CIA Criminal Revolving Door

by Kevin Fenton

CIA Criminal Revolving Door: CIA Criminal Revolving Door: CIA Officer "Albert" Involved in False Intelligence Linking Al-Qaeda to Iran, Iraq

Reprimanded for Torture, Retired, then Back to CIA as a Contractor. A recent book by former FBI agent Ali Soufan shows that the same CIA officer was involved in generating intelligence that falsely linked al-Qaeda to first Iran and then Iraq. The officer was also involved in a notorious torture episode and was reprimanded by the Agency's inspector general.

The officer, who Soufan refers to as "Fred," but whose real first name is "Albert" according to a February 2011 Associated Press article, served at the CIA station in Jordan in 1999. During that time, al-Qaeda, aided by a collection of freelance terrorists headed by Abu Zubaidah, attempted to commit a series of attacks in the country, known as the Millennium Plot. However, the attacks were foiled by the local Jordanian intelligence service, working with the CIA and FBI.

During the investigations of the plotters, Albert drafted a series of official cables that were later withdrawn. Although the withdrawing of the cables was first mentioned in a July 2006 article by Lawrence Wright for the New Yorker, Wright did not mention what was in the cables or by whom they were drafted. The content of one of them and the drafter were first revealed upon the publication of Soufan's book in mid-September 2011.

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Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership, Global Issues, Updated: January 02, 2009

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The FBI Covered Up, Destroyed Evidence in the Assassination of JFK

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

I met and interviewed Rosemary Willis --the little girl in the Red Dress seen in Zapruder's film running along the south side of Elm St. Rosemary showed me the slides that her father had taken that day, pictures that had been published by Look Magazine. Look Magazine had covered two pages with a single Willis photo clearly depicting a train beyond knoll and seen clearly between the columns of the Pergola.

After publication, the FBI seized her father's original slides! While they were in the possession of the FBI, they were tampered with. Look magazine clearly depicts a train on the RR tracks beyond the Pergola. But in the slides --returned to Ms Willis some 20 years later --the train had been removed. It was at that moment that my suspicions of a vast cover-up were confirmed. The FBI covered-up, in fact, tampered with evidence relating to the treasonous murder of the President of the United States. Only the guilty are motivated to cover up a crime.The innocent, on the other hand, have an interest in getting at the truth.

I wondered why the FBI bothered to remove a train that had been behind the knoll at the time of the murder? It would appear that the FBI had an 'interest' in hiding the fact that a train was on those very tracks where earlier E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis had been arrested. If the train was the egress, the get-away, the means of escape, the FBI is at least guilty of the destruction of evidence or, worse, complicity in an act of high treason and murder.

PD officer J. C. White is a witness and gave this information in his Warren Commission testimony...
Here is a portion of that testimony as it pertains to this topic:

Mr. BALL. Did you see the President's car come into sight?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir; first time I saw it it has passed, passed under the triple underpass.
Mr. BALL. You were too far away to see it, were you?
Mr. WHITE. There was a freight train traveling. There was a train passing between
the location I was standing and the area from which the procession was traveling, and-a big long freight train, and I did not see it.
Mr. BALL. You didn't see the procession?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Before the train went by, did you see some railroad personnel over on the-would it be the--
Mr. WHITE. East side?
Mr. BALL. East side of the overpass?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How many people?
Mr. WHITE. About 10, approximately. I didn't count them.
Mr. BALL. Did you hear any shots?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Didn't?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. First time you saw the President's car it was going underneath?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What did you do after that?
Mr. WHITE. As soon as the train passed I went over and on the northwest side of the Depository Building. On the northwest side of the book store up there with the rest of the officers and after about 30 minutes they told me to go out and work traffic at Main and Houston, and I stood out there and worked traffic.
Mr. BALL. All right, now, you heard no sound of no rifle fire or anything?
Mr. WHITE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Freight train was going through at the time?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Making noise?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir; noisy train.
Mr. BALL. Mr. White, Mr. Foster was on the east side of the overpass?
Mr. WHITE. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. This deposition will be written up and submitted
to you for your signature if you wish to sign it, or you can waive your signature.
Which do you wish to do?
Mr. WHITE. You said a while ago to him it would be written up like this? Is that correct?
Mr. BALL. No, It will be written up in the form of a deposition.
Mr. WHITE. I will waive.
Mr. BALL. You waive it. Okay. Fine.
--Testimony of DPD officer J. C. White, Warren Commission

The presence of the train, therefore, is a matter of public record. Why --then --would the FBI bother to remove a train that was known to have existed, a train that was, in fact, the subject of testimony given under oath to the Warren Commission?

In any case, someone in the FBI had determined that a clear photograph of a train beyond the Pergola was --in some way --a threat to the official story that was, at last, cooked up by Sen. Arlen Specter.

Had President John F. Kennedy lived, had he accomplished his agenda, this country would have been a very different place, a better place, a nation in which ordinary people still dared to hope, perhaps dream of a better life. That's why he was murdered.

To find the culprit, ask yourself: who benefited from the loss of this great President? The most obvious beneficiaries were

• big oil
• the CIA
• the money brokers on Wall Street, the FED and K-street.

Certainly --the top 1 percent benefited from the paradigm shift and now owns more than the rest of us combined, the result of GOP largesse.

It was most certainly a CIA hit, supervised by Bush Sr. For the CIA, it was personal, akin to a mob vendetta.

The Warren Commission is as crooked as is the N.I.S.T report and the report of the 911 Commission. All are lies by a 'government' whose claim to legitimacy hangs by a thread --and that is generous!

The murder of JFK and 911 are tragic events years apart but alike in magnitude and their effect upon the people. Both concentrated power in the CIA, K-Street, Wall Street and the robber barons of big oil, big money, and others who make a living killing other people in foreign countries. In the case of Iraq, its only crime was that of having oil --oil coveted by Dick Cheney's 'Energy Task Force' operating on behalf of Halliburton, Exxon et al.

There is no evidence to support anything said by the government with respect to either 911 or the assassination of JFK.

• CE-399 (the magic bullet) would have been thrown out of court for lacking 'bona fides'. Found on 'a' gurney at Parkland Hospital, it cannot be proven to have ever been fired; nor can it be placed at the scene of the crime. It has never been traced to the Mannlicher-Carcano that is alleged to have been the murder weapon. The photo of Oswald holding it is an obvious fake.
• Oswald cannot be placed in the 6th floor at the time of the shooting; he was drinking a coke on the 3rd Floor of the TSBD. So say witnesses.
• Upon impact, JFKs head is pushed back and to the left from a shot fired from from the front and to the right --the Grassy Knoll. Behind the Grassy Knoll are the Rail Road tracks where --earlier --several 'tramps' had been arrested for vagrancy. Among them were E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis both of whom were up to their necks in Watergate.

While Oswald was having a coke, the man who fired the fatal shot was folding up his XP-100 Fireball, putting it away in a 'briefcase' to make his get-away in the 'secured' area behind the Grassy Knoll and the railroad tracks --the same area that had been scouted and secured by tramps E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis and perhaps other future Watergate 'perps'.

A photograph of Bush Sr in front of the TSBD just prior to the murder supports my long held belief that Bush supervised the A-Team (assassination team). I knew Bush Sr, spoke with him up close and personal on several occasions and that IS Bush Sr who is seen photographed in front of the TSBD. I would say so in court, under oath! [See: Did the Bushes Help Kill JFK]

JFK died for our sins. There were at least 4 major motives:

• JFK withdrew air support for the Bay of Pigs, arguably, a CIA operation;
• JFK threatened to abolish the FED;
• JFK threatened to 'smash the CIA into a thousand pieces; [See: The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair ; also: CIA's man at the Bay of Pigs]
• JFK threatened to abolish the Oil Depletion Allowance.

The last item was a cause for trauma in the oil producing state of TX.

"An oilman drills a well that costs $100,000. He finds a reservoir containing $10,000,000 worth of oil. The well produces $1 million worth of oil per year for ten years. In the very first year, thanks to the depletion allowance, the oilman could deduct 27.5 per cent, or $275,000, of that $1 million in income from his taxable income. Thus, in just one year, he's deducted nearly three times his initial investment. But the depletion allowance continues to pay off. For each of the next nine years, he gets to continue taking the $275,000 depletion deduction. By the end of the tenth year, the oilman has deducted $2.75 million from his taxable income, even though his initial investment was only $100,000."

--The Oil Depletion Allowance

Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes said: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however impossible, must be the truth!" The Warren Commission report is impossible, in fact, a sloppy piece of work.

Arlen Specter's 'Magic Bullet' is a kooky theory for which there is no evidence. It is --in fact --impossible defying as it does several laws of physics. The most dramatic demonstration of the utter impossibility of the "magic bullet theory" was conducted in a courtroom by News Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison.

Anyone passing first semester physics should understand that bullets do not/cannot change directions in mid-flight. It is, therefore, utterly impossible. The Warren Commission did not investigate the murder of JFK, it covered it up and gave cover to the culprits. Those actions are more akin to those of 'co-conspirators' than investigators. The murder of JFK was a coup d'etat from which the U.S. has not yet recovered.

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Hoover's plan to abolish Habeas Corpus linked to his 'closet' lifestyle

The headlines trumpet J. Edgar Hoover's plan to suspend Habeas Corpus for some 12,000 American citizens. Largely unreported are his motives. His repressive attitudes and policies were, in fact, a shield, his protection against critics. J. Edgar Hoover was a closet, practicing homosexual even as he headed the FBI.

Hoover's FBI kept files on almost everyone of any consequence in government, including several Presidents of the United States. Apparently his plan worked. At a time when the gay lifestyle was very much the subject of whispers, everyone was terrified of Hoover because of how he might retaliate. For decades, Hoover did not merely pursue "commies", he pursued, arrested and prosecuted "gay people" for "being gay". The words "colossal hypocrisy" come to mind.

The recently publicized document, however, is a specific case that makes the point: the GOP is an institutional threat to American Democracy. As we might have suspected, Hoover had planned to do what George W. Bush may have succeeded in doing, that is, suspending habeas corpus and imprisoning in concentration camps without trial or Due Process of law some 12,000 people whose names had somehow gotten on his shit list.

Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons.

Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage.” The FBI would “apprehend all individuals potentially dangerous” to national security, Hoover’s proposal said. The arrests would be carried out under “a master warrant attached to a list of names” provided by the bureau.

The names were part of an index that Hoover had been compiling for years. “The index now contains approximately twelve thousand individuals, of which approximately ninety-seven per cent are citizens of the United States,” he wrote.

“In order to make effective these apprehensions, the proclamation suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus,” it said.

--Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

Another famous GOP list maker comes to mind --Richard Nixon, whose "enemies list" was at the very heart of the Watergate Scandal. Habeas corpus, the right to seek relief from illegal detention, is a fundamental principle of law traceable to the Magna Carta.

Before penning the Declaration of Independence--the first of the American Charters of Freedom--in 1776, the Founding Fathers searched for a historical precedent for asserting their rightful liberties from King George III and the English Parliament. They found it in a gathering that took place 561 years earlier on the plains of Runnymede, not far from where Windsor Castle stands today. There, on June 15, 1215, an assembly of barons confronted a despotic and cash-strapped King John and demanded that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal seal, and sent to each of the counties to be read to all freemen. The result was Magna Carta--a momentous achievement for the English barons and, nearly six centuries later, an inspiration for angry American colonists.

--Magna Carta and Its American Legacy

The Bush administration's decision to hold suspects for years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has made habeas corpus a contentious issue for the US Congress and the Supreme Court. But it shouldn't be! It should be sacrosanct. This issue was settled when King John signed the Magna Carta at the behest of the barons who held the upper hand. Why are we debating now an issue that was settled in the year 1215? Why is the GOP so threatened by habeas corpus? Why would the GOP return the US to a theocratic state akin to what might have existed in the Middle Ages? Why is the GOP backward, retarded, dysfunctional? Why are Republicans, like Huckabee, utterly ignorant of law or history? Why do Republicans fear the intellect? Why do they fear freedom?

Hoover's plan was declassified Friday as part of a collection of documents concerning intelligence issues from 1950 to 1955. The plan called for "the permanent detention" of 12,000 suspects at military bases as well as in federal prisons.

The FBI, he said, had found that the arrests it proposed in New York and California would cause the prisons there to overflow. So the bureau had arranged for "detention in Military facilities of the individuals apprehended" in those states.

The prisoners eventually would have had a right to a hearing under the Hoover plan. The hearing board would have comprised one judge and two citizens. But the hearings "will not be bound by the rules of evidence."

Hoover's July 1950 letter was addressed to Sidney Souers, who had served as the first director of central intelligence and was then a special national-security assistant to Truman. The plan also was sent to the executive secretary of the National Security Council, whose members were the president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state and the military chiefs.

In September 1950, Congress passed and Truman signed a law authorizing the detention of "dangerous radicals" if the president declared a national emergency. But no known evidence suggests any president approved Hoover's proposal.

--J. Edgar Hoover sought mass arrests in 1950, document shows, Herald Tribune

What good is a hearing not bound by the "rules of evidence"? A hearing bound by the rules of evidence is the bloody point! Whenever the power of the state is exercised free of that common sense restraint, you can bet that there is, in fact, no evidence in support of the state's position. "States" throughout history have a lousy record! Why do we put up with it? Why are people so easily fooled?

A state that finds it necessary to lie to its people in order to maintain itself in power is an illegitimate state! Any state which denies to its people the protections of habeas corpus is, by its action, illegitimate and should be --in Jeffersons' words --abolished!! Any state which manufactures a fraudulent state of emergency upon phony terrorist alerts and other lies, is, by its actions, illegitimate and must be voted out or otherwise supplanted. That was precisely the position of Thomas Jefferson who wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

--Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

Later, Che Guevarra would say the same thing even more succinctly:

People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

--Che Guevarra, Guerrilla Warfare, Chapter I: General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare

Bush has already broken the peace. The government of the United States is illegitimate and, is in fact, treasonously at war with the sovereign people of the United States!

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