Fw: Neocons vs the CIA- Wayne Madsen
> RESIGN
>
> October 15, 2001 -- The latest neocon spin is not only to attack
> Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in the CIA Leakgate scandal
> but also to dredge up old canards that Valerie Plame and her Brewster
> Jennings & Associates counter-proliferation non-official cover (NOCs)
> team were somehow merely "desk clerks." According to well informed
> intelligence officials, nothing could be further from the truth. The
> fact remains that CIA clandestine operatives have been and continue to
> be disparaged and put in danger by the Pentagon's neocon cell that
> operates as a parallel and unsupervised operation inside the Policy and
> Plans directorate.
>
> The Pentagon cell, now led by Dick Cheney loyalist Eric Edelman, the
> replacement for Douglas Feith, owes its first allegiance to the Project
> for a New American Century (PNAC) and other neo-con policy contrivances
> and apparatuses. Its mandate from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is
> to clip the wings of the CIA and other long standing intelligence
> agencies.
>
> The CIA's Damage Assessment Report on Leakgate has been termed
> "devastating" by a number of sources familiar with the harm the White
> House leak caused for the CIA's complicated and sensitive network of
> NOCs, case officers, informants in "denied countries" (hostile
> intelligence locations), private businessmen, diplomats, United Nations
> and IAEA technical personnel, and double agents.
>
> According to U.S. intelligence sources, it is also clear that the
> Pentagon's Strategic Support Branch of active duty and contract former
> Special Forces personnel and foreign special operations personnel
> purposely put in danger CIA assets who were in a position to throw cold
> water on a range of neo-con pre-conceived policy pillars, including
> Iranian and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction production and possession.
>
> In February 2005, while the neo-cons were rattling the sabers with
> Iran, a CIA team made contact with Iranians across the northern Afghan
> border inside Iran. This border area is extremely remote and porous.
> Afghan Uzbeks loyal to ex-Communist warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum,
> whose base of operations is Mazar-e-Sharif, are involved in a number of
> cross-border operations, including arms and heroin smuggling. It was
> through this network of Uzbeks and Iranians that the CIA was able to
> obtain documents on Iran's nuclear program, information that proved
> that Iran's nuclear capability had still not achieved weapons-grade
> status. That, of course, is not what the neocons in the Pentagon's
> Office of Special Plans and a sister unit in the Israeli Prime
> Minister's Office in Jerusalem wanted to hear.
>
> On February 3, 2005, after having secured sensitive documents on Iran's
> nuclear program, two CIA agents boarded a Kam Air Boeing 737-200 flight
> from Herat, near the Iranian border, to Kabul. The agents were anxious
> to get the documents to Langley. They and the documents never made it.
>
> The Boeing crashed at an altitude of 11,000 feet on the summit of
> Chaperi Mountain, 20 miles east of Kabul. The plane's 104 passengers
> and crew, including the two CIA agents, were killed. Although the
> Pentagon's web site claims the U.S.-led International Security
> Assistance Force made several attempts to look for survivors by
> helicopter but that these efforts were unsuccessful. In reality, a
> Pentagon Strategic Support Branch team did land at the crash site and
> found the bodies of the two CIA agents and grabbed the Iranian
> documents and quickly departed before Afghan ground troops appeared on
> the scene.
>
> February 2005 Kam Air crash scene in Afghanistan. Vital intelligence
> crucial to CIA's analysis of Iran nuclear program lost along with two
> valuable agents. Indications that the CIA agents were another casualty
> of treasonous White House leaks about the CIA
>
> Curiously, even though the documents recovered by the Pentagon team
> from the bodies of the CIA agents were intact, the cockpit voice
> recorder was never recovered. In addition, the flight recorder's
> previous 25 hours of data prior to the crash was erased. Afghan
> Transport Minister Enayatullah Qasemi said the cause of the crash was a
> mystery. Add to the mystery the fact that General Dostum, the reported
> owner of Kam Air, was appointed Chief of Staff of the Afghan Armed
> Forces in March. It was an appointment that surprised many U.S.
> intelligence and foreign policy observers. Another layer of intrigue was
> a reported assassination attempt against Dostum in Shebergan a few days
> before the Kam Air crash. Although the Taliban claimed responsibility,
> it was reported that Dostum, unlike other Afghan leaders, maintained a
> degree of contact with ousted Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
>
> Kam Air, which began operations in November 2003 and which used Boeings
> and Russian-built Antonovs, as well as Russian crews, was also believed
> to have links to the international Russia-based weapons smuggler Viktor
> Bout. Kam Air's aircraft came from Bout's international fleet of
> planes. In addition to its domestic routes, Kam Air flew from Kabul to
> Dubai and Istanbul. A U.S. embassy spokeswoman in Kabul confirmed that
> there were six Americans on the plane but she declined to provide details.
>
> The loss of the Iranian documents was another body blow for the CIA. It
> had already suffered the loss (by execution) of one high level agent as
> a result of the CIA leak and a number of its informants were rolled up
> by counter-espionage services.
>
> Given the connections between Dostum, Bout, Afghan heroin and weapons
> smugglers and their networks in Turkey and the Balkans, the
> Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia (RUIM) based in Switzerland, Russia,
> and Israel, and Scooter Libby, it would appear that Valerie Plame and
> her network were targeted by key White House and Pentagon players as
> part of a much larger attempt to disable the CIA in its pursuit of not
> only WMD proliferation but also a network of money laundering and
> weapons of limited destruction and drug smuggling with tentacles
> reaching deep inside the Bush administration.
>
> From "Hayden's Heroes," WMR Special Report:
> During the last year of the Clinton administration, Viktor Bout was a
> number one SIGINT target for NSA. However, after Condoleezza Rice took
> over as National Security Adviser under Bush, she issued a change in
> orders on Bout. "Look and listen but don't touch" was the new policy.
> Ever since, Bout has flouted INTERPOL and Belgian and French arrest
> warrants. Although the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on
> Bout's companies on April 26, 2005 and froze his corporate assets, one
> of Bout's airlines, Irbis, continued to operate from a U.S.-controlled
> airbase in northern Iraq. Other Bout companies, which use a fleet of
> aging Soviet-era military cargo planes, are contracted to a network of
> seedy multinational private military contractors operating in Iraq.
> Bout's global enterprises closely intersect with the diamond, white
> slave trade, arms, and other illicit activities of Israel's Russian
> Mafia, made up of some 80 Russian and Ukrainian Jewish billionaires and
> millionaires who have escaped to Israel to avoid prosecution in and
> extradition to Russia and other countries. Considering the close
> association between leading neo-conservatives like Vice President
> Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to fugitive Marc Rich,
> who is linked to the crime syndicates in Israel, a reason for Rice's
> dictate "Look and listen but don't touch," with regard to Bout, becomes
> abundantly clear.
>
> October 14, 2005 -- Opus Dei connected to former U.S. Marine spy in
> Dick Cheney's office. Classified documents were being used to foment an
> Opus Dei-backed coup against Philippine President Gloria
> Macapagal-Arroyo. Read full article.
>
> October 14, 2005 -- Neo-con/Likud parallel intelligence and covert
> operations strike inside Syria. A covert team of U.S., Israeli,
> right-wing Phalangist Lebanese, and paid Syrian provocateurs have
> attempted to cover up their role in carrying out car bombings of
> Lebanese politicians by assassinating Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi
> Kanaan on October 12. Informed Middle East sources report that Kanaan's
> knowledge of the covert group's assassinations of Lebanese Christian
> leader Elie Hobeika in 2002 and former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and
> former Lebanese Communist Party leader George Hawi earlier this year.
>
> Hobeika was assassinated by a powerful car bomb after he revealed he
> possessed videotapes and documents proving the involvement in Israeli
> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his military units in the massacre of
> Palestinians at Sabra and Shatilla in Beirut in 1982. Hobeika had
> planned to testify against Sharon at a war crimes tribunal in Brussels.
> Hariri was killed in a similar car bomb last February after he met with
> leaders of Hezbollah and expressed his opposition to the construction
> of a U.S. air base in northern Lebanon. Last June, car bombs killed
> Hawi and Samir Qasir, a popular journalist.
>
> Murdered Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan Knew Too Much About
> Neocon Destabilization Activities in Lebanon
>
> The UN chief investigator in the assassination of Hariri, Detlev Mehlis
> of Germany, interviewed Kanaan before his death. The "suicide" of
> Kanaan was spun by the main stream media to make it appear that he took
> his own life because of "guilt" for his involvement in the Lebanese
> political assassinations stemming from his long-time role as Syria's
> viceroy in Lebanon. However, Kanaan was close to Hariri, as well as with
> a group of career government Arabists in the U.S. government who have
> been opposed to the neo-con agenda of expanding the Iraq war to Syria
> and Iran. Kanaan was in a position to know the details of the
> Pentagon/Likud plot to undermine the Syrian regime by carrying out
> bombings of popular Lebanese politicians and then laying blame on
> Damascus.
>
> Kanaan was also likely aware of the identities of rogue Syrian
> intelligence agents who helped the covert U.S., Israeli, and Lebanese
> teams in carrying out the car bombings in Lebanon. One person
> identified as being responsible for ordering the hit on Hobeika was
> Assef Shawkat, the number two man in Syrian intelligence.
>
> From July 12, 2005 "Diplomatic Cables"/WMR:
> Jul. 12, 2005 --Notwithstanding personal attacks by a neo-con cell in
> the U.S. State Department, I have long contended that neo-con-directed
> operatives (including Syrian freelance agents operating outside the
> control of Damascus and the Assad government) were behind the
> assassinations of Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika in 2002 and
> ex-Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and former Lebanese Communist
> Party leader George Hawi in 2005. All were targets of opportunity for
> the neo-cons who hope to destabilize Lebanon as a raison de guerre
> against Syria and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The neo-cons quickly blamed
> Syria and Hezbollah for all three assassinations. The July 12 attempted
> bombing assassination attempt against Lebanese Defense Minister Elias
> Murr, a pro-Syrian politician, has been used by the State Department to
> again blast Syrian "meddling" in Lebanese politics. Murr was injured in
> the blast. There was no reason for Syria or Hezbollah to kill a
> pro-Syrian politician let alone Hobeika, Hariri, and Hawi. The ones who
> benefit from a fractured Lebanon is the Likud government in Israel and
> their political allies in Washington.
>
> Recently, amid the tanking of popular support for the occupation of
> Iraq, the neocons in Washington, the US Mission to the UN in New York,
> and Jerusalem have ratcheted up their war of words against Syria. Mehlis
> is being pressured by John Bolton's neocon mini-cabal in Manhattan to
> lay total blame for the Hariri assassination on Bashar Assad's
> government. Bolton is being aided in the anti-Syrian propaganda
> campaign by U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, National Security
> Adviser Stephen Hadley, and Douglas Feith's successor as Undersecretary
> of Defense for Policy and Plans Eric Edelman. The neo-con cell
> operating inside the Pentagon also includes an influential
> Lebanese-American right-wing component.
>
> October 14, 2005 -- In what has become typical for the main stream
> media in Washington, the Washington Post yesterday reported on the
> murder of a high visibility lawyer without delving into his past
> association with high-level GOP officials. If the Post's story was taken
> at face value, the bludgeoning to death of lawyer Eric N. Miller at a
> cheap Fairfax County motel near Alexandria, Virginia was just a case of
> a Harvard Law School graduate from a prominent civil rights family in
> Alexandria falling on hard times and winding up hanging around with a
> couple of crackheads in various low rent motels.
>
> On the evening of September 7, DC police discovered the body of Miller
> in the trunk of a burning Ford Taurus in a crime-ridden neighborhood in
> southeast Washington. Miller had been beaten to death with a pipe at
> the Alexandria Motel on Route 1 in Fairfax County, just across the town
> line from Alexandria.
>
> A female companion of Miller's, Kristin Kozak, told DC and Fairfax
> County police that she witnessed Miller arguing with Dana Moro, 46, in
> a room at the Arlington Motel. Kozak said Moro struck the 45-year-old
> Miller with a metal pipe, killing him. The two then used Miller's ATM
> card to make withdrawals at bank machines around the Washington area to
> buy gasoline, cleaning agents, and a sleeping bag used to burn Miller's
> body. Kozak has not yet been charged in the case but Moro is being held
> on murder charges.
>
> The Washington Post would have us believe that is the end of the story.
> it is not. Miller was a top lawyer for the Securities and Exchange
> Commission (SEC) from 1999 to May of this year. Miller's time at the
> SEC spanned high-level corporate fraud cases, including Enron, Tyco,
> Worldcom, Halliburton, and Senator Bill Frist's Hospital Corporation of
> America.
>
> Yet another mysterious death of someone connected to the Bush
> administration
>
> But Miller, an African American, also crossed paths with some dangerous
> right-wing groups. In 1998, before going to work for the SEC, Miller
> represented Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305 of the Sons of Confederate
> Veterans in a law suit brought against the Confederate Memorial
> Association (CMA). According to people familiar with the case, the
> dispute arose from the attempt by extreme right-wing elements,
> including the Ku Klux Klan, National Alliance, Aryan Nation, Mississippi
> Senator Trent Lott, former-North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, and the
> Bush family, to take over the Confederate Memorial Hall and Library in
> downtown Washington from the CMA. These right-wing elements intended to
> use the hall for various GOP right-wing fund raising events and money
> laundering activities, including support for GOP political candidates,
> under the umbrella of various 501c3 tax-exempt organizations.
>
> One of the past commanders of Camp No. 305 is Richard T. Hines, a top
> GOP lobbyist with close ties to the George W. Bush White House,
> particularly, Karl Rove.
>
> Ironically, the Alexandria Motel murder scene was around the corner
> from the scene of another case widely under reported by the Washington
> media. On September 29, 2003, Bertha Champagne (note: the linked
> article refers to Champagne's son, it was later discovered that the
> person on the phone was her son-in-law), a domestic employee of Marvin
> Bush, the president's brother, was crushed to death in the driveway in
> front of the Bush compound at the corner of Fort Hunt Rd. and Edgehill
> Drive. Marvin Bush claimed that Champagne's car went into gear as she
> attempted to retrieve a package from the vehicle, pinning her up against
> an outbuilding on the property. In fact, the vehicle was a late model
> and standard transmission SUV.
>
> In June 2000, Porter Goss's Executive Director of the House Permanent
> Select Committee on Intelligence, John Millis, was found shot to death
> from a reported suicide at a seedy motel on Route 50 in Fairfax City,
> Virginia. In all three cases, Miller, Champagne, and Millis, Virginia's
> colonial era anachronisms of overlapping jurisdictions of counties like
> Fairfax and independent cities like Alexandria and Fairfax City lent
> themselves to incomplete law enforcement investigations of the
> suspicious deaths.
>
> October 14, 2005 -- To all those who have been kind with their support
> for this site, thanks again so much! Now, let me report to you what I
> discovered prowling Washington last night on the CIA Leakgate story,
> the "October Surprise" scandal that threatens the survival of the G.W.
> Bush/Cheney administration.
>
> Political insiders tracking this scandal are reporting that the GOP and
> neo-con political machines, which have also targeted Travis County,
> Texas, District Attorney Ronnie Earle in retaliation for his
> indictments of Tom DeLay and other Texas GOP operatives, are also
> setting their sights on CIA Leakgate special prosecutor Patrick J.
> Fitzgerald.
>
> For an example of this new strategy of attacking Fitzgerald, see this
> Washington Post OP-ED piece by Richard Cohen.
>
> The word inside the Beltway is that if Fitzgerald delivers indictments
> against senior White House officials, he will face unspecified
> "consequences."
>
> "It's a sign of desperation on the part of the White House and Karl
> Rove's machine," said one individual familiar with the case. Another
> informed observer pointed out that Fitzgerald "is the last guy the
> White House would want to threaten with retaliation."
>
> This morning, Rove testified for the fourth time before the grand jury
> investigating the CIA leak and the associated conspiracy to obstruct
> justice by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG). There are reports that
> former Secretary of State Colin Powell provided the grand jury with a
> mother lode of evidence on the role of the WHIG in its conspiracy
> against Valerie Plame Wilson, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and the lies
> and forgeries used to lay the groundwork for the war against Iraq.
>
> Legal experts believe that with political pressure being brought to
> bear on his investigation, it is in Fitzgerald's interest to issue any
> indictments as soon as possible and not request an extension for the
> grand jury, which is due to adjourn on October 28.
>
> October 13, 2005 -- Special note to the Bush intelligence and law
> enforcement agency lackeys who read this web site: Did you not think
> that with a number of friends and colleagues in the intelligence
> community, I would not discover that you've managed to place a wiretap
> on my phone lines and e-mail accounts? But, hey thanks. Its nice to
> know that one small Washington-based editor and reporter merits a
> National Security Letter or a court order for a wiretap. It would be
> interesting to know what you used as justification for the wiretap:
> Suspicion of espionage? Aiding or abetting terrorists? Or just making
> life a bit more difficult for your pathetic president and his neo-con
> and crooked cronies? I'm sure Osama bin Laden and his supporters
> appreciate the fact that you're wasting valuable surveillance resources
> on a journalist.
>
> October 13, 2005 -- GOP scandals engulf Senate Majority Leader.
> Tennessee Senator Bill Frist's personal records have been subpoenaed by
> the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of its probe of
> the Senate Majority Leader for possible insider trading in shares of
> Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) stock. HCA is a Frist family
> enterprise, having been founded by the senator's father and brother.
> House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted on three criminal
> counts in Texas and faces a Federal probe of his activities in relation
> with indicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. DeLay has responded by
> having his lawyer threaten to subpoena Travis County District Attorney
> Ronnie Earle and jury members in a clear case of prosecutor and jury
> intimidation.
>
> October 12, 2005 -- A familiar scene at the US District Court House in
> Washington, DC. We've seen it before in this town -- the media camped
> out in the courtyard in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Court
> House, between the U.S. Capitol and the White House off Pennsylvania
> Avenue. The media has been there before, during the Watergate and
> Iran-Contra scandals, and the more recent non-scandal of Monica
> Lewinsky/Whitewater. In the past, the media anxiously awaited for the
> arrivals and depatures of people with names like Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
> Liddy, North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane, Tripp, Curry, and Hubbell.
>
> Now, the media looks for people with names like Miller and Rove to
> enter and exit the famous court house. Although the court house is now
> ringed with construction barriers, the preponderance of satellite
> dishes, microwave "trees," and entrepreneurial hot dog vendors all point
> to an impending scandal of Watergate and Iran-Contra proportions.
>
> The tell tale signs of an impending Washington scandal. Media trucks
> near US Court House in DC during Miller testimony this morning
>
> New York Times reporter Judith Miller made her second appearance before
> the Grand Jury this morning. She departed the court house at
> approximately 10:35 am EDT. Karl Rove is expected to make his fourth
> Grand Jury appearance on Friday, October 14. The word is that the
> criminal probe is focusing beyond the CIA leak of the identities of
> Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates
> non-official cover colleagues and on to the wider role of senior White
> House officials in a conspiracy to attack Ambassador Joseph Wilson and
> lie about the reasons the United States used to go to war in Iraq. The
> focus of the probe on the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) not only would
> focus on Rove, Scooter Libby, and Ari Fleischer (names that have
> already been mentioned by informed sources as likely targets) but also
> Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley,
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Public Diplomacy
> chief Karen Hughes, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. President Bush,
> himself, could also be a subject of the criminal probe for conspiracy.
> The turning up of the heat on Bush's closest aides has also resulted in
> a barrage of criticism for Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald from the
> typical right wing noise machines, including propaganda outlets on the
> web and cable television.
>
> The Grand Jury in CIA Leakgate is sitting behind these doors between
> the US Capitol and the White House. Hopefully, this will put to rest
> uninformed rumors and disinformation that Special Prosecutor Patrick J.
> Fitzgerald has involved Federal judges and jurors in Chicago in his
> probe of the CIA leak. Those reports are simply not true.
>
> There are indications that the CIA's Counter Proliferation efforts in
> Iraq prior to the war may have also been compromised by the outing by
> the White House of Valerie Plame Wilson and Brewster Jennings &
> Associates. Iraqi assets in a position to know about the destruction of
> Iraqi WMDs by 1995 may have been executed by remnants of Iraq's
> security services and other paramilitaries working for the U.S. in
> order to silence them as witnesses to Iraq's WMD disarmament eight
> years prior to the U.S. invasion.
>
> The media waiting game in CIA Leakgate. There is a sense of
> anticipation in the air.
>
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