Tuesday, May 12, 2009

9/11 is an ongoing inside Job of the Siamese twins, CIA/MOSSAD, DIA-OSP/AMAN/MI6



With a peer-reviewed scientific journal having published "loaded gun" (i.e. unreacted nano-thermite) evidence finally proving beyond doubt that World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7 were brought down in a series of controlled demolitions, here are a few more facts to consider.
It wasn't Muslims in an Afghan cave who had access to highly energetic nano-thermites; it was the US military and government scientists such as those connected with NIST.





It wasn't Muslims who ran a construction company that had supervised the 2000 demolition of the Seattle Kingdome, participated in the post 9/11 collection and disposal of the steel wreckage of the WTC towers, and carried out extensive renovations throughout the World Trade Center complex right up to the morning of 9/11 including fireproofing upgrades on the floors that were struck by planes and subsequently "failed", when the steel had already been certified to ASTM E119 by Universal Laboratories, and, in tests sponsored by NIST on corresponding floor assemblies subjected to greater heat exposure and protected with less fireproofing than was the case at the WTC, the test specimens "were able to sustain the maximum design load" without collapsing for as long as the tests were run (2 to 3 1/2 hours); it was Tom Leppert who was CEO of Turner Construction as of 9/11/01 and received a Torch of Conscience award from the American Jewish Congress.





It wasn't Muslims who were caught on 9/11/01 operating in teams with vans full of explosives, including one team who attempted to blow up the George Washington Bridge with a truck packed with tons of explosives, and another who blew up a van between 6th and 7th on King Street with a mural painted of a remote controlled airplane diving into New York and blowing up; it was Israelis, which is why the authorities did their best to ignore and bury these reports which included a suspected van bomb driven into the WTC basement and exploded to weaken the structure.



It wasn't Muslims who were caught shortly after midnight on May 7, 2002 very close to the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Oak Harbor, Wash., (where the Navy conducts explosive ordnance training for bomb disposal mobile units to the consternation of local marine life) with a rental truck that tested positive for TNT and RDX plastic explosives; it was Israelis whose cover story was of "delivering furniture" but regarded by authorities as dubious because of the early morning hour, and the authorities' subsequent claim that the dog's reaction and initial tests for explosives were wrong is so full of holes that it merely demonstrates the power of the Israeli lobby.





It wasn't Muslims who received advance warning of the London 7/7 attacks; it was Benjamin Netanyahu and the Mossad.



It wasn't Muslims who provided two hours' advance warning of an attack on the World Trade Center via an instant messaging company based in Herzliya; it was Israelis.



It wasn't a Muslim who fled the US on September 14, 2001; it was Dominick Suter of "Urban Moving Systems" who fled to Israel.



It wasn't over a hundred Muslims who, from around January 2000 to September 2001, posed as "art students" and attempted to penetrate US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) offices and other federal buildings including 36 sensitive Department of Defense (DoD) sites, were caught with diagrams of the interior of federal buildings and photographs of federal agents and often evaded security by entering through back doors or parking garages, and even visited the homes of senior federal officials but not those of their neighbors; it was Israelis, none of whom were "art students" but many of whom had backgrounds in Israeli military intelligence. Not surprisingly, the Press went for a limited hangout by trying to pretend the Israelis were merely shadowing "Arab hijackers" and either failed to pass on information, or "it was not treated seriously", the old canard about "intelligence failure". The operations of the Israeli fake "art students" is well documented, including plenty of names and even descriptions. An unusually large number of these Israelis were located in Irving, Dallas, TX (p.23, previous link), which is about ten miles west of Tom Leppert's Alva Court home, which is barely more than a mile north of the Dallas home that George W. Bush moved into after leaving office.



It isn't Muslim countries that have a massive spy ring in the USA capable of tapping into much of the telecoms network and using information obtained to blackmail Americans; it is Israel.



It wasn't Muslims who received advance warning on Monday September 10, 2001, against flying the next day; it was San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, and a group of top Pentagon officials.



It wasn't Muslims who acquired a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, Buildings Four and Five and approximately 400,000 square feet of retail space, and insured for billions of dollars against terror attacks a mere six weeks before terror attacks did in fact occur, and then employed (to press for the insurance claim) a 'structural engineer' who misleadingly asserts that steel loses half its strength at "400 degrees"; it was - in a deal negotiated by Lewis Eisenberg of the Port Authority - Benjamin Netanyahu's (and Ariel Sharon's and Ehud Barak's) friend Larry Silverstein and his partner Australian billionaire and "Holocaust survivor" Frank Lowy who fought "in the Jewish underground", was embroiled in a high-level bank corruption scandal with Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and found to be making payments to Lord (Michael Abraham) Levy who was arrested several times in relation to a "cash for honors" scandal, Levy being a "tennis partner" and advisor of Tony Blair.



It isn't Muslims who have a reputation for perpetrating arson scams in order to claim off insurance companies as evidenced by any colloquial use of the term "Muslim lightning"; it is Jews as evidenced by the recognized term "Jewish lightning".



It wasn't Muslims who normally breakfasted at the Windows on the World restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower, but by some bizarre coincidence did not happen to be there on 9/11 and were thus spared the fate of occupants on that tragic day (none of whom escaped from the floors above the aircraft impact at 8:46 AM); it was Larry Silverstein who was spared due to having a "dermatologist's appointment", an event which also spared his two children who worked at Silverstein Properties.



It wasn't a Muslim who went on TV within hours of the attacks to tell everyone that "It... certainly has the fingerprints of somebody like bin Laden" and the World Trade Center had collapsed because of "the velocity of the plane" and "intense heat probably weakened the structure as well", and who reportedly on that very day advised the White House to take Cipro, an effective antibiotic against anthrax, seven days before the commencement of an anthrax letters terror campaign targeted at Democratic U.S. Senators and news media offices, who on 9/11/01 was a managing director of the crisis and consequence management group at Kroll Associates, who was an advisor to the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) regarding "epidemiological surveillance" and national security advisor at the National Institute of Health (NIH), and who gave his 'friend' John O'Neill a job as Head Of Security at the World Trade Center; it was Jerome Hauer.



It wasn't Muslims who carried out a terror campaign mailing letters containing anthrax spores that had their electrostatic charge altered so that they would disperse more readily, anthrax that was traced to the weapons grade Ames strain originating at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, neither was it the FBI's final "suspect" Roman Catholic Bruce Ivins, who, unlike the true perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, had no motive to target news media and Opposition Senators and thereby scare them into uncritical acceptance of the "Arab hijackers" conspiracy theory. Ivins died of an overdose and alleged "suicide" in July 2008 after the FBI gave up attempting to pin the blame on Steven Hatfill because there was not a scintilla of evidence against him; a logical suspect is Philip M. Zack who left Fort Detrick under a cloud in December 1991 after having headed a clique calling itself the "Camel Club" that was racially harassing Egyptian-born Dr. Ayaad Assaad. Zack was found by a 1992 inquiry to have been caught on surveillance camera being let into a Fort Detrick lab building at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992 apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack. The inquiry also found someone had been in a lab late at night secretly conducting unauthorised research, evidently on anthrax believed to include the Ames strain. Nearly ten years on, during the week between 9/11 and the commencement of the anthrax campaign, the FBI received an anonymous letter attempting to frame Dr. Assaad as a "bioterrorist". The anthrax letters seemed contrived so as to appear to have been written by a Muslim, and a New York Times writer told of a "Mr. Z." who failed some FBI polygraph tests and was once caught with a girlfriend at Fort Detrick "surrounded only by blushing germs".
It wasn't a Muslim who was claimed to have been killed on the alleged American Airlines "Flight 77", to have lived at Silver Spring, Maryland (as did a certain Rabbi Dr. Dov Zakheim), and to have worked on top-secret "deep-black" projects at the Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC-IH), a "renowned leader in energetics" which operates an "Energetics Manufacturing Technology Center", carries out "advanced research in energetic systems" and "absorbed the function of the closed Naval Ordnance Laboratory, formerly in White Oak, MD" which is a couple miles from Silver Spring; it was William E. Caswell.



It wasn't Muslims who were claimed to have been killed on the alleged "Flight 77" and who worked for government or defense, particularly the Navy; it was John Yamnicky who, strangely, for the first time did not tell his daughter that he was going on travel, and who, like William Caswell, had worked for the Navy on top-secret "black" projects. Others included Charles Burlingame, a former Navy fighter pilot who used to work in the section of the Pentagon that was hit and who had formulated a response for the eventuality of an airliner being flown into the Pentagon and whose daughter Wendy subsequently died in a "suspicious fire" at a 50-story high-rise in New Jersey in December 2006, Wilson "Bud" Flagg, a retired American Airlines pilot and Navy Admiral, Stanley Hall, an expert in anti-radar technology and a director of program management at Raytheon, Bryan Jack, a senior executive and top budget analyst who worked at the Pentagon, Chandler Keller, a Boeing propulsion engineer, Dong Lee, a Boeing engineer who worked for their Integrated Defense Systems and who had worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) for 14 years, Barbara Olson, CNN commentator and wife of the US Solicitor General who claimed to have received cell phone calls from "Flight 77", Ruben Ornedo, a Boeing propulsion / satellite communications engineer, Robert Penniger, an electrical engineer with BAE Systems, and another dozen alleged "Flight 77 passengers" who were linked to defense and government who, we are told, all just happened to be on this unusually low occupancy flight. These people, well loved and respected as honest, decent heroes, are the very sort of characters whose work could have been horrifically exploited without their knowledge, and whom the 9/11 perpetrators would need to eliminate to prevent them speaking out after the attacks.



It wasn't Muslims who profited by speculating on airline and insurance stocks in advance of 9/11; it was Israelis.



It wasn't Muslims who concocted a hoax about pork-swilling, money-eschewing, celibate, truthful, courageous, pro-animal rights, "devout Jews" who were "suicide hijackers / pilots", almost half of whom later turned up alive and well; it was Jews who concocted a hoax about drinking, gambling, strip joint-frequenting, womanizing, "devout Muslims" who were "suicide hijackers / pilots", almost half of whom later turned up alive and well.





It wasn't a Muslim who was the mentor of Benjamin Netanyahu's father Benzion and who wrote a column in the Revisionist Zionist magazine Doar Hayom under the title "From the Notebook of a Fascist", praising Mussolini and referring to one-time commander of the Irgun Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky as "our Duce"; it was Abba Ahimeir the founder of Revisionist Maximalism, a Jewish fascist ideology.





It wasn't Muslims who orchestrated, and whose operatives were caught red-handed in, a failed false-flag terrorist campaign in Egypt; it was Israel.



It wasn't Muslims who attacked the USS Liberty killing 34 Americans, and had the US President saying "I don't give a damn if every man drowns and the ship sinks. I don't want to embarrass our allies"; it was Israel.



It wasn't Muslims who were evacuated "apparently due to a specific security threat" in advance of the Amman, Jordan terror attacks on November 9, 2005 (9/11 by Israeli and European calendars), which included a blast at the Radisson hotel that was known to have emanated from a bomb hidden in a false ceiling, even though the official story held that it was really the work of "suicide bombers" and therefore by some bizarre coincidence the ceiling bomb must have been placed there previously by someone else; it was Israelis who were evacuated in advance of these attacks in which there were no Jewish casualties, most of the dead were Jordanian Sunni Muslims, two Israeli casualties were both Arabs, and five Palestinians died including Major-General Bashir Nafeh, the head of military intelligence in the West Bank.



It wasn't Muslims who were caught and arrested inside the Mexican Congress chamber on October 10, 2001 in possession of guns, grenades, dynamite, detonators and wiring while posing as "press photographers"; it was Mossad agent Salvador Guersson Smecke and Israeli illegal immigrant Saur Ben Zvi at the very time that Zionists would obtain maximum benefit from a false-flag terror attack that would mobilize support for the war on "Muslim terrorists" in Afghanistan that had been launched only three days previously.



It wasn't Muslims who were convicted and jailed for six months in 2004 for fraudulently attempting to obtain a New Zealand passport in the name of a tetraplegic man; it was Mossad agents Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara who were seeking to create a false identity for Zev Barkan.



It wasn't Muslims who claimed to know the identity of "suicide hijackers" Abdulaziz al-Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi when, since individuals with the exact same names and other personal details such as birth date, place and occupation subsequently turned up alive and well, the population of Saudi Arabia in 1975 was 7,180,000 and even given a high annual birth rate of 30 per 1,000 and ignoring infant mortality the daily birth rate was only 590 and so it is highly improbable that individuals would share the exact same name, birth date, place and occupation, al-Omari's passport had been stolen in 1995 when his apartment was burgled in Denver, Colorado (a state where Mossad agents have been active), and only utter cretins would steal the identities of people with a different appearance but having their exact same name, place, date of birth and occupation, ergo those hypothetical "suicide hijackers" would have had entirely different names; it was the FBI who published a list claiming that the 9/11 perpetrators included Abdulaziz al-Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi in addition to several others who had turned up alive and well, and even though the FBI admitted that some hijackers may have used stolen identities and that there is "no legal proof to prove the identities of the suicidal hijackers," they denied having misidentified the alleged "suicide hijackers" and refused to change the names, photographs or backgrounds on their list - albeit obfuscating and trying to cover themselves by including multiple spellings and aliases.



It wasn't Muslims who were behind a failed coup in Turkey; it was crypto-Jew and Mossad agent pseudo-Rabbi Tuncay Guney, who fled to Canada in 2004, and who in 2001 lived in New Jersey towns that were centers of activity for Mossad Urban Moving Systems operatives.



It wasn't Muslims who set up an "al Qaeda cell" in Palestine; it was the Israeli Mossad.



It wasn't Muslims who had established a reputation for having the capability to stage false-flag terror attacks, i.e., to target U.S. forces and make it look like the act of a third party, prior to 9/11; it was the Mossad.



It wasn't a Muslim who infiltrated the Pentagon and betrayed his country of birth by selling classified documents to another country that were then traded to the USSR; it was convicted spy Jonathan Pollard whose treachery resulted in stolen nuclear secrets being passed on to the USSR with Israel as the paying intermediary.



It wasn't Muslims who were running an exercise commencing at 9:00 a.m. on the morning of 9/11 involving a plane crashing into a tower; it was officials at the National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, VA.



It wasn't a Muslim who, in response to the question "Do the orders still stand?" regarding the response - or more precisely, the lack of response - to an aircraft that was rapidly homing in on the Pentagon and ten miles out after both of the Twin Towers had already been hit by planes more than half an hour previously, whipped his neck around and replied "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"; it was Dick Cheney.



It wasn't a Muslim who was CEO of a company that made remote control "Flight Termination Systems" that could electronically hijack in-flight aircraft and steer them into targets by means of a "Command Transmitter System"; it was Rabbi Dov Zakheim.



It wasn't a Muslim who, well aware that a percentage of trillions of dollars is still hundreds of billions of dollars, took a position as Comptroller of the Pentagon in May 2001 when it was already public knowledge that the Pentagon's accounting systems were in complete disarray with $6.9 trillion of "adjustments" having been required in an attempt to make the figures add up, and with no receipts for $2.3 trillion of these hard to track changes on non-integrated computer systems and antiquated paperwork that could be readily taken out by a missile or plane strike on the relevant auditing section at the Pentagon, and who subsequently delivered a commemorative sermon on the Pentagon lawn to hundreds of co-religionists from 40 countries six months after such a terror strike did in fact occur killing at least 34 budget analysts / accountants / financial experts; it was Rabbi Dov Zakheim.



It wasn't a Muslim who was at a breakfast meeting with Donald Rumsfeld when the first plane hit the WTC, and was at the Army Navy Country Club "when the plane that hit the Pentagon came right over the top of the Army Navy Club and bounced down the hill and hit the side of the Pentagon"; it was Thomas E. White, who is linked to the Enron fraud, who participated in JINSA trips to Israel, e.g. with his wife Susan in 1997, and who was sworn in as Secretary of the Army on May 31, 2001 which is 27 days after George W Bush appointed Rabbi Dov Zakheim as Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon, both White and Zakheim having been placed by Bush at the Pentagon where more than $2 trillion of transactions had no receipts and Pentagon finances were vulnerable to a "terror attack" that would target the appropriate auditing section.



It wasn't Muslims who in 2000 co-authored a document which called for a "new Pearl Harbor"; it was Roger Barnett, Alvin Bernstein, Stephen Cambone, Eliot Cohen, Devon Gaffney Cross, Thomas Donnelly, David Epstein, David Fautua, Dan Goure, Donald Kagan, Fred Kagan, Robert Kagan, Robert Killebrew, William Kristol, Mark Lagon, James Lasswell, I. Lewis Libby, Robert Martinage, Phil Meilinger, Mackubin Owens, Steve Rosen, Gary Schmitt, Abram Shulsky, Michael Vickers, Barry Watts, Paul Wolfowitz, and Rabbi Dov Zakheim.



It wasn't Muslims who had a motive for employing a "Flight Termination System" to take control of EgyptAir Flight 990 - a Boeing 767 - on October 31, 1999 (after a bizarre coincidence in which "air crash victims grief counselor" Ed McLaughlin of the Family Enterprise Institute was the only person to board the ill-fated plane in Los Angeles and get off at New York), send it plunging into the Atlantic 60 miles south of Nantucket killing all 217 on board, none of whom were Israelis but 33 of the casualties were Egyptian army officers including two Air Force brigadier generals and two army major generals, and promote the concept of "Muslim suicide pilots" to a gullible public; it was Jews who would have needed to conduct a trial run of electronically hijacking in-flight Boeing aircraft for their imminent false-flag terror operation that was to be blamed on "Muslim suicide pilots / hijackers", with the EgyptAir Flight 990 "inquiry" being overseen by Zionist Jew Bernard Loeb who had Jewish translators transcribe the cockpit recordings, and the FBI conducting a character assassination to smear the alleged "suicidal" co-pilot.



It wasn't Muslims who wrote in 1998 of a "transforming event" rather like "Pearl Harbor"; it was John Deutsch, Ashton Carter and Philip Zelikow.





It wasn't Muslims who published a paper in 1996 entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, which mentioned "removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq" and introduced the concept of pre-emptive strikes for which some phony pretext such as halting drug money or striking counterfeiting infrastructure or "weapons of mass destruction" could be devised that Americans would sympathise with; it was The Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS) of Jerusalem and Washington which, for new Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, discussed how such a policy would benefit Israel.





It wasn't Muslim security officials who, in 1991, inspected the garage of a Muslim shipping company in the World Trade Center and concluded that the WTC garage was vulnerable to a car bomb, two years before the WTC garage was in fact hit by a car bomb and the FBI were aware of the plot yet let it go ahead killing six people and injuring more than a thousand, and ten years before the WTC was demolished one week after the very same shipping company had moved out of the WTC; it was Israeli security officials and an Israeli shipping company.



It wasn't Muslims who paid Ali al-Jarrah more than $300,000 for services rendered, i.e., posing as a "supporter" of the Palestinian cause while betraying his country to an enemy state, and who was a cousin of Ziad al-Jarrah who was alleged to be one of nineteen 9/11 "suicide hijackers"; it was Israel that paid this Mossad asset.



It wasn't Muslims who 1) broadcast the pilot episode on March 4, 2001 of The Lone Gunmen TV series, an episode about a plot by a secret cabal within the US government to electronically hijack by remote control a Boeing heading for Boston and divert it to crash into the World Trade Center 2) said in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that no one had ever conceived of aircraft being used by terrorists as missiles to target buildings; it was 1) Fox TV, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a long-time friend of Benjamin Netanyahu 2) National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice / acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers / President George W. Bush / Vice President Dick Cheney / White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.



It wasn't a Muslim who said he'd seen the (first) plane hit the (North) Tower and reckoned it must have been "one terrible pilot" and "a horrible accident" before going into a classroom and subsequently being informed of the second impact when the first impact was not broadcast live on TV; it was George W. Bush.



It wasn't Muslims who, on Tuesday, October 2 through Friday, October 5, 2001: 1) met with, and 2) received $3 million in gifts for "funds for victims" from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar who started the Al Jazeera channel in 1996 with a $150 million grant, the channel which broadcasts audios and videos purporting to be of "Osama bin Laden" aka Emmanuel Goldstein; it was: 1) George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (an "old friend") - Cheney also met the Emir on October 20, 2001 to discuss the "Osama" interviews, Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Myers 2) Rudy Giuliani, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Myers.



It wasn't Muslims who fabricated a fairy story about Pfc. Jessica Lynch being ambushed, stabbed, shot, bravely continuing to shoot Iraqis, being abused, raped, and held captive in a hospital by Iraqi guards, and later rescued by elite US forces; it was "unnamed US officials" who lied, since in fact there was no "rescue", Lynch's gun had jammed with sand, she was being cared for by the Iraqis after being injured in a car crash, she had no "bullet holes" or "knife wounds", the hospital was not "under guard", and doctors had even tried to return Lynch to US forces themselves.


It wasn't Muslims who conspired to invade a defenseless nation by lying about "weapons of mass destruction" ("WMDs") when they had already made up their minds to invade for "regime change", resulting in excess Iraqi deaths estimated at 655,000 to one million, the displacement of more than four million, the sacrifice of thousands of troops and throwing away of $3 trillion to no avail save for enriching a few war criminals and profiteers to the tune of billions of dollars in this proxy war for Israel; it was George W. Bush and Tony Blair.



It wasn't a Muslim who ordered aides to plan for striking Iraq barely five hours after the Pentagon was attacked on 9/11; it was Donald Rumsfeld.



It wasn't Muslims who ordered 250 police to smash their way into a house in Forest Gate, London, in the middle of the night and arrest two brothers after shooting one of them in the shoulder, on the basis of intelligence said to be from a "reliable", single source regarding a conspiracy involving a "cyanide bomb", with the brothers being released without charge several days later before it was subsequently revealed that the source was a man with an IQ of 69 who was already in jail on a terror conviction; it was Jewish supremacist lackeys MI5, Tony Blair and John Reid.





It isn't Muslims that have a powerful political lobby capable of extorting vast sums; it is Israel.
It wasn't a Muslim who boasted "We Muslims control America, and the Americans know it"; it was Ariel Sharon who boasted "We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it".



It isn't Muslims who fake phony "hate crimes" against themselves, such as vandalising their own cars or graves, or poisoning their dogs and defacing their houses with swastikas, or cutting their clothes and drawing swastikas on their stomachs; it is Jews.









It isn't a Muslim nation that holds the world record for defying UN resolutions; it is Israel.



It wasn't Muslims who ganged up on a handicapped Jew for hiking on his own land, beat him with clubs, dragged him along the ground, tied him to a power pole and continued to beat and kick him as Muslim soldiers did nothing to stop it and police merely advised the thugs to pour water on the victim's head to wash away the blood before journalists and photographers arrived; it was a gang of four cowardly, bigoted Jewish settlers who beat up a handicapped Palestinian with impunity, basking in the knowledge that Jewish soldiers and police would not act impartially, and even returning a week later to torment the neighbors, ransacking their home and destroying their few possessions.



It wasn't Muslim soldiers who beat up and killed a Jew with clubs and rifle butts and kicks to the head and then, after an 'investigation', concluded that the soldiers had "acted properly"; it was the Israeli "Defense" Forces who smashed three holes in a Palestinian teenager's skull killing him as he merely waited at a bus stop, continuing to beat him as he lay unconscious, then made up a story about him "pulling a knife" and suggested that he was "mentally unstable" in a case that is sadly all too typical of violence perpetrated by racist, bigoted right-wing extremist Jewish supremacists upon those whom they perceive as "animals in human form".



It wasn't Muslims who created a global organization named the "Anti Defamation League" in order to defend Muslim criminals by playing the race card and accusing their pursuers of being "racists" and "anti-Semites" who were guilty of "hate crimes"; it was Jews who set up the Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in response to the lynching of Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta chapter of the B'nai B'rith Jewish secret society who had been convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan who worked at Frank's pencil factory, with the lynching of Frank being in response to the commuting of his death sentence to life imprisonment after organized Jewry had tried to cast doubt on Frank's conviction by shifting the blame to a black man even though ritual murder is a known Jewish tradition, the ADL being used thereafter to denounce anti-criminals as "anti-Semites" whenever the criminals happened to be Jews.



It isn't Muslims who, for political and financial gain, demolished the World Trade Center with nano-thermite and crashed remote-controlled planes into it in order to set up a hoax about "Jewish kamikaze pilots" and then attempt to throw researchers off the scent by pretending to "investigate" the demolitions whilst 'accidentally' plumping for the wrong hypothesis (e.g. H-bombs rather than thermite), and then stubbornly refuse to change to a hypothesis that is in accordance with the evidence; it is Jews who set up a hoax about "Muslim kamikaze pilots" and have their deliberately misleading 'work' about the demolitions hosted at sites that are owned and edited by Jews.



It wasn't Muslims who practised pseudo-science by refusing to look for Iron Blue at Auschwitz or explosives at the World Trade Center, in order that their 'investigation' would come up with the required financially and politically motivated result; it was Jan Markiewicz, Wojciech Gubala, and Jerzy Labedz of the Jan Sehn Institute at Krakow (Auschwitz fraud), and "scientists" and "engineers" at NIST (WTC fraud).



It wasn't Muslims who took over the "investigation" of the World Trade Center collapses when FEMA were making a hash of the cover up, mixed up Figures 11-51 and 11-52 in NCSTAR1-9Vol2 on their WTC7 report which was published two days after the mysterious death of eyewitness Barry Jennings whose testimony of explosions in WTC7 before either Tower had collapsed - note he specifically says (4:43) "I was trapped in there when both buildings came down" - blew their politically motivated assumptions and conclusions apart, failed to spot their mistake in their accompanying description, assumed unrealistically high gas temperatures in order to derive their required unrealistically high steel temperatures, published a preposterous hypothesis of a "thermal-expansion"-based collapse with the logical conclusion that the 180 kip shear capacity of four bolts in a seated connection would be exceeded if the steel heated up from 20 C to 32 C making the force to completely resist the thermal expansion 191 kip, irrespective of the fact that no steel-framed high-rises had ever collapsed due to "fires" or "impacts" apart from the three that allegedly did so on 9/11, claimed inward bowing of the WTC1 perimeter columns between floors 94 to 100 peaking at 55 inches at column 316 on the 96th floor which could not be reconciled with the fact that the columns' moment of inertia or second moment of area was at least 342 ins^4 along the minor axis and a maximum deflection of 55 inches given fixed - fixed boundary conditions and a distributed load would have required the failure within 102 minutes of at least ten consecutive floors, many of which did not have any fireproofing 'dislodged' by a plane and did not even experience substantial fires; it was NIST, whose top scientists and engineers have extensive knowledge of nano-thermites, but said they had found "no evidence" of explosives at the WTC and later admitted that they had not bothered to look for any. The 9/11 perpetrators had to ensure those in charge of the "investigation" were aware of that which they must not find.



It wasn't a Muslim who announced on Sunday September 16, 2001 that a "hijacker's passport" (allegedly that of Satam al Suqami) had been found "several blocks from the ruins of the World Trade Center", with other reports asserting that the passport was found "in the vicinity of Vesey Street"; it was former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik who was indicted November 2007 on multiple counts including lying, fraud and conspiracy, which is consistent with the fact that the laws of aerodynamics dictate that the passport should have been found in the vicinity of Liberty Street, the scriptwriter forgot that Suqami was supposed to be on Flight AA11 approaching from the north, and, of several attempts made by the authorities to guess where the passport should have been found, not one of them was correct!



It wasn't Muslims who had JFK killed; it was Jews.



It wasn't Muslims who stole elections by exploiting electronic voting machines that biased the results such that the odds for several swing states to swing as much as they did from the exit polls was 250 million to one against; it was George W. Bush.



It isn't Muslims who exhibit traits of supremacist megalomaniacs by referring to their enemies as "grasshoppers", "beasts", "crocodiles" and "cockroaches"; it is Jews.



It wasn't a Muslim who set up a Ponzi scheme that netted $50 billion; it was a Jew.



It wasn't Muslims who made a record about doing "The Wall Street Shuffle" and whose other songs included scatological references; it was Jews.



It isn't Muslims who rule the world by proxy and get others to fight and die for them in wars; it is Jews, whose modus operandi is to select rich host populations that will let them in, pose as their "ally" whilst draining them of hard-earned wealth, employ deception to trick the hosts into fighting poorer nations, and reap the spoils of war such as Afghan opium trafficking, missing Pentagon funds, looting of oil-for-food funds, etc, along with other opportunistic scams such as the $550 billion electronic run on the banks. Note: some reports incorrectly state Thursday September "15", 2008 for the latter; it should of course be September 11, the Thursday prior to September 15.



It isn't Muslims who have been expelled from countries on numerous occasions, it is Jews who keep getting kicked out as soon as the host gets wise to the fact that Jews' only loyalty is to their own tribe, rather than the host nation to whom Jews pose as an "ally".



It wasn't Muslims who started a World War in 1914 in the hope that they could successfully launch a hoax about "six million" of their number being killed in order to obtain their own country and net a substantial fraction of global wealth in "reparations", failed, but also exploited the opportunity to annex and loot Russia and indulge in horrific blood-letting and oppression as a means of settling old scores with the Rus who had chased them westwards from former Khazaria; it was Khazar (fake) 'Jews'.



It wasn't Muslims who blew up Francois Duprat's car killing him and maiming his wife, beat up Dr. Robert Faurisson at least ten times in which his jaw was broken / teeth knocked out / nearly killed several times / hospitalized for weeks and was persecuted in legal battles and had his home raided by police, tried to kill Ernst Zundel on at least three occasions in arson and pipe bomb attacks and had him and Germar Rudolf deported to Germany and jailed for years, beat Jurgen Rieger unconscious and blew up his car, beat up David Cole and threatened to kill him and his family, persecuted and beat Joseph Burg, attacked Frank Walus seven times and nearly killed him in an acid attack, forced Ivan Lagace to resign from his job as a crematory expert after endless threats from thugs claiming to be from the Jewish Defense League, perpetrated numerous terrorist attacks in France including sulfuric acid sprayed into faces / attacks with iron bars / baseball bats / gas sprayed / excrement strewn around, had historian David Irving spend 400 days in jail before being released on Appeal from a three year sentence which was for two speeches and a newspaper interview he gave 16 years earlier, had Dr. Frederick Toben jailed in Germany for ten months for using his Australian website to express his views, and who had dozens more jailed, fined, and financially ruined by character assassination and legal battles; it was Jews attempting to prop up their idiosyncratic brand of "truth" which profited them handsomely for decades.



It wasn't Muslims who fabricated a hoax about "six million" of their people being "murdered" involving an evidence-free conspiracy theory about a plot to exterminate them in "gas chambers" which netted them - by way of a huge, illegitimate land grab - their own sovereign state, colossal profits in "reparations", hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign "aid" and "loan guarantees" and waiving / subsidizing of interest payments, etc, and now serves as their "sword and shield" to practice apartheid and kill and oppress their enemies with impunity; it was Jews.



It wasn't Muslims who were caught red-handed forging fake "smoke" onto wartime photographs of Auschwitz; it was the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose suitability as guardians of truth is comparable to a choice of Count Dracula as a maintainer of blood banks.



It isn't Muslim mathematics that holds that the sum of a set of variables a + b + c + d + e... remains constant, e.g. at "six million", when several variables fluctuate downwards by, say, nearly three million and about half of that, in the absence of any corresponding upwards revision; it is financially and politically motivated Jewish "mathematics".



It isn't Muslim physics and chemistry that holds that corpses may be rapidly and economically cremated with between a pound and a kilogram of coke per body when the firebricks of the cremation ovens are not even replaced after some 20,000 cremations (which is rather like expecting a Trabant to be capable of doing 100,000 miles non-stop at 100 mph on 100 gallons of gasoline and a couple of cans of motor oil); it is politically and financially motivated Jewish "physics" and Jewish "chemistry".



It wasn't Muslims - or even the "Russian police" - who behave as if they authored The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; it is International Jewry, and if it hisses like a snake and rattles like a rattlesnake, it isn't exactly benign.



It is not the "international Muslim" who has much to answer for; it is the international Jew.



The mainstream media’s conspicuous silence over the collapse of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory has clearly exposed them as "the dogs that didn’t bark".


This was inspired by an excellent piece from back in November 2003: It Wasn't Arabs by Edgar J. Steele
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/arabs.htm

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Who Destroyed The WTC?




Who Destroyed The WTC?

Lewis Eisenberg, vice president of AIPAC and former Goldman Sachs partner, was Chairman of the Port Authority ("PA"), the Lessor. Larry Silverstein, New York developer and friend of Netanyahu (every Sunday Netanyahu would call Silverstein) led the Silverstein Group, the Lessee. (Italics added.)

In April 2001 Silverstein was informed he had lost his bid in the privatization of the World Trade Center ("WTC"). Then events took a surprising turn. The winner dropped out, leaving Silverstein and his partners, who had finished second, as the new winner.

The lease was purchased by the Silverstein Group for $3.2 billion on July 24, 2001. Silverstein put up $125 million, only $14 million his own money. The net lease covers four buildings at the World Trade Center, including the Twin Towers and the retail Mall. It may have been one of the most elaborate deals in the leasing history of New York City. More


A Slip From the horse's mouth:
Liars have bad memories: The Jewish owner of the World Trade Center buildings tells us himself on camera that he authorized the demolition of WTC7.

Jew Larry Silverstein owner of the World trade Center says:
'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull (Demolish) and we watched the building collapse."




Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Zionist/American Big Brother's fictitious enemy gets a new name: "Indefinitely Detained And Tortured Arabs"



Zionist/American Big Brother's fictitious enemy gets a new name: "Indefinitely Detained And Tortured Arabs..." together with the ASSADs Mafia, Assef Shawkat and the infamous White House Murder INC,...and the CIA2's rendition Airlines to Damascus....and the Crown Jewel assassination of IMAD F. MOUGHNIEH in Damascus by Asef Shawkat, Feb. 12th 2008....working on behalf of the Siamese twins; CIA2/MOSSAD.

Is it 1984 yet?

Room 101

For his dystopia, 1984, his classic novel of totalitarianism, George
Orwell created "Room 101," an interrogation room where a prisoner's
deepest fears were to be realized and applied. Tier 1 in Iraq's Abu
Ghraib prison, as the now-infamous photos indicate, was the Bush
administration's Room 101 for the "Arab mind," and so the crown jewel
of its global interrogation facilities; just as Guantanamo was the
"crown jewel" of the prison camps in its global Bermuda Triangle of
injustice; just as the new appointed "interim government" hidden
within the ever-more fortified Green Zone in Baghdad and led by a
prime minister and former CIA asset whose exile organization, we
learned this week, once set off car bombs in downtown Baghdad, is now
the crown jewel of "freedom and democracy" in the Middle East. This is
our "war against terrorism." Talk about an Orwellian world.

Obama's orders leave framework of torture, indefinite detention intact
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/guan-j23.shtml
By Tom Eley

George Orwell... meet Franz Kafka
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1494/george_orwell_meet_franz_kafka

Quotes of the week:

"Congress lacks authority . to set the terms and conditions under
which the president may exercise his authority as commander in chief
to control the conduct of operations during a war.Congress may no more
regulate the president's ability to detain and interrogate enemy
combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements
on the battlefield. Accordingly, we would construe [the law] to avoid
this difficulty and conclude that it does not apply to the president's
detention and interrogation of enemy combatants." (From a 56-page
memo, "Detainee Interrogation in the Global War on Terrorism" written
by a legal team for the Secretary of Defense on the eve of the Iraq
War.)

"Congress shall have the power . to declare war and make rules
concerning captures on land and water . to define offenses against the
law of nations [and] to make rules for the government and regulation
of the land and naval forces." (From the Constitution, David G. Savage
and Richard B. Schmitt, Lawyers Ascribed Broad Power to Bush on
Torture, the Los Angeles Times)

"We need to have a less-cramped view of what torture is and is not."
(A military official explaining the approach of the team writing the
above memo, Jess Bravin, Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of
Torture, The Wall Street Journal)

"It's a very cowboy kind of affair." (Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, who
controlled the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Abu Ghraib
prison, speaking of the actions of the CIA unit there, R. Jeffrey
Smith, Soldier Described White House Interest, the Washington Post)

Room 101

For his dystopia, 1984, his classic novel of totalitarianism, George
Orwell created "Room 101," an interrogation room where a prisoner's
deepest fears were to be realized and applied. Tier 1 in Iraq's Abu
Ghraib prison, as the now-infamous photos indicate, was the Bush
administration's Room 101 for the "Arab mind," and so the crown jewel
of its global interrogation facilities; just as Guantanamo was the
"crown jewel" of the prison camps in its global Bermuda Triangle of
injustice; just as the new appointed "interim government" hidden
within the ever-more fortified Green Zone in Baghdad and led by a
prime minister and former CIA asset whose exile organization, we
learned this week, once set off car bombs in downtown Baghdad, is now
the crown jewel of "freedom and democracy" in the Middle East. This is
our "war against terrorism." Talk about an Orwellian world.

As it happens, from the heart of Abu Ghraib's interrogation rooms and
the acts of, as our President and other administration officials have
repeatedly said, "a few people" or even "a few hillbillies," the
nature of, extent of, knowledge about, and responsibility for such
acts has been rapidly spreading outwards across the imperium, upwards
into the highest reaches of our government, and backwards in time. We
now know, for instance, that, to the various acts of horror caught on
camera in Abu Graib, we must add murder (or rather numerous murders)
in Afghanistan as well as Iraq, and the use of electric shocks on
prisoners, as the Marine Corps Times reported recently.

As for the acts we saw in the photographs, they too have "spread" and
knowledge of them reaches ever higher: To take but two examples,
Nakedness is now reported to have been used as a tool of humiliation
not just in Iraq but in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo, as it was used
in one of the earliest acts of American inhumanity in the war against
terrorism, the interrogation of John Walker Lindh in Afghanistan back
in 2001; while the "technique" of menacing prisoners with dogs -- "an
apparent violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Army's field
manual" -- has now been well documented at Abu Ghraib by the
Washington Post ("On Jan. 13, Spec. John Harold Ketzer, a military
intelligence interrogator, saw a dog team corner two male prisoners
against a wall, one prisoner hiding behind the other and screaming, he
later told investigators. 'When I asked what was going on in the cell,
the handler stated that he was just scaring them, and that he and
another of the handlers was having a contest to see how many detainees
they could get to urinate on themselves.'"); but it was also evidently
employed at Guantanamo, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In the meantime, responsibility for such actions has moved inexorably
upwards. We know now that interest in information gleaned from
interrogations, ranging from that of John Walker Lindh to those in
Iraq was requested at the highest official levels (not so surprising,
since our offshore mini-gulag was a pet project of top officials in
this administration): "The head of the interrogation center at the Abu
Ghraib prison in Iraq told an Army investigator in February that he
understood some of the information being collected from prisoners
there had been requested by 'White House staff,' according to an
account of his statement obtained by The Washington Post." Far more
specifically, R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White of the Post reported
this Saturday that, despite his denials to Congress, in the fall of
2003, "Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer
in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation
tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use military dogs,
temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation,
and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished,
according to newly obtained documents."

In turn, thanks to Jess Bravin and Greg Jaffe of the Wall Street
Journal, we now know that in December 2002 Donald Rumsfeld approved a
very similar list of "interrogation techniques" right down to those
dogs for Guantanamo: "U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, could put prisoners in 'stress positions' for as long as four
hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations,
'fear of dogs' and 'mild non-injurious physical contact,' according to
[a] list of techniques Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved in
December 2002." (The list was later rejiggered not because of any
qualms Rumsfeld had but due to complaints from military officers about
the severity of the methods suggested. The present list of approved
techniques remains classified, but will undoubtedly soon be leaked to
the press.)

The above can be traced back farther yet. According to "documents,
read to The [Los Angeles] Times by two sources critical of how the
government handled the Lindh case," writes journalist Richard Serrano,
"After American Taliban recruit John Walker Lindh was captured in
Afghanistan, the office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
instructed military intelligence officers to 'take the gloves off' in
interrogating him. In the early stages, his responses were cabled to
Washington hourly, the new documents show. What happened to Lindh, who
was stripped and humiliated by his captors, foreshadowed the type of
abuse documented in photographs of American soldiers tormenting Iraqi
prisoners at Abu Ghraib."

This, of course, takes us not only to the top of the administration,
but back to the brink of the -- if I dare put it this way -- Ur-moment
in the setting up of what would become our offshore mini-gulag, those
months right after the 9/11 attacks when the Bush administration began
to set their system in place on the fly and, as Suzanne Goldenberg of
the British Guardian reported recently, on key issues without
initially even consulting White House or Pentagon lawyers.


"In one instance, President George Bush's military order of November
13 2001, which denies prisoner-of-war status to captives from
Afghanistan and allows their detention without charge or access to a
lawyer at Guantánamo, was issued without any consultations with
Pentagon lawyers, a former Pentagon official said. The military order
issued by Mr Bush in November 2001 was the first such directive since
the second world war, and the administration's failure to seek the
Pentagon's advice on what would emerge as the entire system of
detention at Guantánamo surprised Pentagon officials."

Add it all up -- only what's been revealed so far -- and you have a
global system of injustice and torture, purposely mounted in the moral
and legal darkness, beyond the reach or oversight of anyone but the
President, vice-president, secretary of defense and associated
officials, meant to extract information (and take revenge), meant as
in Kafka's fictional penal colony to write the sentence these men had
passed on the bodies of America's captives.

And talk about paper trails! If you need any evidence of the
combination of arrogance, incompetence, and plain stupidity of the
Bush administration, it now sits unavoidably before our eyes. Didn't
they know anything about deniability? Didn't they know that you can
get so much done without committing anything to paper? Didn't they
know that you can signal what you want from the top without issuing
orders, making direct demands, or demanding supporting opinions on
paper?

Note two things here: That almost all of the above, this whole little
global shop of horrors, is already documented -- quite literally in
papers pouring out of the bowels of this administration. These
documents are leaking daily from an administration that seems to have
split open along many angry rift lines. The British Telegraph this
week, writing of the leaking of a legal document on torture to the
Wall Street Journal commented, for example:


"The leak appears to be part of an extraordinary civil war in the
Pentagon between civilian officials and uniformed officers appalled by
what they have described as moves by political appointees to shroud
the war on terrorism in an 'environment of legal ambiguity'."

Some in the military, the intelligence community, the State
Department, administration legal offices, and possibly even the
Justice Department opposed the creation of our mini-gulag and the
kinds of interrogations and conditions planned for it; some simply
feared what the illegality might do to them or their careers,
including evidently Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers
who fretted that he might become "a target for prosecution under laws
governing prisoner treatment"; some are undoubtedly settling scores;
others protecting tattered reputations; but it's now close to open
season on the administration from within.

Only today, the Los Angeles Times reported that, in a nearly
unprecedented act in our country, 26 ex-military and senior diplomatic
officials, "several appointed to key positions by Republican
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plan to issue a joint
statement this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged
America's national security and should be defeated in November." And
retired officials almost invariably are speaking for larger
constituencies within the government -- all those potential leakers
and mutterers -- who fear speaking out publicly themselves.

Addressing an Asian security conference on the administration's "war
on terror," Donald Rumsfeld recently commented : "[T]he reality is
that today we remain closer to the beginning of this struggle than to
its end." The same might be said of the uncovering of responsibility
for our own global terror system. There will be so much more to learn.
Already, when it comes to Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the
Pentagon keeps heaping investigations on top of one another, each
subsequent one led by a figure with a higher rank and so more capable
of investigating responsibility at higher levels, and I think it can
be said with certainty that this will only get worse -- worse probably
than anything we now imagine. After all, to take but the smallest of
examples, CBS news reports that "of the 20 U.S.-run jails in
[Afghanistan], the Red Cross has only been allowed to visit one in
Kabul. Now one in Kandahar is being opened." Imagine what's been
happening at those other 18.

A world of tortured definitions

Here's what's clear. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the "tough guys"
of Bush's world promptly battened down the hatches and began preparing
for the war, and warfare state, of their dreams. Using the analogy of
the almost four-decade-long Cold War, which was their lifetime
experience (and with movie images of World War II dancing in their
heads), they announced that we were in a global war not against any
state (though they were already itching to hit Saddam's Iraq), but
against "terrorism" itself, an amorphous force -- actually, of course,
a tactic employed by scattered bands of Islamic fanatics (some
initially funded by men in this administration back when we were
fighting the Soviets by proxy in Afghanistan). This new "war," they
announced with a certain élan and self-satisfaction would, like the
previous cold one, last decades if not a lifetime. With Americans in
shock and fearful, they then began planning a no-holds-barred,
bring-'em-on style of warfare filled with acts of pitiless, unilateral
vengeance to be launched by the most powerful state on the planet in
the way of which nothing should get.

This was a war to be fought, to use a common Cold War catchphrase, "in
the shadows," and the shadows would soon enough include a global
imprisonment system that stretched from holding cells on aircraft
carriers to facilities in Afghanistan to Saddam's old prisons to
Guantanamo to military brigs in the United States and unnamed jails in
"friendly" foreign countries. In those shadows, beyond the eyes of
anyone, they had every intention of employing the sort of tactics that
they imagined would break the back of terrorism. These acts of
"information extraction" would be torture -- terror, that is -- by
another name or no name at all.

Looking back, it's curious how much of this was a war of words, a
redefinitional journey involving linguistic and legalistic contortions
of the most remarkable sorts. The first of these contorted definitions
was of "war" itself. We did not actually declare war. After all, who
was war to be declared against? We were simply defined as being "at
war." And from this, a series of other definitions followed. Perhaps
the most important had to do with the people captured in this "war."

It might seem apparent that, having declared yourself at war, the
people you thereafter captured might indeed be prisoners of war. But
this presented a problem since the rights of POWs were so clearly
defined internationally in treaties signed by the U.S. government. So
the administration simply redefined those captured in this redefined
war as "unlawful combatants" or "illegal combatants." This and other
terms used for them came out of a new Devil's dictionary; for once we
had defined them thusly, they could then enter our offshore world of
imprisonment -- at least in the minds of Bush administration officials
- as the sorts of captives to whom a whole new series of definitions
could be applied.

The third definitional problem was where to hold these prisoners, so
that the holding itself (without charge or trial, potentially to
eternity) could not be challenged either by the prisoners themselves
through any legal representation or through the courts of our own
country. The administration needed a place where it could publicly
practice its new definitional privacy - and that turned out to be our
military base at Guantanamo, which was redefined for the purposes of
the moment as under "Cuban sovereignty," though this was obviously a
brazen fiction. But even this wasn't satisfactory for them.
Guantanamo, off-limits as it was, still turned out to be far too
"public" for what they planned to do to their "highest value" captives
and so, for them, they developed a special, CIA-run system of
imprisonment that stepped beyond definition itself. As Human Rights
Watch puts it in an invaluable recent report on our global torture
system:


"Among the most disturbing cases, perhaps unprecedented in U.S.
history, are the detainees who have simply been 'disappeared.' Perhaps
out of concern that Guantánamo will eventually be monitored by the
U.S. courts, certainly to ensure even greater secrecy, the Bush
administration does not appear to hold its most sensitive and
high-profile detainees there. Terrorism suspects like Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, accused architect of the September 11 attacks, and Abu
Zubaydah, a close aide of Osama bin Laden, are detained by the United
States instead in 'undisclosed locations,' presumably outside the
United States, with no access to the ICRC, no notification to
families, no oversight of any sort of their treatment, and in most
cases no acknowledgement that they are even being held. Human Rights
Watch has pieced together information on 13 such detainees,
apprehended in places such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Morocco,
and the United Arab Emirates, who have 'disappeared' in U.S. custody."

At the same time, the administration was attempting to redefine
presidential power in such a way that the once normal Congressional
and court checks and balances of an American republic no longer
applied. In his power as commander-in-chief (again note that all other
redefinitions were based on the redefinition of "war"), the President
was, in various legal briefs meant for the highest officials in this
administration, pronounced to be beyond any control by Congress or the
courts in his acts. (See the initial quote above.)

Finally, having redefined the nature of war, the powers of the
president, the nature of captivity, and the places of imprisonment, it
was the most natural thing in the world to redefine "information
extraction" within such a system so that neither international
treaties like the Geneva Conventions, nor congressionally passed laws,
nor the Constitution itself was applicable to them. In this sense,
from the earliest days after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration
was focused on, above all else, setting up a global torture system by
another name.

Much of this has recently become clearer as a series of internal
documents produced by White House, Pentagon, and Justice Department
lawyers have leaked out in recent weeks. To offer a Vietnam analogy,
you might say that in the Vietnam era, The Pentagon Papers, that
revelatory secret study ordered up by Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara and slipped to the New York Times by one brave whistleblower,
Daniel Ellsberg, were the private, confessional equivalent of liberal
guilt over the war; in the Bush era, these unbelievable lawyers'
memos, some also ordered up in the privacy of the administration by
the present Secretary of Defense, are the neocon equivalent of a
(legalistic) guilty conscience. They are, in some perverse fashion,
deeply confessional documents, and in the future, they will read that
way.

There were two parallel struggles here: One was to establish the war
they wanted to fight and this they largely did before they turned to
the lawyers; the other was to clear the decks legally for it. This
week - even while Ronald Reagan ruled -- Jess Bravin of the Wall
Street Journal produced a hard-hitting piece based on one of these
leaked documents that began a process not likely to go away soon. He
led off:


"Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president
wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents
who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn't be prosecuted by
the Justice Department. The advice was part of a classified report on
interrogation methods prepared for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
after commanders at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, complained in late 2002 that
with conventional methods they weren't getting enough information from
prisoners. at its core is an exceptional argument that because nothing
is more important than 'obtaining intelligence vital to the protection
of untold thousands of American citizens,' normal strictures on
torture might not apply. The president, despite domestic and
international laws constraining the use of torture, has the authority
as commander in chief to approve almost any physical or psychological
actions during interrogation, up to and including torture, the report
argued."

As Bravin reported:


"The report was compiled by a working group appointed by the Defense
Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes II. Air Force General
Counsel Mary Walker headed the group, which comprised top civilian and
uniformed lawyers from each military branch and consulted with the
Justice Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense
Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies. It isn't known if
President Bush has ever seen the report. A military lawyer who helped
prepare the report said that political appointees heading the working
group sought to assign to the president virtually unlimited authority
on matters of torture -- to assert 'presidential power at its absolute
apex.'"

Though the report has now been much quoted, it should be read in full.
Its flavor can hardly be grasped in tidbits. It may, in fact, be one
of the most tortured "legal" pieces ever written -- certainly ever
written in a democracy -- on the subject of redefining acts of
inhumanity and torture as something other than acts of inhumanity and
torture. (If your computer can handle pdf files, you can click here to
find it.) In it, Orwell's "doublethink" meets the lawyers and judges
of Kafka's The Trial head on, revealing a dark landscape of legalistic
legerdemain.

The report had two main purposes, as best I understand it -- to place
presidential power (in the form of the powers of the
commander-in-chief to prosecute war) outside any legal boundaries
whatsoever, thus removing from George Bush and his subordinates of any
responsibility for acts he may have ordered committed; and to redefine
torture so narrowly that it becomes the definitional property of the
torturer.

It's worth spending a little time with some of this document just to
get a feel for it. The lawyer-authors, for instance, expend much
effort acting as if they were part of a panel for a new edition of
some dictionary ("The word 'profound' has a number of meanings, all of
which convey a significant depth. Webster's New International
Dictionary 1977 [2nd ed. 1935 defines profound as...]") and, where
necessary, they don't hesitate to take up the role of psychiatrist
either. "We likewise think," they write at one point, considering what
might disrupt "profoundly the senses or personality" and so be
considered torture, "that the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder
behaviors would rise to this level... Moreover, we think that pushing
someone to the brink of suicide [which could be evidenced by acts of
self-mutilation], would be a sufficient disruption of the personality
to constitute a 'profound disruption.'")

Their purpose in each case is to narrow drastically some previous
legal definition of torture. They spend much time, for instance,
considering how to define various parts of the well-accepted phrase
"severe physical or mental pain or suffering," always emphasizing the
word "severe" and then defining it in the most severe possible way:


"In order to prove 'severe mental pain or suffering,' the statute
requires proof of 'prolonged mental harm' that was caused by or
resulted from one of four enumerated acts... [T]he development of a
mental disorder such as posttraumatic stress disorder, which can last
months or even years, or even chronic depression... might satisfy the
prolonged harm requirement... [I]f a defendant [interrogator] has a
good faith belief that his actions will not result in prolonged mental
harm, he lacks the mental state necessary for his actions to
constitute torture. A defendant could show that he acted in good faith
by taking such steps as surveying professional literature, consulting
with experts, or reviewing evidence gained from past experience...
Because the presence of good faith would negate the specific intent
element of torture, good faith may be a complete defense to such a
charge."

In other words, the harm to a prisoner from what might ordinarily be
considered acts of inhumanity and torture must be "severe" indeed --
proof of that severity could even take several months to develop --
and in addition it would have to be proved that the interrogator
actually meant to create a state of, say, posttraumatic stress
disorder. In other words, the act of torture is not, in fact, torture
if the intent to torture is not there -- and, since it's a matter of
"good faith," the only person who could affirm that torture had taken
place would, in essence, be the torturer.

But even that's not enough. According to this administration's best
legal minds, even knowing in a general sense what ill results might
come from your acts does not necessarily make you a torturer, not if
you did not mean to cause such results. What must be proven is
"specific intent to cause pain," a phrase they then spend much space
redefining. They write:


"As a theoretical matter, therefore, knowledge alone that a particular
result is certain to occur does not constitute specific intent... if
causing such harm is not his objective, he lacks the requisite
specific intent... A defendant is guilty of torture only if he acts
with the express purpose of inflicting severe pain or suffering on a
person within his custody or physical control... Where a defendant
acts in good faith, he acts with an honest belief that he has not
engaged in the proscribed conduct."

This is, of course, but the briefest glimpse into the bizarre and
twisted definitional thinking that fills this 56-page document, much
of it focused on the problem of potential future "prosecutions arising
out of the exercise of the president's express authority as
Commander-in-Chief" to create what is essentially a torture regime
abroad. (Strangely enough, in the light of day this dark document
reads like a witness for the prosecution in any future
war-crimes-style trials of the members of this administration.) Just
to give a tiny flavor of this aspect of the document, here's an almost
random passage:


"Any effort by Congress to regulate the interrogation of unlawful
combatants would violate the Constitution's sole vesting of the
Commander-in-Chief authority in the President. There can be little
doubt that intelligence operations, such as the detention and
interrogation of enemy combatants and leaders, are both necessary and
proper for the effective conduct of a military campaign. Indeed such
operations may be of more importance in a war with an international
terrorist organization than one with the conventional armed forces of
a nation-state, due to the former's emphasis on secret operations and
surprise attacks against civilians. It may be the case that only
successful interrogations can provide the information necessary to
prevent the success of covert terrorist attacks upon the United States
and its citizens. Congress can no more interfere with the President's
conduct of the interrogation of enemy combatants than it can dictate
strategy or tactical decisions on the battlefield. Just as statutes
that order the President to conduct warfare in a certain manner or for
specific goals would be unconstitutional, so too are laws that seek to
prevent the President from gaining the intelligence he believes
necessary to prevent attacks upon the United States."

Finally, the authors of this document invoke the "superior orders"
doctrine (made famous at Nuremberg) commenting that:


"In sum, the defense of superior orders will generally be available
for U.S. Armed Forces personnel engaged in exceptional interrogations
except where the conduct goes so far as to be patently unlawful."

Of course, that wonderfully turned phrase "exceptional interrogations"
means "torture" (except that, by this point in the document, torture
itself no longer means torture); and while I'm no lawyer, the concept
of "patently unlawful" seems a curious one to me. I'd like to see that
brought into an everyday court of law. (The defendant throws himself
on the mercy of the court: "I did it, judge, and it was definitely
unlawful, but I plead innocent since it was not patently so.")

The Wall Street Journal "opinion" is but one of a series of internal
memorandums we now know about, written between January 2002 and early
this year, which seem to have much in common. For instance, in an
earlier legal memorandum, written in August 2002 by the Justice
Department for the CIA, "signed by Assistant Attorney General Jay S.
Bybee," addressed to White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez, and leaked
to the Washington Post, the writers also chewed over the issue of how
much pain constitutes torture. They wrote that the "inflicting [of]
moderate or fleeting pain does not necessarily constitute torture.
Torture, the memo says, 'must be equivalent in intensity to the pain
accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure,
impairment of bodily function, or even death.'" (Otherwise, assumedly,
you just scream.) Similarly, the writers suggest: "For purely mental
pain or suffering to amount to torture. it must result in significant
psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months
or even years."

Let's remember that of the legal minds responsible for these
"opinions," Bybee is now a judge on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco; the Defense Department's general counsel,
William J. Haynes II has been nominated to be an appellate judge, in
the U.S. 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va.; and John Yoo, author of some of
the earliest of these memorandum, has returned to a professorship at
the University of California, Berkeley, where, in response to student
protests, he said: "I think the calls for my resignation are misguided
and don't show an understanding of the job of a lawyer."

And in this he's probably right. As the CIA produced the kited
"intelligence" the administration needed to go to war in Iraq, so its
various legal groups produced the memorandum it needed - again and
again and again - to imprison beyond the rule of law and torture those
whom it pleased. As Phillip Carter, a former U.S. Army officer, put it
in Slate: "[N]o amount of caveating can save the latest Defense
Department memorandum on the legality of torture. from being construed
as what it is: a cookbook on how to conduct illegal torture and get
away with it."

These are, in fact, documents of shame, symbolic of a kind of
bureaucratic lawlessness let loose at the heart of our government.
They are intent on creating a pseudo-legal basis for replacing the
rule of law with the rule of a commander-in-chief. As Robert Kuttner
put it in the Boston Globe, "For nearly three years, the Bush
administration has resorted to the most preposterous fictions to
define either locales or categories of people to whom the law does not
apply. If you connect the dots, the torture at Abu Ghraib is part of a
larger slide toward tyranny as the Bush administration tries to exempt
itself from the rule of law." As justifications for torture, these are
the sorts of documents one can imagine finding in the files of some
grim third world dictatorship or maybe the former Apartheid regime of
South Africa. As the Washington Post editorial page put it recently,
speaking of the authors of such memos and their masters, "Theirs is
the logic of criminal regimes." Were it ever to be made the law of the
land, our republic, such as it is, would quite literally be ended and
we would face some kind of one-party dictatorship. Were its
definitions of torture ever made the law of the land, every torturer
on earth would shout hosannas to it.

[Coming Tuesday, Part II: On our global torture system, the executive assassinations ring of Dick Cheney, the White House Murder INC, its history,
future presidential defenses, and the rise of the Nazi analogy....]