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Bush wants to derail wiretapping lawsuit against AT&T

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

President Bush is backing a proposed law that would pull the plug on lawsuits alleging telephone companies illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency in its warrantless wiretap program.

We’ve written about this before, such as when the House Judiciary committee approved the measure last year as part of a bill to rework the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

At the time, last September, one backer of the measure said it would effectively “eliminate the 60 or more lawsuits filed because companies complied with government orders,” such as the one brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. Rep. Chris Cannon, the amendment’s sponsor, said that without such protection in place, “an individual or company will be reluctant to cooperate with any government authorized surveillance program, which will severely undercut government’s efforts (to prevent terrorist attacks).”

But it’s worth noting again now for two main reasons. First, EFF’s lawsuit is at a crucial stage right now before the 9th Circuit, as EFF attorney Lee Tien described at the 2007 Computers Freedom and Privacy conference here on Thursday afternoon. Second, the bill is back in play this year and now’s the time to pay attention to it again.

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MI6 Are The Lords Of The Global Drug Trade

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

James Casbolt

It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile.

My name is James Casbolt and I worked for MI6 in ‘black ops’ cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999. My father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain.

My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London. Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people of the country they are based in and see themselves as ’super national’. It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert’s ‘From the wilderness’ website for proof).

The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothchilds and the Windsor’s. Since it was first started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring ’some’ of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in. They do this by pulling the strings of many organised crime and terrorist groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI6 agents.

MI6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British intelligence also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950’s through places like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960’s MI5, MI6 and the CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the sixties and turned them into ‘flower children’ who were too tripped out to organise a revolution. Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds and drugs for Leary’s research came from the CIA and Leary says that Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter culture has “helped me to understand my political cultural role more clearly”.

In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI5 with pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI5 man who sent them told my father this was a government ’signature’ and this LSD was called ‘Europa’. This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least 짙500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug money.

Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court if he was involved in drug trafficking. He replied”No we can’t compete with the government”. I believe this was only a half truth because the mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in a huge web of transactions. The drug money comes out ‘cleaner’ but not totally clean.

Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond business families like the Oppenheimers. These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean. MI6 and the CIA are also responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America. In 1978, MI6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects of the natives smoking ‘basuco’ cocaine paste. This has the same effect as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from the basuco formula. MI6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America with crack. Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were starting to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets.

On August 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas. Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time. Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each month. For proof see the books ‘Compromise’ and ‘Dope Inc’.

On my father’s international MI6 drug runs, whatever fell off the back of the lorry so to speak he would keep and we would sell it in Britain. As long as my father was meeting the speedboats from Morocco in the Costa del Sol and then moving the lorry loads of cannabis through their MI6, IRA lorry business into Britain every month, British intelligence were happy. As long as my father was moving shipments of cocaine out of Rome every month, MI5 and MI6 were happy. If my father kept a bit to sell himself no one cared because there was enough drugs and money to go round in this 500 billion a year global drugs trade.

The ones who were really paying were the people addicted. Who were paying with suffering. But karma always catches up and both myself and my father became addicted to heroin in later years and my father died addicted, and poor in prison under very strange circumstances. Today, I am clean and drug-free and wish to help stop the untold suffering this global drugs trade causes.

The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro chipped population known as the New World Order. As the population is in a drug or alcohol-induced trance watching ‘Coronation Street’, the new world order is being crept in behind them. To properly expose this global intelligence run drugs trade we need to expose the key players in this area:…

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1. Tibor Rosenbaum — a MOSSAD agent and head of the Geneva based Banque du Credit international. This bank was the forerunner to the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce international (BCCI) which is a major intelligence drug money laundering bank. ‘Life’ magazine exposed Rosenbaum’s bank as a money launderer for the Meyer Lansky American organised crime family and Tibor Rosenbaum funded and supported ‘Permindex’ the MI6 assassination unit which was at the heart of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

2. Robert Vesco — sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothchilds and part of the American connection to the Medellin drug cartel in Columbia.

3. Sir Francis de Guingand — former head of British intelligence, now living in south Africa (and every head of MI5 and MI6 has been involved in the drug world before and after him).

4. Henry Keswick — chairman of Jardine Matheson which is one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in the world. His brother John Keswick is chairman of the bank of England.

5. Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb — Bank of England director from 1987 to 1995, Barclays Bank Deputy Chairman in 1985, Telegraph newspapers director in 1986 (This is the reason why this can of worms doesn’t get out in the mainstream media. The people who are perpetrating these crimes control most of the mainstream media. In America former director of the CIA William Casey is head of the council of the media network ABC. Many insiders refer to ABC as ‘The CIA network.)

6. George Bush, Snr. — former President and former head of the CIA and America’s leading drug baron who has fronted more wars on drugs than any other president, which in reality is just a method to eliminate competition. A whole book could be written on George Bush’s involvement in the global drug trade but it is well-covered in the book ‘Dark Alliance’ by investigative journalist Gary Webb. Gary Webb was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head with a revolver. The case was declared a ’suicide’. You figure that out. Gary Webb as well as myself and other investigators, found that much of this ‘black ops’ drug money is being used to fund projects classified above top secret. These projects include the building and maintaining of deep level underground bases in Dulce in New Mexico, Pine gap in Australia, Snowy mountains in Australia, The Nyala range in Africa, west of Kindu in Africa, next to the Libyan border in Egypt, Mount Blanc in Switzerland, Narvik in Scandinavia, Gottland island in Sweden and many other places around the world (more about these underground bases in my next issue).

The information on this global drugs trade run by the intelligence agencies desperately needs to get out on a large scale. Any information, comments or feedback to help me with my work would be greatly welcomed.

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Judge says NY surveillance data can be made public

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Daniel Trotta

Six hundred pages of documents relating to intelligence that New York City gathered before the 2004 Republican National Convention should be made public, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Judge James Francis of U.S. District Court in Manhattan struck down the city’s attempt to keep the documents confidential, but agreed to keep them sealed pending a possible city appeal.

The New York Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times had petitioned the judge to make the documents public.

The city had argued their publication could influence potential jurors in a larger case, yet to go trial, in which about 90 protesters who were arrested at the convention are suing the city alleging their rights were violated through mass arrests, prolonged detentions and blanket fingerprinting.

More than 1,800 demonstrators were arrested over eight days in August and September of 2004 as the Republican Party met in New York to nominate President George W. Bush as its candidate in the presidential election.

“Notably, the city does not contend that these documents must be kept confidential because of security concerns or because public disclosures would jeopardize legitimate law enforcement interests,” the judge wrote in 14-page ruling.

Lawyers for the city and the plaintiffs — the New York Civil Liberties Union — agreed not to release the documents at least until the city decides whether to appeal.

The New York Times reported the records showed that undercover New York police officers posed as sympathizers at meetings of political groups and identified those who had expressed interest in violent action.

The Times also said undercover police spied on people planning protests at the convention, both in the United States and in Europe.

Police say all of their surveillance was legal and approved in advance by a special three-member panel made up of two senior police officers and a representative of the mayor.

The surveillance was carried out by an intelligence branch created after the September 11 attacks to gather information on threats to public safety and reduce the city’s reliance on the federal government.

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US Iraq troops ‘condone torture’

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Humphrey Hawksley

A US survey of battlefield ethics among troops in Iraq has found widespread tolerance for torture in certain circumstances and problems with morale.

The survey, by an army mental health advisory team, sampled more than 1,700 soldiers and marines between August and October 2006.

It examined their views towards torture and the Iraqi civilian population.

A Pentagon official said the survey had looked under every rock and what was found was not always easy to look at.

The Pentagon survey found that less than half the troops in Iraq thought Iraqi civilians should be treated with dignity and respect.

More than a third believed that torture was acceptable if it helped save the life of a fellow soldier or if it helped get information about the insurgents.

About 10% of those surveyed said they had actually mistreated Iraqi civilians by hitting or kicking them, or had damaged their property when it was not necessary to do so.

Troops suffering from anxiety, depression or stress were more likely to engage in unethical behaviour, together with those who had had a colleague wounded or killed in their unit.

Shorten deployments

A key recommendation to emerge was to shorten the tours of duty.

Those deployed longer than six months, or who had been to Iraq several times, were more likely to suffer from mental health problems.

But presently thousands of extra troops are being sent to Iraq as part of an offensive to try to curb the insurgency by October.

Tours are being extended, and units that do go home are being allowed less time to recover before being sent back.

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Spying’s slippery slope

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

The Senate Intelligence Committee has two very good reasons to resist the Bush administration’s latest request for broader spying powers. One is President Bush himself, whose record for respecting the privacy rights of Americans has been nothing short of deplorable. The other is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who has become Mr. Bush’s enabler by producing legal opinions that attempt to justify White House claims the President has been invested with sweeping surveillance powers by the Constitution and Congress.

In truth, the White House is required to observe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which regulates government eavesdropping on phone calls, e-mails and other correspondence of fellow Americans and legal residents. That law requires the government to seek a warrant from a secret tribunal, known as the FISA Court, every time it wants to monitor a citizen’s conversations and correspondence.

The White House has been ignoring that provision for years, on the grounds that Congress gave it the power to conduct warrantless surveillance after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It also claims that the Constitution provides such powers during time of war. Nonetheless, a judge has ruled that the president does not have unlimited surveillance authority, and now the White House has returned to Congress to amend the FISA law to what it says are the changing needs of the times.

The administration’s argument goes like this: The war on terror has presented challenges unlike any other age, as has the rapid change in phone and other communication technologies. Therefore, the government needs to act in an instant when it suspects an American citizen might be in contact with terrorists. To wait too long could imperil national security.

But that argument has been rejected by critics, including this page, as disingenuous. The FISA law already allows government agents to act on a moment’s notice when they have reason to believe a terrorist connection has been made. They can seek a warrant from the FISA court retroactively. The court almost always complies.

One reason the White House is turning to Congress now appears to be to gain immunity from prosecution for the telecommunications companies that cooperated with the warrantless spying program in the past. But that could sacrifice the right of Americans to seek court redress if their rights were violated.

Just as troubling, the White House’s proposed bill would weaken FISA standards, and some critics say it would even gut the law. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., says there is nothing in the White House bill that “confines the President to work within” the FISA law in the future. Which means there is nothing in the bill that warrants congressional approval.

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