Washington's press is the cabin boy of the political class

Washington's press is the cabin boy of the political class – do quote me on that

08 August 2012

the guardian
Bob Garfield, August 3, 2012

Desperate for scraps from official Washington sources, many US reporters are now co-conspirators in an ongoing fraud

'Ridiculous, pusillanimous, deceitful attributions are a standard tool of the Washington press corps.' Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
 

The weather here in Washington this week was hot and humid. That's on background, of course. Do not quote me. You can use the information only if you attribute to "a beltway source who could not be named because he is not authorised to speak about meteorology".

Here's what you can quote me on: such ridiculous, pusillanimous, deceitful attributions are a standard tool of the Washington press corps, which as a group is too caught up in its own self-importance and petty competition to understand it has become the cabin boy of the political class. In the name of supposedly informing the audience, Washington reporters are co-conspirators in an ongoing fraud. Here's what it looks like:

USA Today: "Mitt Romney is planning a bus tour ahead of the Republican national convention. A Romney campaign aide confirmed the bus trip to USA Today. The aide, who is not authorised to discuss the trip publicly, asked for anonymity because details have not yet been announced."

Oh, wait. They have too been announced. Just now. By the Romney campaign.

These are not whistleblowers being protected, or even insiders going out on a limb. The epidemic of blind quotes [when interviewees don't want to say anything on the record] is a standard way of giving a platform to officials speaking in an official capacity, yet with zero accountability. The practice is also supremely manipulative, giving the most banal information the allure of forbidden fruit.

At its worst, the game can allow the vice president of the United States to leak phony intelligence to the New York Times and later refer back to the leak as independent journalistic confirmation, leading to invasion and hundreds of thousands of deaths and a trillion dollars in squandered treasure.

On the plus side, the Times scooped everyone.

The Iraq disgrace aside, obscuring official sources might be understandable if this journalistic worst practice were in the service of earth-shaking news. It almost never is. Here are some blind quotes from just the last few days:

The Atlantic: "A former McCain staffer who saw the summary of Romney's tax data independently confirmed former Republican presidential nominee John McCain's account that there was nothing disqualifying in it, but said he was not authorised to provide more detail from the confidential report."

Associated Press: "The Democratic official would not comment on the exact language of the pro-gay marriage plank approved by the drafting committee. It was unclear if the party would call for any national action to legalise gay marriage . The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly about the platform committee's decision."

Reuters: "Members of the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a consent decree that will allow Google to settle the agency's investigation but admit no liability, said one of the sources, who was not authorised to speak on the record."

And here's the thing about epidemics: they spread. In recent days, anonymity was provided to sources in stories about investments, the courts, an NBA player trade, a shopping-centre sale in Sacramento, California and at least one huge development of historic significance: concern over Jimmy Fallon hosting the Oscars:

LA Times: "ABC has raised objections to having the late-night star from rival NBC play emcee on its Oscar broadcast, these people said, but the network has no authority to veto the choice of host. The show is put on by the Motion Picture Academy, and Tom Sherak initiated the discussions before his term as academy president ended on Tuesday, according to the people who were not authorised to speak publicly."

Congratulations, stewards of freedom, you have heroically served the public's right to know.

The blind quotes, though, are not even the worst of it. The New York Times recently revealed that reporters are not merely working on background, they negotiate after interviews what comments may be used and send them to sources for prepublication approval. The sources routinely edit those quotes before turning them back over to news organisations.

As media ethicist Edward Wasserman so aptly put it, "At this point you're no longer talking about an interview; you're talking about a press release … And what happens is Washington becomes no different from Beijing, in terms of reporting what authorities want reported".

Once again, this turns out not to be some sort of rare practice confined to sleazy blogs. It is a sleazy practice embraced by the most venerable journalism institutions, desperate to feed on the scraps offered by official Washington, no matter how degrading and unscrupulous the transaction. One Washington Post reporter was caught sharing an entire draft of a story about Texas learning standards with university of Texas officials.

The backlash was swift. Embarrassed by the revelation, the Post issued updated policies on quote approval and draft-sharing, absolutely forbidding the practices. Absolutely and unequivocally. Except when the reporter and editor agree it's OK.

"We should not allow sources to change what was said in an original interview," said executive editor Marcus Brauchili in a memo, "although accuracy or the risk of losing an on-the-record quote from a crucial source may sometimes require it. A better and more acceptable alternative is to permit a source to add to a quotation and then explain that sequence to readers."

You tell 'em, Marcus. Take no prisoners.

Meanwhile, the National Journal and Bloomberg news followed the McClatchey Newspapers Washington bureau in instituting a real ban on quote sharing, as articulated by McClatchey bureau chief Jim Asher: "I make this commitment to our readers, and to our citizens: McClatchy journalists will report fairly and independently. We will not make deals with those in power, regardless of party or philosophy."

Yes, they got scooped on the Romney bus blockbuster. All they have now is their independence. And their dignity.

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Bob Garfield

• guardian.co.uk

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IT IS TIME FOR OBAMA TO RESIGN FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. A MILITARY MOLE JUST OUTLINED TO ME OBAMA'S PLAN FOR THE MILITARY TAKEOVER OF AMERICA IN OCTOBER, 2012. By Erasmus of America

     I have secret assets in military intelligence Wash., D.C. does not know about. A military man trained for the military takeover of America as planned by Obama gave me a very detailed report on how Obama plans to militarily take over America in October, 2012. The 30,000 armed drones Obama has bought are designed and intended to be used against the veterans of America Obama and co-conspirators in America know will fight Obama when this military takeover is tried. He indicated according to his information that all the recent mass shootings in America were coordinated by federal elements (C.I.A., Defense Dept., etc.) who have for a long time experimented on mind control to create assassins who are mindless and act like Manchurian Candidates when ordered to singly murder or else mass murder. They later do not remember their brainwashing, training, and instructions for the intended federal murder mission assigned to them. The mass shootings coordinated by federal elements are to help convince Americans that they must all give up their arms and trust Wash., D.C. for their security in life. I invite with tongue in cheek for Congress to investigate these charges as I know our heavily corrupt and heavily bought off Congress is not going to investigate these charges before November, 2012 or even after if my public reporting on the conspiracy of high treason now going on from Wash., D.C. is thrown into a panic and they lose their nerve because now all of America may find out how they are planning to ultimately kill off from apparently even 50 million to 200 million Americans. Obama has a savage hatred of Americans is why these figures will grow so huge if he is allowed to launch his federal military conquest of the American people.  In a slip of tongue, Obama was recorded in 2006 telling a crowd of Americans that he was not born in Hawaii, but Kenya. Obama is not even an American citizen. He is as he admitted to a fellow student in college a dedicated Communist. He is a Muslim as many Muslim sources have reported to their people in the Middle East. For example, the Egyptian foreign ambassador under the prior regime told his national audience on Delta TV that Obama had told him that he Obama was also a Muslim himself. Obama has sent many signals to Muslim audiences in the Middle East that he is also a Muslim. The Muslims know what these signals mean. The naive Americans not knowing Muslim culture did not know that Obama just gave the sign that he was also a Muslim.

     To get the support Obama needed for the planned takeover of America he has agreed to make America the base to set up a One World Government with Obama intended to become the dictator of the world. Now previously Russia and China had twice warned that if Obama tried to turn America into the base for an intended One World Government, then Russia and China would stop Obama. In simple language, that means they will stop America by nuclear attack if Obama tries this. Unless China has changed her mind, that threat likely still exists. Now Obama wants Iran to nuclear attack Israel, so through doubletalk is trying to buy the time until Iran can nuclear attack Israel and annihilate the Jews in the Middle East. However, our lunatic in control of Iran also wants to nuclear attack Europe and wants to wipe out America with one nuclear bomb that China was supposed to help with so it was not stopped. Then America is annihilated as a nation. I got the attack plans of Iran along with what China was supposed to do to set America up for annihilation. 

    U.S. Soldiers are now being trained to fight Americans in America. If American soldiers start fighting American citizens, then I will show American citizens how to build a trick electronic device that will be able to wipe out treasonabe no longer American soldiers now trying to conquer and kill off their own American people.  This electronic device does its job, then the soldiers reached by it will take several months to die and in constant pain without stop where they will hope someone will kill them to put them out of their misery. They will be in pain beyond human imagination until finally they die. Once hit by the electronic signal, I have knowledge of no answer on earth how to save their lives. If Obama tries to start this civil war and conquest of America, I want him to experience what his soldiers under him will experience. And I will have trained teams knowing how to use this to track down the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc. and hit them with this electronic beam. Then for months they can scream their heads off begging for someone to kill them. And these hit teams from the American people will hit other enemy leader targets until none are left alive on earth. When in ancient Rome a mighty enemy army came to Rome to beseige and conquer it, 500 Roman youths swore that in teams of two they would keep trying to kill off the commanding general of the enemy army until they killed him. After two young Romans caught by his soldiers stuck their hands in hot coals before this general to show they meant what they said, he wihdrew his army from Rome and gave up his plans to conquer Rome. Tough human character can overcome all the cleverness of a powerful enemy armed with modern technology.

     Obama has a few of the militia groups infiltrated almost most are not. The infiltrated groups are to shoot without justification and give Obama the excuse to declare martial law in America while he sends in his 30,000 armed drones to hunt out veterans across America and kill off all who oppose his military takeover and military conquest of America. Obama is to have agents stir up racial war between different races and have all America in utter chaos while his forces of foreign soldiers and brainwashed American soldiers come to kill all opposition in America.

      If the initiative is left to Obama meaning Americans sit on their rear ends and do nothing, Obama will be able to do this. But if the American people show initiative and unity, Obama is powerless to stop them. I doubt if any E.T.'s are around to save the American people. That is likely wishful thinking to avoid facing reality that the American people have got to stand up and stop this before it all gets out of hand. The Obama plan is the American people react with emotions and not brains, and the military has already calculated all the acts that an emotion dominated Ameican people will make. They plan to kill off all Americans who resist them.

      Okay, how to stop this. If Obama is not planning to militarily conquer the American people with these 30,000 armed drones he now has stationed in America to use against the American people at a moment's notice, he should not object to have 600 of these armed drones promptly assigned to each of the 50 state governors of America who each can guard these well with their state assets of military, police, etc. Such as happened at Pearl Harbor, if the planes had been spread out instead of clustered together, then it would have been much harder to knock out the U.S. planes at Pearl Harbor. If Obama is not planning the military conquest of America as this military mole outlined to me as the intention of Obama towards the American people, then he should have no objection to immediately sending 600 of these armed drones to each of the 50 state governors and let them keep these deadly flying machines for the next 2 years at their state capitals or other designated state locations to be controlled by the state, not federal government. Obama can make sure that all U.S. soldiers are now trained that George Washington and other Founding Fathers of America are declared patriots of America and not labelled as "terrorist leaders" as many U.S. soldiers are now being trained by military instructors. Obama if not planning this military takeover of America as several military sources have reported to me he intends to do and is organizing to do, he surely should not object to having Ron Paul of the U.S. Congress being given by Congress a 6 month appointment as acting regent of all U.S. internal security as maintained by civilian and military agencies of Wash., D.C. In other words, they all report to Ron Paul instead of Obama at the White House as he will have total legal authority over them.

All foreign soldiers currently receiving military training or otherwise stationed in America unless serving embassy guard duty at their embassies be told to leave America and wait until the new President is in power before returning to America. I was given details on how foreign soldiers already stationed here were to assist Obama in the military takeover of America and crushing of the American people.

      American people, good time to buy rifles and ammo in America. An armed populus is the last thing would-be dictators want to face in a free nation. People, don't be naive so demand politicians pass the Omni Law right away. As soon as passed, the 10 civil tribunes created under the Omni Law will have a full-scale investigation into this plan to militarily conquer the American people by traitor elements in Wash., D.C. Once in power, the 10 civil tribunes will have a smart plan how all average Americans can keep and bear arms while blocking any would-be terrorists from probably being able to get deadly weapons to attack and kill people with. Obama has according to my sources 6 times blocked a currency revaluation that would have helped the American economy out and the European economy, etc. A booming economy would not have helped his plans to trick the American people into civil strife and civil war. If this currency revaluation is not quickly completed, the 10 civil tribunes can do this and boom the American economy so it is not threatened with sudden economic collapse as planned by Obama to set up his military takeover of America. And have all U.S. military take a fresh oath that they will not use their arms against the American people to overthrow constitutional government or put a dictator into power in America. The young soldiers of America are to serve the American people, not a would-be dictator or conqueror of America. Obama is a foreigner born as citizen of a foreign nation. It shows the incredible corruption of Congress they secretly know this and refuse to enforce the U.S. Constitution against Obama. Obama resign and I won't push the legal issues you fear. Don't resign and you and co-traitors will end up with deadly high treason trials like the Nuremberg War Trials run by the Allies after defeat of Nazi Germany. I will seek to be the chief prosecutor to make sure that no bribes or threats can stop these trials from hanging all the traitors currently behind this plot of Obama to wipe out constitutional government in America and kill off countless millions of Americans.

     American people, mass send this report out all across America. Copies of the Omni Law can be found in the archive listing for Nesara News. Look in their search box at the top of their archive listings and put in Omni Law or else Erasmus of America - Omni Law to get a copy for you to send out all over the internet. If you want,  request a copy of the Omni Law from fastboomamericaneconomy@gmail.com . And  the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc. are not going to finance us to end their conspiracy of high treason to overthrow the U.S. Constitution and make America the conquered nation of the international bankers as Alex Jones recently reported these bankers now gleefully boast! Send us what financial backing you can so we can overwhelm like a tidal wave the enemies of the American people in Wash., D.C. Move fast and we have got them trapped where they cannot win! Send checks made out to NIFI and to NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679 . If Congress does not fast pass this Omni Law, then we think when we win, we should seriously investigate all these charges over the internet how most members of Congress have even received bribes of hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars to keep Congress dishonest before the American people. Pass the Omni Law before the November election and we will not prosecute past criminal acts of your or others we call traitors. After November, if the Omni Law is not passed, we will investigate you down to every skeleton hidden in your closets. And since Erasmus of America has been rated the most talented military intelligence operative in American military history, do you want this investigative bloodhound to check you out and expose all of your criminal acts before all the American people? We give you one chance to redeem yourselves by fast passage of theOmni Law. Once the Omni Law is passed, you have gotten yourself one free from prison card like in the Monopoly Game. But betray the American people again, then we will hang you alive! America is sick of all this corruption and treason in Wash., D.C. Theoretically, we should hang all gulty parties in Wash., D.C., but secretly the American people would prefer to not know how totally rotten and treasonable Wash., D.C. had become. They don't have the stomach to digest this much terrible tasting food if they can help it. Secretly they will be glad we gave you one chance to redeem yourself by immediate passage of the Omni Law. But if you try this treason and corruption against the American people, then the people will approve and cheer for hanging you then if you try all this evil again against the American people again. And for our big, powerful banking boys, better lie low. One attempt at murdering any member of our leadership or membership and we will then declare war on you and hunt you down like Nazi war criminals after World War II was over. You will have no place on earth safe from us. You were planning to kill off millions or countless millions of Americans through Obama if we had not stopped you first. One clue at the original name of Erasmus of America. In Hebrew, it means The Judge of God or the Judgment of God!"

     Yours for God and Country, Erasmus of America (pen name for now. Will release for all my regular name once the game is played right. We have the other side close to checkmate now! Final moves with financial backing of the American people should finish this game with victory for the American people and not the Satanist power elite who had already boasted internationally that the American people had now been conquere by them. Sorry, the American people are not defeated! You are the losers!)

ATF 'Fast and Furious' secret audio: Murder of Border Patrol agent 'collateral damage'

ATF 'Fast and Furious' secret audio: Murder of Border Patrol agent 'collateral damage'

September 21, 2011 4:03 PM  

By

Sharyl Attkisson, Chris Scholl

WASHINGTON - In secretly recorded conversations between two individuals deeply entwined in the ATF's controversial "Fast and Furious" operation, the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is described as "collateral damage."
The recordings were obtained exclusively by CBS News. The man who made them - Arizona gun dealer Andre Howard - ran the Lone Wolf Trading Company and was speaking with Hope MacAllister, the ATF operation's case agent.
Two of the guns Howard sold while cooperating with the ATF that were later found at Terry's murder.
"It happened. It's terrible," Howard said. "That's life ok we move on."
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Both Howard and MacAllister also shared concerns about Special Agent John Dodson who by that point had gone public with allegations about "Fast and Furious" and was assigned to the FBI. It was Dodson who first publicly disclosed allegations about "Fast and Furious" in an interview with CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. That interview took place several weeks before the recorded conversations took place. In his interview, Dodson said thousands of guns had been allowed to "walk" to Mexico - straight into the hands of the cartels - without intervention by ATF.
(Scroll down to listen to the audio and read the text of the excerpts)
In the following excerpts, they talk about the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Two weapons purchased by ATF Fast and Furious suspects were found at the murder scene. They also discuss concerns that ATF whistleblower John Dodson, who had then been moved out of the ATF office and tasked to the FBI, has information that could be damaging to the government.
EXCERPT 1
Dealer: Unfortunately a consequence occurred from a weapon shall we say that found its way into the wrong area ok and that was not anticipated. Nobody could foresee that that's collateral damage I think the term is. It happened. It's terrible. That's life ok we move on. Unfortunately, Mr. Dodson with his allegation is a pain in the a--. Now, my understanding now is it will be impossible now that he will be able to substantiate anything directly because that evidence is gone. I want you to know that. It don't exist. Not that one. You understand me?
Agent: MMhmm.
Dealer: Good. I get that.
EXCERPT 2
Dealer: My biggest problem is Dodson. You know this guy has damaged the hell out of me. I mean I walked out of here yesterday.
Agent: Mmhmm.
Dealer: I got it from the tattoo parlor, I got some damn Mexicans and white trash over there.
Agent: Yeah...
Dealer: Yelling across the parking lot: "can i buy 300 AK 47's?? Would you turn me in, over that?" This is the kind of sh-- i'm getting.
Agent: Yeah.
EXCERPT 3
Dealer: The most damning thing that you guys got to be aware of I think hypothetically is was there, you have to ask yourselves this first I'm just throwin this out there, was there a communication that hypothetically the US Attorney's office uh was entertained with the DOJ in reference to any ballistics tests or anything? Is there any way any of these idiots..
Agent: The problem is I mean we're not investigating that case.
Dealer: I know the FBI is.
Agent: And he's (Dodson) assigned to the FBI. I, I have not, I don't have any way of knowing what he has access to. And that's on the FBI. I mean that's on them. If they consider him, don't consider him an operational security issue, that's their f-----g fault. But I don't have access to that sh--, I don't know I have no idea what the FBI.
Dealer: (unintell.) I know you don't...I'm saying that's a whole parallel issue.
Agent: Right.
EXCERPT 4
Dealer: What about the emails copies he's got?
Agent: Those emails are a year ago that's why I wonder what he I mean
Dealer: Let me help you out. Here's what I smell. There's a reason you ran (unintell.) about not talking about any of your other agents out there.
Agent: Yeah.
Dealer: You got some rats in there honey...
(Crosstalk)
Dealer: I'll tell you some of these motherf-----s, I don't know if they're giving it to Dodson, I think they are, somebody's got some inter-agency copies not just this sh--
http://www.cbsnews.com:80/8301-31727_162-20109529-10391695.html

The free money for crooked bankers program

Neil Barofsky talks about the bank bailouts,
the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the
"pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow."

Neil Barofsky is the former Special Inspector
General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

He's calling it like it is, and making some bankers
really angry doing so...

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Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

August 8, 2012

Source: Wired

The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program.

“This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts to hold the executive branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization,” a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. (.pdf)

The case concerned a lower court decision in which two American attorneys — who were working with the now-defunct al-Haramain Islamic Foundation — were awarded more than $20,000 each in damages and their lawyers $2.5 million in legal fees after a tortured legal battle where they proved they were spied on without warrants.

They sued under domestic spying laws Congress adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The government appealed their victory, and the appeals court Tuesday dismissed the suit and the damages.

Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

·  08.07.12 3:16 PM

The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program.

“This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts to hold the executive branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization,” a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. (.pdf)

The case concerned a lower court decision in which two American attorneys — who were working with the now-defunct al-Haramain Islamic Foundation — were awarded more than $20,000 each in damages and their lawyers $2.5 million in legal fees after a tortured legal battle where they proved they were spied on without warrants.

They sued under domestic spying laws Congress adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The government appealed their victory, and the appeals court Tuesday dismissed the suit and the damages.

Jon Eisenberg, the lawyer for the two attorneys, said he may request the court to reconsider its decision with a larger panel of judges, or petition the Supreme Court.

“This case was the only chance to litigate and hold anybody accountable for the warrantless wiretapping program,” he said in a telephone interview. “As illegal as it was, it evaded accountability.”

“This case was the only chance to litigate and hold anybody accountable for the warrantless wiretapping program,” he said in a telephone interview. “As illegal as it was, it evaded accountability.”

The San Francisco-based appeals court ruled that when Congress wrote the law regulating eavesdropping on Americans and spies, it never waived sovereign immunity in the section prohibiting targeting Americans without warrants. That means Congress did not allow for aggrieved Americans to sue the government, even if their constitutional rights were violated by the United States breaching its own wiretapping laws.

“Under this scheme, Al-Haramain can bring a suit for damages against the United States for use of the collected information, but cannot bring suit against the government for collection of the information itself,” Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the majority. She was joined by Judge Michael Daly Hawkins and Judge Harry Pregerson. ”Although such a structure may seem anomalous and even unfair, the policy judgment is one for Congress, not the courts.”

The court, during oral arguments in June, expressed concern that it may reach this result.

Judge Hawkins, during those arguments, noted that the law spells out that those who were illegally spied upon may seek monetary damages. But if Congress did not intend for the government to be sued, “it would make the remedy illusory,” Hawkins said.

The court did not comment on the spying allegations of those involved in the case. It also dismissed claims against FBI Director Robert Mueller, saying there was not enough evidence linking him to the spy program the Bush administration adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks.

Subsequently, Congress authorized Bush’s spy program in 2008, five years after the illegal wiretapping involved in this case.

The Bush spy program was first disclosed by The New York Times in December 2005, and the government subsequently admitted that the National Security Agency was eavesdropping on Americans’ telephone calls without warrants if the government believed the person on the other end was overseas and associated with terrorism. The government also secretly enlisted the help of major U.S. telecoms, including AT&T, to spy on Americans’ phone and internet communications without getting warrants as required by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law at the center of the al-Haramain dispute.

A lower court judge found in 2010 that two American lawyers’ telephone conversations with their clients in Saudi Arabia were siphoned to the National Security Agency without warrants. The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former al-Haramain Islamic Foundation lawyers Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor.

The document was later declared a state secret, removed from the long-running lawsuit and has never been made public. With that document ruled out as evidence, the lawyers instead cited a bevy of circumstantial evidence that a trial judge concluded showed the government illegally wiretapped the lawyers as they spoke on U.S. soil to Saudi Arabia.

The other major case challenging the wiretapping program, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s case against the government, alleges a wholesale vacuuming of Americans’ communications. That case was sent back to a district court after it survived an appeals court ruling in December.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/appeals-court-oks-wiretapping/

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Appeals_Court_OKs_Warrantless_Wiretapping_/20919/0/0/0/Y/M.html

DHS Orders Over a Half Ton of High Explosives

By James Smith
PPRNews.PrepperPodcast.com
August 8, 2012

A solicitation placed today at the Government marketplace shows that the Department of Homeland Security, via the Transportation Safety Administration has requested 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX, with a deliver date by 31 August 2012. That is less than 4 days before the start of the Democrat National Convention.

Why would the DHS/TSA order such material? From their Statement of Work:

Name of Requisitioning Office:  National Canine Program (NCP)/ Canine Explosives Section (CES)
SECTION II: Purpose
Scope of the Product, Service, or Outcome:
The CES requires the 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX to  provide Canine Explosive Training Aids  (CETAs) to NCP participants. The supplier must be able to meet the exact requirements by August 31st, 2012.  Substituions for this product are not acceptable
SECTION III: Background
The CES is required to provide NCP participants with CETAs. The CES has selected to use High Density Ammonium Nitrate and A-5 Flake RDX as it will provide NCP participants with a more realistic training aid and compliment the current aids provided.

This all comes on the heels of a solicitation for sheet style high powered plastic explosives that we reported on earlier in the week.

The problem is very clear. As stated in the ATF Law Enforcement Guide to Explosives Incident Reporting document:

In order to detonate ammonium nitrate, the use of a booster is required. Commercially, Pentolite and RDX are used as a booster, while the military will often use TNT as the booster.
Instead of using a poor quality analog (aka hamburger) for Ammonium Nitrate to train dogs, they are requesting High Density, or the Kobe Beef of Ammonium Nitrate (AN). And in order to detonate the AN, RDX is used. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting BOTH components of a binary explosive compound to be delivered to a government facility in downtown Atlantic City, New Jersey.
To put the amount of explosives into perspective, Timothy McVeigh used 5,000 pounds of AN and motor racing fuel. RDX has a much greater explosive capacity than racing fuel, and McVeigh was a party to mass murder and destruction that would be on par with these materials being detonated.
If a dog needed only 1 ounce of each material in order to be trained and tested, there is enough material for 11,200 dogs at the same time.

This article originally appeared at: pprnnews.prepperpodcast.com

German Spy Reveals Secret US-Hollow Earth Pact For Global Rule

August 8, 2012

German Spy Reveals Secret US-Hollow Earth Pact For Global Rule

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A truly bizarre Federal Security Service (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today on the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) “asset” arrested yesterday by Germany’s National Intelligence Service (BND) for spying states that this German national has provided to Russian officials “compelling evidence” that the United States has entered into a “secret pact” with “unnamed forces” inhabiting our Earth’s interior regions for the purpose of ruling the world.

Western media sources reporting on this incident state that BND forces arrested a man identified only asManfred K., age 60, stating that he intended to give the information he acquired over to a “third party”unconfirmed reports say was, indeed, the SVR.

Manfred K., according to these reports, was a civilian worker at the United States-NATO Ramstein Air Baselocated in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz, which is the command and control hub for the Western alliance’s European missile defense forces and headquarters of the US Air Forces in Europe, and who had access to many top secret documents.

According to this FSB report, some of the intelligence turned over to the SVR by Manfred K. included maps produced by the German Nazi Regime in the 1930’s and 1940’s detailing their underground bases located on the continent of Antarctica, the most shocking of them being [photo 2^nd left] one that details in great depth our Earth’s hollow interior and the lands that exist there.

Important to note is that Germany has long been fascinated with Antarctica after noted German scientist Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), who is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians, stated that all of Earth’s history, physics and geography could only be explained by our planet having a hollow, and populated, interior with the entrances to it being located at both the North and South Poles.

From 1901-1903 Germany conducted its first exploration of Antarctica in what is called the Gauss Expeditionwhere they claimed for themselves vast areas of our planets southern most continent.

Being fascinated with the discoveries made by German scientists during the Gauss Expedition the great American explorer Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (1856-1920) embarked on a similar mission and in 1909 became the first man to reach the North Pole after which he was awarded the Imperial German Geographical Society Nachtigall gold medal, among many other international awards and honors.

Based upon the discoveries made by both the Gauss Expedition of Antarctica and Admiral Peary’s of theArctic, the famous American scientist Marshall B. Gardner in 1920 authored a book titled “A Journey to the Earth's Interior-or- Have the Poles Really Been Discovered?” which he then presented to both the US and German governments asking them to explain many things including:

“How do scientists explain the fact that when we go north it becomes colder up to a certain point and then begins to get warm? How do they explain the further fact that the source of this warmth is not any influence from the south but a series of currents of warm water and of warm winds from the north - supposed to be a land of solid ice? Where can these currents come from? How could they come from anything else but an open sea? And why should there be a warm open sea at the very place where scientists expect to find eternal ice? Where could this warm water possibly come from?”

“Why also should explorers find the inhospitable ice cliffs of the far north covered in large areas with the red pollen of an unknown plant? And why should they find the seeds of tropical plants floating in these waters - when they are not found in more southern waters? How should logs and branches of trees, sometimes with fresh buds on them be found in these waters, all being borne down by the warm currents from the north?”

“Why should the northern parts of Greenland be the world's greatest habitat of the mosquito, an insect which is only found in warm countries ? How could it have gotten to Greenland if it came from the south? Where do all the foxes and hares go which are seen traveling north in Greenland? Where did the bears go? Was it possible that such large creatures as bears could find sustenance on plains of eternal ice?”

“How do scientists explain the fact that practically every competent explorer from the earlier days down to Nansen has admitted that when he got to the Far North his theories of what he should find failed to work and his methods of finding his positions also failed to work? How do scientists explain these passages from Nansen which we have quoted, showing that he was absolutely lost in the Arctic region?”

“How do scientists explain the migrations of those birds which appear in England and other northern countries one part of the year, in the tropics in another part of the year, but disappear entirely in the winter?”

By 1938, with the Nazis now in control of Germany, none of the questions asked by Gardner had been answered whereupon Chancellor Adolf Hitler orderedanother expedition to Antarctica that lasted until 1939.

What was discovered in Antarctica by the Nazis during the 1938-1939 Antarctica expedition remains to this day highly classified among all the top world governments, with many speculating that a “deal” to end the war in Europe (World War II) was made between Germany and United States that allowed the Americans to gain German technology (atomic bombs, missile technology, jet fighter technology, etc.) in exchange for allowing top German leaders (including Adolf Hitler) to “retreat” to their massive bases they had built in and under the Southern Continent.

In 1946 the Western allies led by the United States apparently attempted to retake Antarctica from the Nazis in what was called “Operation Highjump”. Though this mission was purported be for scientific reasons, numerous other reports state that these American led forces were forced to retreat after having lost over 1,500 troops and suffering massive military material losses.

Returning in 1947 to the United States, Admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957), the commander of Operation Highjump, is said to have warned that “the largest menace came now from the South Pole because they had observed airships that could fly to impressive speeds.”

The importance of Admiral Byrd leading Operation Highjump was noted by American scientist Dr. R. W. Bernard who in his 1964 book titled “The Hollow Earth-The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History” credited Byrd with discovering both the North and South Pole openings to the inner reaches of our planet and in his dedication stated:

“To the Future Explorers of the New World that exists beyond North and South Poles in the hollow interior of the Earth. Who will Repeat Admiral Byrd's historic Flight for 1,700 Miles beyond the North Pole and that of his Expedition for 2,300 Miles beyond the South Pole, entering a New Unknown Territory not shown on any map, covering an immense land area whose total size is larger than North America, consisting of forests, mountains, lakes, vegetation and animal life.

The aviator who will be the first to reach this New Territory, unknown until Admiral Byrd first discovered it, will go down in history as a New Columbus and greater than Columbus, for while Columbus discovered a new continent, he will discover a New World.”

To if this FSB report is true, and the United States has now entered into a pact with those who inhabit our inner Earth, it bears notice that the ancient symbol associated with these inner Earth peoples is the oldest on Earth dating back to very dawn of time from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, but more well known for its last incarnation as being the hated and feared symbol used by the Nazi Germans called the swastika.   

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[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth.  Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]

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