 2001 Prague meeting between 9/11 leader Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi spy even after the 9/11 Commission concluded the encounter probably didn't occur?"
  • Jan 4, 2006 UPI (UPI is owned by Sung Myung Moon) Iran War? article
  • Common Dreams
  • Pro Bush, Christian right wing news (war mongering): World Peace Herald, UPI, backed by Sung Myung Moon.  Search net for nuclear disarmament sites and support their efforts.
  • Jan 5, 2006 Kurdmedia Iraq War was for Israel?  and.. San Francisco Chronicle  Dirty tricks leak by West? Leaked docs.
  • Jan 10, 2006  Common Dreams "The Dangerous Implications of the Hariri Assassination and the U.S. Response" (Feb 2005 article)  and more from the main stream press Daily Star Lebanon.
  • Palestine Chronicle: James Petras: AIPAC on Trial, and see also Conference of the Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. AIPAC, Franklin, Rosen, Weissman case is about a war with Iran....beginning with the war in Iraq.
  • Jan 11, 2006  Fitzgerald quietly building a case against Rove.  Scoop, Jason Leopold
  • Backfilling article about Atta, Prague meetings, Cheney deception. (2002)  Prague Daily Monitor
  • Jan 13, 2006  NPR  "Iran removed seals placed by U.N. inspectors at a uranium enrichment research center. The United Nations wanted Iran to freeze its nuclear program" ....
  • Monday Morning  "Israel without Sharon Seismic shift in the political landscape"  and "Iraq: An unstoppable effusion of blood"  =(more at NewsFollowUp.com)
  • Kurdish Media "Kurdish- American ties thrive remarkably ....
  • Jan 15, 2006  Pentagon surveillance tapes showing 9/11 events are being withheld from the public because of 'Moussaoui' trial. see Flight77.info
  • Jerusalem Post  "...IAF trained for Iran attack...."the elite 69 strategic F-15 I squadron" had been equipped with weapons that will be tested in combat for the first time, and that two missile submarines were on standby: one in the Persian Gulf and the second in Haifa Bay. ....Iran's nuclear facilities.....are widely dispersed at some 40 underground sites throughout Iran ....Only if the Americans decide to do it, then that option is possible," Pedatzur said last week. Pedatzur added that the day Iran gets a nuclear weapon, Israel will have no choice but to abandon its policy of nuclear ambiguity.
  • Financial Times  "Hamid-Reza Asefi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, on Sunday said Tehran’s resumption of nuclear research was “irreversible”.  The declaration came despite an emergency meeting in London on Monday of diplomats from the European Union, US, China and Russia to discuss action against Tehran   NFU
  • Jan 17, 2006 Antiwar.com "World War IV, A Realistic Scenario"  "Ferguson's grand mosaic of the Great War's genesis, which has to do with such macro-economic and geopolitical mega-concepts as the growing importance of petroleum, the inevitable ebb and flow of demographics, and the ideological fervor of "Islamism." NFU
  • Demand that the Pentagon 9/11 tapes be released to the public.  They will show what really flew into the Pentagon that day.   Flight77.info  NFU
  • Jan 19, 2006
  • From the Wilderness, preview of 2006, Bush meltdown or will Alito protect him in 2007?  and Consortium News - Presidential power, whimpy 'left.  NFU
  • BBC  Israel and India it is widely believed have nuclear weapons but draw no criticism of U.S.  NFU
  • Jan 20, 2006
  • Berkeley Daily Planet.  War on Iran may be the only way for Bush to change the subject from Iraq, Katrina, environment...???  NewsFollowUp.com (Iran)
  • CBS Franklin gets 12 yrs. 3 of 6 felony counts dropped as part plea deal
  • Goldseek  dictatorial Bushspeak "“The Executive Branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act, relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the Constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as Commander-in-Chief and consistent with the Constitutional limitations on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President, enhanced in Title X, of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks.” Signing Statement that marginalizes Congress.  NFU
  • Jan 22, 2006 Palestine Chronicle Franklin sentenced to 12 years.
  • Turkish Press "The operation launched against the terrorist organization PKK in eastern province of Tunceli and rural parts of southeastern Diyarbakir is backed by the helicopters and it still continues. Totally 350 PKK terrorists have been encircled in the operation."
  • Franklin sentenced to 12 years after pleading guilty
  • Jan 23, 2006 First Amendment Center "Libby's lawyers seek to subpoena reporters' notes.....Libby's trial strategy will be identifying other government officials who knew Plame was a CIA operative and told reporters about it. NFU
  • see Flight77.info, demand release of Pentagon 9/11 surveillance tapes.
  • Scoop.co.nz  "January 23 letter to Libby's defense team states, "we (Fitzgerald) advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system."
  • Jan 25, 2006 IRIN News  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.  Lebanon timeline 2000-2005 NFU
  • Zaman Online  Too complex a scenario for Cheney to attack Iran before the U.S. Elections?
  • Jews Against Zionism "AIPAC: A Danger For Jews; Orthodox Jews Will Assemble to Protest Against AIPAC.."
  • Jan 27, 2006
  • CCR four men suing the U.S. government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse in the wake of the September 11 attacks" Turkmen v. Ashcroft ..Will help focus attention on Bush warrantless spying on Americans  NFU
  • Asia Times  "Turkey warms to talk, not action, in Iraq...but ...Redep Tayyip Erdogan said that the US was seriously considering striking Iran some time in 2006, and he asked the Turks to share intelligence on Iran.  More important, from a Turkish point of view, Goss also told Ankara that if it cooperated, the US would "green light" a Turkish cross-border attack on the People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), now known as the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress. The PKK has a 10,000-strong militia in the mountains of northern Iraq"
  • Jan 29, 2006
  • San Francisco Chronicle, Libby, Reporters, smoke screen.
  • Palestine Chronicle, "The Tyranny of Israel Over America, ...spies, moles and collaborators working for a foreign governmnet in the U.S. for over 30 years with impunity."  NFU
  • Kurdish Media "striking similarities between Scottish and Kurdish histories.  ...clan loyalty or Kurdish people loyalty?
  • Jan 30, 2006
  • Asia Times "A High Risk Game of Nuclear Chicken" search terms: thinking the unthinkable, preemptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, neo-con control, Ahmadinejad, Olmert, Security Council, Natanz, all options are on the table, yellowcake, uranium hexafloride, enrichment, U-235, weapons grade nuclear fuel, USEC, US Enrichment Corporation, National Council of Resistance of Iran, the NCRI is a political wing of the People's Mujahideen of Iran, Bush=Ahmadinejad, ridee out sanctions, Will Iran call Bush's bluff.  by F. William Engdahl.NFU
  • Can Bush be stopped from launching a nuclear attack against Iran?
  • Feb 1, 2006  DailyDeLay "Blunt=Boehner=DeLay....Both Blunt and Boehner have political action committees that employ Jim Ellis, who was indicted along with DeLay. Both PACs have retained Alexander Strategy Group, whose partners include former Abramoff and DeLay associates".
  • search terms: Abramoff, Judith Miller, Israel  NFU
  • Feb 3, 2006 New York Times  Federal agents.... are trying to determine whether reporters (David S. Cloud and Steven R. Weisman) received national security information (from AIPAC) intended to influence their reporting on the Middle East.
  • Asia Times, "Spying, Lying and Saying No...."...unchecked presidential power? James Risen.
  • AP Libby trial date set for January 2007, Republicans like it.
  • Feb 4, 2006 SSCI report held up on Feith report, Aljazeera .."Feith’s access to top-secret information can likely implicate other senior officials in the BUSH Administration, namely DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD" NFU
  • CNN " Congressman Kurt Weldon subpoenaed for 9/11 trial "The defense is seeking Weldon's testimony to try and show that the government knew more about the September 11, 2001, attacks than Moussaoui did"  NFU
  • Thank Rep. Maxine Waters for speaking out: .... Bush Guilty of Impeachable Offenses NFU
  • Feb 5, 2006  Free Internet Press "The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case alleged that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame, according to court records released yesterday."  NFU
  • NYTimes 2006 story about June 2003 Cheney conversations with Libby about Plame ID, Tatel  and file NFU
  • Feb 6, 2006  BBC "Iran said it would press ahead with full-scale uranium enrichment despite the UN's nuclear watchdog voting to report Tehran to the Security Council.....However, it said it was willing to discuss Moscow's proposal to shift large-scale enrichment operations to Russia in an effort to soothe any fears that it planned to make nuclear weapons" NFU
  • Phase II of SSCI report held up by Pentagon report on Feith, Aljazeera
  • Feb 7, 2006 Scoop, Truthout, Plamegate email evidence destruction, NFU Leakgate
  • Palestine Chronicle  "In 1989 seven individual Americans sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to require AIPAC to publish details of its income and expenditures  NFU Leakgate
  • Feb 8, 2006  " Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence....A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.." NYTimes
  • Feb 9, 2006 PR  "A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. NFU
  • Feb 10, 2006 Scoop Cheney spearheaded effort to discredit Wilson and detailed aides to dig up dirt on Madeline Albright in March of 2003.  Wilson knew war was about redrawing Mideast map, not terrorism.
  • Mail & Guardian "Libby claims Cheney approved classified leaks....Libby also argued that Cheney authorised him to release details of the classified National Intelligence Estimate." NFU SDFG
  • Feb 12, 2006 "allegations that the Vice President may have authorized former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak classified information in a time of war for political gain.."
  • Feb 13, 2006 Scoop "Now it cannot be that Israeli officials were at one and the same time "lukewarm about the war" yet busy shuttling back and forth to encourage Wolfowitz's evident eagerness for that same war. From all that we know regarding Wolfowitz and his ideological associates" NFU Iran
  • Consortium News "the politicization of intelligence has been a goal of neoconservative operatives for three decades. They have long understood the value of turning the principle of objective analysis on its head: NFU
  • Feb 15, 2006 IMC Chiapas, the Danish cartoons just part of neo-con setup for Iran attack.  Watch for world awareness and reaction to Iranian Oil Bourse, (see Global Research and VHeadline) the first international oil exchange since 1945 using currencies other than the dollar.  Bush/Cheney will do anything to stop this.  If Bush / Israel attack, will Iran will shut down the Straits of Hormuz causing a worldwide crisis and $100 a barrel oil.  and see Dawn Islamabad.  NFU
  • Red Nova  Atta identified 13 times before 9/11.... "Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the unit - code-named "Able Danger" - also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole....but the commander was not notified....NFU
  • Feb 17, 2006  Bloomberg  "Libby Request for Reporter Notes Should Be Dismissed, U.S. Says ...Fitzgerald....Requiring the production of the additional materials sought by defendant would unreasonably encroach on legitimate interests of national security, grand jury secrecy and executive privilege.'' Walton will address the issues on Feb 24th.  NFU
  • Payvand's Iran News: Attacking Iran and China / Iran Oil deals....before sanctions are placed on Iran. Attacking Iran file  NFU
  • Scoop.co.nz  "January 23 letter to Libby's defense team states, "we (Fitzgerald) advise you that we have learned that not all email of the Office of the Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system." Gonzales is withholding some...other were deleted.  NFU
  • New York Times   .." Iran would allow the resumption of spot international inspections of its nuclear facilities if it could continue limited uranium enrichment.  But the offer was immediately dismissed by a senior American official..." NFU
  • Feb 20, 2006  Khaleej Times  "Mohamed ElBaradei, has warned in quiet diplomacy that it will be hard to strike a compromise in the mounting crisis unless Iran can conduct limited fuel work" NFU
  • Scoop  Fitsgerald is focusing on Cheney,  his close aids and the NSC.  Joh Hannah is a cooperation witness.  Also a focus on Robert Joseph (responsible for '16 words' in SOTU)..was warned by Allen Foley to not use them.  NFU
  • Feb 23, 2006  AP  Moussaoui's lawyers had subpoenaed Rep. Curt Weldon .... to testify for Moussaoui's defense, but Weldon asked the court to quash the subpoena. Declaring he didn't want to be used by a "thug" like Moussaoui, Weldon claimed congressional immunity from the subpoena.  NFU
  • Free Internet Press "engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame..." NFU
  • Feb 24, 2006  Common Dreams  "How Neo-Cons Sabotaged Iran's Help on al Qaeda" ...""The Iranians had real contacts with important players in Afghanistan and were prepared to use their influence in constructive ways in coordination with the United States," recalls Flynt Leverett, then senior director for Middle East affairs in the National Security Council (NSC), in an interview with IPS."....all Iranian help with Norther Alliance nixed...  NFU
  • Huffington Post Libby smokescreen: trying to dispute the following: "The clear authorization for Fitzgerald's appointment comes from Sections 510 and 515. Section 510..."  NFU
  • New York Times  Judge Walton let Libby have his 2003 notes but no access to presidential briefs.  ..."if he agreed to order the intelligence briefs made available to Mr. Libby, the result would be months of arguments over executive privilege and relevancy that "would derail the case."  NFU
  • Feb 26, 2006 USA "Moscow and Tehran had agreed in principle to set up a joint uranium enrichment venture.....Moscow would insist on resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute within the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency...NFU
  • Palestine Chronicle  "Secretary Rice might want to consider meeting Arab and Muslim lobbies in Washington along with AIPAC, especially as Muslims and Arabs are the majority in the Middle East"..NFU
  • Feb 27, 2006  Scoop  Frederick Fleitz and Robert Joseph, "...played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson....they have been cooperating with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's ...have been removed from their jobs...." retribution...? NFU
  • News From Bangladesh Yamin Zakaria (IIOP) London, UK  "...The nuclear crisis with Iran is always looming to escalate even though Iran has not violated the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) treaty. Clearly the crisis has been manufactured by the West as pretext to attack Iran and like Iraq’s WMD it is a lie."  NFU
  • Mar 1, 2006 Red Nova "..some ..reports ..assumed..the exchange will be euro-based and have suggested that this poses a threat to "the hegemony of the dollar" and is causing the US Administration much consternation....Asemipur says that no decision had been made about the denomination yet.  see Oil Bourse.orgNFU
  • Reuters "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he had advised the United States against attacking Iran, predicting that Tehran would react through its influence over Shi'ite Muslim communities in Arab countries in the Gulf.  
  • Mar 2, 2006 Times Herald "Just as "Able Danger" was uncovering startling links to al-Qaida in the United States and abroad in 2000, the data mining effort was suddenly ordered to cease operating that April. NFU
  • Payvand News  "Iran is promising to bail out the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, following the victory of the Islamic militant group Hamas in parliamentary elections a month ago. Israel, meanwhile, has expressed regret over a European Union decision to send emergency aid to the Palestinians.."  NFU
  • Mail & Guardian  "The world is now in the first stages of a multistep "end game" for global domination by the last remaining superpowers...energy wars have begun in earnest and will keep on going...."  NFU
  • Mar 4, 2006  Strategy Page (conservative) "March 3, 2006: Kurdish popular sentiment strongly favors an independent Kurdistan. In contrast to their followers, however, the leaders of both the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which have been acting in concert for some time now to run northern Iraq, are proceeding very cautiously.  NFU
  • Asia Times  "Former army captain James Yee, a West Point graduate and Muslim chaplain to 660 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, has written an absorbing autobiography detailing his September 2003 arrest for espionage and subsequent dismissal of all charges against him."  NFU
  • AFP   "..Iran has invited foreign companies to develop its offshore South Pars gas field....Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell, France's Total and Spanish firm Repsol would "soon" sign contracts to develop phases 11 and 13..."  NFU
  • Sun Sentinel  "...Turn Dubai into an international financial hub...Dubai International Financial Center....Morgan Stanley is moving much of its Middle East operations to the center. Global banks, including HSBC Holdings PLC and Standard Chartered PLC, are expanding regional operations there....It was just months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and Dubai's financial system was suspected of being a conduit for some of the funds behind the plot...go the extra mile to try to convince the world that the emirate is serious about playing by international rules and standards....see also Qatar and Bahrain.  NFU
  • Mar 5, 2006  Payvands Iran News   "IRNA-Former US National Security Advisor Gary Sick said in New York on Saturday that any US or Israel military attack on Iran is a blatant mistake ...Israel cannot attack Iran unless it is with the US' consent....Stressing that economic sanctions against Iran will inflict irreparable damage on the entire world, he expressed his belief that no country will break its economic ties with Iran."  NFU
  • Mar 6, 2006  Guardian "Bolton says nuclear plant can be 'taken out' ... but: Condoleezza Rice, said: "Nobody has said that we have to rush immediately to sanctions of some kind."  ...  and remember: 2003...Colin Powell, then US secretary of state, laid out evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which proved not to exist.....Some believe Iran has secret facilities that are buried so deep underground as to be impenetrable  NFU
  • Zaman "International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO, Turkey) released an “Iranian nuclear crisis” report, which deals with the possibility of a US attack on Iran... advised to be an “active mediator” to resolve the nuclear crisis between Iran and the West through diplomacy ....
  • Mar 7, 2006 Scoop CIA Leak Path: Cheney, Libby, Woodward NFU
  • Reuters "Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney" NFU
  • International Herald Tribune Moussaoui trial directly related to Flight 77 Pentagon 9/11 WTC attacks....suveillance tapes that show attack aircraft are being kept secret...are part of the 'evidence' in the trial. 
  • Mar 8, 2006 Cheney AIPAC transcript file  ..."The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences"  and see Dawn (Pakistan) NFU
  • Libby graymailing? AP
  • Mar 10, 2006 Reuters "Abramoff worked with top Republicans"....its all related....Abramoff to Conrad Burns..to Judith Miller.....to Libby, Cheney....etc  NFU
  • Tom Flocco "U.S. intelligence sources within the Special Operations Group (SOG) are reporting that National Security Agency (NSA) computers have been downloading financial and personal files of all American citizens as a result of upgrades to the Echelon satellite network and software program which is part of the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS)."  NFU
  • Mar 11, 2006 New York Times  "...A federal judge (Walton) ruled on Friday that I. Lewis Libby Jr. was entitled to review a limited amount of information from (PDB's).... highly classified intelligence documents in order to defend himself against charges ....Judge Walton told prosecutors to turn over a listing of the "general topics of the matters" involving intelligence ...should turn over only 46 days of those topic summaries. Mr. Libby's lawyers had initially requested the full copies of the President's Daily Briefs for nine months.  NFU
  • Scoop "The 48 Hour Media-blitz For War With Iran"  NFU
  • AP "Iran Threatens to Use Oil in Nuke Standoff  ...About 90 percent of the oil exported from the Gulf in recent years passed through the Strait of Hormuz."NFU
  • Mar 12, 2006 Outlook India   "Iran has built a secret underground emergency command centre in the capital Tehran as its leaders prepare for a confrontation with the West..." NFU
  • Center for Global Research Iran Oil Bourse not a hidden reason to attack Iraq, NFU
  • Mar 13, 2006 Aljazeera Ira Leading rabbis of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist group of ultra-Orthodox Jews who consider the existence of Israel an abomination, met with Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Iran's Vice President, the top-selling Yediot Aharonot reported.
  • IranMania  "... expediting efforts to establish an oil bourse by April. .... objective of replacing the US dollar with the euro in OPEC transactions will come one major step closer to reality. ...  The oil bourse, which will be established as envisaged in the Fourth Five-Year Plan (2005-2010), has received support from both the Parliament and the government in Iran. It will enable oil-rich Iran to regulate prices at home without having to follow other countries? dollar-pegged trading system..."  and see Iraq War.ru   NFU
  • Mar 14, 2006 Haaretz "Lawyers for former AIPAC officials (Rosen, Weissman) seek to subpoena Rice, others...included Elliot Abrams, deputy national security adviser; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state; David Satterfield, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq; William Burns, U.S. ambassador to Russia; retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni; and Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA officer and current Mideast expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington"  NFU
  • Washington Post  "Vanity Fair is reporting that former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee says it is reasonable to assume former State Department official Richard L. Armitage is likely the source who revealed CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward."  NFU
  • Mar 15, 2006 Huffington Post "perfect storm might soon enable our terrorizing administration, its spineless congressional enablers, and the cheerbombers in AIPAC to aggress Iran, and perhaps even utilize deep penetration, bunker-buster mini-nukes to do it..." NFU
  • CASMII Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran  NFU
  • Mar 16, 2006 AFP Ireland, Yahoo "Jordan king warns against strike on Iran...Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that a strike on Iran would cause the region "to explode"
  • Asia Times "US$: Forget Iran, the problem's at home....By John Berthelsen ....The much greater threat to the US currency is the US current account deficit, which ballooned to 7% of gross domestic product"  NFU
  • Mar 17, 2006 World Crisis Radio / PR Web "Tarpley understands the current World Crisis as the bankruptcy of the Anglo-American empire, which its financier faction are trying to escape by a flight forward into an endless war of plunder -- enabled by 9/11, the invention of their own false-flag terrorist networks. Tarpley has a vital message for all people of good will: the only hope to stop the war machine is to face the truth and blow open the 9/11 terror fraud, which provides the war party with their only demagogic basis. NFU
  • The Street.com reports that Platt's Commodities reports that Iran has delayed the opening of the IOB to April. NFU
  • Mar 18, 2006  Independent, Bush threat doc
  • AP "Libby Defense May Highlight Infighting.....New legal documents raise the potential that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial could turn into a political embarrassment for the Bush administration by focusing on whether the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. NFU
  • Mar 19, 2006  "A former top State Department official (Richard Armitage) is suspected of being the first person to discuss the identity of a CIA official with reporters (Woodward?, Novak?...)... Others who are expected to testify include White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, former CIA director George Tenet and former Secretary of State Colin Powell ... Libby's team may try to pin blame on the State Department for the leak ...NFU
  • La Nueva Cuba reprinted from Jerusalem Post: "US monitoring Israel's Iran options ...The Pentagon is looking into the possibility of Israel launching a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities  ...  The sources pointed out that it is clear that Israel would have to coordinate with the US forces air control any attempt to fly over Iraq on the way to Iran, if Israel chooses to attack using the shortest route ...NFU
  • Mar 20, 2006  Guardian  "Paul Eaton, a former American army general in charge of training Iraqi forces until 2004, marked the anniversary with a furious attack on Mr Rumsfeld, saying he was "not competent to lead our armed forces".  NFU
  • Scoop, "Leopold: Obstruction Trial May Jog Libby's Memory ...... Some of the officials who worked with Libby in the office of the vice president and who are said to have faced criminal charges (and others) in the case have made deals with the special prosecutor in exchange for their testimony...Libby's "obsession" with Wilson lasted well into October 2003.  Fitsgerald's case centers on Libby's lies: Scoop   NFU
  • Mar 21, 2006  TalkLeft "It appears to me Ms. Martin was trying to coach and influence the witness' testimony not to convict Moussaoui, but to prevent the FAA from being found at fault in the civil litigation over 9/11. American and United are hoping for the same result -- hence her collaboration with their lawyers. NFU
  • Asia Times, No Iran attack.. NFU
  • Times Online "Britain pushes for military option to restrain Tehran" search terms:  punitive action, winning Russian and Chinese support for a Chapter VII resolution, John Sawers, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, open the door to sanctions,  NFU
  • AP Moussaoui   NFU
  • Interfax "Israel warns of possible strike against Iran if diplomacy fails..."  NFU
  • Mar 23, 2006  Los Angeles Times  file    "But under cross-examination by defense lawyer Gerald T. Zerkin, Cammaroto conceded that in the late summer of 2001, the approach to airport security was far more relaxed than it is today.." NFU
  • WorldNetDaily (conservative) "Iran orders attack on Israelis before elections...Iran has ordered Palestinian terror groups to carry out a large-scale bombing inside Israel before elections here next week, security officials told WorldNetDaily... The Tehran regime is looking to disrupt the election process and deteriorate the security situation to distract international attention from the pressure over its nuclear program," a senior security official said  file   NFU
  • Strategy Page "... the Turks are getting ready to occupy some frontier posts inside Iraq that they abandoned last fall. This is a routine operation, taking over the posts when the weather gets better, and then abandoning them at the onset of winter, when the chances of anyone using nearby trails into Turkey drop off considerably. The PKK gunmen use the mountain trails to enter Turkey, from the safely of their camps in northern Iraq" NFU
  • Mar 24, 2006  NarcoNews Narcosphere "FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is taking the judge in her federal court case to task for his seemingly over-the-top pursuit of secrecy at the expense of transparency and justice."  NFU
  • Jewish Times "Suppression of Witness Names Underlines Battle in AIPAC Case" NFU
  • Mar 27, 2006  Goldseek, protectionism new threat? How does it relate to trade deficit, and foreign investment in the U.S. NFU
  • Star Tribune "U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said the law, enacted by Congress during World War I, may be unconstitutionally broad and vague, especially given its potential impact on First Amendment rights"
  • Novosti  "Iran may continue talks with Moscow on a joint uranium-enrichment venture for its controversial nuclear program, the country's ambassador to Moscow said Monday. "
  • Mar 28, 2006 New York Magazine validates AReal911Commission
  • Wonkette:  Bush v. Cheney
  • Fitzgerald finalizing indictments of Rove and Hadley? Scoop
  • Mar 29, 2006  Kitco, M3 is gone
  • and U.S. fundamentals are truly scary...how is the related to Iran?  There was much speculation about an attack on Iran...last week.  It did server to bring to attention the effect of and Iranian oil bourse....which if successful would be a threat to neo-con / Bush America. NFU
  • BBC  "Russian warning over Iran crisis ... Some of the detailed demands to Iran are omitted in the latest draft Russia has warned it will not support any attempts to use force to resolve the stand-off over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that "exclusively political methods should be used". NFU
  • Mar 30, 2006 World Tribune (conservative)  " For more than a year, the administration assured Turkey that the U.S. military would eventually help ensure the removal of an estimated 4,000 PKK fighters from the Kandil mountains, Middle East Newsline reported.  But over the last few months, officials said, the administration has revised its position"
  • Mar 31, 2006  BBC  "Of course, the legality of any attack would be hard to justify. The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told reporters this week: "I don't happen to believe that military action has a role to play in any event. We could not justify it under Article 51 of the UN charter which permits self defence."  NFU
  • Paul Findley, Palestine Chronicle "In the summer of 1982, using U.S.-donated weapons, Israeli forces killed more than 18,000 innocent Arabs in Beirut and its suburbs. Although U.S. media gave the massacre scant attention, it provoked worldwide anti-American fury that became white hot when Congress immediately voted funds to restore the inventory of munitions Israeli forces consumed in the assault
  • Apr 2, 2006 Turkish Press Iran weaponry: hi-speed underwater missile, 100 meters per second, able to overcome enemy radar / sonar, Admiral Ali Fadavi, Revolutionary Guard naval force, medium range (2000 kilometers) Shahab-3 missile, multiple warheads. 
  • Apr 4, 2006 Kurdistan Media "Kurdistan's Future....Politicians, analysts and ordinary people are concerned about the future of Iraq, especially with the prospect of heightened internal fighting between Shi'ite and Sunni groups....But the political leadership in Kurdistan could also somehow manage to sustain current trends and keep Kurdistan safe."    NFU
  • San Francisco Chronicle: Iran Oil Bourse, "A Web of oil intrigue Rumored Iran plan has blogs breathless ... it's far from clear that the effort will take off. And even if it does, most economists consider it little threat to the United States  ...  "I don't believe the Iranians would dream of going ahead without Saudi agreement," said Chris Cook, the British consultant and former director of the International Petroleum Exchange who first suggested to the Iranians that they create the bourse ... the bourse could face serious competition close to home. Nymex is part of a joint venture planning to open an oil exchange in Dubai. Growing at breakneck speed, Dubai has worked for years to turn itself into a regional center for trade and finance, since its oil wealth is relatively modest. The Dubai Mercantile Exchange, scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of this year, will trade in dollars. NFU
  • Apr 5, 2006 World Tribune (conservative)  (see NFU Intelligent Design Jokes page 5, Sun Myung Moon, World Tribune info) "Kurdish unrest has spread throughout much of southern Turkey. Officials said some of the organizers came from such neighbors as Iran, Iraq and Syria. ...10 were injured in Kiziltepe, officials said. So far, eight people have been killed in what officials termed the worst civil unrest in Turkey since the late 1970s. NFU
  • Middle East Newsline   "Western diplomatic sources said that despite Iran's military buildup and increasing influence, allies of Teheran have been monitoring discussions by Britain, Israel and the United States of a military option to eliminate Iran's nuclear program. The sources said that over the last few weeks, Iran has received at least one warning from an ally that the West could be considering such an option."  NFU
  • Apr 6, 2006 Daily Star West "Iran has set up a sophisticated intelligence-gathering operation in South Lebanon to identify targets in northern Israel in the event of a military confrontation over its controversial nuclear program  ... NFU
  • New York Sun (conservative) "Bush Said to Have Cleared Early Release of Iraq Intelligence to Times ...I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush,  ...  the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter ...and file NFU
  • Apr 6, 2006 WMR After weeks of informed speculation that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was preparing to issue at least one indictment against White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove in the CIA leak matter, well-placed sources have revealed that Rove continues to "cooperate" with the prosecutor in an effort to shield Bush from the ever-widening scandal. This has temporarily delayed new indictments, according to informed sources.  Fitzgerald's decision to use Libby's statement as part of the prosecution's evidence is a sign that the prosecutor has other statements from high-placed White House individuals like Rove that implicate both Cheney and Libby in the leak of a CIA covert agent's name to the media. However, Fitzgerald also has testimony from Libby that places blame on Bush, in addition to information obtained from over 200 e-mails first reported by the White House to have been mistakenly deleted. Some of the e-mails also implicate Bush and Rove.  more search terms: NIE, National Intelligence Estimate, declassified sections,  200 emails deleted, aluminum tubes, Energy Department claimed they were for conventional use, 
  • Apr 7, 2006  Wonkette Scooter Libby: "Bush said I wouldn't get in trouble..."
  • “Third Motion of I. Lewis Libby to Compel Discovery Under Rule 16 and Brady.”  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) ) CR. NO 05-394 (RBW) v. )) I. LEWIS LIBBY, ) also known as “Scooter Libby” Case 1:05-cr-00394-RBW Document 80 Filed 04/05/2006 Page 1 of 39  file pdf
  • Daily Times  "TOKYO: Japan and Saudi Arabia called on Thursday for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and urged diplomacy to end the row over Iran’s atomic ambitions.  Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is also defense minister, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi issued the joint call after talks in Tokyo. 
  • Newsday "U.S., Allies Seek a Way Outside U.N. to Press Iran .
  • Bush poll numbers at historic lows 
  • Apr 9, 2006
  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, He was right about the Viet Nam Mylai Massacre, Abu Ghraib.....and on Iran attack preparations? 
  • The Australian "IRAN has shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in the south.."
  • San Francisco Chronicle "Cheney drove leak strategy, special counsel says ... concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" -- using classified information -- to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a critic of President Bush's war in Iraq.  ... 
  • Apr 11, 2006 "Gold Knows What No One Knows! Kitco
  • Huffington Post "Murray Waas Is the Woodward of Now....Today the biggest story in town is what really went down as the Bush team drove deceptively to war, and later tried to conceal how bad the deception--and decision-making--had been. 
  • Apr 14, 2006 OhmyNews  (Chris Cool) The President's New Clothes The nuclear issue isn't the problem -- it's the oil, stupid! see new sections on Petroleum Sharing Agreements and the Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Bitterlemons articles: "Yosi Alpher - The US and EU should embrace additional Israeli withdrawals as a way of reducing the ills of occupation 
  • Apr 17, 2006 Wayne Madsen Report,....on Pentagon generals, Iran / Bush saber rattling....
  • GoldSeek search on 'Capital controls' ...
  • Apr 18, 2006 Foundation for Middle East Peace "Evacuation of Additional Settlements on Olmert's Agenda"
  • Global Policy, Production Sharing Agreements, "Crude Designs, The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth"  Iraqi public opinion is strongly opposed to handing control over oil development to foreign companies. But with the active involvement of the US and British governments a group of powerful Iraqi politicians and technocrats is pushing for a system of long term contracts with foreign oil companies which will be beyond the reach of Iraqi courts, public scrutiny or democratic control.  Iraq 
  • GlobalInfo, Daily News Service of the Developing World
  • Apr 20, 2006  Mail & Guardian "Saudi Arabia: Put pressure on Israel as well as Iran ...
  • A Bush attack on Iran has nothing to do with our security and everything to do with his perpetuating Neo-con power.  Sign the petition. 
  • Apr 22, 2006  Asia Times  "HOW TO LOSE THE 'WAR ON TERROR' PART 2: Handing victory to the extremists By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke 
  • BBC "Iran 'has Russia enrichment deal" 
  • CounterPunch "Dick Cheney promised that Iran would suffer "meaningful consequences" if it refused to abandon its nuclear program--words slightly less stark but no less menacing than U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) John Bolton's threat of "tangible and painful consequences."
  • Haaretz "Lawyers for the two former AIPAC officials accused of conspiring to receive and disclose classified defense information got permission on Friday from the judge in the case to subpoena top administration officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 
  • Apr 24, 2006  Washington Post  (on FBI interest in Jack Anderson files on AIPAC) ... "When the FBI interview took place at his home on March 3, Feldstein said, he was surprised that the agents mentioned that they were looking into the Rosen-Weissman case and possible espionage "going back to the early 1980s." They wanted to know whether "we had seen classified documents" in the Anderson files, particularly about Israel and Iran -- areas of leaked information in the lobbyists' case."
  • Apr 26, 2006 OpenIraqDebate.com 123 more signatures needed to force a House debate on Iraq....218 required. 
  • Iran Republic News Agency  "Iran - Oil Stock Exchange - Minister Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on Wednesday that the establishment of Oil Stock Exchange is in its final stage and the bourse will be launched in Iran in the next week. 
  • Apr 27, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle  Rove's fifth appearance before grand jury.  search terms: Viveca Novak,  ..."Fitzgerald's probe also turned up an organized White House effort to refute claims being made at the time by Wilson's husband, former envoy Joseph Wilson, that the Bush administration had twisted intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fitzgerald recently said in a court document that Libby had testified that President Bush himself had ordered the leaking of a classified document that countered Joseph Wilson's claims ..."  Wayne Madsen Report says Fitzgerald has sent letter to Rove naming him a 'target' in the investigation. 
  • Iran ha received from North Korea BM-25 surface-to-surface missiles, 1550 mile range,  and  op-ed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, International Herald Tribune (Sun Myung Moon)  "Do not attack Iran" 
  • Apr 30, 2006 Scoop  "Target letters drive Rove back to grand jury"
  • Aljazeera "Petro-Euro: A reality or just a distant nightmare for the U.S.? ... It is an open secret that since the 1970’s, OPEC (i.e. Saudi Arabia) has been instructed by the U.S. to only trade in US Dollars.  ...  China, which is emerging as Iran’s largest customer, would have no objection to paying Iran in Euros and thus begin the move from the dollar to the euro." 
  • May 2, 2006 DEBKA File "The Dubai newspaper Al Bayan (out on April 30) quotes the Turkish leader as disclosing that, during her visit to Ankara last Tuesday, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice requested the use of the Incirlik air base for an American strike against Iranian nuclear installations. She was said to have offered Turkey in return a nuclear reactor for electricity, but was turned down.  
  • theRawStory "On Chris Matthews' Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed."
  • May 3, 2006 Guardian US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns effort to get tough Iranian resolution firmly opposed by Russia and China. 
  • MSNBC  "Judge doesn’t believe Moussaoui’s 9/11 claims Brinkema doubts how much co-conspirator knew ahead of terrorist attacks." 
  • Democrats actually 'demanded' an inquiry into the national security damage done by Plame-Wilson CIA outing.
  • May 5, 2006 CBS News Iran Oil Bourse (Oil Stock Exchange) will open.  But is it a serious threat. 
  • Sierra Times, (conservative), Karl Rove indictment long overdue. 
  • May 9, 2006 ThinkProgress "CIA leak grand jury meets, Fitzgerald in D.C ... The hearing will be a status conference requested by Libby’s lawyers after Fitzgerald disclosed in court papers that President Bush had authorized Libby to disclose sections of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD." 
  • Perspectives docs Plamegate document resource
  • Seattle PI, Iran fuel rods, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, UN Security Council, nuclear enrichment, P1, P2, centrifuges, Britain, France, Germany, letter to Bush from Ahmadinejad...get back to Christianity....
  • May 10, 2006 Friends Committee on National Legislation  "A Constructive EU-US Approach to the Iran Nuclear Dispute" 
  • Aljazeera Israel rated sixth largest nuclear power.  Nixon made secret understanding with Israel to pursue nucs, as long as they maintain a program of deliberate ambiguity.  search term: 200-300 warheads, Dimona, Negev desert, 1958, French assistance, plutonium/tritium production reactor, chemical separation plant, British assistance, heavy water, Mordechai Vanunu, 
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Common Dreams: Letter to George Bush.  Much of it is similar to the thoughts of the American left. 
  • May 12, 2006 Investigate these links: Hayden, phone records database, AT&T, Amdocs (Israeli company) Rice.....maybe even connections to elections data. 
  • May 14, 2006  Rove indicted  TruthOut Major news orgs not reporting this yet. 
  • Cheney the Focus of CIA Leak Court Filing. "Fitzgerald said he intends to introduce at Libby's trial in January a copy of Wilson's op-ed article in The New York Times "bearing handwritten notations by the vice president."  AP 
  • Persian Journal "On the 5th of May Iran registered its Oil Exchange, which will become the fifth Stock Exchange of its kind in the world.  .. as all trading will be conducted in Euros.  ..hydrate methane..." 
  • May 15, 2006  Goldseek "rising commodity prices ..... US retail sales came in soft, ... a weakening US economy may not necessarily produce an immediate decline in US interest rates. Such a shocking speculation has not been made in nearly 20-years. 
  • May 17, 2006 Jerusalem Post "Iran rejects European incentives to give up uranium enrichment, makes counter offer  ....Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, said Iran is willing to offer its own concessions to Europe in return for recognizing Iran's right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel. ....  "We are prepared to offer economic incentives to Europe in return for recognizing our right (to enrich uranium)," Hamid Reza Asefi was quoted by state-run radio as saying." 
  • Ohmy News  "publication on the Internet of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's response to a Court request that he describe the newspaper articles that he would offer in evidence at the trial of Lewis Scooter Libby.(2) Libby was formerly the Chief of Staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. ... The articles help to demonstrate that the White House was very sensitive to accounts in the main stream corporate media about its efforts to spread false information about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
  • May 18, 2006 Energy Bulletin collapse of petrodollar.
  • Aljazeera "US Proposes New Disarmament Nuke Treaty Banning Production of the Nuclear Material Needed to Make Atomic Bombs".. and CounterPunch.  "World's Biggest Nuclear Bully Demands Disarmament from Iran Nuclear Hypocrites By ERIC RUDER"
  • May 21, 2006 See new NSA National Security Agency pages, specifically links between NSA, Amdocs and Narus Semantic Traffic Analysis functions.  Israeli art students living in close proximity to 9/11 hijackers (never investigated) Ultimately ties back to WTC 9/11 
  • Centre for Research on Globalization,  Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming ... The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran's bourse alone would do, and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes. 
  • May 22, 2006 National Review Online, Internet Search for Rove Indictment
  • GoldSeek: "If Russia, Iran, and Venezuela decide to switch to Euros for future oil transactions, it could force the Federal Reserve to hike the fed funds rate to much higher levels to defend the US dollar in the foreign exchange markets. That in turn, could crush the US housing sector and rattle the S&P 500 stock index. Such a conspiracy theory is a dollar bear’s dream, but could happen if the US crosses the red line of using military force to shut down the Ayatollah’s nuclear weapons program." 
  • May 25, 2006 FAS  U. S. v. Steven J. Rosen Keith, Weisman Criminal Action 1:05 CR 225 
  • AP "Cheney may be called in CIA leak case... Fitzgerald said Cheney's "state of mind" is "directly relevant" to whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's former top aide, lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how Libby learned CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity and what he later told reporters."
  • May 28, 2006 IndiaMonitor  US's geopolitical nightmare (Shanghai Cooperation Organization and....)
  • Khaleej Times:  "Talking Turkey: Sovereign meltdown on the Bosphorus? Political risk is rising dangerously fast in Turkey. Three years ago, Erdogan was hailed as a hero in the Middle East for his moderate religious agenda, for refusing to join Blair and Bush in the invasion of Iraq,  ...." 
  • June 4, 2006 Centre for Research on Globalization, "Impact of possible military attack on Iran, An Iranian Perspective  ...  In Faw, Iraq, the United States has been giving the local people notices for population relocation, so that they could build a permanent military base there next to Khorramshahr and the Iranian borders." 
  • Guardian Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Sunday that energy supplies from the Gulf region would be disrupted if Iran came under attack from the United States and insisted his country would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel. 
  • June 5, 2006 UPI (Sun Myung Moon organization) "The International Bourse Co. was registered last month, with an initial capital of $2,000, and is charged with setting up the Iranian Oil Bourse on Kish Island. The IBC is owned by the National Iranian Oil Co., which has an 80 percent stake, and by with Kish Free Zone Organization and the Mostaz'afan and Janbazan Foundation, each of which hold 10 percent stakes.
  • June 7, 2006  FAS Government Secrecy Project:   Court docs and dates, Rosen Weisman, Libby...
  • search: AIPAC, Jack Anderson and FBI
  • California Republic (conservative) "What in the world is President Bush thinking? The U.S. and E.U. are apparently offering the Iranians the possibility of continuing to enrich uranium on their own soil so long as they comply with so-called "stringent conditions," reports AFP. Said one U.S. official: "We are basically now saying that over the long haul, if they restore confidence, that this Iranian regime can have enrichment at home. But they have to answer every concern, given all that points to a secret weapons program." ...It also indicates the President feels he hasn't sufficient political capital to launch a series of airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities  ...."
  • June 11, 2006  Scotsman "In talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, Olmert will also lobby for his West Bank redeployment plan, which has won U.S. praise but faces political hurdles at home and the misgivings of moderate Arabs. 
  • FX Street "Traders also remain on edge over supply disruptions in Nigeria, the world's eight-largest exporter, where militants released five kidnapped South Korean contractors on Thursday, after attacking a Shell-operated facility in the Niger Delta. The bullish impact of supply disruptions and geopolitical tension is being moderated by worries that high prices are feeding inflation and slower growth in key consumers such as the United States, helping push oil down from April's record $75.35.
  • June 13, 2006  FARS News Agency "
  • Bloomberg "China's Shanghai Summit Shifts Focus to Energy From Terror ....The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's member states account for 23 percent of the world's population, according to data compiled by the organization. Including observer states (including Iran) would boost the figure to 44 percent. The member states account for 10.5 percent of all the soldiers in standing armies worldwide. Including observer states would boost the figure to 17.5 percent. 
  • June 14, 2006  Iran Mania "We won't negotiate about a suspension of uranium enrichment, but the percentage of enrichment and its form are matters that are negotiable," Kazem Jalali, spokesman for parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, was quoted as saying by state media  ...  The package, from UN Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Germany, offers Iran a variety of trade, technology and diplomatic incentives if it suspends enrichment.   But Iran argues enrichment for peaceful purposes is an "absolute right" enshrined by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
  • Findlaw  Rove, civil law suit scenario? 
  • June 16, 2006 Scoop "Bernard Weiner: What Rove's Skate May Mean  ...  It may just turn out that Rove was so desperate to escape the likelihood of incarceration that he made a deal with Fitzgerald. He gets to walk away if he testifies against Scooter, and tells what he knows about Cheney and maybe even Bush, among others. 
  • What to make of Sealed vs. Sealed, and the case number: 06 cr 128 ?
  • June 19, 2006 SafeHaven, The Fed's Money Supply Armament is Underway 
  • OpEdNews "While nearly everyone -- even those in the alternative media -- were back-slapping each other over the Libby indictment, nobody bothered to read the fine print. Someone should have. Patrick Fitzgerald had been carefully groomed in Rudy Giuliani's office not just for his prosecutorial and intellectual skills. He's a GOP and neo-con loyalist to the bone. More simply put, a trusted servant who could be counted on to contain criminal investigations -- and subsequent sinking political fortunes -- that often result from large-scale Republican corruption." 
  • June 21, 2006 Antiwar  "The news that he (Juan Cole, Informed Comment) was up for an appointment at Yale University, to head up a new department of Middle Eastern studies, was just what the Lobby needed to hear to swing into action.  Cole's sin: he, like Mearsheimer and Walt, had noted the inordinate influence of what The Nation magazine termed "American Likudniks" on the course of our foreign policy, and it wasn't long before the appointment was buried in a blizzard of outraged op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun ..."
  • GoldSeek "The US Federal Reserve must make a choice. Continue to hike rates in order to support the USDollar with maintain the advantageous bond yield? Continue to hike rates in order to attract foreign USTreasury Bond purchasers in incremental credit supply? Doing so places considerable stress on the housing market. 
  • June 22, 2006 FX Street futures markets news.  "The Russians have opened up a Rubble-denominated oil bourse. The Iranians are on their way to opening a Euro-denominated bourse. The Venezuelans are likely to toy with the idea as well." 
  • JTA "Alleged AIPAC informant promoted   ...  The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case. The State Department last week announced Satterfield’s promotion to senior adviser on Iraq to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state. Satterfield was promoted from deputy ambassador to Baghdad. Satterfield is cited in the indictment against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, as one of three government officials who shared information with Rosen.  Satterfield is described as meeting with Rosen in 2002, when Satterfield was second in command at the State Department’s Near East desk.  Prosecutors refuse to explain why Satterfield escaped prosecution for leaking information. 
  • June 26, 2006 Harretz  more on Jack Anderson, prosecution of journalists and lobbyists. 
  • June 28, 2006 Socialist International  "Socialist International President George Papandreou and Socialist International Secretary General Luis Ayala held meetings today in Tehran with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani to reaffirm the backing of the International for negotiations leading to a resolution of the nuclear issue in Iran. 
  • Antiwar "The Cabal, Outed The spies who lied us into war are at it again  ...  The answer is that the foundations for this massive propaganda blitz and subsequent ratcheting-up of war hysteria were laid at about the same time as the Iraqi misadventure was conceived. The same people who lied us into war with Iraq have all along been deeply involved in a similar effort in regard to Iran: indeed, the two projects are intimately intertwined, as Laura Rozen – a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and one of the most consistently interesting reporters on the international affairs beat in Washington – reveals in her latest piece, "Three Days in Rome?", which appears on the Web site of Mother Jones magazine. 
  • July 1, 2006  OpedNews "AP: White House lied about Rove's role in Plamegate to avoid pre-election 2004 fallout as Rove told the truth to FBI"
  • PR Web  "Opening of Iranian Oil Bourse (IOB) which is trading in Euros not Dollars, an over-looked reason for US hostility towards Iran. Other major countries currently considering Petro-Euro and directly challenging dominance of the dollar. Whether it's to help stem a potentially collapsing dollar or the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, military options are likely to ignite unimaginable series of global events.  
  • Political Affairs  Iran: What the U.S. Isn't Telling. 
  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh. "Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear program. They have also warned that an attack could lead to serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States."  More search terms: Elliot Abrams, Michael Doran, NSA, air defense systems, seven hundred undeclared dock and port facilities along its Persian Gulf coastline, 'invisible piers, Straits of Hormuz, attack oil tankers, Natanz, nuclear strike unacceptable, Gen. Pace, retired officers Paul Eaton, Carles Swannack Jr.,
  • July 5, 2006  Inside Bay Area "One thing that's clear here is that if negotiations fail and the United States chooses to cripple Iran's nuclear program through military strikes, it should be prepared for the inevitable outcome: Iranians rallying around the Islamic regime.  Iranians' reaction to an all-out invasion would be equally defensive. As unpopular as the theocratic regime may be, an attack on it would not be considered a liberation, especially if the pretext is the country's nuclear program, which is viewed as a legitimate and sovereign right." 
  • Bellacio  / National Journal, Murray Waas "Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic Joseph C. Wilson"  search terms: "Get it out", and "Let's get this out". 
  • July 6, 2006  Persian Journal "Iran will start the initial phase of its planned Iranian oil bourse at the end of September. An oil ministry official told that his ministry had already presented the relevant documents to the economic and finance ministry and the bourse organisation."
  • July 9, 2006 New York Daily Sun "Ruling on Legal Bills at KPMG Could Be a Boon to Aipac Pair" 
  • July 12, 2006 AP and Guardian "Novak says he cooperated in CIA leak probe  ...  Novak's secret cooperation with prosecutors while maintaining a public silence about his role kept him out of legal danger and had the effect of providing protection for the Bush White House during the 2004 presidential campaign.  According to The Washington Post, Novak's column will say that he told Fitzgerald in early 2004 that Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow had confirmed information about Plame." 
  • Media Matters, Novak, Plamegate "In a July 17 column titled "The End of the Affair" appearing in Slate, Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens concluded that syndicated columnist and Fox News political analyst Robert D. Novak's July 12 column,"
  • July 14, 2006  JTA Rosen Weissman trial delayed again over classified evidence, the prosecution has asked for a delay until January 07. 
  • July 15, 2006 Scoop Plame Wilson lawsuit. and excerpt from Libby case: "The central issue at trial (Libby's) will be whether defendant lied when he testified that he was not aware that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA prior to his purported conversation with Tim Russert about Mr. Wilson’s wife on or about July 10, 2003. See Indict., Count One, ¶ 20. Mr. Grossman’s testimony is specifically relevant to show that defendant was told of Ms. Wilson’s employment and possible role in planning Mr. Wilson’s trip to Niger in early June 2003. This testimony will not be offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted; indeed, it is irrelevant whether Mr. Wilson’s wife actually did work at the CIA or actually did play a role in arranging the trip, or how State Department employees viewed the results of the Wilson trip. Likewise, none of these issues are relevant to preparing for Mr. Grossman’s examination" see Case 1:05-cr-00394-RBW Document 80 Filed 04/05/2006 Page 1 of 39 file pdf  and NFU Plamegate 
  • July 18, 2006  JTA "Prosecutors pressured AIPAC to cut off two employees charged with dealing in classified information, lawyers said in a motion to dismiss the case. The brief filed Tuesday alleges that prosecutors conditioned their decision to drop an investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on AIPAC’s agreement to fire Steve Rosen, the group’s foreign policy director, and its Iran analyst, Keith Weissman, and to stop paying the pair’s lawyers.  Lawyers for Rosen and Weissman swear in depositions that AIPAC lawyers and senior staff informed them of these developments in conversations in March 2005, when Rosen and Weissman were fired, and that they subsequently acted as the government had asked." 
  • July 19, 2006 New York Sun (conservative) "AIPAC was pushed on legal fees. 
  • Online Journal, "Effort to save Libby by discrediting Plame and Wilson continues By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer   ...   The story and the forgery of the resumes was an attempt to clear Scooter Libby of any wrongdoing while his major financial backers met at the AIPAC meeting in Washington to set up his defense fund. The fake Brewster Jennings resume stories were an attempt to garner sympathy for Libby and another attempt to smear Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson."    
  • July 21, 2006 Media Matters, Novak, Plamegate "In a July 17 column titled "The End of the Affair" appearing in Slate, Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens concluded that syndicated columnist and Fox News political analyst Robert D. Novak's July 12 column,"
  • JTA Rosen Weissman trial delayed again over classified evidence, the prosecution has asked for a delay until January 07.  A July 14th story.
  • July 22, 2006 Huffington Post Plamegate still leaves the 'why' unanswered
  • July 24, 2006 Washington Post Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman contended that beginning in late 2004, months before the pair were charged, government officials "subtly and not so subtly pressured AIPAC" to take action against Rosen and Weissman.
  • BBC "Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji declined to meet White House officials during a visit to the US, he has told the BBC  ...  You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it". 
  • July 29, 2006 Antiwar 
  • Pakistan Dawn "The five permanent members of the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) have agreed on a draft resolution giving Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment. ... The draft resolution is weaker than the earlier ones, which made the imposition of sanctions a more direct consequence of non-compliance by Tehran. The final text, worked out after objections from Russia and China, cites an article of the UN charter that calls for “further decisions” before any punishment measures are taken."
  • July 31, 2006 Wonkette "Murray Waas has another update in the Plamegate slog, and it’s a fun one — implicating the President himself in the smear campaign.    .....   But it’s impressive buck-passing (up, up, up the ladder it goes! Novak to Libby to Cheney to Bush!), and we look forward to Waas’ next scoop, “Jesus Gave Bush Authority to Discredit Wilson.”
  • Aug 1, 2006 ABC News  "US wins appeal to seek NY Times phone records ...  The case decided on Tuesday involves Fitzgerald heading a grand jury investigation into how Miller and fellow reporter Philip Shenon learned of government plans to search the premises of two Islamic charities, and sought comment from them before the search took place.  search leakgate 2004 Holy Land Foundation, Global Relief Foundation  etc. and Judith Miller.
  • OpedNews, AIPAC's Strangle Hold on Congress
  • Aug 3, 2006 AP   and Common Dreams   "Pentagon's version of 9/11 far from the truth"  search terms: "Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public" search terms: false statements to Congress, allegations turned over to the inspectors general of the Defense and Transportation departments, NORAD lies, FAA provided inaccurate information.  and see Common Dreams: "These dogs don't hunt"  
  • OpEdNews Bush Wants Wider War.  "George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as an opportunity to expand the conflict into Syria and possibly achieve a long-sought "regime change" in Damascus, but Israel's leadership balked at the scheme, according to Israeli sources.  
  • Aug 8, 2006 AlterNet  and Consortiumnews reported that the Israel-Lebanon conflict had revived the Bush administration's neoconservative hopes that a new path had opened "to achieve a prized goal that otherwise appeared to be blocked for them -- military assaults on Syria and Iran aimed at crippling those governments."
  • Environmental News Service Bush, Putin plan to control nuclear fuel enrichment.  search terms: central enrichment system, uranium, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership 
  • WayneMadsenReport "Larry Franklin, the Pentagon Office of Special Plans Iran and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and reserve Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was temporarily posted at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, served as a virtual personal liaison for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to U.S. intelligence sources who have spoken to WMR. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to passing classified information, including CIA Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), to two America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) officials who passed the information to an Israeli embassy Mossad agent, was sentenced to twelve years and seven months in prison and a $10,000 fine in January. The two AIPAC employees, Steven Rosen and Keith Weisman, were indicted for illegally receiving classified information. Franklin and other neo-con cell members -- Harold Rhode and Michael Ledeen -- conducted secret negotiations with the knowledge of Rumsfeld and Pentagon policy chief Douglas Feith -- with the Iranian government through the offices of Iran-Contra co-conspirator Manucher Ghorbanifar."
  • Aug 10, 2006  Washington Post "Judge Won't Dismiss Pro-Israel Spy Case ... U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that the 1917 Espionage Act is not unconstitutionally broad and vague when it seeks to bar receipt or disclosure of "information related to the national defense."
  • Aug 12, 2006 Antiwar  "Bolton Gets Sandbagged  ...  While Bonkers was busy (a) preventing the UN Security Council from calling for a temporary lull in the killing of Lebanese civilians by Israelis in "self-defense" and (b) strong-arming the Security Council into calling on Iran to give up its IAEA Safeguarded nuclear programs, Joe Lieberman, Bush's favorite Democrat and arguably the strongest supporter of Israel in the U.S. Senate, went down to defeat in a Democratic primary election." 
  • Aug 14, 2006  FAS Secrecy News "AIPAC Defendants Did Not Seek Classified Document, file   Case 1:05-cr-00225-TSE   Court Rules In a favorable decision for two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with conspiracy to unlawfully gather national defense information, a federal court ruled (pdf) late last week that they did not solicit actual classified documents and that the government cannot now claim that they did." 
  • Aug 17, 2006  Palestine Chronical  George Galloway: The SkyNews Debate Transcript 
  • Pipelines to 9/11 by Rudo de Ruijter,  Independent Researcher Netherlands  rudoderuijter@wanadoo.nl  
  • Aug 18, 2006  Free Market News "KNIGHTS OF THE STATE ROUND TABLE ...  The geopolitical stage has morphed into a chess game, overloaded with strategic requirements, where brute force seems an unsuccessful alternative to cunning and compromise. The United States is finding itself awkwardly outside looking in, as its monolithic power has been diminished  ...  If the United States is to secure a steady reliable source of energy supply, our nation must change the culture of its multi-national corporations. They must work toward a “win-win contract” rather than the increasingly exploitative direction of the last several years. 
  • New York Law Journal "Outed CIA Agent (Valerie Plame) Hires Cotchett Pitre Partners to Sue Bush Team"
  • Aug 19, 2006  Scotsman "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned against any military strike on Iran ...  Egypt has not had full diplomatic relations with Tehran in more than 25 years and high-level contacts are rare, usually limited to international meetings. But Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki came to Egypt last week for talks with Mubarak on the conflict in Lebanon and other regional issues. 
  • Aug 21, 2006 Independent.uk "Buoyed by the success of its proxy militia in Lebanon, Iran has rejected a demand from the West, aimed at curbing Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons programme, setting itself on a new course of confrontation.  ... search terms: "We won't suspend", sanctions, oil as a weapon, war games called The Blow of Zolfaghar, Saegheh short-range missile, Israel's failure to disarm Hizbollah in southern Lebanon, 
  • Truthout "Indictment Still Sealed, Fitzgerald Still Busy By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash".. that indictment remains under seal more than three months after it was filed - an unusually lengthy period of time, according to experts in the field of federal law. The indictment could be dismissed down the road, meaning the public may never get the opportunity to learn the identity of the defendant or the substance of the criminal case. 
  • Aug 22, 2006 CBS   "Calendar May Offer Key CIA Leak Clue  ...The calendar released to the AP is the first confirmation that Woodward and Armitage met during the key time (June 13, 2003) in the CIA leak case that was the focus of Fitzgerald's probe ..." 
  • Center for Research on Globalization "Iran, Little Chance of Nuclear Compromise  ...  Tehran will respond to the pending European package but is unlikely to suspend enrichment under pressure. What the world must realise is sanctions will take us further from and not closer to a peaceful solution. 
  • New York Sun, "Judge Orders Justice Department Investigation of Leak to CBS Report ... A federal judge has ordered a Justice Department probe into how CBS News obtained a story two years ago disclosing an FBI investigation into a pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee  
  • Aug 24, 2006 Leslie Stahl's original  report August 2004 AIPAC investigation
  • Gold Seek, Buy gold now! on its way up to $1700 per ounce.  "Where is the market headed? For openers it’s weaker than it was in October 1987, when interest rates were somewhat higher. Market deterioration began in May this year and more aggressive leakage began in August as the Morgan Stanley Business Conditions Index fell 9-points to 40% ...
  • Common Dreams "Bush Ensured Iran Offer Would Be Rejected   ...  Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) Tuesday, the George W. Bush administration had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) Tuesday, the George W. Bush administration had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. 
  • JTA "New ruling in AIPAC case raises questions about ‘foreign agents’ ...  A new pretrial ruling in the classified-information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists raises new questions about what defines a “foreign agent” and whether the government has the right to spy on lobbyists." 
  • Aug 26, 2006 Foreign Agents Registration Act  JTA
  • Common Dreams: "Israel May 'Go it Alone' against Iran by Herb Keinon ...  Israel is carefully watching the world's reaction to Iran's continued refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, with some high-level officials arguing it is now clear that when it comes to stopping Iran, Israel "may have to go it alone," The Jerusalem Post has learned." 
  • Islamic Republic News Agency 
  • Aug 29, 2006 TheRawStory  "Bush's dilemma over Iran - and his final option By Laszlo Trankovits  ...  Many in Bush's Republican party have long been sceptical of the effectiveness of economic and political sanctions that could be brought in the UN - or of efforts by European allies to negotiate a halt to uranium enrichment.   ...  Those worries could soon prove justified, as the looming August 31 deadline set by the Security Council for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment could lead to an impasse among the council's members.
  • Islamic Republic News Agency "The minister added the Bourse Organization of Iran has approved the establishment of an oil bourse and every thing is ready for its inauguration. ...  Vaziri Hamaneh said a plan for transporting Iranian gas to China via Pakistan is in the preliminary stage."
  • Aug 31, 2006 Bush deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium comes and goes with a whimper, very little on nightly news coverage ... typical if outcome isn't favorable to neo-con plan ...
  • In September 2006, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence completed and publicly released two sections of Phase II: The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress; and Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments.
  • Sep 1, 2006 Daily Press
  • Media Matters "Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage role in Plame leak exonerates Libby and Rove ... Numerous media figures have asserted that a recent report purportedly identifying former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as Robert Novak's original source for Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative prove that Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were not involved in the leak of her identity. However, Armitage's role as Novak's first source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvements in the leak -- both were original sources of the information for two other reporters."
  • Sep 2, 2006 Guardian  "Defiance, Divisions and Dilemas ...No one was surprised this week when Iran failed to meet the UN's deadline to halt uranium enrichment  ...   The Islamic Republic (Iran) emerged the clear winner from the US invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban. In Iraq the demise of Iran's hated Ba'athist enemy has brought the country's Shia Muslim majority to power in Baghdad  ...  Iranian confidence, international divisions and the sheer importance of what is at stake here make this a fiendishly difficult tangle ...
  • Arab American News "In reality, the expanded UNIFIL mission is intended to eliminate Iran's ability to respond to imperialist aggression against itself through the use of its Lebanese allies. It's a mission preparatory to that aggression, preceding Iran's expected rejection of the U.S.-backed "generous offer" to Iran and reiteration of its inalienable right according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium."
  • Sep 3, 2006 Antiwar  " AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails ... by Grant F. Smith An Aug. 9, 2006, opinion by presiding Judge T.S. Ellis III [.pdf] has dealt a decisive blow to forces supporting full dismissal of the AIPAC espionage case.
  • Sep 7, 2006 IPS News  "Intel Estimate on Iran Blocks Neo-Con Plans ...  The neoconservatives can be expected to work assiduously in the coming weeks and months to discredit the current intelligence analysis and substitute their own alternative as they position themselves for the attack on Iran they have long wanted."
  • World Socialist Web Site: "What lies behind the terrorist attacks in Turkey?" 
  • Sep 8, 2006 SABC News: "Russia demands equal access to uranium market ...  Putin has complained about barriers to sales of Russian nuclear materials to the European Union and senior Russian officials have demanded an end to US anti-dumping measures against Russian nuclear materials. Russia is merging its civilian nuclear companies into one state company - along the lines of gas giant Gazprom - to help it compete on the world nuclear market. Kremlin officials see energy - particularly oil, gas and nuclear - as a new arrow in Russia's geopolitical quiver.
  • Dissident Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky), in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office (Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi society and state, and its capacity to support the Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power (at a very high cost to the United States). 
  • Sep 9, 2006 Centre for Research on Globalization: "Canadian Media calls for Nuking Iran ...  The Toronto Sun article proposes the use of tactical nuclear weapons or so-called mini-nukes with an explosive capacity between one third to six times a Hiroshima bomb .."
  • Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments, Senate Intelligence Committee report  and The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress
  • Sep 16, 2006 Indymedia Rosen Weissman AIPAC  "Ten years after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu summoned a group of American policy makers to recommend strategies and policies that would best serve the interests of Israel, the implications of these recommendations outlined in the document entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” are finally becoming a reality
  • Sep 19, 2006 see latest research on Ledeen, fascism, / Chalabi duped neocons into invading Iraq. pages 
  • Uruknet "The Armitage Confession & the Niger Problem I Am a Curious Yellowcake DAVE LINDORFF ...  the real issue has largely been left unaddressed, namely: Why did the White House go to such lengths to try to attack and discredit Wilson, a career diplomat? 
  • Turkish Weekly "According to BBC, Kurdish soldiers were secretly trained by former Israeli commandos in northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations ...  The BBC reports on Tuesday that former Israel Defense Forces commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in Northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations"  more search terms: Erbil, Irbil international airport, permanent bases in Iraq.
  • Sep 26, 2006 Aljazeera "West foiled Arab bid to declare Israel atomic ... 15 Arab countries prepared a draft resolution on behalf of the Arab League to the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting concerning "Israel's nuclear capacities and threats", senior diplomat of an Arab country revealed to Agence France Press, adding that the draft resolution also won the backing of Indonesia, Iran, Cuba, Malaysia and Venezuela. 
  • Antiwar  "Crisis Is Upon Us by Paul Craig Roberts ...  Military experts point out that at a time when generals are calling for more troops for Afghanistan and Iraq, it would be ill-advised for Bush to add Iran to the war theater. Experts note that Iran is well armed with missiles capable of attacking U.S. ships and oil facilities throughout the Middle East and that Iran can direct its Shi'ite allies in Iraq to assault U.S. troops there and set in motion terrorist actions throughout the Middle East.  ... Nevertheless, the Bush administration continues to send war signals."
  • Sep 29, 2006 Jesse Ventura questions official 9/11 'story' 
  • Oct 3, 2006USA Today "A top Iranian nuclear official proposed Tuesday that France create a consortium to enrich Iran's uranium, in a bid to satisfy the international community's demands for outside oversight of Tehran's nuclear program."
  • Oct 10, 2006 Is the October Surprise a nuclear attack on Iran?  Nation
  • Oct 12, 2006 Harretz  "New pro-Israel lobby as alternative to AIPAC  ...  Dovish pro-Israel members of the American Jewish community are planning to set up a pro-Israel alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby (AIPAC), the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported yesterday.  Among the figures behind the initiative are billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has not been involved with Israeli issues until now, philanthropists Edgar and Charles Bronfman and Mel Levine, a former Democratic congressman and now high-powered West Coast lawyer.   Meretz chairman MK Yossi Beilin yesterday commended the establishment of the new lobby. Beilin told Haaretz that the lobby would not compete with AIPAC but portray another facet of American Jewry."
  • Oct 12, 2006 New Jersey Jewish Standard  "Soros, doves consider AIPAC alternative By Ron Kampeas View all articles by Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON – A top staffer for billionaire philanthropist George Soros met recently with senior representatives of the dovish pro-Israel community to discuss setting up an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, JTA has learned.  Morton Halperin, a director of Soros’ Open Society Institute and a veteran of senior positions in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations, confirmed to JTA that the meeting took place late last month.
  • Oct 18, 2006 Znet "Roadmap to Nowhere ...  What has been the role of the Pro-Israel lobby in shaping U.S. policies?  Interestingly, in 2005, during the whole period of U.S. heavy pressure on Israel, AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and other lobby groups were completely silent. As I detail in the book, this compliance was helped by the investigation, and later the indictment of two AIPAC officials - its policy director, Steven Rosen, and Iran specialist Keith Weissman. It transpired that the powerful Pro-Israel lobby could be silenced easily, if the White House so desired. This confirms what Chomsky and others have been arguing for years - that the Pro-Israel lobbies are powerful only as long as their pressure is in line with U.S. policies. 
  • Oct 21, 2006 Silha Center for the Study of Ethics and Law, Rosen Weissman trial postponed until January 2007 ...  Financial Tracking Program Major U.S.Newspapers Report On Classi . ed Financial Tracking Program 
  • search MSNBC: Fitzgerald, Armitage 
  • Oct 31, 2006 Debka File, "Hundreds of US and allied war ships foregathered in the strategic seas of the Middle East and India in the last days of October 2006 for two primary missions: To prepare for a US-led military strike against Iran which has stepped up its uranium enrichment program with a second centrifuge project - undeterred by the prospect of UN sanctions; and measures to fend off palpable al Qaeda threats to oil targets. DEBKAfile’s military sources provide details of the massive deployments: 1. A large-scale US-Indian sea exercise called Malabar 06 is in progress off the Indian coast of Goa, ending Nov. 5. The American vessels taking part are the USS Boxer carrier, the USS Bunker Hill guided missile battle cruiser, the guided missile destroyer USS Howard and the USS Benfold , as well as the Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine Providence and the Canadian guided missile frigate HMCS Ottawa . Indian maritime might is displayed with its warships like INS Beas , INS Mysore , INS Shakti , INS Ganga , tanking ship INS Gharial , submarine INS Shankush and Coast Guard ship CGS Samar" 
  • Mehr News "U.S. cannot get Russia and China on board to sanction Iran: analyst TEHRAN, Oct. 7 (MNA) -- The United States will not be able to convince Russia and China to join efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program in the short or even the medium run, international affairs analyst Hossein Purahmadi said here on Saturday
  • Oct 31, 2006 Global Research  "The links between Litvinenko, Scaramella, Boris Berezovsky, and other elements of the weapons smuggling Russian-Israeli Mafia and Litvinenko's poisoning on Nov. 1 in London, just a week prior to the November 7 elections in the United States, may indicate that a much larger plot was afoot than in just the corporate media fantasy that Vladimir Putin silenced a political opponent. If Litvinenko and Scaramella were involved in the smuggling of dangerous radioactive material for an early November "surprise" designed to influence the American election and an "accident" arranged by Russian intelligence resulted in the plot's failure, President Putin, if he is knowledgeable at all about the case, deserves the utmost thanks and gratitude of the American people for helping to expose what may be a key operational element of a failed attack on the U.S. or U.S. interests abroad and other false flag operations directed against the United States, including 9/11.
  • Nov 2, 2006 Antiwar " ... What Gen. William E. Odom calls the "biggest military disaster in United States history" was indeed an inside job, one carried out at the highest levels of American policymaking in spite of the alarm bells that were going off in the national security and intelligence apparatus. It was a good job of breaking and entering, a burglary of world-historic significance, in which American foreign policy was hijacked. In effect, a political coup took place right under our noses. ...   As I wrote in a piece for The American Conservative, the AIPAC case is the dorsal fin of something much larger lurking just below the surface. This was indicated by hints of Israeli involvement in the faux "intelligence" that was funneled to the White House, Congress, and the American people by the secretive Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon. According to former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski, Israelis enjoyed rights of unrestricted access and didn't bother to go through the process of signing in at high-level Pentagon meetings with U.S. officials."  
  • Muslim News "Report: FBI In expanded AIPAC probe  ...  Time magazine posted an article on its Web site alleging that the FBI is investigating claims of an improper deal between Aipac and Rep. Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. ... Under the alleged deal — which both sides vigorously deny was ever made — the lobby would actively support Harman’s bid to become the next chair of the intelligence committee if the Democrats win control of the House. In return, Harman would press the government to go easy on two former Aipac staffers, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are being prosecuted under the Espionage Act for allegedly communicating classified information to Israeli diplomats and reporters.
  • War games, US and Iranian Global Research and ADNKronos International 

  • Nov 5, 2006 Znet " ... Of Real and Manufactured Crisis ...The sheer magnitude of their recklessness in so short a period of history has been astonishing and belies making any optimistic assumptions about their future actions. I like to believe that we can pressure the Washington warriors to abandon their coming wars, and when it comes to Iran choose normalization of relations over dangerous saber-rattling and clandestine war planning. Normalization of relations with the U.S. deprives the ruling clerics in Iran of one of their most potent tools in their state arsenal for mobilizing and silencing the public. Without the latter the course of Iran’s internal politics will likely resume its natural evolutionary course and democracy and rights advocates will have a greater and calmer social space to pursue their objectives. Otherwise, the resolution of the manufactured Iran crisis through the favored neo-conservative muscular policy tools will only gravely exacerbate the real Iran crisis for a very long time to come."

  • Nov 5, 2006 CounterCurrents "Figures like mega-church evangelist John Hagee, who some have dubbed Pastor Strangelove, believe a nuclear attack by the US against Iran would set off a battle of Armageddon in the Middle East; he and his allies are literally pushing the Bush administration to attack for that reason"

  • Republicans lose control of the U.S. Senate and House.

  • Nov 9, 2006 Dissident Voice "US vs. AIPAC ...  there is simply too much evidence of Israel’s involvement (mostly through lobbying groups such as AIPAC) with how things are run in US. This creates a huge problem in a democracy; where people expect their representatives to work for their interest and not for the interest of a foreign power."

  • New Republic Online "Bush vs Times, Full Court Press ....As part of his leak-hunt, Fitzgerald subpoenas the phone records of Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau. When they refuse to comply with the subpoena, invoking the First Amendment, the judge then holds them in contempt. It's the Judith Miller saga all over again, only worse. 

  • Nov 15, 2006  RenewAmerica (conservative) "The president's unfortunate decision to withhold his announcement ended up being a major blunder, probably even a historic one. In the short term, it cost the Republicans the Senate. To wit: a poll on AOL News asked: "Would you have voted differently if you knew Rumsfeld was resigning?" Eight percent (8%) of the 283,363 people who responded as of this writing said "yes." Eight percent's more than enough to have made a difference. Both George Allen in Virginia and Conrad Burns in Montana lost their races by less than 1% of their states' votes. If either Allen or Burns wins, the Republicans keep the Senate. 

  • Aljazeerah.info  "Pelosi denies that the key issue is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza --- at a stroke repudiating numerous UN Security Council Resolutions that the US voted for and supposedly still supports. But clearly, that’s no longer the case, and hasn’t been for many years.  The real issue, she states, is the survival of Israel. This is the familiar mantra by which anything and everything becomes possible. Only, there's a minor catch: The statement isn’t true and hasn’t been since probably 1949.  If nothing else, Pelosi is well-versed. She recites another familiar line, the one about how there was no partner for peace until Arafat expired, when light suddenly came flooding in. Pelosi makes it clear that in her view the Palestinian leader Abbas’ real job is to serve as policeman for Israel. Evidently, his legitimacy largely depends on this. Looking after the best interests of his own people comes in a distant second." 

  • Nov 16, 2006  Progressive U. "Plame case may use Paula Jones lawsuits precedence to force Cheney to testify!"  ...  1997 Supreme Court decision offers no immunity to government officials.  search terms: Libby, Rove, depositions about there role in disclosing Plame's classification.  and attorney Joseph Cotchett, precedents come back to bite you, 

  • Nov 17, 2006  Guardian "A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies  ... The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaeda had been training Iraqis.  ... more search terms: Security Council, Powell speech 2003, overthrow Hussein to use Iraq as a jihadist base, Finsbury Park mosque, Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada, MI5, French intelligence, Osama bin Laden,

  • Antiwar  "What It Means to 'Salvage US Prestige' in Iraq 

  • JTA  Rosen Weissman possible trial by April 2007, hearing to set trial date, Judge T.S. Ellis, three other dates in January, April and August of 2006 all lapsed.   and also 

  • JTA   "The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC lobbyists denied a government attempt to make leaking information to a foreign nation a crime. The prosecution requested a “clarification” of an earlier decision by Judge T.S. Ellis in the case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s former policy chief, and Keith Weissman, a former Iran analyst. That decision upheld as constitutional a 1917 statute criminalizing the receipt of classified information, but rejected as unconstitutional the statute’s implication that prosecutors need only prove that the leaking benefited a foreign nation, and not that it harmed U.S. interests." 

  • Huffington Post, Al Queda and flight 77, How the FBI Blew It on 9/11

  • Nov 18, 2006

  • The Australian "No sign of Iran N-arms, says CIA November 20, 2006 WASHINGTON: A classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, ... "If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the administration from pursuing a military option with Iran," Hersh wrote, citing a source familiar with the discussion.  Mr Cheney said the White House would circumvent any legislative restrictions "and thus stop Congress from getting in its way," Hersh wrote.  The Democratic victory unleashed a surge of calls for the Bush administration to begin direct talks with Iran.  

  • Nov 20, 2006

  • New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, "The Next Act ... If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put “shorteners” on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.  ...  “They’re afraid that Congress is going to vote a binding resolution to stop a hit on Iran, à la Nicaragua in the Contra war,”  search terms: Boland amendments, Cheney, Baker, Skrowcoft,  Bush Sr., sale of weapons via Israel to Iran, Robert Gates, Iraq Study Group ... for some advocates of military action, “the goal in Iran is not regime change but a strike that will send a signal that America still can accomplish its goals. Even if it does not destroy Iran’s nuclear network, there are many who think that thirty-six hours of bombing is the only way to remind the Iranians of the very high cost of going forward with the bomb—and of supporting Moqtada al-Sadr and his pro-Iran element in Iraq.” (Sadr, who commands a Shiite militia, has religious ties to Iran.) and   The C.I.A. found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

  • Nov 27, 2006

  • Frontpage  "What the realists have in mind, then, is that the United States should turn a blind eye to Iran's nuclear weapons program, in exchange for Iran's help in easing our retreat from Iraq." 

  • Forbes "The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters (Judith Miller and Philip Shenon) in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe  ...  The Justice Department says the reporters' calls tipped off the charities (Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation) of upcoming government raids. A federal judge who ruled in the Times' favor said there is no evidence in the case even suggesting that the reporters tipped off the charities about the raids or that the reporters even knew the government would raid either charity.  In August, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that federal prosecutors could see the two reporters' phone records.  The government says the fact that the reporters relayed disclosures from a government source to "targets of an imminent law enforcement action substantially weakens any claim of freedom of the press." 

  • Executive Intelligence Review "Cheney (on recent trip) proposed to establish a new regional balance of power, through a Sunni Arab alliance with Israel, to confront the Iranian threat. Cheney argued that to negotiate with Iran at this time would be tantamount to surrender. A new military organization will be built, involving the Gulf Cooperation Council states, Egypt, and Jordan. NATO and the United States will be closely involved, and Israel will be a de facto participant. These moves led by Cheney obviously aim to pre-empt adoption by the Bush Administration of any recommendations from the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, to initiate diplomatic talks with Iran. ... more search terms: Michael Aoun alliance with Hezbollah, Sfeir and the Maronites, Sunni-Arab / Christian / Druze coalition, return Golan Heights, complete construction of wall and similar wall along Lebanon border.

  • from Dr. John Hagee, CUFI, Christians United for Israel:  "I have reason to believe that Iran will face a military preemptive strike from Israel to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

  • Nov 28, 2006 Trade Arabia, Iraq oil law,

  • Dec 1, 2006 Center for Media and Democracy   "The First Casualty ... Paul Moran was killed by a suicide bomber in northern Iraq on 22nd March 2003, just three days into a war that he had—perhaps unknowingly—helped to start.  ... search terms Rendon Group propaganda, the first casualty of war: truth, INC, Chalabi, WMD, Iraq invasion, al-Haideri, CIA, Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, whose sister, Sandra Libby, happens to be John Rendon's wife. 

  • The Nation "The Baker-Hamilton commission has not come up with a roadmap to success. Pulling out US combat troops could be accompanied by greater chaos and conflict in Iraq--and perhaps in the region. (In a Washington Post op-ed several days ago, Saudi adviser Nawaf Obaid warned that Saudi Arabia might intervene in Iraq to protect Sunnis--even if this could lead to war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.) But Baker has rendered a harsh judgment on the son's war. He has shifted the debate. Withdrawal--of some kind--is now the majority position." 

  • Dec 3, 2006 The Nation "The Baker-Hamilton commission has not come up with a roadmap to success. Pulling out US combat troops could be accompanied by greater chaos and conflict in Iraq--and perhaps in the region. (In a Washington Post op-ed several days ago, Saudi adviser Nawaf Obaid warned that Saudi Arabia might intervene in Iraq to protect Sunnis--even if this could lead to war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.) But Baker has rendered a harsh judgment on the son's war. He has shifted the debate. Withdrawal--of some kind--is now the majority position." 

  • Dec 8, 2006 Harretz "Did the government pressure AIPAC to stop paying Rosen's and Weissman's legal fees?  ...  The interesting development: In the courtroom, the defendants are now trying to convince the judge, that it had been the government's actions and pressure that led AIPAC to stop the payments. Furthermore, they are asserting that government acted illegally and as a result the prosecution should suffer dire consequences (the Sixth Amendment protects a defendant's right "to have the assistance of counsel for his defense")." more search terms: defendant's legal fees, Nassika, Lowell, 'get AIPAC out from under this - ensure it will not be a target of the investigation'.

  • BBC "Iran 'will help US to leave Iraq' ...  Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said Tehran is willing to help the US withdraw from Iraq. But he added that Iran would only assist if the Americans changed their attitude towards Tehran. ... Iran probably wants the US to drop its insistence that it freeze its nuclear programme before any kind of talks.  She adds that other conditions may include a timetable for the US withdrawal.  

  • Dec 12, 2006 Olmert, Berlin, quote: "Iran, openly, explicitly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel, Russia?"  continuing firestorm debate from December 11th statement.  Or was it deliberate?  and 

  • Antiwar "Israel, Alone The nuclear cat is out of the bag – and Olmert issues a warning…

  • Iran, holocaust denial meetings?

  • Dec 16, 2006  Independent "Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Thursday that he does not expect any government officials to refuse to testify in the CIA leak trial, but he did not specifically say whether Vice President Dick Cheney or other top White House officials were on his witness list." more search terms: Plame, Wilson, Russert and Miller are prosecution witnesses, Armitage and Woodward mentioned.

  • Dec 17, 2006 Jurist "Libby prosecutor not anticipating privilege claims by government witnesses ...  [JURIST] Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald [official website] indicated Friday in court papers that he was "not aware" that any government witnesses in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [defense website; JURIST news archive] intended to invoke executive privilege to avoid testifying, "and the government does not otherwise anticipate any of its witnesses moving to quash or limit trial subpoenas." Vice President Dick Cheney, for whom Libby worked as chief of staff, is expected to be called to the stand but it remains unclear whether he will actually testify" by Melissa C. Bancroft

  • Dec 18, 2006 The News: "Iran to replace dollar with euro in foreign deals ...  TEHRAN: Iran announced Monday it has ordered the central bank to use euros for foreign transactions and transform the state's dollar-denominated assets held abroad into the single European currency 

  • Dec 23, 2006 Antiwar  "Could Bush Start Another War?  by Scott Horton  ...  Everyone outside AEI seems to agree that the chances for his "victory" of a multiethnic, America-friendly, democratic Iraqi state have long since expired. The Baker panel avoided using the term at all. And as investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss explained to me last week, the US is backing the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) death squad leaders because they are the only ones (besides some of the Kurds in the autonomous North) who want – need – the US to stay. This is hardly the "road to victory" as it has been defined by the President."

  • Dec 24, 2006 Guardian "Iran Refuses to Cease Uranium Enrichment ...  Iran vowed Sunday to push forward efforts to enrich uranium and to change its relations with the international nuclear watchdog after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions designed to stop the country's disputed nuclear program.

  • Houston Chronicle, Moscow's U.N. envoy, Vitaly Churkin, argued that sanctions should be narrowly targeted at Iran's prohibited activities while allowing development of its nuclear energy industry, including an $800 million Russian nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran.

  • FreeInternetPress ... Former ambassador Joseph Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the CIA leak case and accused former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of trying to harass him on the witness stand.

  • Antiwar "The Israel lobby in the U.S. has recently taken it on the chin four times in a row, without so much as getting a punch in edgewise: it started with the arrest and indictment of two top AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, for espionage. They are charged with funneling classified information, some of it high-level stuff, to Israeli embassy officials. Then there was the Harvard University research paper authored by professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, documenting and decrying what they called "the Lobby" and its distorting effect on American foreign policy. Now there's the Baker-Hamilton commission linking the Palestinian question to our "grave and deteriorating" prospects in Iraq, and, to top it off, the Jimmy Carter book.

  • Dec 27, 2006 Baltimore Chronicle "Crime of the Century ... It now appears that the idea of attacking Iran is again moving forward. The Eisenhower strike force, armed with some 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles as well as a fleet of strike aircraft, and already on station in the Arabian Sea for over a month and a half, has moved into the Persian Gulf. A second carrier group, led by the USS Stennis, is set to start steaming toward the Gulf, too, from its base in Washington. Already in position are three expeditionary strike groups and an amphibious warship, all suitable for landing Marines on Iranian beaches."

  • Dec 31, 2006 AfterDowningStreet "Choosing Victory", Iran attack in spring 2007, or Cheney out? and see EIR

  • Financial Times UK, "In 2004 the vice-president felt confident enough to dismiss questions from Patrick Leahy, then a powerless Democrat, with a lewd invitation for him to do something sexually impossible. Now, he faces political revenge: Mr Leahy, the incoming chairman of the judiciary committee, has said he will issue subpoenas to secure documents that show whether the Bush administration authorised torture as part of its “war on terror”.  and search terms: no-bid contracts, Halliburton, ... A dead deer recently found outside his residence revived mocking stories of when he went hunting and accidentally shot his friend in the face. 

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  • Jan 3, 2007 Antiwar "Mission Accomplished The War Party meant to destroy Iraq – and so they did  ...  "With the entry of Iran into the equation, the next phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom could possibly include … a major invasion of Iran and pro-Iranian forces against Western forces in the region and Israel, and/or a global energy crisis. We may be better served to plan for repositioning in this strategically important region. While withdrawal may be necessary in Iraq, withdrawal from the region would precipitate a global balance-of-power shift toward the Iran-Russia-China axis, which would be very detrimental for the energy dependent West."

  • Separately, in early 2007, the Pentagon Inspector General released its own report on the intelligence activities conducted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and also concluded that those activities were inappropriate

  • Jan 3, 2007 Washington Times (A Sun Myung Moon organization) "Classified info ... While Mr. Berger's "punishment" (for stealing documents) was a pittance of a fine, former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin has been financially ruined and sentenced to 12 and a half years for passing along far less-classified information to unauthorized third parties. Unfortunately, disproportionate justice is inherent to the legal system ...  Rosen Weissman trial is slated to begin by the spring." 

  • Guardian  "News Media Seek Audio of Libby Trial ...  The Supreme Court releases audio recordings of arguments in major cases, and lower federal courts have ``started to follow the Supreme Court's lead,'' lawyers for the news organizations said in filings this week in U.S. District Court  ...  I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial witnesses include:  Tim Russert,  and these orgs want audio tapes: The organizations are ABC, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, CNN, CBS, Dow Jones, E.W. Scripps, the Hearst Corp., the Los Angeles Times, the McClatchey Co., NBC, National Public Radio, USA Today, the Washington Post, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Newspaper Association of America, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. 

  • Jan 6, 2007 Target Iran Scott Ritter 

  • Reuters "Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said."  more search terms: low-yield bunker busters, Natanz, heavy water plant at Arak, uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, conventional bombs, U.N. Security Council sanctions, pre-emptive strike, too much for Israel to take on alone, reduce radioactive fallout.

  • Jan 7, 2007 Times Online "ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources."

  • Jan 9, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle "The trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is to begin Jan. 16  ...  A federal judge said Tuesday he would not make available daily audio recordings.

  • Bloggers get access to Libby trial. 

  • China Post "Iran will avoid harsh response to sanctions  ...  New U.N. sanctions are too soft to hinder Iran's nuclear program or push Tehran to retaliate by ejecting U.N. inspectors, diplomats and analysts say. Iran, aiming to install 3,000 centrifuges soon as the basis for nuclear fuel output, is expected to avoid radical reactions to the sanctions that would widen suspicions it secretly seeks atomic bombs, not just energy for electricity as it insists, 

  • Jan 11, 2007 WRMEA "FBI Investigation of AIPAC Reportedly Has Been “Expanded” search Jane Harman

  • Consortium News, "At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming. ..

  • Salon "Did the U.S. just provoke Iran? Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.  By Juan Cole 

  • Jan 13, 2007 The Militant "Despite partisan rhetoric of "opposition" to the escalation, statements by top Democratic Party politicians indicated that bipartisan support for the imperialist war aims remains firm.   The "new strategy" Bush described had been largely outlined in a study by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. It was authored by Frederick Kagan, an AEI military analyst, working with Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army general and de facto operational advisor of the Bush administration. Kagan and Keane coauthored a number of articles and opinion columns arguing for the plan in recent weeks"  

  • Jerusalem Newswire "Russian admiral: Numerous US nuclear subs signals imminent strike on Iran ... and previous story  Times Online, UK  

  • Jan 14, 2007 Anti-war "On the Mideast Escalator ... by Rep. Ron Paul While the president's announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president's sharp rhetoric toward Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.

  • WW4Report, Scott Ritter, on Iran Attack

  • Jan 18, 2007 The People's Voice "Libby’s Trial Crafted to Protect Bush-Cheney Gang ... 

  • Freeze Congressional scorecard on Iran Attack

  • Jan 23, 2007 Antiwar  "The defense fired off its big guns on the first day, with Libby's lawyer, Ted Wells, rebutting Patrick J. Fitzgerald's contention that Libby had a motive to lie because the president had declared that anyone who leaked would be fired. (I note here that I'm citing not the "mainstream" media's account of the proceedings, but that of a blogger who has gained entry to the trial as a reporter, the anonymous "Emptywheel," whose reportage on the background of this case is surely one of the investigative wonders of the blogging world): "Mr. Libby was not concerned about losing his job. He was concerned about being set up. He was concerned about being the scapegoat.

  • Guardian  "Tehran power struggle intensifies  ...  Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces a fierce challenge from the man he defeated in the 2005 presidential election. ...He is trying to persuade the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - who has the final say in all state matters - that further negotiations are essential to avoid a potentially disastrous conflict with the US or Israel. 

  • Jan 25, 2007 LA Times  ... In the first such account from Vice President Dick Cheney's inner circle, a former aide testified Thursday that Cheney personally directed the effort to discredit an administration critic by having calls made to reporters in 2003"..and "she said, she discussed with Cheney and Libby how she had learned from Harlow that two network reporters were writing stories about the case, and how Cheney ordered Libby to call them personally, including one call that Libby made from his private anteroom outside of Cheney's office.  "I was aggravated that Scooter was calling the reporters and that I wasn't," Martin said" copy

  • Jan 26, 2007 WMR - "Deputy White House Director of Communications for Policy and Planning Cathie Martin, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief media adviser, testified at the Scooter Lobby trial yesterday that Cheney and Libby orchestrated the media attack on Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his covert CIA agent wife, whose identity was compromised in the White House retaliatory conspiracy against the Wilsons. So far, Fitzgerald has presented evidence of a deep White House conspiracy to punish the Wilsons for an op-ed Ambassador Wilson wrote in the New York Times highlighting that Bush's comments in his 2003 State of the Union address about Iraq trying to obtain yellowcake uranium from Niger was bogus. However, Fitzgerald took the road of trying to nail Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice, giving former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and, possibly, Karl Rove, immunity from obstruction and/or perjury charges and the much more serious criminal conspiracy charges that would also implicate Cheney and George W. Bush. In a previous statement by Theodore Wells, Libby's attorney, Rove was considered a top priority for protection from an indictment because of his important role in securing Bush's re-election in 2004. Fitzgerald has always claimed that he would not allow politics to influence his criminal probe. However, in giving Rove a pre-election pass and running out the statute of limitations clock to the point the Wilsons were forced to file a civil suit against the key White House perpetrators, including Cheney, Libby, and Rove, last June, Fitzgerald has consistently shown he follows a political time clock in a very political criminal case that rivals Watergate and Iran-contra in the involvement of senior White House officials in a major criminal conspiracy." search terms: State of the Union, yellowcake, "serious mistake", "Bush needs to explain", hand-written notes, NBC, Russert complicit in leak scheme, Woodward, Pincus, Sanger,  smoking gun, Watergate tapes, ....

  • Jan 28, 2007 Al Jazeera  ... Turkey Mulls Iraq Invasion ... Israel and the United States are believed to have been working together to provide the needed aid to Kurdish groups such as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, which has been conducting clandestine cross-border raids into Iran, seen as other means of applying pressure on Iran.  Also some sources say that the Pentagon has reached secret agreements with Kurdish, Azeri, and Baluchi tribesmen encouraging their efforts to undermine the regime’s authority in northern and southeastern Iran.  Bush’s fears and stance had been made manifest in recent arrests by American troops in Iraq of Iranian officials. 

  • Editor & Publisher, Cathie Martin, Media manipulation  ....  "Cheney, Libby and Martin spent the next week trying get out word that Cheney did not know Wilson, did not ask for the mission to Niger, never got Wilson's report and only learned about the trip from news stories in 2003." and see LA Times

  • Zmag "Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq? The FBI wants to know. search terms: AIPAC 

  • Jan 29, 2007 MSNBC "The vice president personally penned an October 2003 note in which he wrote, “Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the other.” The note, read aloud in court by Wells, implied that Libby was the one being sacrificed in an effort to clear Rove of any role in leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joe Wilson. “Wow, for all the talk about this being a White House that prides itself on loyalty and discipline, you’re not seeing much of it,” the lawyer said.

  • AP Libby's attorneys argue that the media campaign was based on refuting Wilson on the merits of his argument and that his wife was simply an afterthought. In the frenzy of responding to the story, they say, Libby forgot when and where he learned about Plame.  Fleischer's testimony will be key to the prosecution because he says Libby told him about Plame and encouraged him to keep it quiet. As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in his opening statement: "You can't learn something on Thursday that you're giving out on Monday."
  • Feb 1, 2007  IBD, "Judith Miller's bout with amnesia apparently is over. In the Libby trial, she can recall exactly what he told her when, something she couldn't when she had 85 days in jail to think about it. 
  • Alternet, Libby Trial: Smoking Gun for Impeachment?  By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. The Libby case testimony, centered on the chicanery of the vice president, certainly suggests that impeachable offenses occurred at the highest level of the White House. 
  • Pacifica Radio Karl Rove revealed identity of Plame 
  • Feb 5, 2007 LA Times 2007  Libby's credibility, "The closest thing to a smoking gun in the case so far are notes handwritten by Libby during a phone conversation with Cheney on June 12, 2003. Cheney told Libby, according to the notes, that Wilson's wife was a counter-proliferation specialist at the CIA." ...  According to the notes from that conversation, Wilson was saying that Cheney's office had expressed strong interest in the notion that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium in Africa. 
  • Feb 7, 2007 HuffingtonPost:  "Fitzgerald parsed his words carefully but said that it was well within the realm of what was known that two administration officials -- at the very least Libby and Ari Fleischer -- contacted more than six journalists. Fitzgerald mentioned that Cooper, Miller and Novak had been approached, and that Fleischer had contacted two journalists on the trip to Africa (he didn't say, but probably John Dickerson and David Gregory), and that the defense might call Walter Pincus, and then of course there was Bob Woodward." ... "Did Dick Cheney order two senior administration officials to contact six journalists and expose Valerie Plame's identity in an attempt to smear her husband?"
  • Feb 8, 2007 BBC Libby trial ..."Jurors have heard more than three weeks of testimony from witnesses. The defence will begin its case on Monday.  The final witness was NBC journalist Tim Russert, who denied discussing Ms Plame with Mr Libby.  ...  Mr Libby says that Mr Russert told him then that "all the reporters" knew of Ms Plame's occupation.  But Mr Russert told the court that that part of the conversation did not take place. He testified that he never discussed Ms Plame with Mr Libby. 
  • Washington Post, Journalism on Trial, Russert, Libby, lies.... and copy 
  • Army Times  Pentagon Inspector General, Douglas Feith, A “very damning” report by the Defense Department’s inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  “That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. He said the Pentagon’s work, “which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing.” 
  • Feb 9, 2007 MediaMonitors "Relations between the neocon-ish Harman and the House Democratic leader soured when Harman learned that Pelosi planned not to reappoint her to the House Intelligence Committee. As the committee’s ranking minority member, Harman stood to become chair if the Democrats won the House in the November elections.  The spurned Harman embarked on an aggressive campaign to persuade Pelosi to reappoint her. According to Time, the alternative LA Weekly reported that Harman “had some major contributors call Pelosi to impress on her the importance of keeping her as head of the House Intelligence Committee. These tactics did not endear Harman to Pelosi.”  Among those who called Pelosi on Harman’s behalf, according to Time, was billionaire Zionist Haim Saban.  Harman has hired GOP super lawyer Ted Olson, a former solicitor general, because, Olson told Time, “she is not aware of any such [FBI] investigation, does not believe it is occurring and wanted to make sure you and your editors know that as far as she knows, that’s not true…No one from the Justice Department has contacted her.”
  • Feb 10, 2007 Mail Guardian Online: "But Vincent Cannistraro, a Washington-based intelligence analyst, shared the sources' assessment that Pentagon planning (for Iran attack) is well under way. "Planning is going on, in spite of public disavowals by Gates. Targets have been selected. For a bombing campaign against nuclear sites, it is quite advanced. The military assets to carry this out are being put in place."

  • Feb 11, 2007 World Socialist Website And under heavy US pressure, India has twice voted with the US against Iran in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deliberations over Teheran’s nuclear program. But New Delhi is aghast at the thought the Bush administration may try to extricate itself from its strategic debacle in Iraq by engineering a wider war—that is, by attacking Iran and possibly Syria. 

  • Feb 12, 2007 Antiwar, "Secrets Bush and Cheney Can't 'Declassify' by Gordon Prather  ...  If "reporters" covering the Scooter Libby trial for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice had bothered to read President Bush's Executive Order 12958 of March 28, 2003 – entitled "Classified National Security Information" – they would know that it does not give the vice president the authority to declassify anything.  "But in an interview, Cheney said there is an executive order that gives the vice president the authority to declassify information.  "'I have certainly advocated declassification. I have participated in declassification decisions,' Cheney said. "Asked for details, he said, 'I don't want to get into that. There's an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president."

  • Antiwar on Feith, cooked intelligence, deceptions, Congressional investigations?

  • Feb 20, 2007 Washington Post "The government's perjury case against Libby will go to the jury this week after a trial that exposed the vice president's large behind-the-scenes involvement in seeking to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who accused Cheney and other administration officials of twisting intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. 

  • Feb 21, 2007 Antiwar, "Every moment we stay in Iraq increases the likelihood of war with Iran"
  • TPMuckraker
  • Feb 22, 2007 Harretz, Rosen Weissman
  • Northern Star His name is John Hannah, the assistant to the vice president for National Security Affairs ...  Hannah worked on what was called the "White House Iraq Group," a team dedicated to finding intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ...  A Feb. 11 Washington Post article quotes an ambassador as saying that Hannah remarked that 2007 was "the year of Iran" and that there was a high possibility of a U.S. attack. ...  
  • Feb 24, 2007 CommonDreams "Speculation Rages: Is Iran Bush's Next Target?  ...  Dispatched a second aircraft carrier strike group to patrol the Persian Gulf and sent Patriot anti-missile missiles to Arab allies bordering the Gulf.  Expanded operations against alleged Iranian networks operating in Iraq, conducting two raids, one involving U.S. soldiers snatching Iranians said to be members of the al Quds paramilitary force.  Accused Iran of supplying roadside bombs to Iraqi insurgents and vowed to stop the shipments.  Moved to bolster the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora with money and military supplies in a proxy struggle with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group.  Launched an aggressive financial campaign against Iran to curb its access to the international financial system, freezing bank funds and barring U.S. transactions with various entities. This week the Treasury Department added Hezbollah's construction arm, Jihad al Bina, to a roster of blacklisted banks. 
  • FoxNews "Report: Israel Asks U.S. for Iraqi Airspace Corridor for Iran Strike"
  • Guardian  "US intelligence on Iran does not stand up, say Vienna sources ... 
  • Feb 26, 2007 Scoop / Truthout "It was the defense attorney representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby who first told jurors during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial Tuesday that the government believes Vice President Dick Cheney told Libby to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to a New York Times reporter in July 2003 to undermine the credibility of her husband, a critic of the Iraq War."
  • NewYorker, CommonDreams: "the Pentagon has already set up a working group to plan airstrikes on Iran. The panel initially focused on destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been instructed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq."
  • CommonDreams, "Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran  ...  General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said recently there was “zero chance” of a war with Iran. He played down claims by US intelligence that the Iranian government was responsible for supplying insurgents in Iraq, forcing Bush on the defensive.  Pace’s view was backed up by British intelligence officials who said the extent of the Iranian government’s involvement in activities inside Iraq by a small number of Revolutionary Guards was “far from clear”.  Hillary Mann, the National Security Council’s main Iran expert until 2004, said Pace’s repudiation of the administration’s claims was a sign of grave discontent at the top."
  • Feb 27, 2007 FrontPage "Pelosi Hires Soros' Right-Hand Man ...  Joseph Onek, a 1967 graduate of Yale Law School, is currently a Senior Policy Analyst for George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI), one of the world’s major financiers of the political far Left. OSI is a member of the benignly named Peace and Security Funders Group, an association of more than 50 foundations that earmark a sizable portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways ... " go Joe, go Nancy...
  • Mar 1, 2007 Rep. Barbara Lee, Iran attack preemption legislation
  • Manilla Standard Hagee speech, ... at the July 19, 2006 Washington DC inaugural event for CUFI, after recorded greetings from George W. Bush, with four US Senators and the Israeli ambassador to the US in attendance, Pastor John Hagee stated:: "“’The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ.”
  • Guardian, sea-change in Bush foreign policy. 
  • Mar 3, 2007 PressTV, Middle East, Hans Blix, "Israel is now producing and reprocessing more plutonium to establish more nuclear plants and it should be forced to stop the process, he warned.
  • Mar 7, 2007 Libby convicted on 4 of 5 counts.
  • Etherzone: "CORRUPT ENDEAVOR, WHO LIED US INTO WAR? By: Justin Raimondo, "To get a glimpse of what we're in for, if investigations proceed, take a look at the details of a very similar case coming to court this summer – the long-delayed trial of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.  In this case, the umpire didn't get sand thrown in his eyes, because the FBI's counterintelligence unit had the bad guys bugged from the beginning. They watched Larry Franklin, Doug Feith's top Iran expert, as he offered Rosen and Weissman access to classified information. They listened to Rosen – the longtime spark plug behind AIPAC's energetic efforts to influence government circles – as he boasted to Weissman what a good catch Franklin was. They followed the AIPAC duo as they met with Israeli officials, including the then-Israeli ambassador, and passed on classified information of a highly sensitive nature."
  • Mar 8, 2007 ThinkProgress, "Wilson Responds: Bush And Cheney Must Explain Why They Outed My Wife Ambassador Joseph Wilson offered his first response to the Scooter Libby verdict during a conference call today.  ... “Now that this trial is over,” Wilson said, “the president and the vice president owe the country a much broader explanation of their own actions.” Wilson called on them both to release the transcripts of their discussions with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and called on Bush specifically to apologize for overseeing the outing of his wife ..."
  • Guardian "Where's Rove? Where's, you know, where are these other guys?" wondered a juror, Denis Collins, standing on the courthouse steps after the Libby verdict was delivered. Collins said that he and other jurors came to think of Libby as a "fall guy", someone who had certainly committed the crimes of which he was accused but who also was hardly acting on his own. ... Libby and Rove's falsehoods in front of the grand jury, in which they blamed reporters for telling them about Plame, were a cleverly contrived coverup. They did not believe that the prosecutor would be able to break through the curtain of the First Amendment or untangle the tale as told by journalists. Both Libby and Rove relied on the same alibi, hiding behind the press corps that they had manipulated for years and whose erratic habits they knew well. But prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was not about to be confounded by this device. He knew the law was on his side, and he received a judicial decision forcing the reporters to testify.
  • Media Monitors Rosen, Weissman: CORRUPT ENDEAVOR,WHO LIED US INTO WAR? By: Justin Raimondo ... :take a look at the details of a very similar case coming to court this summer – the long-delayed trial of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.  In this case, the umpire didn't get sand thrown in his eyes, because the FBI's counterintelligence unit had the bad guys bugged from the beginning. They watched Larry Franklin, Doug Feith's top Iran expert, as he offered Rosen and Weissman access to classified information. They listened to Rosen – the longtime spark plug behind AIPAC's energetic efforts to influence government circles – as he boasted to Weissman what a good catch Franklin was. They followed the AIPAC duo as they met with Israeli officials, including the then-Israeli ambassador, and passed on classified information of a highly sensitive nature."
  • Mar 10, 2007 Centre for Research on Globalization  "AIPAC Pushes to Eliminate Anti-Iran-War Language from Pelosi Iraq Bill  ...
  • Palestinian Chronicle, "The judge in the trial of the two former senior AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are charged with having transferred secret information to Israel, ruled last week against the defendants' demand to compel Israeli diplomats with whom they had been in contact to testify at the trial. However, the judge also hinted at the delicate question of the organization's relationship with Israel, and more precisely whether AIPAC has served as a back channel for transmitting messages between the administration and Israel. This could be an embarrassing and unpleasant event, both for Israel and the organization."
  • Mar 13, 2007 Middle East North Africa Financial Network  "The question of whether Iran will or will not be attacked is a hard one. ...  For sure there is a detailed plan in place but whether this can be implemented by what some refer to as a lame duck president with approval ratings heading south is moot. In my opinion there is only one way this could be done. Israel would have to strike first claiming Iran is a threat to its very existence when the US would "reluctantly" weigh in.  If this is the case, then Saturday's meeting in Baghdad was a red herring; an attempt to lead Iraq and Syria away from the scent to give Israel and the US a crucial element of surprise."
  • AP "Democratic leaders are stripping from a military spending bill for the war in Iraq a requirement that President Bush gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran.
  • Antiwar: "Pelosi's Betrayal "Antiwar" Democrats cave on Iran by Justin Raimondo Read it and weep:  "Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over Iraq. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran"
  • Mar 15, 2007 Reporters Committee A coalition of media groups asked for permission to intervene in the AIPAC espionage case today, citing an apparent secret request by the U.S. government to hold a substantial portion of the criminal trial of two lobbyists in secret.  The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 12 other groups, including ABC, Inc., The Associated Press, Dow Jones & Co., Reuters, Time, Inc., and the Washington Post, asked to enter the case for the limited purpose of challenging the government's apparent request to close the upcoming trial in this matter, and any other pending or future motion seeking to restrict public access to the trial proceedings or record.
  • Mar 16, 2007 Plame Congressional testimony: El Paso Times James Knodell, director of the White House security office, also testified about general security procedures and J. William Leonard, security director of the National Archives, discussed general procedures for handling sensitive information.  Also scheduled to testify Friday were attorney Mark Zaid, who has represented whistleblowers, and attorney Victoria Toensing, who said early on that no law was broken and has criticized the CIA's handling of the case.  file
  • Mar 17, 2007 WMR "CIA Director Michael Hayden told House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes that Valerie Plame Wilson had been a CIA covert agent up until July 14, 2003, the day Robert Novak revealed her name and identity."
  • Truthout Libby trial transcripts: " According to trial transcripts obtained by Truthout, former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney instructed him to divulge portions of a then-classified report to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Libby testified that Cheney said authorization to leak a section of the report had come directly from President George W. Bush, the court transcripts state." and see NIE from FAS
  • Mar 18, 2007 BBS News copy of Waxman letter to Joshua Bolten,  "Valerie Plame and her testimony on Friday  ...  made very clear her covert status at the time of the leak ... assist the Committee in its investigation into these issues, I request that you provide the Committee with a complete account of the steps that the White House took following the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity (1) to investigate how the leak occurred; (2) to review the security clearances of the White House officials implicated in the leak; (3) to impose administrative or disciplinary sanctions on the officials involved in the leak; and (4) to review and revise existing White House security procedures to prevent future breaches of national security.  full letter
  • Mar 21, 2007 John Birch Society, yes, JPS ... "Engineering War ... Denials notwithstanding, the evidence suggests that the Bush administration is fully committed to a “pre-emptive” war against Iran, possibly as early as April.
  • TheJewishWeek "Soros Won’t Take On AIPAC (Yet) Lightning rod financier and political donor — who favors talks with Hamas — puts off his push for alternative lobby, citing lack of prior standing in Jewish life. ...  In the article, Soros urged Israel and the United States to drop their refusal to deal with a new unity government in the Palestinian Authority dominated by Hamas, a terrorist organization that rejects Israel’s right to exist. He suggests a peace agreement could be reached that Hamas would ultimately accept under pressure from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, which have signaled they seek such an agreement to counter a rising threat from Iran.
  • Guardian  The firm Turkish belief that the US is playing a double game in northern Iraq. Officials say the CIA is covertly funding and arming the PKK's sister organisation, the Iran-based Kurdistan Free Life party, to destabilise the Iranian government.  US acquiescence in plans to hold a referendum in oil-rich Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Turkey suspects Iraqi Kurds are seeking control of Kirkuk as a prelude to the creation of an independent Kurdistan. Plans by the US Congress to vote on a resolution blaming Turkey for genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Faruk Logoglu, a former ambassador to Washington, said that if the resolution passed, relations "could take generations to recover". 
  • Mar 25, 2007  Globe & Mail Captured U.K. sailors missing in Iran TARIZ PANJA Associated Press LONDON — British officials do not know where Iran is holding 15 sailors and marines captured in the Persian Gulf, and requests for access to them have been denied, the Foreign Office said Sunday.  Iranian state television, meanwhile, said its Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran “to protest the illegal entry of British sailors into Iranian territorial waters.” It gave no details about the meeting.
  • Guardian new sanctions, Iran
  • Mar 29, 2007  Muslim News "Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was warned last month by a diverse group of British organizations of the devastating consequence in backing any military attacks by the US or Israel on Iran. The disastrous consequences were highlighted in a report by such organizations as the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) and Oxfam with the support of such faith groups as Muslim Council of Britain, British Muslim Forum and Christian Solidarity Worldwide and major trade unions, Amicus, GMB, PCS and Unison. Even former British Ambassador to Tehran, Sir Richard Dalton.."
  • Mar 30, 2007 CommonDreams ... Beaufort ... new Israeli film ... by Joseph Cedar ... filmed before last summer’s war, “Beaufort” is set during Israel’s 18-year occupation of Lebanon, which ended seven years ago. But its story of a shell-shocked Israeli unit charged with defending and dismantling a military outpost established at a 12th-century Crusader castle resonates today as confidence in the Israeli government remains low over what Israelis believe was a disappointing end to last summer’s war.
  • Apr 10, 2007 Uruknet In case you missed it: Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi Rice leaked them classified info:  Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters. Lawyer for Steve Rosen (AIPAC’s former foreign policy director) said Rice had not merely been Rosen’s interlocutor, but had leaked information identical to and at times more sensitive than examples cited in the indictment. In addition the lawyer said, the information Rice provided was more "volatile" than the information described in the indictment. All details here… I’ll be surprised if the court charge Condi for anything, not because she has not done it, but because the court will soon find out (if not already) that the whole administration is a puppet agent for AIPAC and they are just doing the job they were assigned to. It is unfortunate that majority of Americans don’t know (or don’t want to believe) that their country is also occupied by the Zionists.
  • Apr 22, 2007 Antiwar "Is the Media Sabotaging the AIPAC Spy Trial? by Grant F. Smith  ... The stakes in the AIPAC espionage case could not be higher. The AIPAC espionage case, if it comes to trial, could redefine the role of lobbies, the mainstream press, and think-tanks operating in Washington, D.C. It is not yet clear whether average Americans approve of Washington's hidden world of selective third-party disclosure and trafficking in classified information. It is also not known whether selectively disclosed and leveraged classified information fed to the "free press" has played a wider, unknown role in promoting misguided war, wasteful military spending, and perpetuating the influence of the Israel lobby
  • May 3, 2007 Jerusalem Post Judge in trial of former AIPAC staffers rips prosecution for delays ... The judge in the trial against former AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) staffers sternly chastised the prosecution Wednesday for delaying the trial, after the government asked for more time to decide how it would proceed in the case.  The prosecution's request set back the expected start of the trial against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, accused of passing on classified information, well past its scheduled start of June 4."
  • Secrecy News, FAS
  • May 11, 2007 Secrecy News, FAS  "The presiding judge in the closely-watched prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) charged with unlawfully receiving national defense information has denied a defense motion to dismiss the case on grounds of alleged constitutional violations by the government.  The defense had argued that the case should be dismissed because the government pressured AIPAC, the defendants' former employer, not to pay their legal fees and thereby violated their constitutional rights to due process and the right to counsel.  The alleged interference occurred in 2004 and 2005, when "the government was actively investigating defendants and AIPAC," Judge T.S. Ellis III explained in a new memorandum opinion (pdf).  According to the defendants' account, "prosecutors implicitly or explicitly threatened AIPAC with criminal charges, and/or threatened further intense scrutiny of AIPAC in the event the government perceived AIPAC's cooperation as unsatisfactory." To demonstrate its "cooperation," AIPAC subsequently fired the defendants and ceased to pay their legal fees. The organization was not charged in the indictment."
  • May 14, 2007 Baltimore Chronicle "Those in state governments, like Vermont, who have taken the issue seriously have also realized if proceedings were started for impeaching Bush that Cheney would also have to be impeached. Cheney is as guilty as Bush, if not more so, of the impeachable offences of the administration. How, then, could Nancy Pelosi, next in line for the presidency, support impeachment? Successful proceedings would make her commander-in-chief."
  • May 17, 2007 Legal Times "They said that Plame’s former covert position stood in the way of her equal protection claims against the defendants, meaning that in order to proceed with the case the court might have to dig into the covert actions of the CIA. ... Valerie Plame sat at the plaintiff’s table with her counsel from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington"
  • May 18, 2007 Jewish Exponent "The deputy U.S. attorney general who indicted two former AIPAC staffers on classified information charges resigned ... McNulty ... In a development in the AIPAC case, the organization reached a deal with lawyers for Weissman, its former Iran analyst, to pay for his defense against Espionage Act charges"
  • ay 23, 2007 Aljazeerah "Although the Bush administration claims that its current priority is Iraq, it hasn’t given up on Iran. Silently, the war on the Islamic Republic has begun, according to an article on the Guardian Unlimited. Many other reports confirm that Washington increased its aid to arm opposition groups among Iran’s ethnic minorities that make up about 40% of the country’s population. Last month, ABC News reported that the U.S. had secretly assisted the Baluchi group Jund al-Islam, which claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 20 Revolutionary Guards. A U.S. Foundation report also stated that U.S. commandos have operated inside Iran since 2004."
  • May 26, 2007 BBC "Prosecutor urges prison for Libby ... Lewis "Scooter" Libby says he was a scapegoat Former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby deserves to spend up to three years in jail for obstructing justice, the prosecutor in the case has said."
  • ThinkProgress
  • RawStory Susan Rallston, Abramoff, Rove, immunity 
  • May 29, 2007 AlArab "Frustrated with Bush, the Veep Urges Israel to Attack Iran ... Clemens cites a Cheney aide as indicating "that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake" by supporting the diplomatic approach to Iran apparently favored by the State Department. So Cheney plans to deploy an "end run strategy" around the president (who's more swayed at present by Condi Rice's "realists" than Cheney's neocons) if his flank doesn't prevail and Bush resists the demand of the neocons and the AIPAC lobby for a bloody showdown."
  • Guardian blog
  • USNews pre-sentencing
  • Guardian, Libby "Libby Sentenced to 2 and 1/2 Years in Prison ... Former White House aide I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.  
  • Commentary Magazine "The Slow-Motion AIPAC Case ... On August 4, 2005, Keith Weissman and Steven J. Rosen, two employees of AIPAC, were indicted for receiving classified information and then passing it along to reporters and to the officials of a foreign government, namely, the state of Israel. Up until a few weeks ago, their trial was set to commence this coming Monday, June 4. It has now been delayed, for the umpteenth time, to an unspecified date this fall."
  • June 10, 2007 Executive Intelligence Review "Dick Cheney Becomes Ever More Impeachable ... With more and more spotlights being trained upon Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors against the U.S. Constitution, he becomes ever more impeachable—and the political excuses for failing to pursue impeachment more and more unacceptable.  Specifically, if impeachment is "off the table," the war against Iran and shredding of the U.S. Constitution are surely on the table.  The three hits delivered to Cheney were: 1) the sentencing of his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, to 30 months in prison; 2) the stunning revelation by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey of Cheney's pivotal role in the illegal NSA wiretap program; and 3) the legal overturning of two cases before the Cheney-promoted Military Commissions at Guantanamo.  ... Now, facing a substantial prison term, Libby is reportedly under intense pressure to cooperate with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, and to tell Fitzgerald what he knows, in order to obtain a reduced sentence. Which is one of the reasons that the campaign to obtain a pardon for Libby, before he talks, is so intense."
  • June 11, 2007 TimesOnline.uk "IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.
  • June 14, 2007 Media Matters "Summary: An editorial in The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction that recommended a pardon for former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after his sentencing in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case echoed numerous conservative commentators and repeated right-wing talking points that misrepresented Patrick Fitzgerald's prose``Scooter'' Libby is headed back to court to try to forestall his 2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.  ...  If they lose Thursday, Libby's lawyers have said they will ask an appeals court for an emergency order delaying the sentence. Because one of the issues in the appeal is whether Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had the authority to charge Libby, defense lawyers also could ask the Supreme Court to step in.  Then there is the pardon question."
  • June 19, 2007 BradBlog "Bork and Friends File Amici Brief in Libby CIA Case Questioning Constitutionality of Fitzgerald Appointment ... While Bork and friends can't fire the Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald in the CIA leak matter, their brief argues to Judge Reggie Walton that they believe “the constitutionality of Special Counsel Fitzgerald’s appointment presents a close question.”  Quick note: a “close question” apparently means one that has a chance of winning on appeal. For the bail hearing for Lewis 'Scooter' Libby --- Thursday June 14 --- Libby's attorneys must argue that the issues for appeal are substantive and not just a way to postpone imprisonment. This "friends of the court" brief is offered to help the defendant.
  • Uruknet.net AIPAC Lobby
  • June 21, 2007 Atlantic Free Press Libby guaranteed pardon by Cheney if Fitzgerald indicts, ... during summer Congressional recess.
  • Huffington Post  "Attacking Iran "On the table ... First, the good news: General Peter Pace will no longer be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His cheerleading for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, his ass-kissing of Donald Rumsfeld (the worst Defense Secretary in American history), and his love letter in behalf of the four-time convicted felon, Scooter Libby, illustrate a level of political hackery on his part that is wholly inconsistent with protecting the neutrality and autonomy of the U.S. military from the vicissitudes of the corrupt politicians who come and go in Washington. Pace will no doubt follow in the footsteps of former general Richard Meyers and move on to rake in enormously lavish sums of cash by serving on the boards of military corporations.
  • June 22, 2007 ePluribus "Trials, Tribulations and Treason: Scooter Libby, Misplaced Loyalty and Renegade Republicans  ... search terms: treason. "
  • MediaMatters "Summary: In a Washingtonpost.com discussion, Richard Cohen asserted that Lewis "Scooter" Libby "didn't commit the original crime" in the CIA leak case because he wasn't Robert Novak's source for the column that disclosed Valerie Plame's identity. However, Libby did leak Plame's identity to other reporters. Cohen also falsely claimed that Plame was not "covert." An unclassified summary of Plame's CIA employment established that she was, in fact, a covert CIA employee."
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs "four measures introduced to counter the push by unrepentant neocons for the U.S. to launch a “pre-emptive strike” against Iran. Overlooked in that column was H.Con.Res. 14, introduced Jan. 5 by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), which states that “Congress has the sole and exclusive power to declare war.” On Feb. 14, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced H.Res. 163, saying that “the Constitution provides that the president may act to defend the country in an emergency, but reserved the matter of offensive war to Congress.”  Neither of the above measures mentions Iran, nor does S. 39, introduced Jan. 24 by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) as reported.  Also described in the previous issue were H.J.Res. 14, which has gained 30 co-sponsors, for a total of 53, and H.Con.Res. 33, which has gained 17 co-sponsors, for a total of 47. Joining these measures, both of which call for congressional authorization prior to the use of military force specifically against Iran, was S.Con.Res. 13. Introduced Feb. 15 by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the resolution states that “the president should not initiate military action against Iran without first obtaining authorization from Congress.”
  • July 2, 2007 Penninsula Online  "A US Congress leader called on Friday for the resignation of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, questioning his candor over the controversial dismissal of eight top prosecutors.   ....  Meanwhile, a Democratic committee chairman in the US House of Representatives threatened on Friday to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if she refuses to testify voluntarily about claims made in the run-up to the Iraq war.  Rep Henry Waxman of California said his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would vote on Wednesday whether to subpoena Rice to discuss administration warnings, since refuted, that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger for nuclear arms. Waxman said his panel also would vote on whether to compel testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card about the 2003 leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s status as a covert CIA analyst."
  • From Aug 2004, Washington Post, now at top of search engines for Rosen Weissman and file  ""If the disclosure of newsworthy information about the national defense to reporters for the purpose of publication can constitute espionage, that places enormous power in the hands of prosecutors, because information about national defense is passed on every day to reporters in this town."
  • Guardian "Court Won't Delay Prison for Libby  ...  The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet assigned Libby a prison or given him a date to surrender. But last week it designated him as federal inmate No. 28301-016"
  • WMR "Libby a long time Israeli intelligence agent.  ... I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to WMR on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.  ... Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland-based American fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to be an Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions that demand "plausible deniability" on the part of the Mossad. Rich heads up a worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and numbered bank accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and weapons smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Cuba, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda, France, Italy, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Sweden, Monaco, and apartheid South Africa.  ... In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York urged jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering. ....  more search terms: Rudolph Giuliani, Paul Klebnikov, Moscow, Forbes, Berezovsky, Neil Bush, Godfather of the Kremlin, Russian-Israeli Mafia WMR $$$
  • July 4, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle  "The "Scooter" Libby's name is neither Dick Cheney nor Karl Rove might explain why the left is apoplectic over President Bush's commutation of his sentence and why the right is indignant that he was ever prosecuted in the first place. ... Through the more than three years of Libby's trial and conviction on perjury -- the details of which have obsessed Washington and glazed over the heartland -- the once obscure, behind-the-scenes aide to the vice president has always been a proxy for larger issues and bigger fish: the Iraq war, the perceived lack of accountability for the consequences of that war and its architects who remain in the White House.  ...and 'hush commutation" file
  • July 5, 2007 Bloomberg "Libby Leniency Shows Bush Had Nothing To Lose.. Margaret Carlson: ... Defense Strategy .. Libby sent word that he had no idea Bush would commute his sentence, though his defense strategy belies that. The best legal talent Libby's fundraisers could buy promised at the outset of his trial that they would show Libby was a scapegoat and Cheney was behind the leak. The defense soon dropped that along with the idea of calling the vice president to testify."
  • July 10, 2007 Antiwar, Cheney, attack Iran
  • July 19, 2007 AmericanThinker
  • Plame's cased tossed by court
  • Aug 6, 2007 NewsHounds  "FOX News Sunday Perpetuates Myth That O'Hanlon and Pollack Are "Anti-war" Democrats   ...He went on to enumerate the pair's history of acting as water-carriers for the Bush administration, claiming time after time they would appear on the scene and guarantee that things were getting better, the light at the end of the tunnel was in sight, blah, blah, blah. Pollack, in fact. is closely aligned with AIPAC and, according to Wikipedia, a U.S. government indictment "alleges that Pollack provided information to former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman during the AIPAC espionage scandal."
  • Aug 15, 2007 Forward, Rice, Abrams, Hadley subpoenas? and text
  • Aug 30, 2007 JTA, "The federal judge in the case against two former AIPAC staffers heard government arguments against subpoenaing top U.S. officials, including Condoleezza Rice.  ...  Judge T.S. Ellis III's pretrial hearing Thursday in Alexandria, Va., in the classified information leak case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, was closed to the media because it dealt with classified information. However, a docket entry described the hearing as dealing with prosecutors' "objections to defendants' prospective subpoenas to U.S. government officials."
  • Antiwar  "the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a Washington powerhouse whose former chief lobbyist (Rosen) once boasted to the New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg: "You see this napkin? In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin."
  • Jurist "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [official profile] and other senior administration officials should be exempt from testifying about whether they shared classified national defense information with two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) [advocacy website] lobbyists, lawyers argued at a closed-door court session Thursday. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman,  News Leader
  • Sept 27,  2007  WMR "Anti-Iran Senate resolution drafted by AIPAC, supported by 29 Democrats  .... The Iran resolution was attached as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. Although the "sense of the Senate" resolution does not specifically authorize military force against Iran, it is seen as a component of possible future authorization for war. The resolution ratchets up tensions with Iran by calling on the State Department to name the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a component of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization and impose economic sanctions against it.   ....    Twenty-nine Democrats, all subject to AIPAC pressure and recipients of money from AIPAC and other right-wing Jewish political action committees (PACs), voted for the Iran resolution, seen by its opponents as giving George Bush and Dick Cheney the legislative cover to launch military action against Iran. Those Democrats who voted for the Iran resolution are: Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bayh (IN), Cardin (MD), Carper (DE), Casey (PA), Clinton (NY), Conrad (ND), Dorgan (ND), Durbin (IL), Feinstein (CA), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lautenberg (NJ), Levin (MI), Menendez (NJ), Mikulski (MD), Murray (WA), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Reed (RI), Reid (NV), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO), Schumer (NY), Stabenow (MI), and Whitehouse (RI). Obama (IL) did not vote.  ....  Those Democrats and Republicans who saw the resolution as giving Bush a blank check to attack Iran, and voted against it, are: Biden (DE), Bingaman (NM), Boxer (CA), Brown (OH), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Dodd (CT), Feingold (WI), Hagel (NE) (R.), Harkin (IA), Inouye (HI), Kennedy (MA), Kerry (MA), Klobucher (MN), Leahy (VT), Lincoln (AR), Lugar (IN) (Rep.), McCaskill (MO), Sanders (VT), Tester (MT), Webb (VA), and Wyden (OR). 
  • Oct 27, 2007 News Leader  Lawrence Franklin  "Attorney general will block probe ...  The Gonzales replacement, Michael Mukasey, another pro-Israeli Zionist, is now needed to suppress the investigations of AIPAC and members of the Bush administration, and to drop the charges against the spies for Israel, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman.  Alberto Gonzales was moving forward on the prosecutions ... he had to go!"
  • Nov 2,  2007 Judge T. S. Elliot III allowed issuance of subpoenas to 16 of 20 government officials.   JTA   Go to NFU AIPAC page
  • Nov 3, 2007 Guardian  "Defendants are entitled to show that, to them, there was simply no difference between the meetings for which they are not charged and those for which they are charged," Mr Ellis wrote. ...  "They believed that the meetings charged in the indictment were simply further examples of the government's use of Aipac as a diplomatic back channel."  ...  He held out little hope that he could be persuaded by administration efforts to block the subpoenas. "The government's refusal to comply with a subpoena in these circumstances may result in dismissal or a lesser sanction," he wrote."
  • Nov 5, 2007 Antiwar  Rosen Weissman,  "When the news first broke, it was a national scandal – and then the story sank like a stone, for three solid years, while the extensive litigation surrounding the case played out.  ... The defense, in what would normally be an open-and-shut case, has been struggling frantically [.pdf] to avoid a trial at all costs. That's understandable: after all, the FBI has the whole thing – the entire course of their crimes against America – on record. The verbal transmission of classified information, the elaborate arrangements to avoid detection, the open boasting of the analyst's two handlers that they had a live one on the hook, it's all there: raw, naked treason. Rather than come up against the incontrovertible facts, the defense has tried hard to divert the energies of the court away from actually bringing this to trial, in the hopes that the administration will back down and drop the charges.  ...  Now there has been a major development on this front. No one took seriously the defense's motion, made a few months ago, that they be allowed to subpoena Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Council chief Stephen Hadley, and a whole platoon of government officials and former officials. The motion was made on the grounds that these officials, too, had transmitted classified information to AIPAC, and that this is proof that such behavior was and is routine, part of the normal way of doing business in the world of Washington lobbyists. The defendants' case has always been that they have a First Amendment right to commit espionage, and that their indictment amounted to a government assault on their right to "free speech."  ...  That he granted the defense motion in all but a few cases is bad news for the government – and good news for the Israel lobby, which may just be spared the embarrassment of having its essential nature as a fifth column for Israel exposed to the light of day.
  • Wikipdia  "Mukaseygraduated in 1959 from the Ramaz School, a Modern Orthodox Jewish prep school  ...  In 1976, he joined the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, to which he returned after retirement from the U.S. District Court.[15] Mukasey began teaching at Columbia Law School ... The Mukaseys have a professional relationship with Rudy Giuliani; Mukasey and son are also justice advisers to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.[19] Mukasey swore in Mayor-elect Giuliani in 1994 and 1998.[19] ...  During his tenure on the bench, Mukasey presided over the criminal prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman and El Sayyid Nosair, whom he sentenced to life in prison for a plot to blow up the United Nations and other Manhattan landmarks uncovered during an investigation into the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[15] During that case, Mukasey spoke out against leaks by law enforcement officials regarding the facts of the case allegedly aimed at prejudicing potential jurors against the defendants."
  • Nov 6, 2007 Forward "The ruling by T.S. Ellis III, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, could jeopardize the entire case put forward by the Department of Justice more than three years ago. The administration now faces a tough dilemma. It could follow the court’s decision and allow senior officials to take the stand, but this might open up to public view closed-door discussions between government officials and pro-Israel lobbyists and bring to light inter-agency disputes regarding American policy toward Iran. ... On the other hand, the government could fight the decision and see the legal case to fall apart. Ellis warned the prosecution in his decision that “the government’s refusal to comply with a subpoena in these circumstances may result in dismissal or a lesser sanction.” ... The judge accepted the defendants’ view that in order to prove guilt, the prosecution must show to the court that Rosen and Weissman had a criminal intent when they received and passed on classified information. If the defense can demonstrate, by subpoenaing Rice and other officials, that classified information was regularly conveyed to Aipac by the highest-ranking government officials, it would help them make the case that Rosen and Weissman had no way of knowing they were breaking the law by receiving other information from former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin."
  • Investigate, Schumer, Clinton, Mukasey, AIPAC
  • Nov 6, 2007 Aljazeera  on summons,  "The court documents are also said to contain the alleged recording of 57 acts, involving a mishandling of secrets, including meetings and telephone calls, passing the information with both US and foreign nationals.  ... The intelligence involved terrorist activities in central Asia, US intelligence and policy regarding Middle Eastern countries and information on al-Qaeda."
  • Nov 6, 2007 Wall Street Journal "Under the circumstances, this is a case that should never have been brought. No fair-minded jury could conclude that Mr. Weissman and Mr. Rosen acted with criminal intent."  Schoenfield commentary
  • Powerline blog "Lobbyists or Spies"...
  • Nov 8, 2007 LA Times    Choke free speech ..."Ellis already has ruled that the government must prove that Rosen and Weissman intended to injure the national interest and that they knew Franklin's conversation was based on classified information he was not legally entitled to discuss with them. ..." file
  • Rosen Weissman Kerik Giuliani
  • Nov 12, 2007 WSJ "Much of the information (passed from Franklin to Rosen, Weissman then to Israel) was about Iran's plans for destabilizing Iraq. Mr. Franklin, who was also indicted, subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Under intense government pressure he has agreed to testify against his friends, the former AIPAC lobbyists.  ...  Espionage Act is so vague the Supreme Court would conclude it unconstitutional should it have the chance to rule.  ...  "
  • Nov 20, 2007 AP "Former Aide Blames Bush for Leak Deceit ...  By MATT APUZZO  ... WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. ... In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.  "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."  Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card."
  • Dec 3, 2007  Dear Mr. Attorney General: On December 3, 2007, I wrote you to request documents from the Department of Justice from Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. I have not received a response from you to my inquiry. .... Since I wrote you on December 3, Lewis I. “Scooter” Libby has dropped the appeal of his criminal conviction arising from the Fitzgerald investigation. With that action, there remains no further pending litigation associated with the Fitzgerald investigation. .......... I do not regard the existence of an on-going investigation or pending litigation as a sufficient reason to withhold information from Congress. Now that Mr. Fitzgerald’s investigation and Mr. Libby’s appeal have both ended, however, there should be no basis for further delay in responding to the Committee’s request. Thus, I request that you provide the Committee by January 3, 2008, with the documents requested in the Committee’s July 16 letter to Mr. Fitzgerald, including the reports of interviews with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other White House officials. ........... Last week, you wrote several congressional committees about the investigation into the destruction of the CIA interrogation tapes. You resisted providing information to the committees because of your concern that providing information could undermine the Justice Department’s on-going investigation. In the Plame matter, there is no pending Justice Department investigation and no pending Justice Department litigation. Whatever the merits of the position you are taking in the CIA tapes inquiry, those considerations do not apply here. ............ There remain important questions about the leak of Ms. Wilson’s identity and the White House response that have not been answered by the prosecution and conviction of Mr. Libby and the commutation of his sentence. I urge you to cooperate with Congress’ investigation into these unanswered questions. If you have any questions regarding my request, please contact me personally or ask your staff to contact David Rapallo or Theodore Chuang of the Committee staff at (202) 225-5420. ..... Sincerely, Henry A. Waxman, Chairman
  • Dec 4,  2007 NY Sun   Secrets Case Eyes Jurors' Religion
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  • AP White House emails on backup tapes, Plame identity leak evidence, McCelland
  • Antiwar, on Rosen Weissman
  • Jan  11,  2008 Asia Times, How the Pentagon planted a false story By Gareth Porter  ...  WASHINGTON - Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the January 6 US-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident shows.  ...  The initial press stories on the incident, all of which can be traced to a briefing by deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman, contained similar information that has since been repudiated by the navy itself.  
  • Jan  16,  2008 "WMR has learned that Bush committed himself to supporting an Israeli government plan to launch a three-pronged major military assault on Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is also some evidence that the non-existent naval "incident" between U.S. Navy ships and Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz was a staged event concocted by neocons still present within the Department of Defense and White House, as well as by Israeli intelligence elements, to create a "Gulf of Tonkin"-like incident to drive the United States into a military engagement with Iran.  ...  However, just as U.S. Air Force senior brass, aided by officers and enlisted personnel at Minot and Barksdale Air Force Bases who prevented a B-52 carrying nuclear armed cruise missiles from flying to the Middle East last Labor Day weekend for a planned attack on Iran, senior U.S. Navy officers stepped in to avert a pretext for conflict with Iran.  ...  The naval "incident" was hyped as Bush was readying for his departure to Israel where he and all major Israeli political leaders, including Olmert, Labor Party leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu had all lined up to support a U.S.-backed Israeli strike on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Moreover, Bush met with two of the most extreme members of the Israeli government, anti-Arab Moldovan Jewish racist Avigdor Lieberman and Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence control officer for convicted and jailed-for-life Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. While in Israel, Bush was pressed by Israeli leaders to pardon Pollard or commute his sentence to time served." more
  • Jan  19,  2008 Washingtonian "Ellis also knew that the subpoenas might derail the case. If the administration balks at allowing sworn testimony by senior officials about sensitive conversations, the case against Rosen and Weissman could be dismissed. ...  The line between information that can and can’t get passed is blurred by the amount of officially sanctioned daily intelligence sharing between the United States and its allies. Such exchanges are particularly intense between the United States and Israel, which regularly trade information and assessments on terrorism and other perceived threats."
  • AP missing tapes, CIA, investigation, Plame, Cheney
  • Feb 29,  2008 American Thinker  "AIPAC case prosecutor quits Clarice Feldman With little more than a month to go before the AIPAC criminal case is scheduled to go to trial, the prosecutor has announced he's leaving government service.  The top prosecutor in the case against two former AIPAC staffers is quitting.  Less than two months before the trial date Kevin DiGregory, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia's Eastern District, is joining the private intellectual property firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips starting Monday.  DiGregory has led the classified information case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, since they were indicted in August 2005.
  • Jan 8,  2008 A Times Online (a Rupert Murdoch paper) file pic "A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.  ...  Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. ... She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. ... Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions. ..."  and WMR August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As reported previously on WMR , federal investigators are poring over wiretap transcripts and other intelligence that link the Larry Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC investigation to the investigation of who in the White House leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover company to journalists, including Robert Novak. According to intelligence insiders, a new nexus of the investigation is the intelligence relationship discovered between AIPAC and the American Turkish Council (ATC). As with the AIPAC and Mossad penetration of the Pentagon, a similar ATC and Turkish intelligence penetration of the Defense Department was discovered and it reportedly involved some of the same players involved in the AIPAC probe, including former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.
  • Mar  12,  2008 InfoIsrael.net "By Yossi Melman  IHC Abstract Three months ago a US federal grand jury issued a subpoena against James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs, ordering Risen to give evidence in court as to who leaked information about secret CIA and Mossad plans regarding Iran's nuclear program. ...  Risen discussed such possible CIA-Mossad operations against Iran in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. One idea was to sabotage electric power to the nuclear sites; another was called Operation Merlin, to dupe a former-Soviet nuclear engineer into penetrating Iran's nuclear program and disrupting it. The CIA bungled Merlin because they had to fool the expert former-Soviet nuclear engineer who had defected to the US in the 90s; and then fool the Iranian nuclear scientists and technicians into accepting the fake (dud) Russian bomb plan ginned up by the CIA, which would be delivered by the former-Soviet engineer cum CIA operative. The results were disastrous for the CIA: the former-Soviet engineer detected the errors in the bomb plans; pointed out the errors to his Iranian counterparts to convince them he was truly on their side; the Iranian nuclear program was enhanced in spite of the preceding; and the CIA operation may have helped Iran assemble a nuclear warhead."
  • Jewish Voice New Jersey  "Is it connected to the classifiedinformation case against two former AIPAC staffers? A bid to pressure Israel to concede more to the Palestinians ahead of a new round of peace talks? Connected to the murky circumstances of Israel's mysterious airstrike in Syria last September? For now, the main question surrounding the case of Ben- Ami Kadish, the octogenarian New Jersey man arrested this week for allegedly sharing classified information with Israel decades ago is: Why now?" more search terms:
  • May  14,  2008 JTA  The government recently filed a rare pretrial appeal to an appeals court after a number of rulings by federal Judge T.S. Ellis III, sitting in Arlington, Va., undercut much of the prosecution's case.  ...  "The government put a lot of pressure on AIPAC and basically misled AIPAC on what it was that Keith and Steve did," Lowell said.
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  • May 28,  2008 AP/ Yahoo Book.... WASHINGTON - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, and that the decision to invade pushed Bush's presidency "terribly off course.'  The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed" — a time when the nation was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in the book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." ... The way Bush managed the Iraq issue "almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option."  ... "In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage," McClellan writes. White House aides seemed stunned by the scathing tone of the book, and Bush press secretary Dana Perino issued a statement that was highly critical of their former colleague.  more search terms: disgruntled, we are puzzled .. It is sad, this is not the Scott we knew, Bush .... has more pressing matters than to spend time commenting on books by former staffers, Fran Townsend, counterterrorism ... book is self-serving, disingenuous, unprofessional,  Iraq war was a strategic blunder, not necessary, waging and unnecessary war is a grave mistake, his words badly misguided, harsh assessment, McClellan followed Bush from Texas, loyal public voice, 
  • June 2,  2008 Alternet, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's memoirs contain a transcript from a bloodthirsty and over the top private speech by Bush.  ...  "Shocking Bush speech ....  "'Kick ass!' [Bush] said, echoing Colin Powell's tough talk. 'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.  "There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!'" Keep in mind that the bloodlusty rhetoric of this "pep talk" wasn't meant to rev up Marines heading into battle. These were the President's well-embunkered top advisors in a strategy session on the eve of major military offensives in Iraq."
  • Antiwar, Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't bet the ranch on it by Justin Raimondo
  • June 4,  2008 911Truth   ...  Daniel Hopsicker’s excellent works, “Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Coverup in Florida” and “Barry and ‘the Boys’” in paperback, and the video, "The Secret History: Mohammed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus." and  “9/11 Dust & Deceit at the World Trade Center”.
  • Senate Intelligence Committee, download Phase IIA, IIB Bush lies to war.
  • YouTube Retired General William Odem, died of a sudden heart attack, called for the impeachment of Bush if he didn't extricate our troops from Iraq.
  • The Nation McClellan agreed to appear June 20 and his lawyer, Duke University law professor Michael Tigar says, "He has agreed to testify in the same spirit that he wrote the book... Mr. McClellan is available to tell what he knows.''
  • June 16,  2008 WMR  Houston ship channel security the focus of Madsen and people close to George H. W. Bush, 'false flag' event,  keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry and numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent R. Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC, 
  • WMR "August 23 /August 19, 2005 -- Revelations about Satterfield and Able Danger are connected. The recent revelations that the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, David Satterfield, is the USGO-2 named in the Franklin-Rosen-Weismann indictment and the coming forward of the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and his evidence that the elite Able Danger force had Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers under surveillance in 2000 and was prevented from taking action are related stories. Shaffer was the liaison between DIA and the U.S. Special Operations Able Danger team that was tracking Atta and his cell in the United States and abroad. The Pentagon inaction is being blamed on lawyers for the U.S. Special Operations Command who prevented the FBI from being informed of the Atta team's activities. What is being overlooked is that there was a significant neo-con element within the Clinton administration. It included then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen (a Republican) and the career Pentagon officials like Office of Net Assessment chief Andy Marshall, the indicted Larry Franklin, and Harold Rhode, who all increased their power in the Bush administration. This network was close to Clinton State Department officials Martin Indyk, who lost his security clearance while ambassador to Israel, and Dennis Ross, (now an advisor to Obama) of the pro-Likud Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the think tank that provided a number of personnel for Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans, including David Schenker and Michael Makovsky (brother of WINEP Senior Fellow David Makovsky). WINEP's advisory board includes such neocon figures as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, James Roche (of Boeing-Air Force tanker contract fraud infamy), Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Max Kampelman. The pre-911 restrictions on Able Danger are evidence that the neo-cons were as damaging to the security interests of the United States under Clinton as they have been under Bush."
  • WMR  Houston ship channel the focus of Madsen and people close to George H. W. Bush, 'false flag' event,  keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry and numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent R. Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC, full article   and Carnaby / CIA
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  • Newsday  "His resolution doesn't need presidential approval, but it demands presidential action about Iran's "pursuit of nuclear weapons," despite the lack of certainty that Iran is doing that. Last year, the nation's 16 intelligence agencies reported with high certainty that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and with moderate certainty that it had not started it up again. Ever since, the Bush administration has tried to downplay that National Intelligence Estimate, but the intelligence community has not formally revised it."
  • Jan  8,  2008
  • AP White House emails on backup tapes, Plame identity leak evidence, McCellan
  • Antiwar, on Rosen Weissman
  • Jan  11,  2008 Asia Times, How the Pentagon planted a false story By Gareth Porter  ...  WASHINGTON - Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the January 6 US-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident shows.  ...  The initial press stories on the incident, all of which can be traced to a briefing by deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman, contained similar information that has since been repudiated by the navy itself.  
  • Jan  16,  2008 "WMR has learned that Bush committed himself to supporting an Israeli government plan to launch a three-pronged major military assault on Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is also some evidence that the non-existent naval "incident" between U.S. Navy ships and Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz was a staged event concocted by neocons still present within the Department of Defense and White House, as well as by Israeli intelligence elements, to create a "Gulf of Tonkin"-like incident to drive the United States into a military engagement with Iran.  ...  However, just as U.S. Air Force senior brass, aided by officers and enlisted personnel at Minot and Barksdale Air Force Bases who prevented a B-52 carrying nuclear armed cruise missiles from flying to the Middle East last Labor Day weekend for a planned attack on Iran, senior U.S. Navy officers stepped in to avert a pretext for conflict with Iran.  ...  The naval "incident" was hyped as Bush was readying for his departure to Israel where he and all major Israeli political leaders, including Olmert, Labor Party leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu had all lined up to support a U.S.-backed Israeli strike on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Moreover, Bush met with two of the most extreme members of the Israeli government, anti-Arab Moldovan Jewish racist Avigdor Lieberman and Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence control officer for convicted and jailed-for-life Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. While in Israel, Bush was pressed by Israeli leaders to pardon Pollard or commute his sentence to time served." more
  • Jan  19,  2008 Washingtonian "Ellis also knew that the subpoenas might derail the case. If the administration balks at allowing sworn testimony by senior officials about sensitive conversations, the case against Rosen and Weissman could be dismissed. ...  The line between information that can and can’t get passed is blurred by the amount of officially sanctioned daily intelligence sharing between the United States and its allies. Such exchanges are particularly intense between the United States and Israel, which regularly trade information and assessments on terrorism and other perceived threats."
  • AP missing tapes, CIA, investigation, Plame, Cheney
  • Feb 29,  2008 American Thinker  "AIPAC case prosecutor quits Clarice Feldman With little more than a month to go before the AIPAC criminal case is scheduled to go to trial, the prosecutor has announced he's leaving government service.  The top prosecutor in the case against two former AIPAC staffers is quitting.  Less than two months before the trial date Kevin DiGregory, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia's Eastern District, is joining the private intellectual property firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips starting Monday.  DiGregory has led the classified information case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, since they were indicted in August 2005.
  • Jan 8,  2008 A Times Online (a Rupert Murdoch paper) file pic "A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.  ...  Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. ... She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. ... Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions. ..."  and WMR August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As reported previously on WMR , federal investigators are poring over wiretap transcripts and other intelligence that link the Larry Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC investigation to the investigation of who in the White House leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover company to journalists, including Robert Novak. According to intelligence insiders, a new nexus of the investigation is the intelligence relationship discovered between AIPAC and the American Turkish Council (ATC). As with the AIPAC and Mossad penetration of the Pentagon, a similar ATC and Turkish intelligence penetration of the Defense Department was discovered and it reportedly involved some of the same players involved in the AIPAC probe, including former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.
  • Feb 24,  2008 CASMI "Despite the latest positive report of the IAEA on Iran' nuclear programme [1], efforts to launch a war against Iran are gathering pace [2]. Given the unpopularity of such a war, the big powers are keeping very quiet about it whilst using highly sophisticated methods to psychologically prepare their citizens. At the same time, all we hear about Turkey in the Western European and North American mainstream media is the accession talks with the European Union, the conflict between the religious AKP government and the country’s secular establishment (including the military) and the cross-border operations into Northern Iraq. Is there no connection between Turkey and this new threat of war? How does psychological preparation work in the case of Turkey? What pressure are the leading NATO countries putting on the Turkish Government? How is the extra-parliamentary opposition reacting to the prospective next stage of the ‘Global War on Terror’?"
  • Mar  12,  2008 InfoIsrael.net "By Yossi Melman  IHC Abstract Three months ago a US federal grand jury issued a subpoena against James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs, ordering Risen to give evidence in court as to who leaked information about secret CIA and Mossad plans regarding Iran's nuclear program. ...  Risen discussed such possible CIA-Mossad operations against Iran in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. One idea was to sabotage electric power to the nuclear sites; another was called Operation Merlin, to dupe a former-Soviet nuclear engineer into penetrating Iran's nuclear program and disrupting it. The CIA bungled Merlin because they had to fool the expert former-Soviet nuclear engineer who had defected to the US in the 90s; and then fool the Iranian nuclear scientists and technicians into accepting the fake (dud) Russian bomb plan ginned up by the CIA, which would be delivered by the former-Soviet engineer cum CIA operative. The results were disastrous for the CIA: the former-Soviet engineer detected the errors in the bomb plans; pointed out the errors to his Iranian counterparts to convince them he was truly on their side; the Iranian nuclear program was enhanced in spite of the preceding; and the CIA operation may have helped Iran assemble a nuclear warhead."
  • Jewish Voice New Jersey  "Is it connected to the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers? A bid to pressure Israel to concede more to the Palestinians ahead of a new round of peace talks? Connected to the murky circumstances of Israel's mysterious airstrike in Syria last September? For now, the main question surrounding the case of Ben- Ami Kadish, the octogenarian New Jersey man arrested this week for allegedly sharing classified information with Israel decades ago is: Why now?" more search terms:
  • May  14,  2008 JTA  The government recently filed a rare pretrial appeal to an appeals court after a number of rulings by federal Judge T.S. Ellis III, sitting in Arlington, Va., undercut much of the prosecution's case.  ...  "The government put a lot of pressure on AIPAC and basically misled AIPAC on what it was that Keith and Steve did," Lowell said.
  • May 28,  2008 AP/ Yahoo Book.... WASHINGTON - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, and that the decision to invade pushed Bush's presidency "terribly off course.'  The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed" — a time when the nation was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in the book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." ... The way Bush managed the Iraq issue "almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option."  ... "In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage," McClellan writes. White House aides seemed stunned by the scathing tone of the book, and Bush press secretary Dana Perino issued a statement that was highly critical of their former colleague.  more search terms: disgruntled, we are puzzled .. It is sad, this is not the Scott we knew, Bush .... has more pressing matters than to spend time commenting on books by former staffers, Fran Townsend, counterterrorism ... book is self-serving, disingenuous, unprofessional,  Iraq war was a strategic blunder, not necessary, waging and unnecessary war is a grave mistake, his words badly misguided, harsh assessment, McClellan followed Bush from Texas, loyal public voice, 
  • June 2,  2008 Alternet, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's memoirs contain a transcript from a bloodthirsty and over the top private speech by Bush.  ...  "Shocking Bush speech ....  "'Kick ass!' [Bush] said, echoing Colin Powell's tough talk. 'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.  "There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!'" Keep in mind that the bloodlusty rhetoric of this "pep talk" wasn't meant to rev up Marines heading into battle. These were the President's well-embunkered top advisors in a strategy session on the eve of major military offensives in Iraq."
  • Antiwar, Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't bet the ranch on it by Justin Raimondo
  • June 4,  2008 911Truth   ...  Daniel Hopsicker’s excellent works, “Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Coverup in Florida” and “Barry and ‘the Boys’” in paperback, and the video, "The Secret History: Mohammed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus." and  “9/11 Dust & Deceit at the World Trade Center”.
  • Senate Intelligence Committee, download Phase IIA, IIB Bush lies to war.
  • YouTube Retired General William Odem, died of a sudden heart attack, called for the impeachment of Bush if he didn't extricate our troops from Iraq.
  • The Nation McClellan agreed to appear June 20 and his lawyer, Duke University law professor Michael Tigar says, "He has agreed to testify in the same spirit that he wrote the book... Mr. McClellan is available to tell what he knows.''
  • June 10,  2008   Antiwar, "Leafing through the story of the secret Rome meetings conducted by Michael Ledeen and Manucher Ghorbanifar – set up by a "foreign intelligence service," as the report avers – this section of the Senate report reads like a spy thriller set in the future, a future in which we are about to go to war with Iran."
  • June 16,  2008 WMR  Houston ship channel security the focus of Madsen and people close to George H. W. Bush, 'false flag' event,  keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry and numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent R. Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC, 
  • WMR "August 23 /August 19, 2005 -- Revelations about Satterfield and Able Danger are connected. The recent revelations that the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, David Satterfield, is the USGO-2 named in the Franklin-Rosen-Weismann indictment and the coming forward of the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and his evidence that the elite Able Danger force had Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers under surveillance in 2000 and was prevented from taking action are related stories. Shaffer was the liaison between DIA and the U.S. Special Operations Able Danger team that was tracking Atta and his cell in the United States and abroad. The Pentagon inaction is being blamed on lawyers for the U.S. Special Operations Command who prevented the FBI from being informed of the Atta team's activities. What is being overlooked is that there was a significant neo-con element within the Clinton administration. It included then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen (a Republican) and the career Pentagon officials like Office of Net Assessment chief Andy Marshall, the indicted Larry Franklin, and Harold Rhode, who all increased their power in the Bush administration. This network was close to Clinton State Department officials Martin Indyk, who lost his security clearance while ambassador to Israel, and Dennis Ross, (now an advisor to Obama) of the pro-Likud Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the think tank that provided a number of personnel for Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans, including David Schenker and Michael Makovsky (brother of WINEP Senior Fellow David Makovsky). WINEP's advisory board includes such neocon figures as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, James Roche (of Boeing-Air Force tanker contract fraud infamy), Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Max Kampelman. The pre-911 restrictions on Able Danger are evidence that the neo-cons were as damaging to the security interests of the United States under Clinton as they have been under Bush."
  • WMR  Houston ship channel the focus of Madsen and people close to George H. W. Bush, 'false flag' event,  keywords: HUMINT, Carnaby's Blackberry and numerous cell phones, activate port surveillance cameras, Special Agent R. Jennings, Carnaby Shipping Ltd, NOC, American Global Enterprise, Israeli Mossad, liquefied natural gas, AIPAC, full article   and Carnaby / CIA
  • June 18,  2008 Findlaw, John Dean: "The Importance of Scott McClellan's Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee -- Including Possible New Obstruction of Justice Charges for Scooter Libby and Karl Rove....  No one believes that Fitzgerald (and his team) were anything less than vigorous in investigating the effort to discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson by revealing that his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. Yet since no one knows what Fitzgerald learned, except those who cannot speak of what they know, it is not possible to determine whether he might have been outfoxed by the White House. As experienced a prosecutor as Fitzgerald is, he was playing in a very different league when investigating the Bush White House. These folks make Nixon’s White House look like Little Leaguers – and based on what is known about the Plame investigation, I have long suspected that Fitzgerald was playing out of his league"  ....McClellan, hearings, obstruction of justice, Cheney, Libby, Bush
  • June 19,  2008 McClellan will testify June 20, ... What will mainstream press coverage be like?...at this point no build up for the event.
  • June ,  2008 JTA Court throws out gov't appeals in Rosen case ...  A U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of two former AIPAC staffers who sought to narrow the government's appeal of rulings in a classified information case.  ...  The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. ruled Friday that prosecutors may only appeal the scope of evidence to be declassified in their case against Steve Rosen, the former foreign policy chief at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst.  
  • June 23,  2008 Telegraph.uk John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.   Iran attack
  • WMR has learned from reliable sources that the Defense Department has ordered a step-up in production of the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile from the Lockheed Martin Hellfire production facility at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama.  Iran attack
  • WMR If lawsuits were permitted against telecommunications firms, the discovery process may have resulted in details being unearthed about the extent of Israel's involvement in federal wiretapping and illegal surveillance of  Americans.  Domestic spying, Amdocs   new additions to Clinton / Bush death list On April 27, 2002, Solly, 53, died of a sudden heart attack at his Silver Spring, Maryland home shortly before he was to anchor a newscast. WJLA news director Phil Smith also succumbed to a heart attack within three weeks of Solly's sudden death.    To ensure a lock on the no retroactive lawsuit provisions, the man who became HPSCI chair, Sylvestre Reyes, supported the measure. He was joined by other AIPAC sure bets, including Brad Sherman (D-CA), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), John Yarmuth (KY), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Jason Altmire (D-PA), and, for added measure Pelosi.  If lawsuits were permitted against telecommunications firms, the discovery process may have resulted in details being unearthed about the extent of Israel's involvement in federal wiretapping and illegal surveillance of Americans.  search terms: FISA, Amdocs, AIPAC, surveillance, telecom immunity, Israeli Art Students, 911, wiretaps, T2S2, HIDTA, WMR
  • June 24,  2008  WMR has learned from reliable sources that the Defense Department has ordered a step-up in production of the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile from the Lockheed Martin Hellfire production facility at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama full article
  • BBC, former German Foreign Minister, Joshka Fischer."Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin," he said.
  • Global Research   Meanwhile, a US-sponsored political engineering process has entered its last phase, warning the entire political spectrum in Turkey to toe the line. It is relentlessly trying to ensure that a fully compliant government is in power before launching the next Anglo-American war on Iran and possibly on Syria.
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  • Dark Government
  • Deep Journal
  • June 25,  2008  Iran blockade resolution (Act of War):  House Resolution 362, introduced by Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Mike Pence (R-IN), calls for the United States to "initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program." This sense of the Congress resolution, complemented by Senate Resolution 580, introduced by Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN) and John Thune (R-SD), would impose a naval, land, and air blockade against Iran and be tantamount to an act of war. The resolution is the brainchild of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which decided on the course of action two weeks ago during its annual meeting in Washington, DC.  WMR  World War III
  • Politico (conservative)  "Conyers issues subpoena to DOJ for Bush-Cheney interviews on Plame leak  ...  House Judiciary Committee John Conyers has issed a subpoena to the Justice Dept. for the unredacted interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney on former CIA operative Valerie Plame, as well as numerous other documents sought unsuccessfully by Democrats for years.  ... Conyers is also seeking FBI notes of interviews with some top former White House officials, including Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Scott McClellan, Dan Bartlett and Andrew Card."
  • June 25,  2008 Newsday  "Sometime soon, Rep. Gary Ackerman hopes, the House will vote on his get-tough-on-Iran resolution under rules that allow it to be considered as a noncontroversial item. But it should get a lot more scrutiny than that.  ...  Though the resolution doesn't use the word "blockade," its critics say that those restrictions would amount to one. They fear that this resolution could set off an unpredictable cascade of action-reaction that would help those in the Bush administration who still favor a military strike against Iran
  • June 28,  2008 Gozlem "While the EU is imposing strict sanctions against Iran, Turkey seems to be getting closer due to both countries’ problems with terrorism. The Turkish Land Forces Commander, General Ilker Basbug recently announced that there is a partnership between Turkey and Iran in the fight against the PKK"
  • WayneMadsenReport "has recently learned from knowledgeable U.S. Intelligence Community sources that Entwistle's contract for P-Tech involved "wiring backdoors" into the computer systems of the FAA, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House to bring about the operational collapse of the computer systems during the morning of 9/11.      full article
  • June 29,  2008 "U..S. escalating covert operations against Iran - report ... the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which include the Central Intelligence Agency, have now been significantly expanded, the article said, citing current and former officials.  ..  Many of these activities are not specified in the new finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature, it said.  ...  Among groups inside Iran benefiting from U.S. support is the Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People's Resistance Movement, according to former CIA officer Robert Baer. Council on Foreign Relations analyst Vali Nasr described it to Hersh as a vicious organization suspected of links to al Qaeda." file
  • June 30,  2008 "Scott Ritter, US Tour of Duty Real Intelligence
  • June 31,  2008 Washington Independent "More in our ongoing coverage of J Street's efforts to build a better American Zionist movement. Earlier this month, J Street endorsed a Washington Democrat running for Congress named Darcy Burner. Burner is the driving force behind something called the Responsible Plan, a manifesto and strategy for withdrawing from Iraq that this year's crop of progressive Democratic candidates are supporting. Natural fit, right? Well, according to OpenLeft's Matt Stoller, AIPAC -- the powerful, right-wing Israel lobby group in Washington -- is none too pleased:"
  • Payvand News Iran hasn't invaded another country in over 200 years. The United States encouraged Iraq's war with Iran (1980-1988) by providing Saddam Hussein with intelligence and military support. Iran's major oil refineries were destroyed during the war, so Iran was forced to export its crude oil to be refined. The U.S. sponsored sanctions have prevented Iran from repairing or building new refineries, so they have been forced to rely on other forms of energy. Nuclear power was introduced to Iran by the U.S. after its democratically elected government was overthrown by the CIA in 1953. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, on behalf of President Ford, persuaded the U.S. imposed Shah of Iran to build over 20 nuclear reactors  full article
  • July 3,  2008 Houston Chronicle  "Was rocket moments from striking Continental flight? Probe of launch near Bush airport has stalled, FAA records indicate  A Continental airliner might have been only a minute away from colliding with what the pilot described as a model rocket that shot past his cockpit window, Federal Aviation Administration records obtained by the Houston Chronicle show.
  • July 4,  2008  AFP Shirin Ebadi  "National Peace Council" of around 70 dissident Iranian politicians, social activists and intellectuals.  The list of people who signed on as founding members of the council included figures like Ibrahim Yazdi, head of the outlawed but tolerated Freedom Movement and Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death but pardoned for apostasy.  Also included is the film director Jafar Panahi, winner of the top prizes at the Berlin and Venice film festivals and Iran's leading female film-maker Rakhshan Bani Etemad.  
  • OpEdNews "And Israel KNOWS that the Iranians have purchased some sophisticated Russian missile and radar defense equipment that will take until the end of the year to install and make operational. Israel is in a "use it or lose it" position as far as neutralizing Iran is concerned."   and Madsen: Russia is installing an upgraded radar system in Iran to protect Iranian nuclear sites. It is expected the upgrade to the Tin Shield (NATO code name) mobile Russian radar in Iran will foil the stealth capabilities of Israeli attack aircraft and missiles and, therefore, some experts see an Israeli attack on Iran before such an advanced radar system becomes fully operational.  and see Debka File
  • Iran Press TV "Mullen: Iran war, too stressful for US  ... Admiral Michael Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff says opening up a third front for a war on Iran would be extremely stressful for the military.  Speaking at a Defense Department press conference, amid increasing speculation that Israel will launch a military strike on Iran, Admiral Michael Mullen said he did not need an already unstable part of the world to be 'more unstable.'  ...  "I think that just about every move in that part of the world is a high-risk move," the top US military chief cautioned."
  • July 7,  2008 MWC News  "America’s Knesset, servile hirelings of Israel’s lobby, rush to pass yet another resolution conceived by AIPAC and authored and co-signed by its most slavish puppets, Ackerman and Ros-Lehtinen in the House and Lieberman and Bayh in the Senate, Resolutions H. Con. 362 and S. 580, the “Iran War Resolution.” Virtually all Congressmen with the exception of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and all Senators, including McCain and Obama, will vote to support this resolution. Passage provides Bush with power to impose a unilateral blockade on Iran, an act, if done without UN sanction, is an act of war. This resolution, a virtual carbon copy of the resolution that has mired us in Iraq, does nothing for the security of the United States, indeed it does the opposite, but it does secure continued funding of Republicans and Democrats by AIPAC and Israel.
  • July 12,  2008 Think Progress  The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”  Will have an effect on Bush plans to attack Iran.
  • Ynet News   Report: US backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran  ...  (Video) Pentagon official says Bush told Israel to 'get on with preparations, stand by for immediate attack' on Iran's main nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail. 'This administration will not attack Iran. This has already been decided,' official tells Sunday Times  Ynet Published: 07.13.08, 07:52 / Israel News  VIDEO - The Sunday Times quoted a senior Pentagon official as saying that President George W. Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down.
  • July 16,  2008 AFP  "Iran accepts nuclear talks but has 'red lines": Khamenei:  TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Tehran is ready for negotiations over the nuclear crisis but warned it would not step over any "red lines" in the search for a deal.  ...  His comments came days ahead of a key meeting between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief, which will also be attended by a US envoy for the first time in a major policy shift by Washington. "
  • July 16, 2008 -- WayneMadsenReport U.S. contractor leaving Saudi Arabia - another warning sign of impending war with Iran  Although Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns is meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in Switzerland and the State Department announced plans to open a U.S. Interests Section in Tehran, the Dick Cheney-American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) war hawks and neocons are still beating the war drums for a U.S. attack on Iran to placate the Jerusalem government and the Likud Party opposition.  Another ominous war sign has been reported to WMR. The U.S. contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) is reportedly planning to withdraw its training staff that is supporting the Royal Saudi Naval Force at its base in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.  Jubail is located on the Persian Gulf and is well within the range of Iranian missiles expected to be used against Saudi and U.S. targets in the Gulf in the event of a U.S. and/or Israeli attack on Iran.  The report on BAH states that its contractors will begin pulling out of Jubail in October of this year.  
  • Today's hearing in the Judiciary Committee focused on mounting evidence that senior members of the Bush Administration specifically approved torture techniques outlawed by US and International law. This issue is directly relevant to the articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich relating to torture, and today's hearing should add momentum to our campaign in favor of impeachment hearings.  During my questioning of Mr. Ashcroft, he refused to answer my repeated direct questions about the so-called "principals meetings" he took part in with Vice President Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Alberto Gonzales where these key officials reportedly approved detailed interrogations against specific prisoners that included torture techniques including water boarding. Despite the fact that much of this information is in the public record, Mr. Ashcroft stubbornly refused to answer my legitimate questions and instead decide to "keep faith" with the Bush Administration and keep secrets from the American people and the Congress of the United States.  
  • July 16,  2008 JTA  The federal judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers set a trial date of Oct. 28.  Separately, Ellis ruled in favor of the prosecution in allowing as evidence a Washington Post article from June 15 2003; that article, by Michael Dobbs, on Iran policy wars within the Bush administration, quoted senior administration officials as refusing to discuss a directive by President Bush on Iran because it is classified.   ....    The same directive was allegedly the topic of discussion between Rosen, Weissman and Larry Franklin, then a Pentagon Iran analyst. The prosecution intends to use the article to show that Rosen and Weissman likely knew the document, a National Security Presidential Directive, was classified. Franklin has pleaded guilty in the case.
  • July 18,  2008 New York Times  Using Bombs to Stave Off War    By BENNY MORRIS, Li-On,   Israel, Tucker Nichols ISRAEL will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months — and the leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be successful enough to cause at least a significant delay in the Iranian production schedule, if not complete destruction, of that country’s nuclear program. Because if the attack fails, the Middle East will almost certainly face a nuclear war — either through a subsequent pre-emptive Israeli nuclear strike or a nuclear exchange shortly after Iran gets the bomb. ... It is in the interest of neither Iran nor the United States (nor, for that matter, the rest of the world) that Iran be savaged by a nuclear strike, or that both Israel and Iran suffer such a fate. We know what would ensue: a traumatic destabilization of the Middle East with resounding political and military consequences around the globe, serious injury to the West’s oil supply and radioactive pollution of the earth’s atmosphere and water.  ....    But should Israel’s conventional assault fail to significantly harm or stall the Iranian program, a ratcheting up of the Iranian-Israeli conflict to a nuclear level will most likely follow.
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  • July 19,  2008 OpEdNews, Impeachment hearings, Kucinich, Plamegate, executive privilege  Judiciary Chairman John Conyers is set to begin "preliminary hearings" on Dennis Kucninch's article of impeachment on Thursday, July 25, according to impeachment activists working the Hill. Conyers is tying himself in knots trying to avoid using the word "impeachment," but that's what Kucinich's article is: an article of impeachment against George Bush, tightly focused on claims that Saddam possessed WMD and that he had a connection to 9/11, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
  • July 19,  2008 Indymedia Venezuela: "Maj.Wm. B. Fox, Cpt.Eric H. May - 19.07.2008 07:34 An impressive medley of military officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting the public to the danger of Bush administration foul play in the upcoming terror drills Noble Resolve and Diablo Bravo. Intro: An impressive medley of military officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting the public to the danger of Bush administration foul play in the upcoming terror drills Noble Resolve and Diablo Bravo.  SUMMER ALERT!  Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer Maj. William B. Fox Dr. James H. Fetzer Capt. Eric H. May SFC Donald S. Buswell  ....     Neo-cons and their allies are pounding the drums of war against Iran. Just after his White House meeting on June 4, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that war with Iran was a done deal: "George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on that matter before the end of his term in the White House."   ...  Antiwar   In his July 14 article “Amber Alert! Get Ready for War” Antiwar  Justin Raimondo states “The Israelis have already been using U.S. bases in Iraq to train for the coming attack… [Bush] is more determined than ever to leave his lasting mark on the Middle East and the world.” In his July 15 article “A Phony Crisis – And A Real One” Antiwar  Pat Buchanan writes: “Israel and its Fifth Column …seek to stampede us into war with Iran.” In his article, “9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda” Digg  Dr. James H. Fetzer explained why the Bush Administration needs another (self-inflicted) “false flag” attack to expand the failing war in the Middle East. In “False Flag Prospects, 2008” Lonestar Icon  Captain Eric H. May proved the connection between official terror drills and the U.S. 9/11/2001 and UK 7/7/2005 terror attacks. As experienced military professionals, it is our mission of conscience to publish alerts to the American people whenever the danger of a false flag attack is high. We face that danger now with several suspicious military exercises just ahead of us. On July 22 Virginia will run a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) scenario at the Richmond International Airport. For two weeks we have tried to gather particulars on the terror drill from the Virginia National Guard. The command has been evasive, refusing us access to personnel involved in the WMD-related activities. July 28-August 1, a wide array of U.S. military, police, and disaster agencies will be running multiple terror and catastrophe drills. The two main terror drills are “Noble Resolve” and “Diablo Bravo.” 
  • July 26,  2008 WMR Gates selection to replace Moseley, General Norton Schwartz, recently rattled his saber against Russia in his Senate confirmation hearing, warning Russia not to station bombers in Cuba in retaliation for U.S. missile shield bases in the Czech Republic, Poland, and possibly, Lithuania. As Gates was decrying "creeping militarization" of American foreign policy, his Air Force Chief of Staff selectee was warning Russia not to cross a "red line" by stationing bombers in Cuba, stating, "I think we should stand strong and indicate that that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line, for the United States of America."
  • July 27,  2008 New York Sun Prosecutors Argue for More Secrecy in Aipac Case   "The district court's view that unlawfully conspiring to disclose classified information about troop movements to a foreign government is 'patently' unprotected by the First Amendment, but disclosing classified information to a foreign government about terrorist attacks on those same troops is a 'core value' of the First Amendment proves the point that 'judges ... have little or no background in the delicate business of intelligence gathering,'" prosecutors wrote in the brief filed late Friday night. "Clandestinely obtaining and passing U.S. government classified information to the Israeli government does not represent participation in a 'public debate' to 'influence United States foreign policy.'" search terms: graymail, graymailing, 
  • Press TV, Iran ...  "This follows the recent publication of an Army War College 'Parameters' article, in which US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that a war against Iran would be 'disastrous on a number of levels', arguing that 'another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need'.  ...  Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, has also said that fighting a third front would have serious consequences. "We do not need an already unstable part of the world to become more unstable," he has said.
  • JTA  Joe Klein talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about his running feud with the “Commentary crowd” over his assertions that Jewish neocons are pushing a pro-Israel agenda at the expense of U.S. interests (recap: Round I, Round II, Round III).  His bottom line: Listen, people can vote whichever way they want, for whatever reason they want. I just don’t want to see policy makers who make decisions on the basis of whether American policy will benefit Israel or not. In some cases, you want to provide protection for Israel certainly, but you don’t want to go to war with Iran. When Jennifer Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic, they’re wrong. I am anti-neoconservative. I think these people are following very perversely extremist policies and I really did believe that it was time for mainstream Jews to stand up and say, “They don’t represent us, they don’t represent Israel.”  
  • Aug 6,  2008 AP Apparently to allay Israeli concerns, Bush administration officials last week assured visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that the U.S. has not ruled out the possibility of a military strike on Iran. And the U.S., aware of Israel's high anxiety over Iran's nukes, is also hooking Israel up to an advanced missile detection system known as X-Band to guard against any future attack by Iran, said a senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions over the issue have not been made public.    ....    With sanctions and diplomacy still the international community's preferred method to get Iran to stop building the bomb, an Israeli strike does not appear imminent.   ...   If it did attack, however, Israel would have to contend with upgraded Iranian defense capabilities, including 29 new Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile systems Iran purchased from Russia last year in a $700 million deal.
  • Aug 8,  2008 Jerusalem Post  "If Russia goes through with the sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Israel will use an electronic warfare device now under development to neutralize it and as a result present Russia as vulnerable to air infiltrations, a top defense official has told The Jerusalem Post.   ...   The Russian system, called the S-300, is one of the most advanced multi-target anti-aircraft-missile systems in the world today and has a reported ability to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the same time. It has a range of about 200 kilometers and can hit targets at altitudes of 27,000 meters.   ...   While Russia has denied that it sold the system to Iran, Teheran claimed last year that Moscow was preparing to equip the Islamic Republic with S-300 systems. Iran already has TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.   ...   Neutralization of one of the main components of Russian air defense would be a blow to Russian national security as well as to defense exports. "No country will want to buy the system if it is proven to be ineffective," the official said. "For these reasons, Russia may not deliver it in the end to Iran."
  • Aug 11,  2008 Antiwar  A Not-So-Diplomatic Turn The continuing frailty of US-Iran relations and the possibility of war by Sadegh Kabeer Last week Iran responded to the latest European proposal regarding its controversial nuclear program. The so-called Iran Six, however, were neither amused nor heartened by the proposal's apparent "ambiguity" regarding the demand that Iran cease it enrichment activities.  ....    In short, Tehran will continue to refuse to forgo its right to uranium enrichment, and the Bush administration, despite the very loud protests of hawks, will continue along the path of "aggressive diplomacy," i.e., more sanctions, in a bid to break the back of the Islamic republic. The possibility of full-blown military conflict remains real, but it is presently tempered by energy prices and the global economic downturn. Rapprochement, however, is a distant prospect, and the NPT remains the only genuine alternative by means of which a resolution to the ongoing crisis can be found.
  • DailyTimes, Pakistan   the Ad Hoc Group Against Israeli Attack on Iran, have signed the following declaration: “There is no military, political or moral justification to initiate war with Iran. A constant flow of information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear plans.    
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ...  Where Are They Now? A Rogues’ Gallery of American Israel-Firsters Compiled by Janet McMahon ELLIOT ABRAMS—Cheryl Hanin Bentov (“Cindy”): American-Israeli Mossad agent; Stephen Bryen—Member of advisory board and former executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA); Adam Ciralsky—CIA contract employee fired in 1999 for failing to reveal a relationship with two U.S.-Isreali employees of Israeli defense firms; John Deutch—Former CIA director whose security clearance was revoked for having prepared top-secret briefings and storing highly classified reference material on his unclassified and unsecured home computer.; Douglas Feith—Former under secretary of defense for policy, he established the Office of Special Plans, which produced “inappropriate” intelligence leading up to the war on Iraq; Philip Heymann—Former assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, who failed to act on a written recommendation by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch that a grand jury investigate allegations of espionage against Stephen Bryen; Michael Ledeen —Former New Republic correspondent in Italy, where CIA station files listed him as an agent of influence of a foreign government Israel; Nathan Lewin—Attorney for Stephen Bryen and Larry Franklin; former schoolmate of and Supreme Court clerk with Philip Heymann; I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby—Graduate of Yale University, where he studied under Paul Wolfowitz; attorney for fugitive financier Marc Rich when Rich was pardoned by President Clinton; Lt. Col. Jeremiah Mattysse—Naval intelligence officer who converted to Judaism and in 2000, carrying several duffel bags containing top-secret information, defected/went AWOL to Israel Richard Perle —As staff member for Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), influenced hiring of Paul Wolfowitz by Arms Control and Development Agency; heard on 1969 FBI wiretap discussing classified information with someone at Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC; David Tenenbaum—Mechanical engineer with U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), based in Warren, MI, who in 1997 admitted “inadvertently” giving classified U.S. technical data to Israeli; Paul Wolfowitz —While working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, investigated in 1978 for providing to an Israeli government official, through an AIPAC intermediary,
  • Albawaba  "More than 100 hundred Israeli academicians and peace activists have signed the following declaration: There is no military, political or moral justification to initiate war with Iran.  A constant flow of information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear plans. We do not disregard irresponsible actions by the Iranian government - we also oppose atomic weapons in principle and support the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction from the region. However, it is clear that the main source of the immediate danger of a new, widespread war stems from the policies of the Israeli government and the flow of threats from it, backed by provocative military maneuvers.   ...   After serious consideration, we reiterate our position that all the arguments for such an attack are without any security, political or moral justification. Israel might get caught up in an act of adventurism that could endanger our very existence, and this without any serious effort to exhaust the political and diplomatic alternatives to armed conflict.  ....   We are not certain that such an attack will occur. But the very fact that it is being weighed as a reasonable option, makes it imperative that we warn and caution against the destructive results of an offensive strike against Iran.  ...   Coordinating Group: Prof. Gadi Algazi; Judy Blanc; Prof. Rachel Giora; Prof. Anat Matar; Prof. Adi Ophir; Prof. Yoav Peled; Reuven Kaminer, Prof. Haggai Ram; Prof. Yehuda Shenhav; Prof. Oren Yiftachel.
  • Aug 12,  2008 The Peoples Voice, Flight 77, WTC7, BBC reported collapse of WTC7 before it happened.
  • Aug 13,  2008 US warns against Israeli plan to strike against Iran's nuclear facilities Harretz
  • Sibel Edmonds We Can Change the World Edmunds
  • Saudi Arabia and nuclear power Jerusalem Post
  • AsiaTimes  Georgia is one of Iran's "near neighbors" and as a result of geographical proximity and important political and geostrategic considerations, the current Russia-Georgia conflict is closely watched by Tehran, itself under threat of military action by the US and or Israel, which may now feel less constrained about attacking Iran in light of Russia's war with Georgia.   ...   Representing a serious new rift in US-Russia relations, the conflict in the Caucasus, paralyzing the UN Security Council and igniting Cold War-type rhetoric between the two military superpowers, is simultaneously a major distraction from the Iran nuclear crisis and may even spell doom for the multilateralist "Iran Six" diplomacy. This involves the US, Britain, Russia, France, China and Germany in negotiations over Iran's uranium-enrichment program, which some believed is aimed at making nuclear weapons.
  • Aug 20,  2008  Sun Herald (error 404) Declassified Old Documents Shed New Light on AIPAC Espionage Prosecution WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- More than one thousand documents released under Freedom of Information Act filings reveal details of a secret battle that raged between founders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and top US law enforcement officials. The new book "America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government" reproduces and analyzes these files and their troubling implications for rule of law in the United States. "America's Defense Line" also reveals stunning details of a preferential deal engineered within the highest levels of the US Department of Justice over the course of three years and implemented in 1965 -- but kept secret from the American public until today. Old documents and new analysis from the Center for Policy and Law Enforcement raise many questions about the upcoming October 2008 AIPAC espionage trial
  • Aug 23,  2008 DissidentVoice Rosen Weissman trial .... "Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage ...  american_zionist_council_foreign_agents_registration_1962  and IRMEP Institute for Research: Middle East Policy
  • RawStory ... links between Gulf War Syndrome, Anthrax vaccine, Ivins... Rove / Bush knew... kept quiet.
  • WMR  "In what was considered a diplomatic slap, Pakistan, which is an official observer at the SCO, sent the national security adviser to the Prime Minister, Mahmud Ali Durrani, considered a very low ranking representative considering the fact that Russia was represented by its president, Dmitry Medvedev and China by its president, Hu Jintao. Iran, which is also an observer, was represented by President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Also present in Dushanbe were Afghan President Hamid Karzai, an observer, ans well as full members President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, and President Emomali Rakhmon of Tajikistan. India was represented in Dushanbe by its foreign minister while Mongolia sent its president. The President of Turkmenistan, not a SCO member, was also invited to Dushanbe.
  • Sept 2,  2008 Jerusalem Post Sept 2, 2008, Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks ...  On Saturday, Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff General Masoud Jazayeri warned that should the United States or Israel attack Iran, it would be the start of another World War. 
  • Sept 8, 2008  Woodward book release: Cheney has created a  rival chain-of-command, has penetrated US Army, Navy, led by Keane to Petraeus,... preceding the election will be a confrontation with Russia, to play into perceived national security weakness of Obama, help McCain / Palin... all related to Minot / Barksdale nuclear transfer incidentGenerals Casey, Abizaid, the operation will coincide with Russia, STABILNOST 2008. (Stability 2008), new cold war, naval presence in Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, USS George Washington, USS Peleliu, 7th Fleet, Russia lately going after Israeli oligarchy, tax evasion, fraud,  more search terms: Kolmakov, Ukraine, Moldova, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Caspian Sea, CSTO, Armenia, IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 2008, CAUCUSUS FRONTIER 2008, COSSACK STEPPE 2008, Nova Demba, Poland, RAPID TRIDENT, Russian Black Sea, Baltic, Northern, Pacific Fleets, warning by Russian General Valery Yevnevich
  • Sept  9,  2008 Newsweek  The Justice Department has threatened to file criminal charges against a former top National Archives official if he testifies as a defense witness in a high-profile national-security case.  ...   J. William Leonard, who resigned last January as the U.S. government's chief expert on classified information, after a bitter clash with Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has been cooperating with defense lawyers in a case charging two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) with improperly disclosing national-security secrets, according to recently filed court papers.
  • Sept 14,  2008 Telegraph.uk  "Last week Israel's request for a fresh supply of GBU-28 bunker-busters, each weighing two tons and capable of punching through reinforced concrete, was turned down by the US.   ...   Instead, America has agreed to sell 1,000 versions of a much-smaller satellite-guided bomb capable of hitting underground targets, albeit at a shallower depth.   ...   Iran's nuclear facilities are located at a number of separate locations, some of which are buried underground.   ...   The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, yesterday said Iran had increased its uranium enrichment programme and was not co-operating with an inspections process.  "
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  • Sept 17,  2008 Washington Times "It's true that Mr. Biden brings some political experience to Mr. Obama's ticket, but so could many of Mr. Obama's other choices. Mr. Biden also narrows the race gap, which unfortunately still exists in America. But again, so could any of the other choices.   ...   So, what then? Mr. Biden, the self-proclaimed Zionist, assuages Israeli and Jewish American fears that Mr. Obama might not be so accommodating to Israel."
  • WMR The U.S. government's bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) comes as no surprise to intelligence community insiders. In fact, AIG has been at the center of a number of CIA operations for decades. The federal government's $85 billion "bridge" loan to AIG essentially makes the United States government an 80 percent stakeholder in AIG, a move that will prevent external players from peering into AIG's myriad intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA, according to an insider who has followed AIG's overseas operations for a number of years.  ...   The CIA's analysts who concentrate on Asia have also enjoyed routine access to a huge AIG database maintained in San Francisco. AIG's new building in Hong Kong was intended to be a major outpost for CIA agents assigned the China "beat." However, Chinese intelligence succeeded in thoroughly wiring the building with surveillance systems and AIG's China operations were blown. Chinese intelligence could not believe how sloppy Greenberg and the CIA were in handling the Hong Kong operation." more search terms: Henry Kissinger,  Elliot Spitzer, Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg, Cornelius Vander Starr, Kenneth Starr uncle, C. C. Starr & Company, Clinton, Greenberg CIA head?,  AIG goes back to OSS days, National Intelligence Council, Asia beginnings of AIG, close to Beijing, NOC, AIG Hong Kong is CIA outpost, bugged by Chinese, ... Coral Re of Barbados, Starr Foundation
  • Sept 27,  2008 Calgary Herald "The Guardian quoted European diplomatic sources as saying Israel sought U.S. President George W. Bush's approval for a military strike against Iranian nuclear installations when he visited the country during its 60th anniversary celebrations in May.  ...   According to the sources, Bush withheld his support even though the official U.S. line is to say all options are on the table for preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, including the military option.  
  • Sept 28,  2008 Aljazeera "Profile: Tzipi Livni, Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister [AFP], Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has called on Ehud Olmert to resign the post of prime minister and said she would seek to take over as leader of the Kadima party. ... Livni, born in Tel Aviv on July 8, 1958, is a leading member of the Kadima Party, the largest party in the Israeli parliament. ... She is Israel's second woman foreign minister, after the late Golda Meir. And many Israelis would like to see her, like Meir a generation ago, go on to become prime minister. ... Livni comes from a well-known "ultranationalist" family but has endorsed withdrawal from some occupied Palestinian lands as a pragmatic way to preserve Israel's Jewish majority - if not to achieve a peace agreement. First elected to the Knesset as a member of the Likud party in 1999, her father, Eitan, led the armed underground group Irgun in the 1940s that fought for an exclusively Jewish homeland in Palestine and opposed partitioning the territory with Arabs. Livni renounced any such views after defecting from Likud and joining Ariel Sharon, then prime minister, in forming Kadima in 2005. ... The married mother of two served as justice minister under Sharon, and was a key member of the team overseeing Israel's disengagement from Gaza. Politically inexperienced. She came to politics just over a decade ago, following a stint in the Mossad foreign intelligence service - as a legal adviser, some say, while others speculate that she helped hunt Arab enemies abroad - and then a career as a corporate attorney.
  • Sept 28,  2008 TPM Cafe "AIPAC's Iran War Resolution Defeated By M.J. Rosenberg - September 30, 2008, 11:35PM Readers of TPM Cafe may recall my posts on HRes 362, the resolution that would have imposed a full blockade on Iran. Although the bill's authors claimed it was not a "war resolution," my take was that a blockade is an act of war, no matter what the sponsors said.   ...   I expected the resolution to pass because AIPAC made it the centerpiece of its lobbying efforts for 2008. ...   Credit goes to Israel Policy Forum, The J Street Project, Americans for Peace Now, the National Iranian American Council, Churches for Middle East Peace and a host of pro-peace Arab American groups who got together to stop 362. And, miracle of miracles, we succeeded. One year after the same coalition blocked AIPAC's bill to block most humanitarian aid to Gaza, we prevailed again."
  • Oct 4,  2008 ArabNews "Israel is to install a twin radar antennae near its Dimona nuclear plant, but senior Israeli defense officials expressed fears that the newly deployed US X-band radar facility in the Negev Desert will reveal the secrets of Israeli Army.   ...   The early-warning radar system’s arrival in Israel last Sunday was kept under tight wraps until it was revealed over the weekend by Defense News, an industry newsletter. The system was deployed in the Nevatim air base in the Negev along with a 120-member support team to strengthen Israel’s defense against missiles if the Jewish state and/or the United States attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities   ...   The radar will allow the US to keep a close watch on anything moving in Israeli skies, “even a bee,” a top Israeli official, who asked not to be identified, told Time.   ...   According to the current plan, US soldiers will control the radar, which will be connected to the Israeli Air Force’s Arrow control room in Palmahim military base in southern Israel.   ...   Israeli sources said last Sunday that an Israeli forces request to permit Israeli soldiers to control the radar had been declined.
  • Oct 9,  2008 PressTV  "A US war veteran has accused the Pentagon of launching a nuclear attack on southern Iraq in the final day of the first Persian Gulf War.   ...   Jim Brown, a mechanic in the Army's 10th Mountain Division at the time, told Italian state news channel RaiNews24 that Washington dropped a nuclear bomb in a deserted area outside the city of Basra near the Iranian border in 1991.   ...  The bombing, which took place on the last day of the war in Iraq on February 27th, caused an explosion equal to a five-kiloton blast.   ...  The allegations draw parallels with the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, which created a blast equivalent to about 13 kilotons of TNT.   ...   According to a number of US military heavyweights, the devastating attack on Japan was not necessary as the country had already been seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'.  "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender," said William D. Leahy, a former admiral and chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
  • Oct 17,  2008 OpEdNews  Iran attack off the table? On Sept. 23, the neo-conservative chiefs of the Washington Post’s editorial page mourned, in a tone much like what one hears on the death of a close friend, that "a military strike by the United States or Israel [on Iran is not] likely in the coming months." One could almost hear a wistful sigh, as they complained that efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear program has "slipped down Washington’s list of priorities…as Iran races toward accumulating enough uranium for a bomb." search terms: Russian bear, Georgia, bear market in US, Pakistan, Afghanistan...
  • Oct 28,  2008 Middle East Times In the United States on Oct. 28 the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA is scheduled to hear arguments on an important First Amendment issue, the essence of which is: "Do policy analysts, lobbyists, journalists, members of the press, newspapers or private American citizens who leak 'national defense information' now become criminals?"  ...   The court will hear oral arguments on whether two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – Steven Rosen (AIPAC's former foreign policy chief) and Keith Weissman (AIPAC's former Iran analyst) – violated a rarely used and vaguely worded spy provision of the World War I era Espionage Act that makes it a crime to disclose or disseminate "national defense information" that could be used "to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation."  
  • Nov 20,  2008 Haaretz  Defense for AIPAC spy suspects: Data at core of case was not really 'top secret'  By Josh Gerstein  Tags: Israel News, Jewish World RICHMOND - The defense of two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally obtaining and disclosing American national security secrets will argue that some of the data the men allegedly conspired to reveal came directly from the Israeli government and was not truly secret, defense lawyers told a federal appeals court last week.  ...   Three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals spent more than 90 minutes Wednesday wrestling with the issue of how much classified information the defense should be permitted to introduce in the case of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). 
  • Forward ... Rosen Weissman   .... Rosen’s political moves are particularly notable because his fellow defendant, Weissman, has been doing his own work, as the Forward reported, in a more left-wing direction focusing on Palestinian needs.
  • Jan 29,  2009 WMR (1/09) has previously reported on the malfeasance of the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, in his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the outing of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson. In the case of the 1993 attack, Fitzgerald sat on critical signals intelligence (SIGINT) evidence that would have tied the bombing to Osama bin Laden in exile in Sudan. Bin Laden remained a U.S. intelligence asset at the time of the World Trade Center bombing so Fitzgerald, following orders from Langley, simply failed to enter into evidence wiretaps communications between the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Sudanese Foreign Ministry in Khartoum that contained references to Bin Laden. In the outing of Plame, Fitzgerald refused to enter as evidence tapped phone calls of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and others that would have proven the severe damage of Libby's actions to the covert counter-proliferation operation involving Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover firm. Fitzgerald's actions in covering up the World Trade Center link to Sudan and Bin Laden was so significant that Libby's New York Times interlocutor, Judith Miller, once asked this editor for my sources on the Sudanese wiretap story. I told her that one was well known, the late ABC News reporter John McWethy had reported on the Sudan UN mission wiretaps by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1993. The other, a confidential source in Khartoum, remains confidential. McWethy died in a February 2008 skiing accident in Colorado.   search terms: damage assessment, CIA
  • NFU will no longer cover the AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman case.  It's outcome is certain.  They will never go to trial, despite undeniable complicity in the execution of the Iraq War and involvement in numerous other dubious activities.  The power of the Israeli lobby is alive and well.
Jerusalem Post  "...the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, the 84-year-old former US army engineer arrested in New York City on Tuesday (April 2008) on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Even assuming the charges have substance, the circumstances, and especially the timing of his arrest - 23 years after he allegedly last committed an act of espionage on behalf of Israel - raises puzzling and troubling questions" search terms: Israel denies spying after 1985, Kadish, former US Army engineer, passing nuclear weapons information, air defense, fighter jets, Patriot missile, 50-100 documents,  (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal) between 1979 and 1985, contact with Israeli official, reported to same official (CC-1 Co-conspirator) as Jonathan Pollard, Olmert office silent, Danny Yatom, head of Mossad, DOE, Israeli Aircraft Industries.  CC-1an Israeli attache to the NY consolate, possibly Yossi Yagur, science attache, they talked in March of 2008, Israeli Aerospace Industry, ... and see Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, all shows that Israel did not come clean about spies in 80s, dual loyalty, 

Timeline pages 1, 23, 45678  Plamegate, Leakgate   AIPAC / Rosen, Weissman, Pentagon moles.  

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An Israeli Spy Network Was Dismantled in the United States. Le Monde, 5 March 2002  It is without doubt the biggest case of Israeli espionage in the US made public since 1986. In June 2001, an investigative report detailed the activities of more than a hundred Israeli agents, some presenting themselves as fine arts students, others as linked to high-tech Israeli companies. All have been questioned and interrogated by the [US] authorities, and a dozen are still incarcerated. One of their missions was to track Al-Qaida terrorists within the United States, without, nonetheless, warning [US] federal authorities. Parts of the investigation, taken up the American TV network Fox News, reinforces the idea according to which Israel did not transmit to the United States all the facts in its possession about the preparations for the attacks of September 11 . . . According to the chief editor of Intelligence Online, Guillaume Dasquié, this "vast network of Israeli intelligence agents was neutralized by the counter-espionage services of the Department of Justice." The Americans "apprehended or expelled nearly 120 Israeli nationals." Mr. Dasquié confirms a "61 page summary report" of June 2001 remitted to the head of the Justice Department by a "task force" comprising agents of the Drug Enforcement AdministrationŠand the INS, with which the FBI and the USAir Force investigation office worked. Asked by Le Monde, Will Glaspy of the Public Affairs department of the DEA authenticated this report, of which the DEA "has a copy" . . . After the attacks of September 11, information, with few details, was brought out about the arrest of 60 Israeli agents. Finally, from December 11 to 14, 2001, the Fox TV network broadcast a four-part investigation on Israeli espionage in the US, in the program "Carl Cameron Investigates." The Israeli Embassy in Washington immediately stated that it contained "nothing that was true." American Jewish organizations-JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), AIPAC (America-Israel Political Action Committee) and others-denounced it as a "plot." Fox removed from its internet site, a day and a half after posting, all the reports related to the investigation. Le Monde asked Fox News, three times, to send it the cassette of the broadcast. This was never done. Fox told our correspondent in New York that sending it would pose "a problem," without any explanation . . .Le Monde nevertheless learned what was in the transcript of the [Fox] investigation . . . [which] focussed on two points. One: could the Israelis have had knowledge beforehand of the September 11 attacks and not informed the Americans? According to Carl Cameron, his sources told him that "the main question is how could they not have known it." On the TV, the chief editor of the report then says to [Cameron]: "Certain reports confirm that the Mossad sent representatives to the US to warn it, before September 11, about the imminence of a major terrorist attack. This isn't what you'd call an absence of a warning." Cameron's answer: "The problem isn't an absence of a warning, but an absence of useful details." 2002 NewsMax: article: "A copy of the Able Danger chart that identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist operating inside the U.S. a year before the 9/11 attacks is clearly visible in a video of a 2002 speech by delivered by Rep. Curt Weldon to the Heritage Foundation"

 

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