OH HAPPY DAY: FRIDAY WAS ALBERTO GONZALES'S LAST DAY AT THE DEPT. OF JUSTICE

Potomac, Maryland--Yes, the DOJ is outside of central D.C., for those who don't know. Alberto received much applause--because he was leaving. "Thank you! Thank you!" said the employees of the DOJ's bureaucracy with their clapping. Don't let the door hit you in the ass...or do. Leaving won't make the subpoenas and lawsuits go away, not ever. Not even a pardon will help, and that's assuming he gets one. Thanks for the memories: advocating and expediting the torture of human beings, the illegal warrantless surveillance programs, shielding dirty (sexually) politicians from public exposure and litigation, the secret databases, and the general contempt for the rule of law, and-on-and-on-and-on. Yes, what a legacy. I'd prefer being forgotten over all that. And there's more fun to come for Alberto, he's going to have to face Sen. Leahy again-and-again. "Just us," not Justice. If he has any more relatives in other countries, I'm all-for immigration restrictions, but only for them. Now, it's time to go after his ex-boss, George W. Bush. It's time to begin impeachment investigations immediately. No excuses are acceptable.

Ronald Roughead Plagiarists, Take-Note: The Internet Never Forgets

"The mere fact that Roughead’s name along with that of the SAIC is getting ‘out there’ is entirely due to you and your hard work." --Deborah Jeane Palfrey, in a September 12th correspondence with the author.

J-7--I've been noticing a disturbing trend with a number of sites and blogs that have been copying and republishing information found by this site: no intellectual attribution. This is plagiarism. Almost all posts on the internet are copied--'cached'--by internet providers like Google, and by other telecommunications entities.

At this point, I have to reiterate that I am not the first individual to locate Mr. Roughead's phone number in the records of Pamela Martin & Associates, it was an anonymous commenter at a progressive blog whose name escapes me--you do the search. It was posted around July 8th-9th. That's not how I found Mr. Roughead's number in the records, however, as I was one of the 50 original recipients of the phone records of Pamela Martin & Associates in CD-ROM form back in early-July.

I have even gone as far as to call Mr. Roughead personally, getting him on the line for a few moments. The man behind the number is the same man who ran IMN and who I assume is still employed by SAIC to represent them in Washington D.C., amongst other duties.

Note that I didn't begin my searches until July 15th, and found Mr. Roughead's number on that day after just 8 hours of Google searches using the phone numbers. I found the anonymous comment mentioning retired Col. Roughead during the latter-part of my searches, and posted my first article ('Pax Americanas...') on July 16th, where it was subsequently cached. Comments posted by myself at other sites will corroborate as well, along with correspondence in my possession.

In short: don't think that these postings/articles are going away, and that any Johnny-come-lately types can claim the discovery as theirs--that belongs to myself and the anonymous poster. This fact can be instantly established through the postings which are routinely dated with a time-marking, as well as the caching. You can't prove original authorship.

It's a very disheartening trend that I've found in this story of people fighting over credit (like Rawstory), but credit is due here. This writer has literally sweat blood researching the significance of Mr. Roughead, his connections to SAIC, and other aspects that make him pertinent to a "Honey Pot" defense. I can claim considerable responsibility for advising (not legal advice, however, that's illegal) in the new defense strategy.

It was J-7 that first put-forward the theory of a "Honey Trap" in the case of the "DC Madam," and it should be noted here that Ms. Palfrey was non-plussed at the time it was originally posted (see article "Does DC Have Her Own Salon Kittys?"), so it appears that the possibility hadn't escaped her at that time. What can I say to you plagiarists, except that you lack the insight and analytical abilities that I have?

Perhaps it's because many of you are unprincipled careerists, rather than someone who wants to save their country from what could be an encroaching tyranny? Do you really care about saving this nation? What are you...really? Ponder it. What's more important: your country and the people you love in it, or just yourself? On this note, I should remind readers that Roughead's name is only four-pages-in within the 'Cingular, 2005' file (December 17th, three-times) of Ms. Palfrey's phone records. The media is sitting on this story, protecting him, de facto.

To the plagiarists: you are late to this story, and you will be identified as such by simple searches by anyone with a few minutes on their hands. You're all very disappointing opportunists without merit as researchers. Your motives are fairly transparent--you want the glory, whereas I simply want the credit for my own hard work and inherent abilities. So do the work. Cut-and-paste this. It appears not all of the whores are in established media...yet.

Consider the implications of technology and how they can catch people lying for personal-gain (not just the politicians anymore). Today, we can do it more readily, and it's amusing to watch those who haven't figured this out yet. This is a time of scoundrels of every kind. I can prove my contentions here, can you? Do the work, lazy journalists, you bums.

(revised 09.15-16.2007)

[Ed., 09.13.2008-Palfrey might have been the worst-offender here, precipitating the writing of this article!]

Kenton Clark, Fictional 'Attorney'

WWW-At this writing, Ms. Palfrey, myself, and her civil attorney are still receiving return error e-mails every single time we correspond and send to each other. In the beginning (there was God), virtually everyone I would send to would return this way, but it narrowed to just Ms. Palfrey and Montogmery Blair Sibley.

This is extremely telling, because with the narrowing, one gets the possible indication that parameters were being set--initially, all of my e-mail, then just between the aforementioned. It wouldn't surprise me if it was some 'vigilante' action by some goober with people-clothing and some tech know-how (and a stunted, reactionary personality).

There are--of course--other possibilities, such as that what we're experiencing is a very desperate prosecution team abusing antiterror laws at the Justice Department. Remember that last week, federal district Judge Victor Marrero ruled against NSLs to internet and telecommunications providers with broad discretion, including gag orders to the recipients of the NSLs (like say, Google or Verizon, and even AT&T or Yahoo). At present, there are a little over 80-days left for the government to appeal Judge Marrero's decision. In the mean time, they can still keep ISPs under the gag, and continue their fun-and-games, even with boss Alberto leaving today.

Again, it could just be some aspiring Tim McVeigh(s) out there, reactionary vigilante-types who think that some dumb games with someone's e-mail is going to intimidate. What's interesting is the intended-effect on the new round of hacker foreplay: not obstructing our First amendment guarantee of free and open communication with each other, but to temporarily create the impression that we're receiving send errors and that the messages aren't reaching Ms. Palfrey, Mr. Sibley, or myself.

This would suggest that fear of being caught violating our ability to correspond--since it's illegal and protected speech--is in the puny fore brain(s) of whomever is expediting the action(s). It's not paranoia, it's happening, see the post below for a sample of the error mails, they're all the same.

Who is it? We don't know yet, but we're looking into it. Luckily, the individuals doing this aren't very bright, they've made a few mistakes that give away parts of their identities: we know for a fact that whomever is doing it is American. Why? In every e-mail return message, the same phony lawyer's name occurs--Kenton Clark, which is found most often in '419' spams, usually from Nigeria. So? Ms. Palfrey found the significance this time: the error messages all contain this address, 'attorneykentonclark_office@yahoo.co.uk' (it's dead). In the UK, a lawyer is commonly referred to as a 'barrister,' not an attorney.

And today, Ms. Palfrey and I received some e-mails from an anonymous individual via http://www.hush.com/. [Ed., 08.28.2008--This turned-out to be a friendly contact!] Curiouser and curiouser. Sam Eardth: kiss my ass.

Was Bill Clinton so bad? At least he's smart.

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THE RETURN OF THE RETURN OF SAIC: WAITING FOR ROUGHEAD, OUR NEW ABSURDIST PLAY

I leave this to the reader to decide what they're up to...

saic.com ? (Commercial)
IP Address
198.151.13.# (Science Applications International Corporation (SA)
ISP
Science Applications International Corporation (SA
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Continent: North America
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State: California
City: San Diego
Lat/Long:32.9014, -117.2079 (Map)
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English (U.S.) en-us
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version 1.3
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Sep 12 2007 2:23:49 am
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Sep 12 2007 2:30:25 am
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Six years after 9/11...

THE USSA--Feel any safer? No? GOOD. That's what those who want to deprive you of your rights wish from you (your irrational fear), and it's not just the terrorists. Grow-a-pair people, and grow-up. The threat is real, yes, but 9/11 was due to incompetence thanks to the Bush administration, and probably because they're compromised to the Saudi Royal Family (The House of Saud). Leave Iraq now, and we'll be significantly safer.

Correct, we should have attacked the Saudi Royal Family, holding the ones that were here at that time hostage until their central government and the rest of the ruling clans started talking. Let's make it clear: the Saudis are the paymasters of Al-Qaeda and numerous other Muslim terrorist organizations. The best thing that could happen is for the regime there to fall and be replaced by ANYTHING ELSE. It's already the single-most extremist Islamic State in the entire world.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool YOU (not me) twelve-times: quit pretending you're an adult and start sucking that thumb. At least Sen.Chuck Hagel has had the prescience and logic to quit Congress after 2008 along with a gaggle of criminal Republican incumbents, and so should virtually all of them. That includes numerous Democratic incumbents.

This includes Rep. Joe Donnelly. You blew it man, and it's time for you to go next year. Change--or don't change, and be removed from office by the voters of the Second Voting District of Indiana. You're a pathetic little man, now go wash. Sens. Dick Lugar and Evan Bayh. No need to comment, you gotta go too. You and the rest of this criminal political generation are going to go, and yours truly is working overtime to ensure it. Thankfully, so are all of you there in Washington...

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: HACKING OF E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 'DC MADAM' AND J-7 (AND OTHERS) OCCURRING

WWW-While I'm not remotely intimidated (and unimpressed), I find this very galling and possibly due to desperation. This is happening at a time in the pretrial proceedings of Ms. Jeane Palfrey, a period that's crucial for due process to occur--she's claiming discovery through 'the Classified Information Procedures Act,' and that there is possibly a national security aspect to her trial and what began her legal predicament. I'd say that that's a forgone conclusion. Here's the text of the delivery error mails, they're all the same:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

attorneykentonclark_office@yahoo.co.uk
SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host mx1.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [195.50.106.7]: 554 delivery error:
dd Sorry your message to attorneykentonclark_office@yahoo.co.uk cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. - mta144.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path:
Received: from carlin.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([207.69.200.104])
by smarth-dorada.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #4)
id 1IURVD-0002nA-00
for attorneykentonclark_office@yahoo.co.uk; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:27:23 -0400
X-ELNK-Loop: jeanepalfrey@sprynet.com
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Message-ID: <>
X-Priority:%203
Reply-To:%20
To: mbsibley@earthlink.net
Cc:"
Subject: RE: Ronald Roughead reading our mails?
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:27:06 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
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b3bc4068f6f1350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c [Ed.Broken to fit layout.]
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J-7 isn't the only one affected by this. A number of individuals--even outside of the United States--have been attempting to e-mail Ms. Palfrey and have been receiving the same messages back. Interestingly, the original messages sometimes reach her...and sometimes they don't. Was/is there ever a 'Kenton Clark' who was/is an attorney in the United Kingdom? Doubtful, though not impossible. Ms. Palfrey informs me (at 9:50 PM Eastern) that she has never known or corresponded with anyone by this name.

A quick google search turns-up something very interesting: there is a classic spam of Nigerian-origin that has the name of a man calling himself 'J. Kenton Clark,' which is very sloppy on-the-part of the individuals (probably at SAIC, they handle much of the contracting for internet surveillance for 'terrorists,' and Ron Roughead is part of these activities) doing it. The name likely comes from a '419 scam':

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc. Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.(http://www.joewein.net/419/emails/2006-05/30/541846.1.htm)

It sounds a lot like the phony 'CEASE AND DESIST' e-mails I received shortly after writing about Ret. Col. Roughead, now working for SAIC as far as anyone knows. As far as this writer can tell, there was never a 'Sam Eardth' (the phony cease and desist e-mails), or even a UK-based barrister named 'Kenton Clark,' or 'J. Kenton Clark.'

This is all unsurprising considering that there are verifiable connections now with SAIC and Ms. Palfrey's phone records for Pamela Martin & Associates. One could imagine the prosecution is in-contact with a number of agencies--illegally--abusing antiterrorist laws in a case that should have been dismissed a year ago. From an example of a classic '419':

Fraud email example:
From: "J. Kenton Clark" jakclark-5@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:18:47 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT:DEAR AZAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROM:BARRISTER J.K. CLARK ESQ.
ROYAL CHAMBERS
20-23 AWOLOWO ROADIKOYI LAGOS NIGERIA.TEL: 234-809-556-4321
EMAIL: clarklawchambers@fastermail.com

Dear Azar,

I am Barrister J.K.Clark Esq.,an attorney of law. I am the personal attorney to late Mr.Roy J. Azar, a national of your country, possibly could be your brother or close relation, who used to work with Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum and Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria, here-in-after shall be referred to as my client. ... (ibid)

And so, Ian Fleming's advice on the third-time is not as fictional as we might want to believe. Surely, any blocks of communication by a government agency or contractor (like SAIC or MITRE) are bars to the First Amendment right of free speech and communication between American citizens. This is what makes it unconstitutional and criminal.

Keep-in-mind that Congress created the ability for various agencies like the FBI, and other intelligence agencies and contractors, to do this. One should look to the recent federal district court decision by Judge Victor Marrero, although the government currently has 90 days to appeal the decision on NSLs (National Security Letters).

If it is the government and her agents, they are all on very shaky legal ground right now. Time to cease and desist, kids, the fun is over. No oversight, too much discretion--sounds like the FBI! Meanwhile, the press keeps covering how sorry Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana is for sinning--well, actually, he might have committed a criminal act while in-office.

Ed.-Ms. Palfrey's civil attorney--Montgomery Blair Sibley--has also been encountering similar 'bounce-backs,' containing phony e-mail addresses that are contained in classic 'scam spam' e- mails. In this case, the origin is from 'mailto:Mailer-Daemon@smarth-dorada.atl.sa.earthlink.net'. The section after '@' is where many classic spams originate from.

Example: http://www.gatago.org/alt/crime/54744805.html

WATERGATE TIME AGAIN-AND-AGAIN-AND-AGAIN, STARRING FRED THOMPSON'S CAMPAIGN (WITH KARL ROVE & TIM GRIFFIN & OPERATIVES IN THE SHADOWS?)

"Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. The third time is enemy action." --007 author Ian Fleming (through the character Auric Goldfinger. Also sometimes attributed to the Chicago underworld during the time of Al Capone's Outfit.


"These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. " --Thomas Paine, 1776, from the pamphlet, "Common Sense."

Boston, Massachusetts--Surprised that Mitt Romney's campaign offices were burglarized? Authorities in Boston are being mum over when it occurred exactly, but the break-in happened during this last weekend. What was stolen? A television...and "several laptops" (eight-in-all).This is getting ridiculous, and as usual, the press is being strangely credulous over the assertion that this is nothing.

There is a political war going-on (primarily within the GOP), and being executed by-or-for the presidential campaign of Fred Thompson. It's all benefiting him.

Why do I believe this? Because he's the one who will stand to gain the most from it, that's why. This is likely the reason why Arlen Specter has come to the aid of humiliated Idaho Sen. Larry E. Craig--he understands this, he gets it. I'm beginning to agree with old Arlen: something stinks here, and the former prosecutor knows the smell of this kind of corruption.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has been advising Craig on what his next move should be, which is very big of him. Regardless of what one thinks about the GOP and Craig, there is a potential motive in the downing of the Idaho Senator: paving-the-way for the campaign of Fred Thompson. How is this connected to the upcoming elections in 2008? Think back to when the scandal broke:

On Monday, Craig quit Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, shortly after the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call revealed the plea and arrest details. "Sen. Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision," Matt Rhoades, communications director for the Romney campaign, said. Craig has been one of Romney's top Senate supporters, serving as a Senate liaison for the campaign since February. (AP/Fox, 08.28.2007)

Keep-in-mind that the McCain campaign has also been hit with scandal when it was disclosed that one of his advisers--Bob Allen--a Florida state representative--was arrested soliciting sex in a men's restroom. Sound familiar? Then, in June, the Giuliani campaign was "rocked" when his campaign chairman for South Carolina--State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel--was charged trying to unload 500 grams of cocaine to an undercover police officer.

In addition, there is Louisiana Senator David Vitter, caught-up in the web of "Hookergate," who was going to help run Giuliani's Southern campaign--that's the one story this writer feels assured isn't part of the smearing and compromising of various presidential aspirants, primarily Republican (there could be others that don't fit a pattern).

Any takers on the contention that Deborah Jeane Palfrey is a GOP operative or a government agent? I didn't think so, because there's absolutely no proof of it, and she wouldn't be on trial if she were. What's going on then? Are these folks just being "railroaded," as a minority within the GOP currently asserts? Yes and no.

The common denominator in all of this is that all of these individuals have lost their protections for their aberrant-behaviors (where they existed). The privilege of the coverup has been rescinded by the Bush administration who controls the Justice Department at present, even without an Alberto Gonzales or John Ashcroft.

Some other flunky is running the show now at Justice, and another will be found for the public face side-of-things whom the Senate will also approve, just as they did the last two. Revolving-door is right. The point is, someone with enormous power and wealth wants Fred Thompson to be president, not the rest of the GOP contenders, and they're allowing the exposure of individuals within and close to the McCain, Romney, and Giuliani campaigns to damage said campaigns. [Ed., 08.28.2008--Now it could be safely assumed that Rove and Co. are throwing-in their lot with McCain.]

Today's story is just another sad and unsettling chapter in what could end-up being the dirtiest campaign in American history, namely the elections of 2008. None of this bodes well for a fair and legal election, and while nobody will do it, there should be a nationwide call for international observers during the elections next year. Again, it would also help if we had a functioing Justice Department to investigate these crimes, bot no-such-luck. But it's not just the GOP anymore--the Democrats are starting to get hit, though so far only through break-ins:

The incident is the third of its kind recently involving a presidential contender.
Last month a man was arrested and charged with breaking into a Hartford, Conn., office belonging to Sen. Chris Dodd, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. The accused lived in a city shelter and had a lengthy arrest record, and a city police official said that crime likely was prompted to support a drug habit. In July, the Davenport, Iowa, campaign headquarters for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was burglarized. Two laptop computers and campaign literature were reported stolen. (AP, 09.10.2007)

Indeed, these gentlemen are also running against Fred Thompson in the presidential race. In the Dodd, Obama, and now the Romney break-ins, computers were stolen. An interesting problem found in the story of the Dodd break-in is that the alarms were never triggered at his senatorial offices in Hartford. Thus far, the police there have offered no solid explanations as to why this was the case, just that a homeless man with a criminal record did it and that he left an incriminating piece of evidence that identified him behind. Is all this coordinated action? It could be, and there's black smoke rising from the windows in sundry places.

The groupings of these break-ins are very tight, and elicit reasonable doubt as to the veracity of the the "conventional wisdom" that there's no connection between any of them. In February of this same year, the New Hampshire offices of the Democratic Party were also burglarized. This was in Concord, part of the battleground where the American Revolution began on April 19th, 1775.

The British continued the 6 miles to Concord and the Americans retreated to the North Bridge just outside the town. While the main body of soldiers accomplished their mission of seizing the gunpowder, a small contingent of British troops skirmished again with the colonists, now numbering several hundred. 3 British soldiers and 2 Americans were killed in this battle. As they returned to Boston, the British were under constant assault from Massachusetts militiamen, who inflicted 273 casualties. (www.americanrevolution.com)

Have we all come full-circle? Are there individuals in the shadows sending us a message? Who's behind all of this? This writer's bets are all on the whoever is backing the bulk of the Thompson campaign. This is a time of scoundrels. It's high-time to get to the bottom of all of this criminality and nonsense, and rescue our rights from the jaws of what could be an encroaching tyranny, a kind of crypto-fascism. The Redcoats are coming.

AP: "Romney's campaign offices burglarized," September 10th, 2007: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_el_pr/romney_burglary;_ylt=AgHgkL686vYSitnTDDyqbTaMwfIE

AP/Fox on the beginnings of the Craig Scandal, August 8th, 2007: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294852,00.html

"Scandal Taints Another Giuliani Ally," July 10th, 2007: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/scandal-taints-another-giuliani-ally/

On the Dodd Break-in, August 27th, 2007: http://www.1010wins.com/pages/866344.php?contentType=4&contentId=847053

Boston.com on the Romney office break-in, Today: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/breakin_at_romn.html

About Time: Bob Odenkirk and David Cross Upgrade 'Bob & David' Site

www.bobanddavid.com --Man, this was truly overdue. I understand these fellows have their acting, writing, performing, sexing, and producing gigs, but Creepin' Christ! It was great to see a rundown of David Cross's ongoing war with Larry the Cable Goyim, but where were the updates?! I want to know when these guys fart, OK? It's as if Lenny Bruce was still around with an internet access--what genuine lover of comedy wouldn't want to be updated to his musings? Well, I feel that Bob & David are essentially just as important as Lenny, minus the narcotics-addiction. That's how important I think they are, and Mr. Show was a real beacon during the stagnant 1990s. I think these gentlemen are going to follow-through on Lenny's promise because they're as genuine and honest as Lenny about themselves and the world as they see it. And no, those rumors that David Cross does heroin...gimme a break. Different times, different people, similar ideals. It sure beats Bill Maher.

'The President is Hopeful About Iraq'

Iraqistan/That'll stick in your Crawford, Texas--It's official: the president is batshit crazy (did you hear what he said?). What a pathetic dry-drunk. Give that man a malt liquor with a dash of gasoline. It made sense with Caligula, he acted openly-insane, eating gold leaf at his banquets, making his favorite horsey a god--that shit made sense at least ('He nuts, case closed.'). Where do they make these assholes anyway? The not-so-funny thing is that he's actually a failure at being rich. Well, and a failure at being a human being as well. Hitler and his cronies had the excuse of never being part of the traditional--and disintegrating--aristocratic power structures of Europe--they had no experience, just the ability to seize power. Bush doesn't even have that excuse, but he's as unqualified to wield that power as they were. This is what makes him so dangerous, and will continue to be so until January 20th of 2009. What's it mean to still support him? I think you can figure that one out, kids.

WHY THE RECENT RULING AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT GAG PROVISIONS PRESERVES OUR RIGHTS

'The secrecy provisions are "the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.' --From Judge Marrero's 103 page ruling statement.

'I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government and being made to mislead those who are close to me, especially because I have doubts about the legitimacy of the underlying investigation.' --An anonymous recipient of an NSL in the Washington Post, March 22nd, 2007.

New York State--New York Southern District Court Judge Victor Marrero's decision is a clear-cut victory for First and Fourth amendment protections. This is because the FBI was allowed by Congress in a little-known provision of the act to issue indefinite 'gag-orders' on anyone that they presented an NSL ('national security letters') to for information. We know that these letters have been used frequently by the Justice Department in obtaining records from internet providers and telecommunications companies--these proprietors can now tell the public about their concerns regarding these NSLs, previously barred by an out-of-control Republican dominated 109th Congress. The present 110th Congress appears to be little better, and their current unpopularity with the public is reflected in their overall disregard for the will of the people.

The ruling follows reports this year by Justice Department and FBI auditors that the FBI potentially violated privacy laws or bureau rules more than a thousand times while issuing NSLs in recent years -- violations that did not come to light quickly, partly because of the Patriot Act's secrecy rules. "The risk of investing the FBI with unchecked discretion to restrict such speech is that government agents, based on their own self-certification, may limit speech that does not pose a significant threat to national security or other compelling government interest," Marrero said. (Washington Post, 09.06.2007)

2005 revisions by the 109th Congress were in-response to earlier rulings by Marrero (as well as a pending one), and this ruling is a way of saying the language of the newer provisions weren't enough to protect the civil rights of the public--it goes too far. But going too far is what Congress and the Bush administration wanted, a de jure rollback of our rights, rather than those of so-called 'terrorists.' The Washington Post bends-backwards to avoid this aspect in their piece, but they're hardly alone. As for the decision: barring a successful appeal, that's it--you cannot bar speech and allow such incredible discretion within the Justice Department. Is it enough of a legal firewall to protect our rights? Are the threats to public safety really so great? Surely, it's unwise for any modern society to take the word of their leaders as gold.

Marrero has allowed the government 90 days before enforcement so they can appeal the decision. Even if they do, it's unlikely they'll win on this count. But there are other counts that are unaffected, this battle was just over the telecommunications companies--the decision doesn't cover: banks, credit companies, and 'other probes.' That's not very reassuring, but the decision is a good direction.

Why? Because now, these telecommunications people can start talking about what the questionable probes entailed. An anonymous proprietor of a small internet provider wrote a piece in the Post entitled, 'My National Security Letter Gag Order,' which was published on March 22nd of 2007. It doesn't paint a very pretty picture of what being under the gag provision entails: the barring of speech, even if the NSL inquiry is struck-down. There is no ability to tell the public if there was wrong-doing by federal agents, investigators, and their superiors within the executive branch.

I found it particularly difficult to be silent about my concerns while Congress was debating the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005 and early 2006. If I hadn't been under a gag order, I would have contacted members of Congress to discuss my experiences and to advocate changes in the law. [Ed.-emphasis added] The inspector general's report confirms that Congress lacked a complete picture of the problem during a critical time: Even though the NSL statute requires the director of the FBI to fully inform members of the House and Senate about all requests issued under the statute, the FBI significantly underrepresented the number of NSL requests in 2003, 2004 and 2005, according to the report. (Washington Post, 03.22.2007)

A little bait-and-switch between Congress and the Justice Department? In short, it's unlikely that the 109th Congress could have been unaware of these procedural problems in the law, and were very consciously skirting the ability of those presented with NSLs to petition (alert) the judiciary--namely--the courts to abuses in the investigations. It should be noted that many of these same legislators who authorized these provisions are still holding-office. One could imagine that Sen. Larry E. Craig, Mark Foley, Arlen Specter, Hillary Clinton, and Tom Delay all voted approvingly of these sections of the Patriot Act, and continued to attempt inserting the substance of the gag effect into every subsequent version after Marrero's 2004 rulings against them. We know that it wasn't someone like Sen. Russ Feingold, and that he's virtually alone in his opposition to such legislative zeal.

When the ruling hit, there was a general silence from the Senate--with one exception: Russ Feingold again, so it appears that gagging the recipients of NSLs is a bipartisan issue with bipartisan support. Will they relent? Don't bet-on-it. That's why federal district Judge Marrero wrote such a sprawling opinion--it's 103-pages-long. Why? To make it implicitly clear what the government can and cannot do along constitutional lines.

For any judge to write an opinion this long means that they're not kidding, and not playing games. The role of the judiciary in our system of checks and balances is to rule along constitutional lines, reining-in the other branches of government. This is what Judge Victor Marrero has done, to his credit, and a credit to his role in our unique system of government. It's a system that's worth saving, and worth protecting zealously.

“When the judiciary lowers its guard on the Constitution, it opens the door to far-reaching invasions of privacy,” Judge Marrero wrote, pointing to discredited Supreme Court decisions endorsing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and racially segregated railroad cars in the 19th century. “The only thing left of the judiciary’s function for those Americans in that experience,” he wrote, “was a symbolic act: to sing a requiem and lower the flag on the Bill of Rights.” Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the Internet company, said Judge Marrero had confirmed a bedrock principle. (New York Times, 09.07.2007)

The internet company is the same one as that of the 'anonymous' byline at the Washington Post from March of this year. With this ruling, they--and many others--can now inform a reluctant Congress in a manner that can no longer be ignored. But what's most important is that the public will be informed of further misdeeds within the executive branch--aided-and-abetted by her allies in Congress, the legislative branch. It appears that some in Congress are determined to continue this aiding and abetting of the executive branch.

Interestingly, Marrero is a Clinton appointment (1999), and a Puerto Rican-American. It's interesting to note how it has frequently been minorities and immigrants who have protected our traditional systems of due process greater than so-called 'natives.' While she's got her WASP credentials assured, federal district Judge Gladys Kessler is also a Clinton appointee. She's overseeing the trial of one Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Perhaps old Bill wasn't so bad after all, but only time will tell if his judiciary appointees will truly do him proud--they're doing pretty good so far. Fittingly, we can reflect that not all Hispanic-Americans are Alberto Gonzales, and understand the value and uniqueness of our legal system. Judge Marrero understands his role in the judiciary well. Others within the court system should look to his example.

'My National Letter Gag Order': http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201882.html

The Washington Post on the Marrero ruling, 09.07.2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090601438.html?hpid=moreheadlines%22%3EJudge

The New York Times, 09.07.2007: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/washington/07patriot.html?ref=us

'Cases filed in the New York Southern District Court by Victor Marrero': http://dockets.justia.com/browse/state-new_york/court-nysdce/judge-Marrero/

LEGENDARY UK DIRECTOR KEN RUSSELL ILL: MINOR STROKE

The Cottages of England--Ken's wonderful little dog 'Nipper' has died recently, causing extreme grief and a minor stroke in the director. Ken Russell is 80. It's an unfortunate development, and makes one wonder if Ken will now ever be able to direct again. We can be grateful for 'Fall of the Louse of Usher' and the 'Gorsewood films' that he's stubbornly made despite an industry that no-longer really exists in the UK, and the indifference and animosity of Hollywood.

It doesn't matter--he left his mark, what's done is done. We have: 'The Devils,' 'Tommy,' 'Mahler,' 'Gothic' (which I saw twice in 1986), 'The Rainbow,' 'Women in Love,' 'Lisztomania,' 'The Music Lovers,' 'Lair of the White Worm,' 'Savage Messiah,' 'Dante's Inferno,' 'Valentino,' 'Lady Chatterly's Lover,' 'Prisoner of Honor,' 'Salome's Last Dance,' 'The Boyfriend,' and so much more. Get well Ken, and make another feature film. What a wonderfully dirty old man. You are loved by many, and hated by the right people. He's a dear man who has tended the garden so tenderly.

Write Ken and give him a 'get well' with much love: http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-contact.html

THE CHEMICAL GAS VIALS AT THE UN: WHAT NERVE (CRACK VIALS & MALT LIQUOR)

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaking before Congress in his inaugral address, March 4th, 1933.

The United Nations Offices, New York City--One of the cardinal sins of journalism is to report a rumor as a fact (like Anderson Cooper in at the Super Dome in New Orleans). Yes, I feel so much better that the vial they found contained no chemical gases or nerve-agents, certainly. Today's news tells us it was a 'non-toxic solvent.' Great. Let's see: every time the president's ratings are incredibly-low, and/or when he and his party--the GOP--take a couple big-hits (like with Sen. Larry E. Craig cruising for ass, and the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales), we suddenly get all these warnings and phony stories about there being a 'bomb,' or a 'vial' of 'nerve-agents' somewhere in the continental United States. OK, and the UK and Germany as well.

It's a scam, a lie, and it's meant to create the impression that there are all these sundry terrorist-attacks occurring when there aren't any reportable ones to reap some political gain on. I mean really, if there was a real plot that was foiled, you wouldn't want to go public and tip-off the bad guys, right? Logic would dictate that, so you concoct some dopey, phony ones to reap the rewards anyway--especially when the locals (the public) are getting restless over your obvious criminality. When you have no agenda, and when you've alienated almost everyone, you turn to the 'outside-threat' just as you did when it still worked. This is playing into-the-hands of the law of diminishing returns, and it's George W. Bush's curse, his lodestone. Well, OK...demon-alcohol is as well.

A substance found at a U.N. weapons inspectors' office last month and suspected of being a chemical warfare agent appears to be a nontoxic solvent, a U.N. official said Thursday. The material was found Aug. 24 at a U.N. office in midtown Manhattan in inventory files with a label that indicated it could be phosgene, a chemical substance used in World War I weapons. It had been in the files for 11 years and was only identified when officials checked the inventory number against the many records in the vast archives. (AP, 09.06.2007)

That's right, it wasn't even something like WWI poisonous-gas, just a non-toxic solvent that had been there for 11-years, undetected. The question is: who created the escalation of this story into something it clearly wasn't? The FBI has a long history of leaks to the press, the majority-of-which have been extremely unethical. Did that happen here? Why was the press so credulous (again)? You won't be finding any of these answers in today's coverage, it's not a topic for discussion in the public dialog.

What posessed someone to think that an 11-year-old vial labeled 'phosogene' (the WWI gas) was really 'nerve gas'? It seems someone wanted to believe very badly, but whom? AP reported this around August 30th, when the story was beginning to break:

The State Department said it had learned of the discovery late Wednesday and had immediately contacted the FBI to deal with the disposal. Deputy spokesman Tom Casey also said a joint U.S.-U.N. investigation would be made into why the samples had been stored in the office but stressed that the chemicals had been there for at least a decade and did not pose any health risk. "One of the things we want to do is make sure that the U.N., working with the FBI, does conduct a full investigation of this, so we're absolutely certain how they in fact got there, how long they were there, and the kind of exact nature of how this came about," he told reporters. "There is no threat that these items currently or in the past have posed to public health and safety in the area," Casey said. (AP, 08.30.2007)

So why the 'NERVE GAS! NERVE GAS! NERVE GAS!' headlines everywhere? Because of ABC News. They are the original journalistic source of the misreporting. It appears the source could be one Brian Ross from ABC's 'The Blotter' site. It was corrected, and here's some of the text, though it doesn't appear to be there anymore on the original site (could be cached):

CORRECTION: Phosgene isn't a "nerve gas," but rather a "choking agent." It was used in WWI combined with chlorine gas. I posted the article from ABC News, and apologize for the error. I'm leaving the title of the post unchanged for continuity's sake.

United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York this morning, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m. New York police and fire officials reported to the scene around 12:15 this afternoon.
(Note: page has been edited. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/nerve-gas-scare.html)

That's great that they corrected it, but the story still had an effect that could have been calculated. Dan Rather loses his job over copies of George W. Bush's Air Guard records (of which all of the information found in them was confirmed by the original secretary as the same), but this alarmism gets a shrug. It's all a very questionable and curious situation. At-minimum, it's a shoddy approach to journalism that anyone could notice within a few moments. Little-known 'fact': the White House was informed at 10:00 am Eastern Time, according to media sources. But what of the fact that the State Department knew on Wednesday? Are they the source of the contention that the vials contained 'nerve gas', or is it the White House? Both? We should be finding this one out, but the press doesn't like losing access or asking solid questions of this administration. This may as well have been in the vial: Crack.

AP today: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_re_us/un_chemical_agent;_ylt=AutvEJRHmo7ekah7AbHN5hFH2ocA

AP, 08.30.2007 (compare-and-contrast): http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=5618353

Wizbang's Jim Addison with the original ABC correction statement of 08.30.2007: http://wizbangblog.com/content/2007/08/30/nerve-gas-found-at-un.php

DOES D.C. HAVE HER OWN "SALON KITTYS"? (Repost of a July 11th piece)

Washington D.C./Nazi Germany-It's highly doubtful that Deborah Jeane Palfrey knew anything about the subterranean activities of some of her associates, but could some of them have been agents provocateurs or spies? Could the government run sexual blackmailing operations under the auspices of legitimate investigations? Could foreign agencies be using escort services for similar ends?

Time and technology have changed the West's social landscape since 1933-1945 in substantial respects, but some things never change. This is another age, and some political tactics never die because they're useful and get results. Instant communication was once the sole domain of the State, but today, we all have cell phones, pagers, laptop computers, GPS locators, unparalleled surveillance capabilities, and even the new iPhone. Things have changed in the "secret world" as well. On Salon Kitty:

Although brothels were officially outlawed by the Third Reich, the elite Nazi SS security police had been authorized by Himmler before the war to engage prostitutes in intelligence gathering. The infamous Salon Kitty in Berlin's Giebachstrasse [11] was the brainchild of the Deputy Reichsfuhrer SS, Reinhard Heydrich. The high-class brothel was set up to increase surveillance of foreign diplomats [Ed.-my emphasis] and visitors as well as to gather dossiers on the sexual indiscretions of Nazi party big-wigs and government guests. ... (pp. 241-242) (heretical.com, "Love, Sex and War," by John Costello From Chapter 12: 'Black Propaganda and Sexpionage')

But Nazi Germany was hardly the precedent of this approach, it's ubiquitous throughout human history in various incarnations. "Honey traps" are nothing new, and the examples are numerous and wide-in-scope in the secret world. There is more. "Operation Kitty" was an overall failure. It didn't provide the huge-swath of intelligence that its creator--Reinhard Heydrich of the SS--had wanted, just a lot of compromising smut. This was useful against others in the National Socialist hierarchy, and Heydrich likely used it. Interestingly, it was an "open secret" amongst NSDAP functionaries who frequented Giebachstrasse 11 that all conversations were being recorded.

The Salon Kitty was a German SD [Ed.-Secret Service, or Gestapo] establishment in which, according to German spy chief Walter Schellenberg, "important visitors from other countries could be 'entertained' in a discreet atmosphere and...offered seductive feminine companionship. In such an atmosphere the most rigid diplomat might be induced to unbend and reveal useful information." Salon Kitty was set up in a large house in a fashionable district of Berlin. It is described in The Schellenberg Memoirs (1956):

["]Double walls were built for the incorporation of microphones. These were connected by automatic transmission to tape recorders which would record every word spoken throughout the house. Three of our department's technical experts, bound by oath, were put in charge of his apparatus. The ostensible owner of the house [Kitty Schmidt] was provided with the necessary domestic and catering staff for the establishment to be able to offer the best service, food, and drink.["] (Spy Tech Agency.com, 12.02.1999)

The brothel's madam--Kitty Schmidt--had no control over the arrangement, a virtual captive of the regime, just like everyone else under the rule of NSDAP. It's entirely possible we have an entire network of this sort in North America. This leads us to the role of sexual blackmail in politics.

There have been quite few "retirements" at the Pentagon under the Bush administration, and under Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, there was an intense struggle for control of the Pentagon's bureaucracy. Considering there are several numbers originating in Annapolis, as well as most of the region surrounding Washington D.C., one can safely assume the officer class of the US is amply represented in the phone records of Pamela Martin & Associates. There is a possible analog here from the era of NSDAP. In 1938, Hitler was finalizing his consolidation of power, but there were a few loose-ends in the officer corps of the Wehrmacht:

For Hitler, the moment had arrived to clean house, to replace the crusty old generals with younger men eager to serve their Führer and follow orders, regardless of the consequences. The two highest ranking officers in Germany at this time were hold-overs from the days of President Hindenburg; Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the Commander in Chief of the German Armed Forces, and General Werner von Fritsch, the Commander in Chief of the Army. These stiff-lipped men with their rigid codes of honor were about to be toppled by that most vile of all things from their point of view, personal scandals involving sex. (historyplace.com, "Hitler Becomes Army Commander," 2001)

For Blomberg, it would involve the fact that had the elder Field Marshal marrying a "former-prostitute," found in Weimar police records by Herman Goering, the founder of the SD. Himmler also got in on the game. Thanks to this information, on January 25th, Hitler could finally force Blomberg's resignation. Finally, no one would stand in-his-way. For General Werner von Fritsch, things would be worse than Blomberg's predicament, much worse.

He would be blackmailed by an obscure account in Gestapo files that he had had an homosexual encounter in an alley in 1935, the same year that Hitler purged the SA in the "night of long-knives." In short, Fritsch was felled by a "confidential informant." At about the same time, Stalin was using similar methods, killing his prey outright...because he could.

The irony was, the informant who "outed" Fritsch (the nefarious Hans Schmidt, no relation to Kitty) had the wrong man--it was an officer named "Frisch." It didn't matter, and Hitler moved to remove Fritsch anyway. Sixteen other generals would be removed through various methods, but the downing of Blomberg and Fritsch was that crucial beginning of total control over the German Army, the Wehrmacht. Ironically, a number of these generals would be brought-back as the war deteriorated...

"Hitler Becomes Army Commander," 2001: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-army.htm

"Love, Sex and War,": http://www.heretical.com/costello/12sexspy.html

Spy Tech Agency, December 2nd, 1999: http://216.87.7.9/Intel%20Bulletin/Intel%20Bulletin%20019991202.htm

What's the terror alert at over at Fox News? Part II

FOXUNIVERSE--I'm guessing it's at "Elevated" again. You think the world is ever safe to these Chicken Little-types? Not if their livelihoods depend on it! I'm digging the Asian chick who's replaced Bill O'Reilly. Is he on-vacation in the Carib...OK, mentioning 'loofahs' is just unfair. What if Al Franken wins and becomes a senator from Minnesota? Why can't I vote for someone like him here in Indiana? Where are the greats from this once-great state? Who are the Eugene Debs and Kurt Vonneguts of today? Who are the new Booth Tarkingtons, Hoagy Carmichaels, or James Whitcomb Rileys? Where's the next Cole Porter or James Dean? Can we stop making Indiana movies about sports?! Why do 'Hoosiers' pronounce flesh as 'flaish'? What happened here? Did someone drop a stupidity-bomb? Maybe it was Edward Teller and Ronald Reagan. Why am I immune?

The jury is in (love): Fox News has the hottest chicks, hands-down now. Again with the Asian chick--that pile of hair, I love it! One day, she had a former Justice Department gal with hair that equally tall, I was in heaven! Yes, us men really do love that old-fashioned look, that feminine-look. C'mon you lesbians--you like it too in your mate, admit it. It's adorning a woman and appreciating her beauty, and if it's not comfortable, they don't have to look that way all the time anyway. But I've always loved women with really long-hair, it can be lovely.

It's not an Ayn Rand thing, believe me, she was a hag like Andrea Dworkin (OK, not that ugly), these women are H-O-T. Really, who wouldn't want to see a woman all hennaed-out reading the news in a belly dancer's costume, even while spouting right-wing hate? Especially if she got all pouty-lipped, like Ginger on Gilligan's Island. Let's face it, this is just really sexy, and I'd love to watch all these beauty queens do something really bold: recite English-translations of Hitler's speeches aloud to me, forget on television. No, scratch the translations-auf Deutsch! I found Bill O'Reilly's temp-replacement entrancing, fetching, and I almost started believing Fox's B.S. for a moment, it's true. I'm sure a number of lesbians felt the same way...

EWIGE BLUMENKRAFT: SAIC's Founder Publishes a P.R.-Autobiography While Rome & Mesopotamia Burn

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."--Statement attributed to Hassan-i Sabah (more likely 'Budayl', a later Islamic heretic of Isma'ili Islam)

S.A.I.C.UNIVERSE--Edward Teller, eat your heart out, you were never this wrong-headed (just nuts). It helps to have friends in Congress, especially if you get them laid (or something within the law with a little touchy-touchy), drunk, and ply them with Cuban cigars. You know, just like Randy 'Duke' Cunningham and his pals who are also up-on-charges. Some of the same players with 'Duke' are related to SAIC. Yes, it's 'expensive to do business in Washington,' it really is. Of course, you won't find anything about how they really get those contracts with the Pentagon and the intelligence community in any of the 200-odd pages of founder Dr. J. Robert Beyster's book "The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company," published in August.

True, Beyster had the advantage of starting SAIC when the Pentagon was on a spending spree because of the Cold War and the Vietnam War. He knew it would not last forever and started to branch out into other categories. [Ed.-yeah, what a shame, we should have an endless war.] A key part of his strategy was pursuing mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The most stellar deal was the $4.5 million acquisition of Network Solutions in 1994. His goal was to grab a share of telecom business and pick up clients like AT&T (NYSE: T). Network Solutions also managed the registry for Internet domain names. As the market surged, so did the value of the company. With SAIC as its largest shareholder, Network Solutions went public in 1997, raising $67 million. It raised $779 million in a follow-on offering in 1999 and raised another $2.3 billion in 2000. Then a few months later, Network Solutions sold out to VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) for $19.6 billion (who said M&A is a bad thing?). (Motleyfool.com, 08.28.2007)

The review at Motley Fool is pretty adulatory, with no research whatsoever into the numerous lawsuits that SAIC has been involved in. Some included fraud on government contracts. I'll let you readers do some of those web searches, prove me wrong. Right, who said "M&A is a bad thing"? Well myself, and many others, actually.

This is just too much power, it's corporate welfare, and it undermines all the basic-tenets of the marketplace by eliminating any chance of competition--but that's the argument of capitalists, and this writer isn't one (I'm biased, I know). What SAIC really constitutes is the 9th biggest military/intel contractor in the United States. What else is missing here? Oh yeah: real questions about SAIC's behavior behind-the-scenes in the warrantless wiretapping scandal. Were they involved? They certainly have the capabilities--just look at their anagram: "Science Applications International Corporation." You think they could hack into a database? You think they know the back-doors? They should, considering that they owned Network Solutions for several years.

Why do I think this book is a PR-response to the fear within SAIC that a very big storm is coming their way? The very same day of the Motley Fool book review, SAIC was magically awarded a three-year, $85 million contract to service what is now a sub-entity of the Department of Homeland Security, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. It's nice to have friends in high-places, strategically positioned to facilitate with a nod (or a no-bid contract):

The three-year deal awarded by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday will provide the agency with hardware and software maintenance, help desk support, directory and messaging services and network and security operations support. Under the contract, the government contractor will support more than 19,000 agents at 550 sites for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. (AP, 08.29.2007)

As previously written at this site, Ronald Roughead works for SAIC as some kind of intelligence analyst, and possibly in some psy-ops/propaganda/public diplomacy role. His brother is one Gary Roughead, now CNO of the United States Navy. Just days after brother Gary was awarded this commission, SAIC was awarded a contract with the Navy. Is there a connection? There might be.

Admiral Roughead is mentioned as a speaker in a couple of military association and foundation newsletters (National Defense & Transportation Association & the Naval War College Foundation), along with Harlan Ullman in the NWCF publication. While brother Gary isn't in the phone records of Pamela Martin & Associates, his brother is, and Mr. Ullman has been identified as a client by Ms. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, former proprietor of the aforementioned escort firm. Corporate sponsors of both newsletters and institutions list SAIC as a donor. Further searches on the internet--that could be done by anyone in minutes--would likely yield more of the same. But back to Ronald Roughead again. Some of Ronnie's testimony is in a past article at this site titled 'Pax Americanus...,' and makes for some very funny reading. We're supposed to believe that Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are using modified video games to recruit young people.

One--ostensibly called 'Sonic Jihad'-- betrays the media (games, movies, music, etc.) ignorance of whoever concocted it for the House Intelligence Committee back at SAIC (or whatever little contractor's home, after-hours). Another piece of evidence was also presented--a short 11-minute clip from the internet. It has been discredited back in May 24th of 2006 as a joke by its creator--a 25-year-old Dutch gamer named 'Samir':

The 11-minute video shows a man in Arab head-dress carrying an automatic weapon into combat with U.S. invaders, and it was shown to a U.S. Congressional Committee this month as evidence of a militant campaign to recruit Muslim youth on the Internet. "It was just for fun, nothing political," said Samir, a 25 year-old Dutch gamer, in an interview with Reuters. "It has nothing to do with recruiting people or training people." Samir, who did not want to be identified by his full name, is a Muslim who was born and raised in the Netherlands and is a fan of U.S. movies and rap music. (Reuters, 05.24.2006)

So, what's this all about? Why play-up the threat? The answer--my friend--is blowing in-the-wind (from Washington)...in the form of dollars (and no sense). Republicans are curiously credulous about such so-called 'evidence,' but being a corporate welfare freak is a bipartisan affair.

One would assume they want to believe a little too much on Capitol Hill, carrying a priori assumptions with them about the rewards that will meet them in this life (there is no other, no pie-in-the-sky). Forget Hassan-i Sabah's promise, the Garden of Earthly Delights is here for those who service the contractors (no hash necessary, power is the ultimate drug & aphrodisiac). Conquest means never having to understand your victims.

On Samir, that Code Red threat to America (05.24.2006): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196889,00.html

For heaven's SAIC (Motley Fool indeed): http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/08/28/foolish-book-review-the-saic-solution.aspx

Gary's Brother Ron Roughead attempts to gain a contract for SAIC with some

truly shoddy evidence (May 4th, 2006): http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/Hoffman4May06.pdf