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Making Gaza “Scream”

Monday, July 9th, 2007

By Stephen Lendman
RINF Alternative News

Making Gaza “scream” is same kind of scheme the Nixon administration planned for Chile after social democrat Salvador Allende won a plurality of the votes in September, 1970. Before the Chilean Congress confirmed him as president in October, an infamous Nixon CIA Director Richard Helms handwritten note read: “One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile!…not concerned with risks involved…$10,000,000 available, more if necessary…make the economy ’scream.’ ” By it, he meant saving the country from a socially responsible leader, like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, using his nation’s wealth equitably and not just for its privileged elites. “Scream” it did through Nixon’s “soft line” scheme “to do all within our power to condemn Chile and Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty,” in the words of his Chilean ambassador Edward Korry.

It lasted three years until a “hard line” one replaced it on another September 11 Chileans won’t soon forget in 1973. It was when a CIA-orchestrated military coup ended the most vibrant democracy in the Americas, replacing it with the brutal 17 year reign of General Augusto Pinochet.

The US has a notorious record of imposing economic or political sanctions against any nation daring to operate outside of Washington Consensus political and market rules. It’s also quick to levy trade sanctions for corporate friends whose notion of “free trade” is the one-way kind benefitting them. The Clinton administration was a frequent abuser of these practices imposing them unilaterally against 35 or more countries during its eight years in power. They were also in place against the Soviet bloc during the Cold War and other nations aligned with it. The Bush administration currently has them in place against such countries as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Burma, Belarus, Sudan, and Venezuela. It’s our way of saying we’re boss, what we say goes and no outliers are tolerated even when they only wish to govern independently from us or are targeted by a close ally we support.

That’s the plight of the Palestinians who’ve been “screaming” for six decades following Israel’s “war of independence” they call al-Nakba, the catastrophe. In May, 1948, they were deprived of four-fifths of their former land and the remainder for the past 40 years. Conditions then became especially harsh after January 25, 2006 when they rejected ruling Fatah’s institutionalized corruption and willingness to be Israel’s enforcer for the benefits it afforded its leaders. They defied predictions and democratically elected a majority of Hamas members to Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) seats because they promised to do what Fatah wouldn’t - serve their own people, not the state of Israel against them.

Ever since, they’ve paid dearly for their choice. Israel, the US and West ended all outside aid, imposed an economic embargo and sanctions, and politically isolated the ruling Hamas government. Repressive Israeli rule was tightened and harsh intervention and daily attacks in the Territories followed. It included fomenting internal conflict on Gaza streets leading up to Hamas defeating the heavily US and Israeli-armed opposition Fatah insurgent forces, regaining control of its own territory in a surprising show of strength.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, in league with Israel and the US, then declared a “state of emergency” June 14 and illegally dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and his national unity government. On June 15, he appointed former IMF and World Bank official Salam Fayyad prime minister (whose party won 2% of the 2006 election votes), and on June 17 swore in a new 13 member illegitimate “emergency” cabinet with plans for future elections excluding Hamas. On June 16, the US said it would lift its ban on the Abbas government and did it formerly on June 18.

On July 1, Israel began releasing frozen Palestinian tax funds transferring $120 million in a first installment to Abbas in the West Bank. The amount is one-sixth what Palestinians say they’re owed (around $700 million) from tax revenues Israel illegally withheld beginning February 1, 2006 after Hamas’ election January 25. Hamas is denied all aid from Israeli and western sources in a continuing effort to keep its Gaza-led government isolated, economic sanctions on it in place, and its people kept in desperate need of help not forthcoming.

More on that below. In the meantime, Israeli prime minister Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisin said “Israel is committed to working with the new Palestinian government. We hope that together they (meaning the Abbas West Bank self-imposed government) will be able to build a strong administration which will give them a better capability to enter into full negotiations.”

She neglected to mention Abbas’ “emergency” government has no legitimacy, its US and Israeli funded and supported action was a brazen coup d’etat against a democratically elected government, and by “full negotiations” she means bowing to Israeli demands and abandoning the rights and needs of the Palestinian people.

Hamas called Israel’s disbursement to Abbas “financial bribery (and) political blackmail” meant to keep Gaza and the West Bank divided and Palestinians in a state of internal conflict saving Israel some of the bother of stirring it up itself. Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh says the Palestinians’ only recourse is “resistance. The Americans won’t give us anything. Israel won’t give us anything. Our land, our nation will not come back to us except with steadfastness and resistance” against what Israeli prime minister Olmert calls “cooperation (from Abbas in the West Bank that) will….enable us to make progress on the diplomatic track.” Of course, it’s to benefit Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people who aren’t likely to accept the fate its quisling president and Israel have in mind for them.

Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Deepens

Here’s how several concerned NGOs headline Gaza’s deepening crisis. It won’t improve as long as Israel, the US and West continue their war against the democratically elected Hamas government most Palestinians still strongly support.

Oxfam Great Britain is a member of Oxfam International, a development and relief organization working to alleviate poverty, human suffering and injustice worldwide, currently operating in over 30 countries. It highlights the crisis in Gaza in its June 19 article titled “Locked in Gaza” describing the “increasing desperation of Gazans as shortages of fuel, water and food are reported.” Israel keeps people there “locked in Gaza,” unable to move even for those desperately needing medical care in Israel for what’s unavailable at home.

It mentions two Palestinians were shot dead June 18 trying to cross the checkpoint separating Gaza from Israel, almost a daily occurrence in the Territories. It says water in Gaza is a major problem as there’s little electricity to pump it. Food is running out as well as all of it comes from outside Gaza city. Markets are empty, people have little or no money, borders are closed, the threat of starvation for many is real. Israel allows no international NGOs to operate in Gaza so the people aren’t being helped when their need is greatest.

On July 6, Oxfam issued an updated press release. Its assessment of conditions in Gaza was grim warning “thousands of refugees across Gaza will face imminent cuts in water and sewage services if more fuel is not provided in the coming days and weeks.” It said the Gaza Coastal Municipality Water Utility (CMWU) had to cut its water supply in half from eight to four hours a day because of fuel shortages affecting 65,000 people in the Strip’s largest camp. Fuel is also running out for sewage drainage pumps in the Saflawi neighborhood. Without it, “sewage (may spill) into the streets….in days, contaminating the remaining water supply….spreading life-threatening disease (in) the densely-populated camp.”

It continued saying other parts of Gaza face the same problem, affecting its entire 1.5 million population. Fuel may be exhausted in days at the hottest time of year when water demand is highest. In the face of this impending crisis, the Abbas government in the West Bank is doing nothing to alleviate it. Gaza is totally dependent on outside help unable to do its job because Israel closed border crossings and sealed off the entire Territory from the outside world.

A UN report is no more encouraging from an article on Media for Global Development June 15. It says the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees was forced to scale back its work while Gaza was in conflict. It “severely limited its ability to (bring in vitally needed) humanitarian supplies” to the 80% of Gazans dependent on them. It calls 40% of the population “food insecure” meaning they could starve without help. It explained even in the absence of street fighting there are critical shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and other essentials. Outside help is critically needed, but Gazans aren’t getting it because Israel closed the entry points between Egypt and the Strip stopping critically needed supplies from entering.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, raised its alarm as well June 17 with an article titled “Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: Open Gaza’s Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis.” It says hundreds of refugees are trapped between the sealed Erez crossing and Hamas inside Gaza, including the sick and injured from recent events in the Territory. It also cites critical food and medical supply shortages and urgently says: “The state of Israel cannot stand idly by at a time when the fundamental human rights of Gaza residents are being violated and the right to life is being threatened.”

It mentions eight Israeli human rights organizations warning of a crisis that will worsen as long as Israel “continues to close borders and isolate Gaza from the outside world by preventing the supply of essential goods, trapping residents inside the Gaza Strip, and preventing Gaza residents who traveled outside the Strip from returning home” including the chronically sick and injured.

With essential border crossings closed, supplies aren’t coming in. Fresh food, such as meat, fruit and dairy products are disappearing. The World Food Program warns of dangerous food shortages. B’Tselem calls Israel’s border closings and disconnect of Gaza’s electricity and water grid an act of collective punishment against all Gazans in violation of international law. The Israeli human rights organization calls on the state of Israel to end these actions.

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) is a Jerusalem-based NGO “dedicated to fostering democracy and good governance within Palestinian society.” It aims “to serve as a Palestinian platform for global dialogue and cooperation guided by the principles of democracy, human rights, gender equity, and participatory governance.”

That said, MIFTAH’s article June 23 headlined “Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza.” It warns of a major humanitarian disaster being inevitable unless Israel eases its border crossing restrictions and allows in vitally needed supplies. At present, only a two to four week supply of food remains. Essential food and other supplies “are waiting to enter Gaza” but have been denied entry by Israel since Hamas’ takeover in June. It mentions the German chapter of UNICEF reporting on the “deteriorating condition of Gaza’s children (from) lack of proper sanitation.” It heightens the risk of diseases and contagion from some of them with limited medications on hand. So far, Israel is adamant citing “security considerations” for keeping border crossings closed. By that it means it intends to keep punishing all Palestinians collectively for having elected Hamas its government.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) offers the most detailed and harrowing account of how desperate conditions now are in Gaza. It says how “gravely concerned” it is since Israel tightened its siege by closing all border crossings, including the Rafah International Crossing Point on the Egyptian border. It urgently calls on all states, UN agencies and all international humanitarian organizations “to immediately take steps to pressurize (Israel) to allow the normal flow of basic supplies, including foodstuffs and medical supplies, into the Gaza strip to avoid an imminent crisis that threatens” 1.5 million Gazans. Three-fourths of them live in poverty and nearly as many are unemployed and have no other source of help. Gaza is the most densely populated place on earth. It’s also the world’s largest (Israeli-imposed) open-air prison. It’s more locked down than ever with all border crossing points closed and sealed and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacking the Strip daily.

As long as Israel is unwilling to open them, food, medicines, fuel and other essential supplies can’t get in. Palestinians desperately needing medical care outside the Strip can’t travel to get it. Gaza hospitals and health centers can’t provide essential medical services. PCHR lists the site closures:

– the Rafah International Crossing Point on the Egyptian border through which Palestinians travel back and forth;

– the Karni commercial crossing gravely affecting food and other essential deliveries. Mentioned is the shortage of wheat with mills running out and having to shut down. Gaza needs 600 tons of wheat daily;

– the Sofa crossing through which raw materials enter halting most construction projects;

– the Kerem Shalom crossing through which food and medicines come;

– the Erez crossing affecting international and local organizations, patients and commercial traders; and

– the Nahal Oz crossing through which fuel transits.

PCHR calls on Israel to reconnect Gaza to the outside world and avoid a humanitarian disaster. It wants the “economic siege” on Gaza ended; human rights to be respected; and international law obeyed, including the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV - ratified and accepted by 194 countries as of June, 2006) relating to the rights and protections of civilians in times of war “in the hands” of an enemy and under occupation by a foreign power.

It further calls for increasing essential aid from international humanitarian organizations to relieve the deteriorating conditions in the Territory and human suffering. It asks that the rights of all Palestinians be respected and that all efforts be made to ensure them.

PCHR also publishes daily reports and a weekly summary of events on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). They always center on Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) “continue(d) systematic attacks on Palestinian civilians and property.” Its latest weekly summary runs through July 4 and cites the following violence in Gaza and Fatah-run West Bank from daily Israeli incursions in both areas.

In Gaza and the West Bank:

– 10 Palestinians, including 6 civilians, were killed by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 3 by extra-judicial assassination in Khan Yunis;

– 27 Palestinian civilians were wounded by IDF gunfire;

– IDF conducted 31 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 others in Gaza;

–IDF conducted a 2-day incursion into Nablus and neighboring refugee camps;

– IDF arrested 92 Palestinian civilians, including 19 children, in the West Bank;

– IDF continued imposing a total siege on the OPT;

– 12 Palestinians trapped on the Egyptian side of the Rafah International Crossing Point died for lack of attention to their medical needs;

– A Palestinian wounded in a car died as IDF obstructed his evacuation to a hospital; ambulances attending the sick and wounded are routinely attacked;

– IDF arrested 6 other Palestinians at various checkpoints; and

– In addition to a strict siege on Gaza discussed above, IDF tightened a similar one on Fatah’s controlled West Bank isolating Jerusalem from the rest of the Territory. Severe restrictions on movement are in place and additional checkpoints have been erected on main roads and at intersections. These events are part of daily life imposed on Palestinians by their Israeli occupiers making life for them intolerable and the reason they resist.

– After this report was released, IDF killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded 25 others on July 5 in what Israeli military officials dismissively called “a routine operation.” In response, Hamas officials accused Israel of provoking conflict while they’re trying to end it and maintain law and order.

The Palestinian people have endured unbearable hardships and suffering like this for nearly six decades, the result of cruel unremitting Israeli repression of them. Yet they endure, resist and continue working for what they want most - to live freely and securely in peace in their own unoccupied land ruled by governments they elect to serve them. It’s the dream of all oppressed people - to one day have the equity and social justice they deserve. By now, Israeli and western governments should know Palestinians won’t ever stop struggling for the rights no nation has the right to deny them. One day they’ll prevail because they won’t give up resisting until they do.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Steve Lendman News and Information Hour on TheMicroEffect.com Saturdays at noon US central time.

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Campbell: We all had doubts about Iraq except Tony

Monday, July 9th, 2007

By Andrew Grice

All of Tony Blair’s closest aides had “severe moments of doubt” about his decision to join the American invasion of Iraq, Alastair Campbell reveals in his diaries, published today.

Downing Street’s former director of communications suggests that Mr Blair was the only member of his inner circle who did not have private reservations about the decision to topple Saddam Hussein.

The Blair Years describes the scene in the former prime minister’s Commons room after he won the crucial vote on the eve of the war despite a rebellion by 139 Labour MPs. He wrote at the time: “All of us, I think, had had pretty severe moments of doubt but he hadn’t really, or if he had he had hidden them from us. Now there was no going back at all.”

The previous day, the Cabinet met without Robin Cook, who had resigned over the war. According to Mr Campbell, John Prescott, John Reid and one or two other cabinet ministers “looked physically sick”.

Clare Short, who did not resign for another two months, told colleagues: “I’m going to have my little agonising overnight.” Mr Campbell accuses her of “making a complete fool of herself”.

In a prophetic remark, Mr Reid told the Cabinet: “We will be judged by the Iraq that replaces Saddam’s Iraq, and by the Middle East.” Lord Irvine of Lairg, then Lord Chancellor, warned that the public would think America and Britain needed a further United Nations resolution before taking military action because the Government had made so much effort to get one. Mr Blair admitted that public opinion in Britain was less favourable towards intervention than in the United States.

The Campbell book sheds light on a dispute at the highest levels of the Bush administration over whether it should back Britain’s call for another UN resolution. Six months before the invasion, Karen Hughes, President George Bush’s communications adviser, said “not too convincingly” that the US President was always going to go down the UN route, Mr Campbell writes. But Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, “looked very sour” throughout talks at Camp David because he favoured immediate action. “After dinner, when TB and Bush walked alone to the chopper, Bush was open with him that Cheney was in a different position,” says Mr Campbell.

President Bush joked to Mr Campbell: “I suppose you can tell the story of how Tony flew in and pulled the crazed unilateralist back from the brink.” Mr Campbell insists the President is “far more impressive close up” and believes he “comes over better than people might expect” in his book.

Extracts from his diaries were released on Mr Campbell’s website ahead of the book’s publication today. The entries he made in nine years as Mr Blair’s closest aide run to more than two million words and he is issuing the first 700-page instalment in an attempt to shape Mr Blair’s legacy. He admits he has omitted details of Mr Blair’s “pretty tense” relationship with his successor Gordon Brown to avoid handing the Tories “a goldmine” to use against the new Prime Minister.

In a television interview yesterday, the former chief of communications at No 10 sought to play down the doubts about the Iraq war he had at the time, saying he believed Mr Blair did “the right thing” in what was “clearly the most difficult decision of his life” and “one that he is going to have to live with for the rest of his life”. But he admitted the aftermath of the invasion was not “as well planned as it should have been”.

Mr Campbell told the BBC’s Sunday AM programme that he felt partly responsible for the death of Dr David Kelly, the government scientist who committed suicide after being the source of a BBC story claiming that Downing Street “sexed up” a dossier about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.

He described it as “the worst period of my life” with the possible exception of family deaths and his own breakdown in the mid-Eighties. “It was like a collision course that perhaps we all should all have seen coming,” he said.

“I was a player in a series of events that somehow or other led to a man deciding he had to kill himself. I can defend every single thing that I did, and every single thing that I said. But we all of us have to accept that as that was happening there was stuff going on that frankly was leading people, leading that particular individual David Kelly, to feel despair.”

Mr Campbell admitted he was “raging” at the time, but only because of the seriousness of the allegation “of deliberately lying, falsifying intelligence, so that the prime minister could persuade Parliament and the country to go to war on a lie”. Mr Campbell admitted that he was an aggressive character who got “very, very angry” with the media and that he had regrets over the way he became the story.

* Three British soldiers died in Iraq in as many days over the weekend. Rifleman Edward Vakabua, 23, of 4th Battalion The Rifles, died in an accident at the Basra Palace base in the centre of the southern city on Friday.

L/Cpl Ryan Francis, 23, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, was killed when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Basra’s Hay al-Mudhara district early on Saturday. A third soldier, of the 3 Regiment Royal MP, died yesterday after suffering serious injuries in the same operation, the Ministry of Defence said.

The thoughts of Alastair Campbell

Bill Clinton [The then US President accuses Campbell of briefing against him as Blair presses him to deploy ground troops in Kosovo]

MAY 18, 1999: He [Clinton] said it may play well with the UK media and public but “there is a price to pay and you will pay it.”

May 19, 1999: TB said BC’s outburst was “real, red-hot anger”… it had to be understood he could not be briefed against like this.

Blair on Thatcher

AUGUST 30, 2000: TB said it was important I understood why parts of Thatcherism were right. TB said [to his advisers]: “What gives me real edge is that I’m not as Labour as you lot.” I pointed out that was a rather discomfiting observation. He said it was true.

Blair’s departure [Blair originally planned to serve only two terms as Prime Minister]

July 11, 2002: He [Blair] said: “In truth I’ve never really wanted to do more than two full terms.” The big question was … does it give him an authority of sorts, or does it erode that authority, and do people just move towards GB?

Princess Diana [Campbell meets the Princess]

May 4, 1995: “It would make a very funny picture if there were any paparazzi in those trees,” she said. TB was standing back and Cherie was looking impatient and I was just enjoying flirting with her.

[After the Princess is involved in a car crash in Paris]

August 30, 1997: He [Blair] was really shocked. I don’t think I’d ever heard him like this. He was full of pauses, then gabbling a little but equally clear what we had to do …

Northern Ireland [The first visit to Downing Street by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness]

December 11, 1997: TB said he would not be a persuader for a united Ireland. The principle of consent was central to the process. Adams said if TB could not be a persuader, he could be a facilitator.

Paddy Ashdown [Like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair planned to bring Paddy Ashdown, then leader of the Liberal Democrats, into his Cabinet]

April 26, 1997: He [Blair] stunned me straight out with the boldest plan yet. “How would people feel if I gave Paddy a place in the Cabinet and started merger talks.” He had the Clause 4 glint in his eye. He was making a cup of tea, and chuckling. “We could put the Tories out of business for a generation.”

9/11 attacks [Blair was due to address the TUC annual conference in Brighton when news of the attacks on the Twin Towers emerged]

September 11, 2001: I turned on the TV and said to TB he ought to watch it. We didn’t watch that long, but long enough for TB to reach the judgement about just how massive this was. TB was straight onto the diplomatic side, said that we had to help the US, that they could not go it all on their own, and that this would be tantamount to a military attack in their minds.

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Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out

Monday, July 9th, 2007

By Steve Watson

Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.

Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.

“After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress,” Boyle said in a radio interview with Austin-based talk-show host Alex Jones. “That would have set up a police state.

“Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
were holding it up because they realized what this would lead to. The
first draft of the PATRIOT Act would have suspended the writ of habeas
corpus [which protects citizens from unlawful imprisonment and
guarantees due process of law]. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
come these anthrax attacks.”

“At the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on, either
with respect to September 11 or the anthrax attacks, but then the New
York Times revealed the technology behind the letter to Senator
Daschle. [The anthrax used was] a trillion spores per gram, [refined
with] special electro-static treatment. This is superweapons-grade
anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly
proclaimed programs, had never developed before. So it was obvious to
me that this was from a U.S. government lab. There is nowhere else you
could have gotten that.”

Boyle’s assessment was based on his years of expertise regarding
America’s bioweapons programs. He was responsible for drafting the
Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was passed
unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President
George H.W. Bush.

After realizing that the anthrax attacks looked like a domestic job,
Boyle called a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism
and counterterrorism, Marion “Spike” Bowman. Boyle and Bowman had met
at a terrorism conference at the University of Michigan Law School.
Boyle told Bowman that the only people who would have the capability to
carry out the attacks were individuals working on U.S. government
anthrax programs with access to a high-level biosafety lab. Boyle gave
Bowman a full list of names of scientists, contractors and labs
conducting anthrax work for the U.S. government and military.

Bowman then informed Boyle that the FBI was working with Fort Detrick
on the matter. Boyle expressed his view that Fort Detrick could be the
main problem. As widely reported in 2002 publications, notably the New
Scientist, the anthrax strain used in the attacks was officially
assessed as “military grade.”

“Soon after I informed Bowman of this information, the FBI authorized
the destruction of the Ames cultural anthrax database,” the professor
said. The Ames strain turned out to be the same strain as the spores
used in the attacks.

The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames,
Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens, was blatant
destruction of evidence. It meant that there was no way of finding out
which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger breed of anthrax
used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence would have led
directly back to a secret government biowarfare program.

“Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of
justice, a federal crime,” said Boyle. “That collection should have
been preserved and protected as evidence. That’s the DNA, the
fingerprints right there. It later came out, of course, that this was
Ames strain anthrax that was behind the Daschle and Leahy letters.”

At that point, recounted Boyle, it became very clear to him that there
was a coverup underway. He later discovered, while reading David Ray
Griffin’s book on the 9/11 attacks, The New Pearl Harbor, that Bowman
was the same FBI agent who allegedly sabotaged the FISA warrant for
access to [convicted co-conspirator] Zacharias Moussaoui’s computer
prior to 9/11. Moussaoui’s computer contained information that could
have helped prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.

In 2003, Bowman was promoted and given the Presidential Rank Award by
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a
letter to Mueller, chastising the organization for granting such an
honor to an agent who had so obviously compromised America’s security.

During the anthrax scare, the House of Representatives was officially
shut down for the first time in the history of the republic. Once
opposition from Leahy and Daschle evaporated in the wake of the
attempts on their lives, the USA PATRIOT Act was rammed through.
Testimony by Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most
members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even
reading it.

“They were going to move to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which is
all that really separates us from a police state,” Boyle said. “And
that is what they have done now with respect to enemy combatants [in
the Military Commissions Act of 2006].” Boyle added that lawmakers are
now arguing that Amendment XIV, which guarantees due process of law to
all Americans, does not mean what it has been taken to mean and that,
under the Military Commissions Act, any U.S. citizen can be stripped of
citizenship and be labeled an enemy combatant.

Continued Boyle: “In other words, they have taken the position that at
some point in time, if they want to, they can unilaterally round up
United States native-born citizens, as they did for Japanese-Americans
in World War II, and stick us into concentration camps.” Boyle asserted
that top officials, such as White House legal advisor John Yoo and
former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith (now a professor at
Harvard Law School), are pushing for the legalization of torture as
well.

“The Nazis did the exact same thing,” said Boyle. “They had their
lawyers infiltrating law schools. Carl Schmidt was the worst, and he
was the mentor to Leo Strauss, the [ideological] founder of the
neoconservatives. So the same phenomenon that started in Nazi Germany
is happening here, and I exaggerate not. We could all be tortured; we
could all be treated this way.”

Boyle stressed that it is vital to keep up the pressure on Senator
Leahy, who now chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving him
subpoena power. Since Leahy was himself a target, he may have
sufficient motivation to get to the bottom of the attacks. The FBI and
the Justice Department have so far refused full disclosure to Congress.

In addition to his credentials as a government advisor, Boyle also
holds a doctorate of law magna cum laude and a Ph.D. in political
science, both from Harvard University. He teaches international law at
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Boyle also served on
the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-92) and
represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.

Boyle alleged that due to his activities as a lawyer, he was
interrogated by an agent from the CIA/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in
the summer of 2004. The agent tried to recruit him as an informant to
provide the FBI with information on his Arab and Muslim clients. When
he refused, according to Boyle, the FBI placed him on the government’s
terrorism watch lists.

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