Saturday, October 22, 2005

Fw: Wayne Madsen Report October 21 - 22, 2005 Pre-Indictment UPDATES

 
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Wayne Madsen Report
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October 22, 2005 -- Late in the day on Friday, October 21, President Bush nominated the US Attorney for Eastern Virginia, Paul McNulty, to replace departed James Comey as Deputy Attorney General. Bush's first pick, Timothy Flanigan, withdrew over his past ties to indicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

McNulty has been the chief prosecutor in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) espionage case involving ex-Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, two former AIPAC officials, and Israeli spies. McNulty's case continues to look at other principal players in the espionage ring, including officials close to Karl Rove and John Bolton.

As reported previously by WMR, McNulty has shared evidence with CIA Leakgate Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. The evidence primarily concerns forged Niger government documents that were laundered by Pentagon neocons through Rome. Also of interest to both McNulty and Fitzgerald are a number of names common to both investigations, including former Deputy Defense Secretary for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.

Before he departed Justice, Comey appointed career Justice prosecutor David Margolis as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General to serve as a firewall between recused Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Fitzgerald. Comey's decision was based on the potential presence of Bush loyalist Flanigan as Deputy Attorney General.

PREDICTIONS: With Fitzgerald, McNulty, and Margolis now all on the same Justice Department team, the appointment of McNulty and his assistants into the number two spot at Justice spells real trouble for people like Rove, Libby, Cheney, and others, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his closest advisers who remain under investigation for their possible roles in the forged Niger documents as well as falsifying other intelligence in the lead up to the war in Iraq.

With Bush I National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft (who was fired by George W. Bush on Cheney's advice as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board) and Colin Powell's Chief of Staff at State, Jim Wilkinson, making public broadsides against the neocons, look for a wider chasm to develop between the Bush I Republicans and the neocons around Cheney.

The GOP last ditch strategy appears to be that the Bush I Republicans will take over the vacuum left after Cheney's departure and the indictments of leading neocons for their roles in both CIA Leakgate and AIPACgate. The strategy will also mitigate the indictments that will be handed down for leading GOP congressmen over their involvement in Abramoff's tainted money scandal. Look for GOP congressional "blue state" moderates to assume control from Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt, Bob Ney, and others.

Paul McNulty as Number 2 at Justice will insulate Fitzgerald and Margolis from neocon retaliation during the internal coup. The bottom line is that for his remaining three years in office, George W. Bush will no longer be taking orders from a "higher father," but from his own father and his closest associates: Scowcroft, James Baker, and others.

October 22, 2005 -- On October 20, 2005, two of Tom DeLay's co-defendants in the GOP money laundering scandal held an unusual news conference in Washington, DC as DeLay was being booked, photographed, and fingerprinted at the Harris County, Texas jail. Jim Ellis, the Executive Director of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (ARMPAC) and John Colyandro, the former head of Texans for a Republican Majority PAC (TRMPAC), held a news conference at the National Press Club. What was unusual was the lack of attorneys speaking on behalf of either of the two indicted GOP officials. Both Ellis and Colyandro castigated the judicial and law enforcement process in Texas by citing the "criminalization of politics," the new neo-con buzz phrase for the trashing of the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Texas.

Colyandro said, ". . . the Travis County District Attorney, Ronnie Earle, has sought to criminalize our right to legally participate in the political process." Ellis claimed "Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal justice system to achieve political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box."

The Ellis/Colyandro press conference coincided with a full court press on Ronnie Earle, Judge Bob Perkins, and members of the two Grand Juries who indicted DeLay. This GOP tactic, itself, is an attempt to attack law enforcement and the judiciary in methods reminiscent of the Nazi debasement of the Weimar Republic institutions of interwar Germany.

October 22, 2005 -- Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's new website. If indictments are issued next week (Wednesday is the talk of the town), this is where they will appear. Meanwhile, there is speculation that the delay in issuing the indictments came about as a result of some last minute plea bargaining between the prosecutor and targets. These negotiations may be centered around a Vice Presidential resignation.

October 22, 2005 -- Questions remain about Marvin Bush maid's death. Seasoned intelligence and law enforcement specialists have had an opportunity to review the police report on the suspicious death of Marvin Bush employee Bertha Champagne on September 29, 2003. Chief among the questions are: How could a vehicle traveling at mere 5 miles per hour have struck and crushed a person without prior warning? How could a late model vehicle go into gear without the key being in the ignition? Why would the key be in the ignition if the employee was walking the dogs? Why didn't the dogs start barking and alert Mrs. Champagne to danger? What was actually on the videotape in question? What was the circumstance of the videotape encounter between Mrs. Champagne and President Bush? Why were dirt samples not being analyzed by the State of Virginia lab? Could dirt samples have pointed to the presence of other witnesses/suspects? Why did the vehicle continue to cross Ft. Hunt Dr. after hitting the woman and the outer building without someone being on the accelerator peddle (the driveway is a flat surface, no incline)? Why were there no witnesses to the car crossing Ft. Hunt Rd. on its own during a Monday night rush hour -- 9:06 pm? -- (Ft. Hunt Rd. is an extremely busy road connecting two main arteries -- Route 1 and George Washington Parkway).

October 21, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVE TO WMR: Marvin Bush's maid wanted to show him a video of her and President Bush. Moments later she was crushed to death by her own vehicle in Marvin Bush's driveway.

WMR has obtained a copy of the Fairfax County police report on the mysterious death of First Brother Marvin Bush's maid, Bertha O. Champagne, in the driveway of Bush's Alexandria, Virginia home on September 29, 2003.

The police report fileD by Pfc C. E. Beach on December 4, 2003 states, "September 09-29-03 at approximately 2130 hours I was contacted by the on duty PSCC supervisor to respond to 6202 Ft. Hunt Rd. for a single vehicle fatality. While on scene I discovered a black Olds Bravada in the tree line and two small blood pools in the drive way. There was also blood and glass debris in the driveway. The operator of the vehicle was transported by ground to Mt. Vernon Memorial Hospital and identified as Bertha Champagne. Bertha was a maid for Marvin Bush who resides at 6202 Ft. Hunt Rd. By the time I arrived on scene the body was already transported to Mt. Vernon Hospital by ground. During the course of my investigation I interviewed Marvin Bush. Marvin stated that he arrived home at approximately 2045 hours. He advised me that he had a brief conversation with with Bertha in the kitchen. Bertha then tells Marvin that she wants to show him a video tape of her and President Bush. She then leaves the residence to take out the family dogs and retrieve the video tape. There are no witnesses to the crash. There were no signs of any other type of crime involved with this event. The victim had all her money in her wallet and all her personal belongings such as jewelry and a watch in her possession. According to the Medical Examiner, Bertha's injuries were related to this crash. There were no blunt injuries or injuries related to a robbery or a carjacking.

During the course of my investigation I found several paint scrapes on the building located at the end of the driveway. Sgt. Wimberly directed me to take several samples of evidence at the scene. The following evidence was taken from the crash scene, vehicle involved, and Bertha's shoes:

Item (AA) mulch sample from accident scene

Item (BB) mulch sample from victim's shoes

Item (CC) blood sample from victim's shirt

Item (DD) blood sample from brick building

Item (EE) paint chip from brick building

Item (GG) Dna [sic] from brick building

Item (HH) Dna [sic] taken from brick driveway

All evidence was packaged accordingly and dropped of [sic] at the lab for analysis. The mulch samples were taken to the property room in case a dirt analysis is requested at a later date. Currently the state lab will not accept dirt samples. The clothes were shown to the victim family and photographed at OSB."

The Fairfax police public statement on the death made no reference to Marvin Bush, his address, or the videotape of the deceased employee with President Bush:

"A 62-year-old Alexandria area woman died after being pinned between a rolling car and a building.  The crash happened on Monday, around 9 pm, near the intersection of Fort Hunt Road and Edgehill Drive.  Bertha Champagne had gone outside to get something from a car in a driveway.  The car, which was left in gear, began to roll forward.  Champagne was pinned between the car and a small building next to the driveway.  The car continued to roll down the driveway, crossed Fort Hunt Road, and came to rest in a wooded area.  Champagne was taken to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital where she was pronounced dead."

In fact, an attempt by this editor to obtain the police report in 2003 was unsuccessful, the Fairfax police public affairs officer claiming that it was only releasable to the "Accident Reconstruction Team."

Some observers wondered if Secret Service agents might have been able to assist Champagne when her car pinned her. According to the Secret Service in Washington, the agency only provides protection to presidential siblings if an Executive Order authorizes such action. A Secret Service spokesperson emphasized there was no current Secret Service protection for Marvin Bush at the time of Mrs. Champagne's death.

There are also questions concerning Champagne's actual place of residence. According to the Post story, Bush told police that Champagne resided at their compound on Ft. Hunt Rd., however, the police report listed her residence at another home in the Franconia section of Alexandria.

The incident at Marvin Bush's residence occurred on September 29, 2003, but the Washington Post did not report it until October 5 and buried it on page 3 of the Metro section. Nevertheless, the Washington Post was the only media outlet to cover the story at all. After the incident, Fairfax County Police spokesperson Courtney Young said police had not determined the exact cause of Champagne's death.

The Fairfax County Police press release is dated September 30, 2003 at 1330 (1:30 PM), some sixteen and a half hours after the incident occurred. The police were well aware of Marvin Bush's controversial role in serving on corporate boards for companies associated with the 911 terrorist attacks, however, they emphasized that Champagne's death was merely a quirky accident and no foul play was involved.



Marvin Bush residence at 6202 Fort Hunt Rd. The building where maid was found crushed to death is on right in foreground.

The police report refers to Marvin Bush's occupation as "sales." In fact, Marvin Bush served on the board of Securacom (renamed Stratesec). Just a few weeks prior to Champagne's death, Securacom (which provided security for Dulles International Airport and the World Trade Center on 9-11) filed for bankruptcy. Bush also served on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, inc. (formerly Houston Casualty Company), one of the re-insurers for the World Trade Center. Marvin Bush is also a co-founder of Winston Partners Group, a financial investment firm, along with A. Scott Andrews, a former chief financial officer (until 1994) for Worldcom. Bush had also served on the board of Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc., a Palestinian-owned firm with headquarters in the Cayman Islands and a U.S. office in Coral Gables, Florida. In 2002, Bush left the board after it became the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

As reported on WMR on October 14, Eric Miller, a Harvard Law School graduate and the Assistant Chief of Litigation for the SEC from 1999 to May 2005, was beaten to death on September 7, 2005 in the Alexandria Motel on Route 1, just around the corner from the Marvin Bush residence. Miller, an African American, was reported to have fallen on bad times and taken up with two white crack users.

Fairfax County Police Report on Bertha Champagne/Marvin Bush and the President Bush videotape. Note the police report fails to list a middle initial for Marvin Bush (no middle name). in fact, his middle name is Pierce.



Marvin P. Bush

October 21, 2005 -- The Grand Jury in Leakgate is expected to sit again today at the US Courthouse in Washington, DC. Although speculation about indictments continues at a frantic pace, there are no indications that indictments will be announced today. Washington Fridays, especially late afternoons, are notorious for press releases being issued by government agencies when the intention is to bury the news during the weekend. Although Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has shown no inclination towards media spin, his public information officer would likely advise against a Friday announcement. However, the investigation has been noteworthy for the lack of leaks and any systematic media spin from the prosecution side, so anything is possible. The New York Times (if they can still be believed) is reporting that announcements of indictments will not be made until next week. The Grand Jury is due to adjourn next Friday, October 28.

It is expected that any announcements will be made from Fitzgerald's Washington DC office, located at the Bond Federal Building at 1400 New York Avenue, NW.



The waiting game continues at the US Courthouse on a dark and rainy day in Washington, DC

posted by carol wolman @ 7:22 PM   0 comments

A call for repentance by Carol Wolman

Time for repentance by Carol Wolman
 
As the tangled web of Bushevite influence is laid bare by multiple prosecutors and grand juries in Chicago, Texas, Maryland, a picture of corruption unprecedented in American history is coming to light.  The Bush regime has acted like the Mafia, with power and money being the main goal.  Its influence, gained through bribery and blackmail, reaches deep into Congress, the media, the bureaucracy.
 
As more and more people come forward with their testimony, it seems that this evil cabal is behind 9-11, lied us into an illegal and immoral war, outing a valuable CIA network in the process   They have also stolen two elections, and committed numerous other high crimes and misdemeanors.
 
None of this would have been possible without the complicity of the American people.  The press, especially the highly culpable New York Times, is starting to do some soul searching.  Senior members of the intelligence and military communities are starting to speak out.  Some Republicans in Congress are starting to rebel.
 
But it is the ordinary person in the street, the citizens of the US, who have meekly gone along with the program, who are most to blame.  Yes, we have been terrorized, propagandized, stupified and sheepified.  Still, the questions have always been right out front- why did Bush keep reading to schoolchildren on 9-11 instead of taking command?  Why didn't he find out right away who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, and fire the person?  Why were the exit polls in 2000 and 2004 so different from the official count?  Why is the US military torturing Iraqis?  Where has the curiosity been?  Where has the outrage been?
 
And how many people have known about crimes and done nothing?  What about the workers in the twin towers who heard explosions?  What about the airport workers at Logan that fateful morning, who must have known that something was awry?  What about all the Republican "election workers" who helped to rig the voting machines, or turned away legitimate Democratic voters?  What about the lobbyists and the corporations they represent, who have turned the federal treasury into a vast feeding trough?
 
Why haven't whistle blowers gotten more support?  Why have people gone along with the stripping of civil rights?  Why aren't paper ballots, or at least paper trails from machines, being demanded more vigorously?
 
There are all kinds of excuses- mind control by TV, genuine fear of terrorism, respect for authority, denial that evil people can be SO evil.  But the fact remains- Americans have allowed an administration  to take power and remain in power which has caused enormous harm, physically, emotionally and spiritually, both at home and abroad.
 
The US Constitution vests ultimate authority in "we, the people".  This gives the average citizen a responsibility that does not exist in a monarchy or imperial state.  It is our job to elect honest representatives who will look after the public good, and to make sure that their dealings are ethical and above board.  If they are not, it is the job of we the people to expose their misdeeds and replace them.
 
Our apathy and indifference, our depression and despair, our addiction to our own comforts and unwillingness to rock the boat, has allowed our government to become a morass of corruption.  Ask yourself- have you supported whistleblowers?  Have you asked your Congressperson to work for impeachment?  Have you talked to your neighbors and coworkers, written to your local paper, are you doing whatever you can to drive the criminals and traitors from office?
 
We have had several opportunities, over the past 5 years, to raise a hue and cry.  When Bush lied about yellowcake from Niger in his 2002 inaugural address, when the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced in 2004, when the Downing Street Memo became public last May, and several other times, public outrage could have reached a boiling point and resulted in change.  It didn't happen, because we didn't care enough.
 
Right now, the country is holding its breath, waiting to see whether Patrick Fitzgerald will issue indictments against key administration officials, and whether Bush and Cheney will be included in the list.  Where is the demand for an investigation into impeachable offenses?  Surely the rumors and leaks so far have raised enough questions about the culpability of the president and vice-president in the matter of the treasonous outing of a
CIA agent.  Isn't it time we the people, through our representatives in Congress, took action?
 
Matthew 3:2
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
 
The American people have a lot to answer for.  By "codependence", willful blindness, lazyacquiescence, misled enthusiasm- whatever blend of
abrogation of responsibility, we have contributed to this great evil.  Time for we the people to repent!   Let us leave our selfish pursuits and work, now, to back up the special prosecutor by demanding impeachment!  Bringing the criminals  to justice will help to bring about the kingdom of heaven.
 
In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman

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Fw: [ImpeachBushNOW] Griffin Seals Case for 9/11 WTC Demolition, Calls on NY Times to End Coverup

 
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Subject: [ImpeachBushNOW] Griffin Seals Case for 9/11 WTC Demolition, Calls on NY Times to End Coverup

Theologian Says Controlled Demolition is Now a Fact, Not a Theory

In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."

On Oct. 15th and 16th, New Yorkers filled two venues to hear the prominent theologian and author of two books on 9/11 give a presentation entitled “The Destruction of the Trade Towers: A Christian Theologian Speaks Out.” Dr. Griffin has continued to blaze a trail of courage, leading where most media and elected officials have feared to tread. His presentation went straight to the core of one of the most powerful indictments of the official story, the collapse of the towers and WTC 7.

Dr. Griffin included excerpts from the firemen’s tapes which were recently released as a result of a prolonged court battle led by victim’s families represented by attorney Norman Siegel and reported in the NY Times. He also included statements by many witnesses. These sources gave ample testimony giving evidence of explosions going off in the buildings. A 12 minute film was shown for the audiences, who saw for themselves the undeniable evidence for controlled demolition.

Dr. Griffin listed ten characteristics of the collapses which all indicate that the buildings did not fall due to being struck by planes or the ensuing fires. He explained the buildings fell suddenly without any indication of collapse. They fell straight into their own footprint at free-fall speed, meeting virtually no resistance as they fell--a physical impossibility unless all vertical support was being progressively removed by explosives severing the core columns. The towers were built to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 and 160 mile per hour winds, and nothing about the plane crashes or ensuing fires gave any indication of causing the kind of damage that would be necessary to trigger even a partial or progressive collapse, much less the shredding of the buildings into dust and fragments that could drop at free-fall speed. The massive core columns--the most significant structural feature of the buildings, whose very existence is denied in the official 9/11 Commission Report--were severed into uniform 30 foot sections, just right for the 30-foot trucks used to remove them quickly before a real investigation could transpire. There was a volcanic-like dust cloud from the concrete being pulverized, and no physical mechanism other than explosives can begin to explain how so much of the buildings' concrete was rendered into extremely fine dust. The debris was ejected horizontally several hundred feet in huge fan shaped plumes stretching in all directions, with telltale "squibs" following the path of the explosives downward. These are all facts that have been avoided by mainstream and even most of the alternative media. Again, these are characteristics of the kind of controlled demolitions that news people and firefighters were describing on the morning of 9/11. Those multiple first-person descriptions of controlled demolition were hidden away for almost four years by the City of New York until a lawsuit finally forced the city to release them. Dr. Griffin's study of these accounts has led him beyond his earlier questioning of the official story of the collapses, to his above-quoted conclusion: The destruction of the three WTC buildings with explosives by US government terrorists is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact that has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

It’s important to note that Dr. Griffin is one of many prominent intellectuals--including the likes of Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Peter Dale Scott, Richard Falk, Paul Craig Roberts, Morgan Reynolds and Peter Phillips--who have seen through the major discrepancies of the official explanation of 9/11 and have risen to challenge it. These brave individuals represent the tip of an ever-growing iceberg of discreet 9/11 skeptics. Indeed, 9/11 skepticism appears to be almost universal among intellectuals who have examined the evidence, since there has not yet been a single serious attempt to refute the case developed by Dr. Griffin and such like-minded thinkers as Nafeez Ahmed and Mike Ruppert. As for the general public, polls have shown that a strong majority of Canadians (63%, Toronto Star, May '04) and half of New Yorkers (Zogby, August 2004) agree that top US leaders conspired to murder nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11/01.

How, then, can the mainstream US media continue to ignore the story of the century? Perhaps the best answer was given by Dr. Griffin himself in the conclusion of his talk, and is worth quoting at length:

"The evidence for this conclusion (that 9/11 was an inside job) has thus far been largely ignored by the mainstream press, perhaps under the guise of obeying President Bush’s advice not to tolerate “outrageous conspiracy theories.” We have seen, however, that it is the Bush administration’s conspiracy theory that is the outrageous one, because it is violently contradicted by numerous facts, including some basic laws of physics.  

"There is, of course, another reason why the mainstream press has not pointed out these contradictions. As a recent letter to the Los Angeles Times said:

“'The number of contradictions in the official version of . . . 9/11 is so overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot be believed. Yet . . the . official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of ‘X-Files’ proportions and insidiousness.'
 
"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version. I would suggest, however, that any merit this argument may have had earlier has been overcome by more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to the American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a whole will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because the values reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the Bush administration’s lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its disregard for environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its criminal negligence both before and after Katrina, and now its apparent plan not only to weaponize space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.

" In light of this situation and the facts discussed in this lecture---as well as dozens of more problems in the official account of 9/11 discussed elsewhere---I call on the New York Times to take the lead in finally exposing to the American people and the world the truth about 9/11. Taking the lead on such a story will, of course, involve enormous risks. But if there is any news organization with the power, the prestige, and the credibility to break this story, it is the Times. It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral histories released. But now the welfare of our republic and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed. I am calling on the Times to rise to the occasion.

Dr. Griffin’s speech given at the University of Wisconsin earlier this year, entitled “9/11 and the American Empire,” was broadcast twice on C-SPAN. In late September Dr. Griffin was asked to give expert testimony at hearings sponsored by Cynthia McKinney and the Congressional Black Caucus investigating the 9/11 Commission Report. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Claremont College in California.

This weekend's events were sponsored by NY911truth.org, WBAI and the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth: http://mujca.com.
Kevin Barrett
Coordinator, MUJCA-NET: http://mujca.com

 





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