AWOL Bush and company's private-sector KGB
Five yearsago, I discovered that ChoicePoint of Alpharetta,
Georgia.had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans --
and I know they've expanded their ops at an explosive rate.
ChoicePoint was funded, and its board stocked, by such Republican
sugar daddies as billionaires Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone.
In 2000 in Florida when our Guardian/BBC team discovered the list of
94,000 "felons" that Katherine Harris had ordered removed from
Florida's voter rolls before the election. Virtually every voter
purged was innocent of any crime except, in most cases, Voting While
Black. Who came up with this electoral hit list that gave Bush the
White House? ChoicePoint, Inc.and their list had a 97% error rate
in finding Florida "felons."
ChoicePoint just got hit with the largest fine in Federal Trade
Commission history for letting identity thieves purchase 145,000
credit card records. for firms such as Syntech, Sybase and Lockheed-
Martin -- each of which has provided lucrative posts or profits to
connected Republicans.
ChoicePoint, Inc. did the job (for $12 million, no bid) of
identifing victims of the September 11 attack from DNA
fragments. This was NOT mentioned by the Times.
A ChoicePoint executive told us in confidence, "hope[s] to build a
database of DNA samples from every person in the United
States ...linked to all the other information held by CP
[ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting records..." Our
investigator, pretending to seek work, that ChoicePoint was "the
number one" provider of DNA info to the FBI.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/05/con06189.html
NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls
11 May 2006: In 1975, a congressional investigation revealed that
the NSA had been intercepting, without warrants, international
communications for more than 20 years at the behest of the CIA and
other agencies. The spy campaign, code-named "Shamrock," led to the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, enacted in 1978 ),
which was designed to protect Americans from illegal eavesdropping.
Under Section 222 of the Communications Act, first passed in 1934,
telephone companies are prohibited from giving out information
regarding their customers' calling habits: whom a person calls, how
often and what routes those calls take to reach their final
destination. Inbound calls, as well as wireless calls, also are
covered.
In the case of the NSA's international call-tracking program, Bush
signed an executive order allowing the NSA to engage in
eavesdropping without a warrant. The NSA told the (phone) companies
that it wanted them to turn over their "call-detail records," a
complete listing of the calling histories of their millions of
customers. In addition, the NSA wanted the carriers to provide
updates, which would enable the agency to keep tabs on the nation's
calling habits.
The domestic and international call-tracking programs have things
in common, according to the sources. Both are being conducted
without warrants and without the approval of the FISA court. The
Bush administration has argued that FISA's procedures are too slow
in some cases.
Paul Butler, a former U.S. prosecutor who specialized in terrorism
crimes, said FISA approval generally isn't necessary for government
data-mining operations. "FISA does not prohibit the government from
doing data mining," said Butler, now a partner with the law firm
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C.
The caveat, he said, is that "personal identifiers" - such as
names, Social Security numbers and street addresses - can't be
included as part of the search. "That requires an additional level
of probable cause," he said.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106J.shtml
background:
The Information Industry
Buying Public Records and Private Facts
Cashstrapped governments are selling digitized public records to a
new generation of commercial database companies. Illinois, for
example, now makes $10 million a year from the sale of public
records, and Rhode Island prices its motorvehicle records alone at
$9.7 million. Other records that are for sale range from realestate
filings that list the number of bedrooms in a house and its last
sale price, to divorces and bankruptcies.
Thus, personal details that used to lie in musty courthouse files
from financial holdings to a messy divorce or a youthful bout with
the law can now be uncovered from almost any place in the country by
means of a computer.
Companies like DBTOnline, started in 1992, constantly collect such
data from across the country and use powerful new software to mix
and match the scattered bits of information.
With a product called "Faces of the Nation," for example, DBTOnline
allows its 20,000 users private eyes, insurance agents, bill
collectors and journalists to type in a name and get back the
matching Social Security number, date of birth and telephone number
in less than three minutes, for about $1.50, billed to a subscriber
account.
Governments are also sharing more confidential data with companies
that now manage childsupport enforcement, prisons and welfare
benefits.
Thousands of former police officers, retired agents of the FBI and
former Cold War spies fill the ranks of an estimated 65,000 private
investigators, helping to create an oldbuddy network that makes
access to other restricted government computer data, such as arrest
records, increasingly commonplace.
Investigative Group International Inc., one of the best connected
Washington investigative agencies, the chairman, Terry Lenzner,
noted "increasing interest by clients seeking to protect themselves
from negative campaigns," including those
by "socalled 'whistleblowers,"' unions and regulatory agencies.
An IGI division called "Campaign Facts Inc.," created two years ago,
offers not only to dig for dirt on an adversary, but to find out
what damaging information political enemies or nosy reporters might
discover about clients and their associates. IGI had an assignment
from the Democratic National Committee to probe its campaign finance
mess.
Such information, including medicaltreatment details, is
increasingly traded between insurancefraud investigators and
lawenforcement agents, who have granted the National Insurance Crime
Bureau, an insurance industry consortium, online access to the raw
arrest data contained in the National Crime Information Computer.
The Web page of Advanced Research Inc. advertises long distance
toll records, cellularcall records, bankaccount balances, creditcard
activity, and up to 10 years of medicaltreatment history. In a
mailing to private investigators, the same company quotes prices
that range from $80 for someone's longdistance records to $400 for
10 years of medicaltreatment history.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97/n406/a01.html
Wackenhut Corporation
According to Frank Donner, the author of Age of Surveillance, the
Wackenhut Corporation maintained and updated its files even after
the McCarthyite hysteria had ebbed, adding the names of antiwar
protesters and civil-rights demonstrators to its list of "derogatory
types." By 1965, Wackenhut was boasting to potential investors that
the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents—one
in 46 American adults then living. In 1966, after acquiring the
private files of Karl Barslaag, a former staff member of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities, Wackenhut could confidently
maintain that with more than 4 million names, it had the largest
privately held file on suspected dissidents in America. In 1975,
after Congress investigated companies that had private files,
Wackenhut gave its files to the now-defunct anti-Communist Church
League of America of Wheaton, Illinois.
http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/92wack.htm
Wackenhut is a big private company - one with a board of former CIA,
FBI and Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting Nuclear-
Weapons facilities, nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline and
more than a dozen American embassies abroad; one with long-standing
ties to a radical ring-wing organization, and fueled unrest in
Venezuela.
There is considerable evidence that Wackenhut carried the CIA's
water in fighting Communist encroachment in Central America in the
1980s (former CIA director William Casey worked as a lawyer for
Wackenhut prior to working for the CIA).
In 1981, Berckmans, the CIA agent turned Wackenhut vice president,
joined with other senior Wackenhut executives to form the company's
Special Projects Division. It was this division in pursuit of a
scheme to manufacture explosives, poison gas and biological weapons-
and then, by virtue of the tribe's status as a sovereign nation, to
export the weapons to the contras.
Ernesto Bermudez who was Wackenhut's director of international
operations from 1987 to '89, admitted that during 1985 and '86 he
ran Wackenhut's operations in El Salvador, where he was in charge of
1,500 men.
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/wack_1.h
tml
An example from May 10, 2003 (just after Bush ordered the Iraq war
to start in March 2003)
The information warfare warriors (or possibly cultural crusaders)
were SENDING OUT VIRUS-LADEN EMAILS USING What Really Happened's
WEBSITE EMAIL ADDRESSES. http://www.whatreallyhappened...com/
These emails from these address were arriving with viruses in them.
wrh@whatreallyhappened.com AND ads@whatreallyhappened.com
See two examples of info warfare:
Hackers Disable Web Links to Bush Documents
NOVEMBER 5 2000 - On Friday, Nov 3, two hours after an early morning
news release distribution to national news editors with links to
photocopied Freedom of Information documents about discrepancies in
Bush military record, hackers disrupted and shut down Talion.com,
the site that provided access to the documents.
The shutdown was traced to Qwest, supplier of T-1 lines that
supports the host for Talion.com (Bookzone.com).
Other hacking activity to disrupt public access to sensitive
information: Several other web sites have been hacked and disabled
when they posted documents damaging to the Bush Administration,
among them: FromTheWilderness.com when it posted an interview by a
former intelligence officer who defected to Canada after providing
documentation of foreknowledge about the September 11 attack. This
site has been targeted by hackers on several occasions, as it
published several articles naming names and pointing to evidence
that officials had been warned in advance about 9-11. Its firewall
was breached, and a sophisticated hacking attempt that programmed at
least 17 separate servers to disable fromthewilderness.com was
uncovered.
http://www.talion.com/hackers...html
A prominent web investigation group that investigated the hacking
said, that the code and setup was the most sophisticated they had
ever seen...they were impressed.
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052202_DOS_attack.html
Remember Jeff Gannon, the fake White House reporter?
Jeff Gannon, who real name is James Dale (J.D.) Guckert, finally
admitted that Gannon wasn't his real name and that Talon News
Service was nothing more than a shill for another Bush front called
GOPUSA."
"What's important about all this is that it was nothing more than a
shill organization for GeorgeBush.com, which is financed from a
Texas-based Republican Christian group associated with Karl Rove.
http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2005/2/15/325256.html
Talon appears to be little more than an arm of the Republican Party.
Talon News' editor in chief, Bobby Eberle, is a Republican activist
who served as a delegate to the 1996, 1998, and 2000 Texas
Republican Conventions and to the 2000 national Republican
Convention. His biography on Talon's website notes: 'Bobby has
devoted considerable time and energy to the Republican effort'
and 'Bobby is a member of Texas Christian Coalition and Texas Right
to Life.'"
http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/01/28/softballs/
GOPUSA.com – which, along with Talon News, is owned by Texas
Republican activist Bobby Eberle, a Houston engineer, serial Texas
Republican Convention delegate, occasional Republican National
Convention delegate, member of the Texas Christian Coalition.
TalonNews.com and GOPUSA.com also draw from the same learned
wellspring of editorial guidance. Aside from owning both sites,
Bobby Eberle also serves as Editor in Chief of Talon.
Today, though, you won't find any works by "Jeff Gannon" at either
site; shortly after the scandal started to break in earnest at the
beginning of February, both sites had been scrubbed clean of all
past articles bearing a "Jeff Gannon" byline.
http://www.evote.com/features_section/2005-02/02222005scandal.asp
Bruce Eberle, CEO of Eberle Communications Groups...his website
MillionsOfAmericans merged with Bobby Eberle's website GOPUSA....For
more on Eberle see: http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Bruce_Eberle
One of the Eberle Communications Groups board of directors is Peter
Hannaford, who is also a senior advisor to APCO (public relations
firm), is connected via a former business relationship with Michael
Deaver (convicted of lying about Iran/Contra), was a lobbyist for
the Carmen Group...
http://www.politicalmonitor.us/blog/_archives/2005/2/21/341875.html
In June 2004, The Hill reported that a third incarnation of
Committee on the Present Danger CPD was being planned, to address
the War on terrorism. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former
Reagan adviser Peter Hannaford, explained, "we saw a parallel"
between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message
that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is
that "the war on terror needs to be won," he said.[1]
(http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx)
One day after the launch of the 2004 CPD, managing director Peter
Hannaford resigned after it was reported that Hannaford, while
working for his PR firm the Carmen Group, has lobbied on behalf of
Austria's Freedom Party, which is headed by right-wing nationalist
Joerg Haider. Haider has been quoted as commending the "orderly
employment policy" of the Nazi Third Reich government
Members of the 2004 CPD include Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former
CIA director R. James Woolsey, Jr., and Reagan administration
official and 1976 Committee founder Max M. Kampelman.[2]
(http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx)
The original CPD was organized in 1950 to scare the hell out of
Americans, or at least frighten them enough so that they wouldn't
balk when the bill came in for a massive military build-up. it was
in the interests of the Truman administration to divert attention
away from the Commie Threat on the home front, and direct American
anger and paranoia overseas. The Commies were about to take over the
world, and were we going to just sit there watching I Love Lucy?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3135
"The political base for CPD II was in the Coalition for a Democratic
Majority, a group formed in 1972 by the hard-line, anti-Soviet wing
of the Senate, led by Sen. Henry M. Scoop Jackson. These
conservative Democrats contended that communism was a great evil and
that the U.S. had a moral obligation to eradicate it and foster
democracy throughout the world.
"The revitalization of the CPD grew out of an independent group
called Team B. Team B was authorized in 1976 by President Gerald R.
Ford and organized by then-CIA chief, George Herbert Walker Bush.
Team B was housed in the offices of the Coalition for a Democratic
Majority.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?
title=Committee_on_the_Present_Danger
Donald H. Rumsfeld "was a founding member of the Committee on the
Present Danger, which effectively undermined President Jimmy
Carter's arms control policies. He was the first major advocate of
the MX missile, and he was a moving force behind the Republican
right's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the
United States, which rejected the CIA's more moderate 1995 estimate
of the ABM threat."[7]
http://www.politicalmonitor.us/blog/_archives/2005/2/21/341875.html
The web of interconnections between political groups, fundraising
groups, PR groups, corporations, right wing religious groups, and
politicians is extensive....deliberately so.
It makes accountability much more difficult, and gives deniability
more credence.
Connections to CPD via funding and board members:
The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) began
operations in 1982. It was created to present the "conservative"
perspective on issues of significant public concern. As its first
project, it exposed human rights abuses by the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan. It then fought against a proposed "nuclear freeze" and
began supporting the Reagan Administration's policies regarding
Central America. It now calls itself a "communications and research
foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's
public policy problems."
The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive forum, which
was first formed in 1981, for leading US conservative political
leaders, financiers and religous right activist leaders to organize
their respective agendas.
While those involved are from the United States, their organizations
and influence cover the globe, both religiously and politically.
Members include corporate executives, television evangelists,
legislators, former military or high ranking government officers,
leaders of 'think tanks' dedicated to molding society and those who
many view as "Christian" leadership. Members in many cases are
owners or leaders from industry such as lumber, oil, mining,
commodities, real estate, the media, including owners of radio,
television and print, with all aspects of life covered. Many are
involved in education, determining to influence society's direction
by direct input with children and youth.
Council for National Policy membership roster, last updated July
2001.
Member Directory.
A copy of the membership roster obtained by Institute for First
Amendment Studies, listed current and former members as including:
Attorney General John Ashcroft (former member)
Tommy Thompson,Health and Human Services Secretary (former member)
Holland Coors and Jeffrey Coors of the Coors brewing company
Richard DeVos (Orlando Magic owner and founder of Amway)
John Ankerberg, who believes that biblical prophecies were literal
promises and are coming true;
Dave Breese, who hosts The King Is Coming, a show devoted entirely
to Christian eschatology.
Chuck Missler, an Idaho radio host who has predicted an imminent
invasion of Jerusalem by forces guided by the Antichrist.
Pat Robertson former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition
founder;
Steve Stockman former Texas Republican Representative
Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association.
Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony founder of Chalcedon Foundation. (deceased)
Alvin Williams, the founder of BAMPAC
Sam Moore, president of Thomas Nelson, the country's most successful
Christian book publishing company.
Henry Morris Prominent creationist
Dora Kingsley political scientist
John W. Whitehead founder of the Rutherford Institute
Bob Jones III President, Bob Jones University
Phyllis Schlafly
Oliver North
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsviewsnolose2
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyDemocratCaucusWA/
and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyCaucusDemocratsUSA Data mining is a big business for the private sector
AWOL Bush and company's private-sector KGB
Five yearsago, I discovered that ChoicePoint of Alpharetta,
Georgia.had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans --
and I know they've expanded their ops at an explosive rate.
ChoicePoint was funded, and its board stocked, by such Republican
sugar daddies as billionaires Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone.
In 2000 in Florida when our Guardian/BBC team discovered the list of
94,000 "felons" that Katherine Harris had ordered removed from
Florida's voter rolls before the election. Virtually every voter
purged was innocent of any crime except, in most cases, Voting While
Black. Who came up with this electoral hit list that gave Bush the
White House? ChoicePoint, Inc.and their list had a 97% error rate
in finding Florida "felons."
ChoicePoint just got hit with the largest fine in Federal Trade
Commission history for letting identity thieves purchase 145,000
credit card records. for firms such as Syntech, Sybase and Lockheed-
Martin -- each of which has provided lucrative posts or profits to
connected Republicans.
ChoicePoint, Inc. did the job (for $12 million, no bid) of
identifing victims of the September 11 attack from DNA
fragments. This was NOT mentioned by the Times.
A ChoicePoint executive told us in confidence, "hope[s] to build a
database of DNA samples from every person in the United
States ...linked to all the other information held by CP
[ChoicePoint]" from medical to voting records..." Our
investigator, pretending to seek work, that ChoicePoint was "the
number one" provider of DNA info to the FBI.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/05/con06189.html
NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls
11 May 2006: In 1975, a congressional investigation revealed that
the NSA had been intercepting, without warrants, international
communications for more than 20 years at the behest of the CIA and
other agencies. The spy campaign, code-named "Shamrock," led to the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, enacted in 1978 ),
which was designed to protect Americans from illegal eavesdropping.
Under Section 222 of the Communications Act, first passed in 1934,
telephone companies are prohibited from giving out information
regarding their customers' calling habits: whom a person calls, how
often and what routes those calls take to reach their final
destination. Inbound calls, as well as wireless calls, also are
covered.
In the case of the NSA's international call-tracking program, Bush
signed an executive order allowing the NSA to engage in
eavesdropping without a warrant. The NSA told the (phone) companies
that it wanted them to turn over their "call-detail records," a
complete listing of the calling histories of their millions of
customers. In addition, the NSA wanted the carriers to provide
updates, which would enable the agency to keep tabs on the nation's
calling habits.
The domestic and international call-tracking programs have things
in common, according to the sources. Both are being conducted
without warrants and without the approval of the FISA court. The
Bush administration has argued that FISA's procedures are too slow
in some cases.
Paul Butler, a former U.S. prosecutor who specialized in terrorism
crimes, said FISA approval generally isn't necessary for government
data-mining operations. "FISA does not prohibit the government from
doing data mining," said Butler, now a partner with the law firm
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C.
The caveat, he said, is that "personal identifiers" - such as
names, Social Security numbers and street addresses - can't be
included as part of the search. "That requires an additional level
of probable cause," he said.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106J.shtml
background:
The Information Industry
Buying Public Records and Private Facts
Cashstrapped governments are selling digitized public records to a
new generation of commercial database companies. Illinois, for
example, now makes $10 million a year from the sale of public
records, and Rhode Island prices its motorvehicle records alone at
$9.7 million. Other records that are for sale range from realestate
filings that list the number of bedrooms in a house and its last
sale price, to divorces and bankruptcies.
Thus, personal details that used to lie in musty courthouse files
from financial holdings to a messy divorce or a youthful bout with
the law can now be uncovered from almost any place in the country by
means of a computer.
Companies like DBTOnline, started in 1992, constantly collect such
data from across the country and use powerful new software to mix
and match the scattered bits of information.
With a product called "Faces of the Nation," for example, DBTOnline
allows its 20,000 users private eyes, insurance agents, bill
collectors and journalists to type in a name and get back the
matching Social Security number, date of birth and telephone number
in less than three minutes, for about $1.50, billed to a subscriber
account.
Governments are also sharing more confidential data with companies
that now manage childsupport enforcement, prisons and welfare
benefits.
Thousands of former police officers, retired agents of the FBI and
former Cold War spies fill the ranks of an estimated 65,000 private
investigators, helping to create an oldbuddy network that makes
access to other restricted government computer data, such as arrest
records, increasingly commonplace.
Investigative Group International Inc., one of the best connected
Washington investigative agencies, the chairman, Terry Lenzner,
noted "increasing interest by clients seeking to protect themselves
from negative campaigns," including those
by "socalled 'whistleblowers,"' unions and regulatory agencies.
An IGI division called "Campaign Facts Inc.," created two years ago,
offers not only to dig for dirt on an adversary, but to find out
what damaging information political enemies or nosy reporters might
discover about clients and their associates. IGI had an assignment
from the Democratic National Committee to probe its campaign finance
mess.
Such information, including medicaltreatment details, is
increasingly traded between insurancefraud investigators and
lawenforcement agents, who have granted the National Insurance Crime
Bureau, an insurance industry consortium, online access to the raw
arrest data contained in the National Crime Information Computer.
The Web page of Advanced Research Inc. advertises long distance
toll records, cellularcall records, bankaccount balances, creditcard
activity, and up to 10 years of medicaltreatment history. In a
mailing to private investigators, the same company quotes prices
that range from $80 for someone's longdistance records to $400 for
10 years of medicaltreatment history.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97/n406/a01.html
Wackenhut Corporation
According to Frank Donner, the author of Age of Surveillance, the
Wackenhut Corporation maintained and updated its files even after
the McCarthyite hysteria had ebbed, adding the names of antiwar
protesters and civil-rights demonstrators to its list of "derogatory
types." By 1965, Wackenhut was boasting to potential investors that
the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents—one
in 46 American adults then living. In 1966, after acquiring the
private files of Karl Barslaag, a former staff member of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities, Wackenhut could confidently
maintain that with more than 4 million names, it had the largest
privately held file on suspected dissidents in America. In 1975,
after Congress investigated companies that had private files,
Wackenhut gave its files to the now-defunct anti-Communist Church
League of America of Wheaton, Illinois.
http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/92wack.htm
Wackenhut is a big private company - one with a board of former CIA,
FBI and Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting Nuclear-
Weapons facilities, nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline and
more than a dozen American embassies abroad; one with long-standing
ties to a radical ring-wing organization, and fueled unrest in
Venezuela.
There is considerable evidence that Wackenhut carried the CIA's
water in fighting Communist encroachment in Central America in the
1980s (former CIA director William Casey worked as a lawyer for
Wackenhut prior to working for the CIA).
In 1981, Berckmans, the CIA agent turned Wackenhut vice president,
joined with other senior Wackenhut executives to form the company's
Special Projects Division. It was this division in pursuit of a
scheme to manufacture explosives, poison gas and biological weapons-
and then, by virtue of the tribe's status as a sovereign nation, to
export the weapons to the contras.
Ernesto Bermudez who was Wackenhut's director of international
operations from 1987 to '89, admitted that during 1985 and '86 he
ran Wackenhut's operations in El Salvador, where he was in charge of
1,500 men.
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/wack_1.h
tml
An example from May 10, 2003 (just after Bush ordered the Iraq war
to start in March 2003)
The information warfare warriors (or possibly cultural crusaders)
were SENDING OUT VIRUS-LADEN EMAILS USING What Really Happened's
WEBSITE EMAIL ADDRESSES. http://www.whatreallyhappened...com/
These emails from these address were arriving with viruses in them.
wrh@whatreallyhappened.com AND ads@whatreallyhappened.com
See two examples of info warfare:
Hackers Disable Web Links to Bush Documents
NOVEMBER 5 2000 - On Friday, Nov 3, two hours after an early morning
news release distribution to national news editors with links to
photocopied Freedom of Information documents about discrepancies in
Bush military record, hackers disrupted and shut down Talion.com,
the site that provided access to the documents.
The shutdown was traced to Qwest, supplier of T-1 lines that
supports the host for Talion.com (Bookzone.com).
Other hacking activity to disrupt public access to sensitive
information: Several other web sites have been hacked and disabled
when they posted documents damaging to the Bush Administration,
among them: FromTheWilderness.com when it posted an interview by a
former intelligence officer who defected to Canada after providing
documentation of foreknowledge about the September 11 attack. This
site has been targeted by hackers on several occasions, as it
published several articles naming names and pointing to evidence
that officials had been warned in advance about 9-11. Its firewall
was breached, and a sophisticated hacking attempt that programmed at
least 17 separate servers to disable fromthewilderness.com was
uncovered.
http://www.talion.com/hackers...html
A prominent web investigation group that investigated the hacking
said, that the code and setup was the most sophisticated they had
ever seen...they were impressed.
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052202_DOS_attack.html
Remember Jeff Gannon, the fake White House reporter?
Jeff Gannon, who real name is James Dale (J.D.) Guckert, finally
admitted that Gannon wasn't his real name and that Talon News
Service was nothing more than a shill for another Bush front called
GOPUSA."
"What's important about all this is that it was nothing more than a
shill organization for GeorgeBush.com, which is financed from a
Texas-based Republican Christian group associated with Karl Rove.
http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2005/2/15/325256.html
Talon appears to be little more than an arm of the Republican Party.
Talon News' editor in chief, Bobby Eberle, is a Republican activist
who served as a delegate to the 1996, 1998, and 2000 Texas
Republican Conventions and to the 2000 national Republican
Convention. His biography on Talon's website notes: 'Bobby has
devoted considerable time and energy to the Republican effort'
and 'Bobby is a member of Texas Christian Coalition and Texas Right
to Life.'"
http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/01/28/softballs/
GOPUSA.com – which, along with Talon News, is owned by Texas
Republican activist Bobby Eberle, a Houston engineer, serial Texas
Republican Convention delegate, occasional Republican National
Convention delegate, member of the Texas Christian Coalition.
TalonNews.com and GOPUSA.com also draw from the same learned
wellspring of editorial guidance. Aside from owning both sites,
Bobby Eberle also serves as Editor in Chief of Talon.
Today, though, you won't find any works by "Jeff Gannon" at either
site; shortly after the scandal started to break in earnest at the
beginning of February, both sites had been scrubbed clean of all
past articles bearing a "Jeff Gannon" byline.
http://www.evote.com/features_section/2005-02/02222005scandal.asp
Bruce Eberle, CEO of Eberle Communications Groups...his website
MillionsOfAmericans merged with Bobby Eberle's website GOPUSA....For
more on Eberle see: http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Bruce_Eberle
One of the Eberle Communications Groups board of directors is Peter
Hannaford, who is also a senior advisor to APCO (public relations
firm), is connected via a former business relationship with Michael
Deaver (convicted of lying about Iran/Contra), was a lobbyist for
the Carmen Group...
http://www.politicalmonitor.us/blog/_archives/2005/2/21/341875.html
In June 2004, The Hill reported that a third incarnation of
Committee on the Present Danger CPD was being planned, to address
the War on terrorism. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former
Reagan adviser Peter Hannaford, explained, "we saw a parallel"
between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message
that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is
that "the war on terror needs to be won," he said.[1]
(http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx)
One day after the launch of the 2004 CPD, managing director Peter
Hannaford resigned after it was reported that Hannaford, while
working for his PR firm the Carmen Group, has lobbied on behalf of
Austria's Freedom Party, which is headed by right-wing nationalist
Joerg Haider. Haider has been quoted as commending the "orderly
employment policy" of the Nazi Third Reich government
Members of the 2004 CPD include Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former
CIA director R. James Woolsey, Jr., and Reagan administration
official and 1976 Committee founder Max M. Kampelman.[2]
(http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx)
The original CPD was organized in 1950 to scare the hell out of
Americans, or at least frighten them enough so that they wouldn't
balk when the bill came in for a massive military build-up. it was
in the interests of the Truman administration to divert attention
away from the Commie Threat on the home front, and direct American
anger and paranoia overseas. The Commies were about to take over the
world, and were we going to just sit there watching I Love Lucy?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3135
"The political base for CPD II was in the Coalition for a Democratic
Majority, a group formed in 1972 by the hard-line, anti-Soviet wing
of the Senate, led by Sen. Henry M. Scoop Jackson. These
conservative Democrats contended that communism was a great evil and
that the U.S. had a moral obligation to eradicate it and foster
democracy throughout the world.
"The revitalization of the CPD grew out of an independent group
called Team B. Team B was authorized in 1976 by President Gerald R.
Ford and organized by then-CIA chief, George Herbert Walker Bush.
Team B was housed in the offices of the Coalition for a Democratic
Majority.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?
title=Committee_on_the_Present_Danger
Donald H. Rumsfeld "was a founding member of the Committee on the
Present Danger, which effectively undermined President Jimmy
Carter's arms control policies. He was the first major advocate of
the MX missile, and he was a moving force behind the Republican
right's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the
United States, which rejected the CIA's more moderate 1995 estimate
of the ABM threat."[7]
http://www.politicalmonitor.us/blog/_archives/2005/2/21/341875.html
The web of interconnections between political groups, fundraising
groups, PR groups, corporations, right wing religious groups, and
politicians is extensive....deliberately so.
It makes accountability much more difficult, and gives deniability
more credence.
Connections to CPD via funding and board members:
The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) began
operations in 1982. It was created to present the "conservative"
perspective on issues of significant public concern. As its first
project, it exposed human rights abuses by the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan. It then fought against a proposed "nuclear freeze" and
began supporting the Reagan Administration's policies regarding
Central America. It now calls itself a "communications and research
foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's
public policy problems."
The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive forum, which
was first formed in 1981, for leading US conservative political
leaders, financiers and religous right activist leaders to organize
their respective agendas.
While those involved are from the United States, their organizations
and influence cover the globe, both religiously and politically.
Members include corporate executives, television evangelists,
legislators, former military or high ranking government officers,
leaders of 'think tanks' dedicated to molding society and those who
many view as "Christian" leadership. Members in many cases are
owners or leaders from industry such as lumber, oil, mining,
commodities, real estate, the media, including owners of radio,
television and print, with all aspects of life covered. Many are
involved in education, determining to influence society's direction
by direct input with children and youth.
Council for National Policy membership roster, last updated July
2001.
Member Directory.
A copy of the membership roster obtained by Institute for First
Amendment Studies, listed current and former members as including:
Attorney General John Ashcroft (former member)
Tommy Thompson,Health and Human Services Secretary (former member)
Holland Coors and Jeffrey Coors of the Coors brewing company
Richard DeVos (Orlando Magic owner and founder of Amway)
John Ankerberg, who believes that biblical prophecies were literal
promises and are coming true;
Dave Breese, who hosts The King Is Coming, a show devoted entirely
to Christian eschatology.
Chuck Missler, an Idaho radio host who has predicted an imminent
invasion of Jerusalem by forces guided by the Antichrist.
Pat Robertson former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition
founder;
Steve Stockman former Texas Republican Representative
Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association.
Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony founder of Chalcedon Foundation. (deceased)
Alvin Williams, the founder of BAMPAC
Sam Moore, president of Thomas Nelson, the country's most successful
Christian book publishing company.
Henry Morris Prominent creationist
Dora Kingsley political scientist
John W. Whitehead founder of the Rutherford Institute
Bob Jones III President, Bob Jones University
Phyllis Schlafly
Oliver North
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