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Forrestal fire, 134 dead, 161 injured, blame follows party lines.   video

Palin: "Iraq war ... "task that is from God" and gas pipeline is "God's will".

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• American Blackout "Whatever you think you know about our election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba, creator of Eminem's "Mosh" music video, American Blackout critically examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence voices of political dissent."  
• Black Box Voting Ballot tampering in the 21st Century
• BradBlog Griffin, the 'ragin cagin'.. voter suppression guy, Thompson campaign rejected him.
• Campaign Finance Information Center Calculating influence: How it all adds up.
• Campaign Legal Center in the public interest of campaign and media law
• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• Clean Elections "Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics."
• Common Cause  Soft Money issues, govt watchdog
• Common Dreams, Blowback from 2004 election
• CounterPunch The DLC and Israel Zionist Democrats
• Democrats.com
• DissidentVoice caging list lists, from 2004 Greg Palast story, secret document, emails, Bush campaign headquarters, Florida, disrupt voting, voter suppression, more below 
• EcoTalk.org  Voting systems organizations and companies, great investigative work.
• Election Protection Coalition, Ohio election fraud reporting.
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Waterkeeper Alliance
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney
• Free Press, The  Speaking Truth to Power, search verified voting
• GeorgeWBush.org anti Bush site, received caging lists, and from Wikipedia about emails received: "The e-mails had the subject line "Re: Caging" and contained Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file attachments called "Caging.xls" and "Caging-1.xls"
• Grace Public Fund Legislative advocacy group, action alerts.
• and we also research the 'conservative' view
• Former Senator Mike Gravel, 2008 Presidential candidate.  more
• KnowtheCandidates automated self-serve news poster
• Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act, 1982-2005" pulls together research and testimony from voters around the country to urge lawmakers to renew the parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that will expire in August 2007.
• League of Women Voters
• NALEO  National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
• Oped News,  Diebold evoting machines, Bush, Florida,  CEO Walden O'Dell 
• Open Secrets and Unity08.org
• Greg Palast privatization of FBI, see InQtel, Choicepoint
• The Petition Site online sign petition for paper trail in 2004 elections  
• Pew Hispanic Center Chronicling Latinos' diverse experiences in a changing America
• Political Reform.net soft money, power elite, corporate economy
• Political Stratey is changing to Daily News Online
• Primary Monitor
• Public Campaign, to reduce role of special interest money, links
• Public Citizen, Ralph Nader
• Pulp Syndicate new journalism, Progressive.
• Public Eye, Political Research Associates, an invaluable resource in researching Right Wing Conservative thought, actions, beliefs
• Republicrat, Republicrat 
• Scoop   on stolen elections, Walden O'Dell 
• US Government Watch
• Verified Voting.org support voter verified paper trail, search
• Notes: Peter Paul charged that the woes of Stan Lee Media were due to the involvement of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In 2000, Paul was the largest contributor to Clinton's New York Senate campaign. Just prior to the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Paul organized a "Hollywood Farewell Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton that snagged over $1 million for Hillary Clinton's Senate run in 2000. Present at the gala were Diana Ross, Patti Labelle, Toni Braxton, Cher, Michael Bolton, John Travolta, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Jason Alexander. Not only would Paul later be convicted for stock fraud, but three other gala organizers, Aaron Tonken, Raymond Reggie, and James Levin were all convicted on fraud charges unrelated to the gala fundraiser for Clinton. The fundraiser was the largest ever held for a political candidate in the United States. Stan Lee was the master of ceremonies for the gala. WMR 
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  If only America 

  understood the Franklin pedophile scandal in Omaha,  Washington D. C., 1989, and the effect it would have on the election. Play the MP3 file and more

   

• Recent News: Obama birth certificate:    Democratic former Pennsylvania Attorney General Philip C. Berg filed a complaint late today in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania "for an emergency temporary restraining order prohibiting Barack Obama from running for president, and enjoining the DNC from nominating Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate.”  MORE BELOW  He's a life member of the NAACP and NRA, and very active in the 911 Truth movement ... ??? Berg files: Motion and Support Memo Hillary Project  Clinton supporter sues Obama on grounds he is constitutional ineligble for Presidency State Dept fired two, for peering at Obama's passport file.  AP / Yahoo  Bureau of Consular Affairs, Jan, Feb. of 2008,  Obama not notified until March.  more more below Illegal wiretapping began in Clinton White House, WMR  Wikipedia,  Hillary Rodham cattle futures disguised bribery? more Returned campaign contributions.  Hsu  New York Times Bank Crozier, Grenada, bank accounts.  Riggs Bank DLC official, anti-union, pro-business, pro-war... rarely mentioned in campaign. Iran attack hawk, see AIPAC speeches Whitewater, Madison Guaranty, conflict of interest.   scandal list Whitewater, lost & then 'found' records Travelgate, false statements to prosecutors Vince Foster suicide Filegate FBI reports on former Republican White House employees Wal-mart board of directors Lafarge board of directors more Kathleen Willey, Clinton's murdered her husband WND but also see Salon debunk, destroy her credibility.  but see Clinton death list Hillary promises no surprises in her past Washington Post Bush crime family vs. Clinton crime family? Peter Paul, former (convicted) business partner of Stan Lee,  who both founded Marvel  Entertainment, (after rehab), but company failed, according to Paul because of Bill & Hillary Clinton... lawsuits, fraud, abound.  Paul was largest contributor to Hillary's NY Senatorial campaign.  more  & WMR   Main stream press won't touch it during early 08 campaign.

• ABC News: Congress watch.
• Annenberg Election Survey, election survey
• BBC, Caging list, Republican, RNC
• Campaign Finance Information Center  calculating influence: How it all adds up.
• Campaign Media Analysis Group, Cmag  monitor tv advertising nationwide.
• Campaign Money  Campaign finance in American politics
• Census Bureau voter registration statistics by demographic and socioeconomic data
• Center for Responsive Politics Money in U.S. Elections,  Iraq Contracts, Media Ownership
• Election Statistics Historic data, Electoral College, Redistricting, downloadable data, maps, charts
• There's a lot more to this pic than you think  .... see Bush / Clinton crime families page index 
• eResearch Resources Download, analyze Census data
• FactCheck.org nonpartisan, reduce deceptions and confusion in U.S. politics
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) , services, campaign finance reports, law, resources
• Elections, state by state guide.  Guardian 
• Political Money Line   FEC Info, Tray, subscription.
• Project Vote Smart   Voter self-defense system, unbiased info.
• Generation Vote races, parties, organizations, links, archives
• Center for Voting and Democracy
• International Society of Political Psychology, "purpose is to facilitate communication across disciplinary, geographic and political boundaries among scholars, concerned individuals in government and public posts, the communications media, and elsewhere who have a scientific interest in the relationship between politics and psychological processes. other search terms: negative campaign ads, dirty tricks
• Los Angeles Times "Justice official is said to have favored GOP loyalists ... Schlozman, a Bush administration political appointee, was also in the process of dismantling the ranks of career attorneys in the division, former employees contend. ...controversial voting-rights suits. ... The Bush administration has focused on weeding out perceived fraud. Critics say that little fraud exists and that the crackdown has had the effect of discouraging voter participation " search terms: Republican loyalists, career attorneys left, Joseph D. Rich, 
• Lijphart Election Archive University of California, San Diego, Social Sciences & Humanities
• Living Room Candidate, Moving Image.us Presidential campaign commercials: starting from 1952
• Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, non partisan,  wants voting paper trail. Republican leadership opposes it.
• National Annenberg Election Survey, election survey
• National Archives, Hillary Clinton records, 
• National Election Studies  research data, guide to public opinion, electoral behavior
• Pew Hispanics Center  Chronicling Latinos' diverse experiences in a changing America
• RealClearPolitics
• Sequoia Voting Systems has verifiable paper trail system.
• University of Wisconsin Advertising Project  political advertising
• Voter Information Services helping voters get behind the sound bites, Congressional info
• Watch Blog left, right and independent election views
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• 95% of Black Americans will not vote for Republicans ... I wonder why?
• click on image for site graphic index
• Americans for a Republican Majority GOP Today
• Barbour, Griffith and Rodgers, ...advisor to Carlyle Group,  emaciation of the 1933 Buy-America Act, by McCain-Eads-Diligence-Rothschild, and loss of tanker contract, ah too bad, see UK and EU NFU pages
• Choicepoint  see
• Citizens United, Hillary: The Movie
• Clinton, 'first black president' smokescreen?
• Delay Campaign.com an
• Diebold and Diebold Election Systems Call for e-voting ban is overreaction.
• Boycott NBC, Boycott ABC, Boycott CBS, Boycott Fox
• Diligence: a business intelligence firm, chaired by former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, see also Nick Day, and Mike Baker, Richard Burt,
• DiscovertheNetworks Guide to the political left, from a conservative viewpoint....
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• EADS, Rothschild connection, tanker contract, McCain, 
• Eagle Forum Congress Vote tracking database.
• Election Assistance Commission Created by a Republican controlled Congress. and see  FEC link  Trent Lott control of U. S. election legislation.
• Fellowship, Hillary problem?
• Fletcher, Mindy Tucker, 
• Foreign Voting Assistance Program Pentagon run. 
• Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party's presumed presidential nominee (John McCain) has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.  WMR
• GovExec West Wing Watch 
• GOP Platform Republican National Committee, backdoor emails to and from White House, GOP underground, 
• Hillary: The Movie
• Iowa Daily Report Hold Democrats accountable for their comments on GWB 
• Judicial Watch,  tracking Hillary Clinton documents release, 11,000 pages, highly redacted, transparency smokescreen, 
• Log Cabin Republicans US largest gay/lesbian Republican organization
• Lukoil
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• Lord Rothschild, search terms: RIT, Ltd. (formerly Rothschild Investment Trust), invested, Mikhail Khodorkovsky,  close to Boris Berezovsky, Henry Kissinger, and Rupert Murdoch, 
• Trent Lott now the Chairman of the Committee on Rules & Administration of U.S. Senate.  which receives all proposed legislation on U.S. Presidential elections and more.
• New America Foundation
• Vote Republican serving Americas Conservatives
• Real Clear Politics news, polls, links 
• Republican National Committee  .
• Sequoia Voting Systems has verifiable paper trail system.
• Stop Democrats 
• Top donors to Federal candidates
• Democrats and Republicans responsible for the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, Blue Dog, Third Way, Dixiecrats,
• Link Palfrey escort service?, CIA, Foggo, Wilkes, Cunningham? Cheney? 
• Uhuh
• Problems for Hillary?
• Notes: 2007, Nov, Book party thrown for McLean, Virginia home of Charles and Lynda Johnson Robb, (Lyndon), for Jay Winik, globalization, 18th century, attendees: Cheney, Scalia, Clinton strategist Mark Penn (CEO of Burson & Marsteller who also represent Blackwater USA),  Romney strategist Russ Schriefer, National Counterterrorism Center chief John Scott Redd, former attorney general Richard Thornburgh, nosebleed punch?, Robb and Silberman cochaired whitewash commission on Iraq intelligence, Curveball is Rafid Ahmed Alwan AP more at NFU and more, at least on phone call was made to Pamela Martin & Associates from 1616 Anderson Road, McClean, Virginia 22102, who is Bruce Chiles? pseudonym, McCain customer also? 1994 Robb Senate race, wild party accusations, Robb, nude massage, Tai Collins, Miss Virginia, Playboy centerfold, affair. source: WMR
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  Why are 'Fundies' so easy to fool?  How responsible are they for the Iraq War?

  Nearly 80% of Christian Fundamentalists voted for Bush in 2000, 2004, 2006...and 94% of African Americans won't vote for Bush .... hmmm??? 

  

• Democratic former Pennsylvania Attorney General Philip C. Berg filed a complaint late today in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania "for an emergency temporary restraining order prohibiting Barack Obama from running for president, and enjoining the DNC from nominating Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate.” The complaint wants the court to declare that Obama is not a "natural citizen" and is not, therefore, qualified to run for President of the United States. The court is being asked for a temporary restraining order and expedited discovery. The defendant is named as: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a/k/a BARRY SOETORO, a/k/a BARRY OBAMA , a/k/a BARACK DUNHAM, a/k/a BARRY DUNHAM, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, and THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Case number: Case #08-CV-4083  Philidelphia  

• Forrestal fire    RockFreePress  Madsen reprint:  WMR has learned additional details regarding the deadly fire aboard the Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, on July 19, 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The additional details point to then-Lt. Commander John McCain playing more of a role in triggering the fire and explosions than previously reported.  ...  On January 16, 2006, WMR reported that according to a US Navy sailor who was aboard the Forrestal on the fateful day of the fire, “McCain and the Forrestal’s skipper, Capt. John K. Beling, were warned about the danger of using M-65 1000-lb. bombs manufactured in 1935, which were deemed too dangerous to use during World War II and, later, on B-52 bombers. The fire from the Zuni missile misfire resulted in the heavy 1000 pound bombs being knocked loose from the pylons of McCain’s A-4 aircraft, which were only designed to hold 500-pound bombs.”  ...  WMR further reported, “The unstable bombs had a 60-second cook-off threshold in a fire situation and this warning was known to both Beling and McCain prior to the disaster.” WMR also cited the potential that McCain’s Navy records were used against him by the neo-cons in control of the Pentagon, “The neo-cons, who have had five years to examine every file within the Department of Defense, have likely accessed documents that could prove embarrassing to McCain, who was on board the USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967, and whose A-4 Skyhawk was struck by an air-to-ground Zuni missile that had misfired from an F-4 Phantom.”    ...  It is believed by many crewmen and those who have investigated the case that McCain deliberately “wet-started” his A-4E to shake up the guy in the plane behind his A-4. “Wet-starts”, done either deliberately or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the tail of the aircraft.   ...  In McCain’s case, the “wet-start” apparently “cooked off” and launched the Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that touched off the explosions and massive fire. The F-4 pilot was reportedly killed in the conflagration. “Wet starting” was apparently a common practice among young “hot-dog” pilots.  McCain was quickly transferred to the USS Oriskany (the only Forrestal crewman to be immediately transferred). Three months later, McCain was shot down over North Vietnam on October 26, 1967.

• McCain, Deripaska, KGB, blackmail  WMR, Russia, Soviets, ...  McCain has always been arrogant and hostile in dealing with Vietnam-era POW/MIA family members. In his position as Executive Director of the US/Russia Joint Commission on POWs/MIAs, Norman Kass certainly has the access to Soviet and Russian files on POWs held by the Russians. If there is any evidence that McCain spent time being debriefed and possibly "broken" in Voronezh, that information would not only be known to the neocons but also to the Israelis. It would explain McCain's total subservience to the neocon plank, including his hawkish policies toward Russia.   ...   However, McCain also maintains a link to the Kremlin via his business ties to Russian mining billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who, according to former KGB officer Dmitry Gvozdev in an interview with the Moscow Post, may be serving as a Kremlin conduit to McCain. The Russians may be sending signals to McCain that they still have proof of the senator's collaboration with the Soviets during his POW status and that he may want to think twice about cutting deals with Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, pushing for NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine, and adopting other anti-Russia stances.

• WMR  "New York Times reporter R. W. Apple. Jr. reported on July 31, 1967, that Captain John K. Beling, the Forrestal's commanding officer, stated: "for some unknown reason, a plane parked near the carrier's island, midway up the 1,045 foot flight deck, experienced an "extreme wet start." This malfunction, comparable to what happens when a cigarette lighter is ignited after having been filled to full, occurs about once a week on attack carriers, but almost never so severely as it did yesterday."   ....    Apple continued in his report on the wet start: "A thick tongue of flame lashed backward from the parked jet, igniting a missile on one of the dozen or so planes parked near the fantail, their engines turning over in readiness for a strike launching scheduled for 11 a.m.   ....    The rocket 'shot across the deck,' Captain Beling said, 'and by a quirk of fate [emphasis added] smashed into a fuel tank under a plane on the port side.'" [The plane, a Skyhawk, the missile hit was McCain's, quite a quirk of fate since it was he who committed the wet start].  more search terms: Washington Post reporter Michael Leahy, McCain's shrapnel, USS Oriskany, 1967, prisoner of war, deliberately 'wet started' his A-4E, Zuni rocket, Admiral John McCain, Jr., Massey, Earnest, Stack, electrical surge, 'Johnny Wet Start', flame thrower antics, "a plane parked near the carrier's island",  experience, judgement, lies, cover-up, navy brat. full story

• Common Dreams In a bold move "to restore trust to elections in Ohio," Ohio's newly-elected Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has requested the resignation of all four members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. The two Democrats and two Republicans were formally asked to resign by the close of business on March 21. Cuyahoga County includes the heavily Democratic city of Cleveland. Brunner is a Democrat who was elected to be Ohio's Secretary of State in November, 2006.  
• WayneMadsenReport "WMR has learned that the Iron Mountain storage facility in Pennsylvania does store election software for the Ohio Secretary of State. Iron Mountain is an Escrow Agent for the Secretary of State's source code for Diebold and ES&S voting machines. The Congress is looking for a number of deleted e-mails between the Republican National Committee, the White House, and Justice Department concerning the firing of a number of US Attorneys for political reasons. Smartechcorp, a Chattanooga web hosting service with close links to the GOP, was discovered to be the hosting service for the Republican National Committee, the Bush-Cheney 04 campaign, and the Ohio Secretary of State's election night live results "Dashboard."
• Counterpunch, "Why Hillary Has Always Been a Republican ... In the first of a series of profiles, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair chart the formative years of Hillary Clinton. Watch her as she zigzags from Nixon campaigner and vote-fraud investigator in 1960 to Goldwater Girl and President of Young Republicans at Wellesley to her internship for Gerald Ford and campaigner for Nelson Rockefeller. Witness her reaction to the student protests at Yale and the demonstrations at Grant Park during the Democratic Convention in 1968. Learn how she and Bill vowed to "remake" the Democratic Party--using the Nixon model HRC learned about as a member of the House impeachment staff. And much more! Plus: David Price on anthropologist Andre Gunder Frank, the FBI and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind."
• WMR Bush / Clinton complicity in NSA illegal wiretapping.  A problem for Hillary? ...  1999 docs show NSA and Clinton White House hiding information about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) compliance.  Illegal request for NSA wiretapping made in February 27, 2001 meeting ... Nacchio refused, then indicted for insider stock trading... 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, (they're all crooks?).  search terms: AT&T switching center, Folsom Street, San Francisco, 4ESS equipment, Mark Klein (whistleblower), see ( NFU NSA page) HPSCI, Porter Goss, attorney client privilege, Executive Order 12333, all concerning hiding  documents referring to legality of NSA activities, ... and Wilma A. Lewis, Mark Nagle, Marina Utgoff Braswell, Electronic Privacy Information Center, (Civil No. 99-3197 PLF), information withheld from FOIA, domestic wiretapping
• Kathleen Willey, Clinton's murdered her husband WND but see Salon rebuttal, destroy her credibility.
• Wayne Madsen Report. "On February 25, 2008, WMR reported: "WMR's intelligence sources in Africa are reporting that amid the post-election turmoil wracking Kenya, a three-person team (including a possible Korean-American woman) arrived in Nairobi last week and began asking questions about Barack Obama's father, the late Barack Obama, Sr."  Obama's passport files contain the dates and places of birth of Obama's parents and other pertinent data. The team also inquired about the Senator Obama Secondary School in Nyangoma-Kogelo in northwestern Kenya, the area where Obama's father, an ethnic Luo, hailed and where his grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango, still lives." full story. and more    Rove /  Clinton ... Rove covertly providing assistance to Clinton campaign, ...same as in eresa Heinz Kerry 2004 attempt to dig up dirt, Orkand Corporation of Falls Church, Virginia, maintains Bureau of Consular Affairs documentation system.
• ECS Apptis, Inc. (Apptis) was founded in 1983 as IntelliSys Technology Corporation (ITC), a small business providing services-based solutions to Federal Government customers. In 1999, after rapid growth and a name change to PlanetGov Inc., the company became a complete solutions provider offering a wide range of IT products and networking services. In July of 2004, after acquiring Technology and Management Associates, Inc. (TMA) and General Data System (GDS), they became Apptis, Inc. - "Applying Technologies, Inspiring Solutions". Apptis expertise includes enterprise design, installation, and operation; infrastructure planning and operation; information systems security; information assurance

• African American Religious Leadership Committee, Obama 
• Barack Obama.com
• Consortium News ... rank and file democrats have weathered three decades of Republican hardball politics, but now Clintons using Lee Atwater tactics: attacking their opponent on a strong point even when their candidate was more vulnerable, ie...Kerry, swiftboating, using the word 'kumbayah' from an old African spiritual song, ... DLCr, 
• Consortium News, James Baker, Kelly, Tutwiler, Clinton passport files, 1992
• DailyKOS Patrick F Kennedy, who is a Hillary supporter and former Asst. Sec of State or Bill Clinton? highest ranking passport department official.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica Karl Rove, aka Moby Dick, Turd Blossom, MC Rove, political assassination, malevolent Bush, leader of the Texas Mafia, including Gonzales, Bartlett, Miers, Mark McClellan, Scott McClellan, Pat Wood, Rod Paige, Don Evans, 
• Wayne Madsen Reports book: Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day. WMR
• KarlRoveSucks.com MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer ``Scooter'' Libby said Tuesday that Bush administration officials tried to blame him for the leak of a CIA operative's name to cover up for Bush political adviser Karl Rove's own disclosures."
• Outside the Beltway Belinda Stronach  Hillary Clinton adopts a new persona for every setting. She is alternately a lover, a fighter, a mocker, a whiner and a crier as she competes with Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. Whatever it takes!
• TexansForObama  Clinton dirty tricks, Nevada, chained, locked caucus doors,
• notes: violations detected by computer checks of 'flagged' files of high-profile people,, violations tip off supervisors, once the employees are fired its difficult to investigate, compel them to talk, plead Fifth Amendment, all was initially handled at the 'office level' until big wigs cornered,  and  for Obama: Kenya, father, Nairobi, Korean-American woman, ask questions about Barack Obama Sr. , dates and places of birth of Obama's parents,  also Nyangoma-Kogelo school, ethnic Luo, Sarah Ogwel Onyango, Obama's grandmother.  outrageous breech, private information,  
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• notes: Passportgate 08:  polygraph tests will be used on supervisors in the passport section, did employees have political motives, Acting Inspector General William E. Todd and chief IG investigator branch, James B. Burch, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, are leading the passport probe, which began Thursday. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said his department was no reason yet to investigate. Miss Rice and Mr. Kennedy did not learn of the breaches of Mr. Obama's personal data until The Washington Times e-mailed questions about the security breaches on Thursday.  Washington Times
• Waxman, Rep, Henry, California democrat, sent letter, demanding names, Canada,
• World Socialist Website  Passportgate 08 Bush administration illegally examined Obama passport file  ... Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management, claimed that top officials at the State Department only learned of the security breach Thursday afternoon, March 20, when a Times reporter called, although the files were accessed on January 9, February 21 and March 14 ... "

• Summary, Passportgate 08: Obama passport files rifled in Jan, Feb and March 2008, Obama not notified till March 20. Three names withheld from public.  Press mention of Clinton and McCain files just a smokescreen. Companies involved in State Dept data security: Harris Corp who owns Orkand, WMR and  Bloomberg Harris 1 0f 3 largest Iraq companies. Stanley Associates Inc  WMR Story shifted from Stanley to The Analysis Company as it was determined that its CEO John O. Brennan is retired CIA and Obama advisor.   Rice apologized within one day,  amazing in itself All kept secret until Washington Times broke the story Also, a major attempt to keep quiet that:  James A. Baker III, Clinton's chief of staff, and two other aides, hired criminal lawyers in 1992 to defend themselves in their implication of the State Dept illegal search of Clinton's passport files. New York Times  and Times Online more But Clinton caught with 700 FBI background files on Republicans, 1997...CNN including James Baker, Scrowcroft, Fitzwater. all fueled by Craig Livingstone, a political operative placed as head of the security office.  FBI Files Flap. all this inspired by Billy Dale, Hillary and Travelgate.

• Notes: Rove, master at digging through political opponents files to find 'dirt',  ...imprudent curiosity or dirty tricks, digging for dirt,  is it a new Watergate scandal, ... Mrs. Clinton's file was breeched in a 'training session'...right, the trainee was 'admonished', is there respect for citizen's privacy? ...  Howard L. Berman, California Democrat, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said would investigate the break-in. 
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• ECS Orkand  Harris Technical Services Corporation (formerly The Orkand Corporation) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation, dedicated to providing exceptional worldwide engineering, integration, and technical services. Harris currently supports the DoS Bureau of Consular Affairs in providing both software development and systems integration/maintenance services.
• CNN
• MSNBC Stanley Inc Stanley announced on Monday that it was awarded an additional $570 million contract to "continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate."
• Hoovers, Stanley Inc
• Signs on San Diego Obama, passport, 
• Times Online  Passportgate 08 A similar data breach took place in 1992 when State Department officials looked up data on Bill Clinton, then a presidential candidate, in an attempt to find out information from the late 1960s, amid unfounded political campaign rumors that Mr. Clinton had sought to renounce his citizenship to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. They also tried and failed to find evidence that he secretly traveled to communist countries.
• The Analysis Corporation, TAC, which is headed by John O. Brennan, former CIA agent who is an adviser to Obama's presidential campaign on intelligence and foreign policy   ... Terrorist Watch list ...  one of its employees involved ...  Washington Times  
• Washington Technology  Orkand Wins $72 Million State Department Contract, 
• Wikipedia, Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor, Trinity Unity Church of Christ (TUCC), Chicago megachurch, fiery sermons, Bill Clinton invited Wright to attend White House prayer breakfast, 1998, served in the 2nd Marine Division, and Navy, valedictorian, ... and Howard University, eight honorary doctorate degrees, 
• Notes: Passportgate 08: Bush 41, James Baker, Kelly, Tutwiler, Clinton passport file break-in, evidence to uncover derogatory info on Bill Clinton, question his patriotism, loyalty, purpose of student trips to Russia, September 30, 1992, Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Tamposi, ordered aids to search for letter, Clinton renounce his citizenship?  suspicions brought to election campaign, city a small tear in the corner of the passport application, saying this evidence of tampering, thus allowing a FBI referral, leaked by Bush campaign, Newsweek poured gas on the story,  Oct 4 edition ... also put out KGB link to Clinton, 'agent of influence', via Washington Times article, ... but Spencer Oliver, chief counsel on the House International Affairs Committee, suspected dirty tricks, violation of the Privacy Act, ... see Archives warehouse in Suitland, Clinton files searched by political appointees, all this made it to Washington Post, embarrassed Bush41, Bush 41 fanned the flames, but McCarthy tactics charged, Bush backpedaled, Clinton countered with a Prescott Bush salvo, said PB confronted McCarthy (interesting), Joseph diGenova (a Bush / Reagan man)  named as special prosecutor, cleared Bush,  Consortium News

• 95% of Black Americans will not vote for Republicans ... I wonder why?
• AP / Yahoo  Passportgate
• Remember the 1992, Clinton passport file scandal, James Baker ...?  New York Times  and Times Online   more below
• CNN, push polling
• Clinton, Hillary, in her book 'Living History', she claims credit for bringing Dick Morris (toe-sucker) back to the 'inner circle', third way mole?, National headquarters at 4420 North Fairfax Drive, Ballston, 
• DLC Democratic Leadership Council
• Fellowship, Hillary  file
• Fox News, Rove now works for Fox, who is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who held a fund raiser for Hillary. 
• Freeh, Louis,  why did he hate Clinton so much?
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• Harris Corporation, owns Orkand, Harris Corporation Board of Directors Thomas A. Dattilo, Terry D. Growcock, Lewis Hay III, Karen Katen, Stephen P. Kaufman, Leslie F. Kenne, Howard L. Lance, David B. Rickard, Dr. James C. Stoffel, Gregory T. Swienton, Hansel E. Tookes II,
• Kennedy, Patrick F.   undersecretary of state for management, in charge of passport office   
• New Year Tech Inc. of Vienna, Va., specializing in automated inventory management  part of passport processing, State Dept.
• Orkand Corporation, Falls Church, contractor, State Dept, data security.
• Merrill Lynch, appointed Stephen K. Berry as new head of government relations, and will report to the senior vice president and head of communications and public affairs—Margaret Tutwiler,
• Mukasey, Attorney General, how will he be involved in the cover-up of this dirty trick?   Before entering a person's passport file, employees must answer "yes" or "no" in a screen that warns them: "You are permitted access to passport and consular personal records on a need to know basis" and "These are privileged records and are subject to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974." Entry into the system does not give users access to other government records, officials said.
• NewsWeek October 4, 1992 Clinton passport file scandal
• Stanley Associates Inc (identified as contractor in passportgate) 3101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 700, in Arlington, Virginia. privately-held company established in 2002. president is Philip Nolan.  Defense Department is largest customer,  Stanley has contracts in Iraq; Georgia, South Korea; Huntsville, Alabama, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and more worldwide.  3101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia
• State Dept fired two, for peering at Obama's passport file.  AP / Yahoo  Bureau of Consular Affairs, Jan, Feb. of 2008,  Obama not notified until March.
•   Master of dirty tricks
• Republican Policy Committee
• Stanley Associates Inc.  Stanley Inc. 
• State Department, Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State, apologized to Obama, hoping it will go away, ... spokesman Sean McCormack, search terms: unauthorized access,  ... reminds of George H. W. Bush, 1992, political appointee was demoted for searching Bill Clinton's files,
• TownHall Blog Belinda Stronach, Bubba?
• US Conservatives  About.com. Conservative Politics, party affiliation data, some conservatives in general have accused Rev. Jeremiah Wright of using Black Liberation Theology to promote black separatism Wikipedia, 
• Washington Post Hillary, no surprises in her past  ... right
• Washington Post  Passportgate 08 David H. Laufman, associate independent counsel in the earlier passport scandal and now a partner at Kelley Drye Collier Shannon in Washington, said that a violation of the Privacy Act would occur if the person who accessed the information also disclosed it to someone unauthorized to received it. Even then, he said, violating the act is only a misdemeanor.  no mention of James Baker?
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• Orkand Corporation, notes: The Orkand Corp. was awarded a five-year, $72 million contract by the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs to support and maintain installed systems, operate a centralized integration and repair facility and create and maintain documentation for the installed systems. ... The company also will install upgraded systems and train bureau and department employees.  ... The main focus of the contract is ongoing support and care of installed bureau systems, as well as management and operation of the centralized integration and repair facility.  ... Orkand of Falls Church, Va., was awarded the work as a recompete of a contract it had won in 1995.   Harris Announces Completion of the Orkand Corporation  AcquisitionDr. Donald S. Orkand, outgoing president and founder of the Orkand Corporation.
• Wikipedia Patrick F. Kennedy is currently director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Management Policy and is the Undersecretary for Management. Formerly Deputy Director for Management at the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence, he returned to the Department of State on May 7, 2007.  Kennedy is also the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform and previously served as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001. 
• New York Times 1992  PROSECUTOR NAMED TO REVIEW SEARCH OF FILES ON CLINTON DAVID JOHNSTON, Published: December 18, 1992 Attorney General William P. Barr has arranged the appointment of an independent prosecutor to conduct a criminal investigation of the State Department's search of Bill Clinton's passport files, lawyers and Government officials following the case said today.  It is not clear who will be the primary subjects of the criminal inquiry by Joseph E. diGenova, a former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia who was appointed by a Federal appeals court panel in a sealed court document that has not been made public. ... James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff and former Secretary of State, and two of his top aides have hired criminal lawyers to represent them in connection with the inquiry, although it is not known if Mr. Baker or either of the aides, Margaret D. Tutwiler, White House director of communications, and Janet G. Mullins, the White House political director, is under scrutiny. A White House spokesman said today that officials there were unaware of the appointment. Spotlight on Senior Officials   and file
• World Socialist Website  The automated security controls were put in place at the State Department in the wake of a similar case of politically motivated snooping in 1992, when top officials of a previous Bush administration sought information to discredit the Democratic presidential candidate of that year, Bill Clinton.  In the 1992 scandal the trail back to the White House was clearly established, since Bush campaign manager James Baker—who left his position as secretary of state to run the reelection effort—was anxious to obtain material that could be used against Clinton. Baker was especially interested in Clinton’s visit to Moscow during the Vietnam War, while he was a graduate student at Oxford.  President George H. W. Bush made repeated references to this trip in the course of the 1992 fall campaign, seeking to smear Clinton as unpatriotic and disloyal. The Republicans circulated rumors that Clinton had renounced his citizenship as an antiwar gesture, and there were even McCarthyite-style suggestions he had become a “mole” for the Soviet KGB.   ....  the affair blew up into a minor sensation, with the appointment of an independent counsel who, well after the election, exonerated Baker and other top officials, including his top aide, Margaret Tutwiler, and Steven K. Berry, an assistant secretary of state.

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• CNN Money  "Palin renegotiated a new deal with a Canadian company, TransCanada, to build the $26 billion pipeline, which analysts say - if completed - is better financially for the state.  But analysts - and the McCain campaign itself - are quick to note that Palin will toe the line on the energy policies of her potential boss, who unlike Barack Obama does not favor a windfall profits tax.  Christopher Ruppel, an energy analyst at Execution LLC, a broker and research firm for institutional investors like hedge and mutual funds is more concerned with McCain's energy policy than Palin's past spats with the oil industry. "We don't think she will represent a big change from that."  The McCain campaign, which speaks for Palin, confirmed that stance.  MORE at Intelligent Design Jokes page 10
• WMR  August 19, 2008 -- Rove intimidating Republicans into silence ...    Buoyed by an ineffective House Judiciary Committee under the control of gatekeeping staffers working for committee Chairman John Conyers, Karl Rove has effectively curtailed any effective investigation of past election fraud, including the 2004 presidential election, as a result of threats and intimidations directed against potential Republican Party witnesses. WMR has learned from informed sources in Ohio and Alabama, that Rove is concerned that a huge GOP technical election "flipping" operation will be revealed that will result in a series of prosecutions and at least one impeachment of a federal judge, a political ally of Rove.  ...  Rove, according to our sources, has threatened Republican Party official Mike Connell and his wife Heather if Connell testifies about GOP computerized vote-rigging. Connell has been a top technical wizard for Republican web-based campaign operations, including the firms GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications. WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources in Ohio that Connell and GOP cyber-security expert Stephen Spoonamore were approached by the White House to delete "smoking gun" emails from the White House system that revealed a conspiracy by the Bush administration to fire several U.S. Attorneys after the 2004 election. Spoonamore, a GOP supporter of John McCain and CEO of the computer security firm Cybrinth, has confirmed that Rove and the White House conspired to rob 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of Ohio, thus ensuring George W. Bush's "re-election." According to our Ohio sources, Spoonamore directed attention to 12 Ohio counties where Kerry received fewer votes than down-ticket Democratic candidates.   full story

• Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.
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• Wikipedia caging lists examples, how they work:  From the Washington Post: "In 1981, the Republican National Committee sent letters to predominantly black neighborhoods in New Jersey, and when 45,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the committee compiled a challenge list to remove those voters from the rolls. The RNC sent off-duty law enforcement officials to the polls and hung posters in heavily black neighborhoods warning that violating election laws is a crime.  The Washington Post continues: "In 1986, the RNC tried to have 31,000 voters, most of them black, removed from the rolls in Louisiana when a party mailer was returned. The consent decrees that resulted prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that target minorities or conduct mail campaigns to 'compile voter challenge lists.'"

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• Caging list notes: "When asked by Newsnight for an explanation of the list, Republican spokespersons claim the list merely records returned mail from either fundraising solicitations or returned letters sent to newly registered voters to verify their addresses for purposes of mailing campaign literature." and "Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner." DissidentVoice
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• Greg Palast: June 2007, US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents by Greg Palast June 1, 2007  Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’ Greg Palast, reporting for BBC Newsnight, obtained a series of confidential emails from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. In these emails, Griffin, then the GOP Deputy Communications Director, transmitted so-called ‘caging lists’ of voters to state party leaders.  Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.  Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”  Conyers indicated to the BBC that he thought it unlikely that Griffin could carry out this massive ‘caging’ operation without the knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove.  Griffin has not responded to requests by BBC to explain this 'caging' operation. However, in emails subpoenaed by Conyers' committee, Griffin complains to Monica Goodling, an assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, about the BBC reporter's reproduction of caging lists in Palast's book, "Armed Madhouse."  In the email dated February 5 of this year, Griffin stated that the purpose of 'caging' was to identify "fraudulent" voters. This contradicts one explanation of the Bush campaign to BBC that the lists were of potential donors and not in any way created to challenge voters.  Griffin confidentially wrote: "The real story is this: There were thousands of reported illegal/fake voter registrations around the country, so some of the Republican State Parties mailed letters welcoming new voters to the newly registered voters. … The Republican State Parties ultimately wanted to show that thousands of fraudulent registrations had been completed."  Last Wednesday, Goodling testified under a grant of immunity before the House Judiciary Committee that Gonzales' Deputy Paul McNulty, "failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote 'caging' during his work on the President's 2004 campaign."  Goodling's testimony prompted Conyers' request to the BBC for the Griffin emails.  MORE BELOW on CAGING LISTS
• DissidentVoice from 2004 Greg Palast story: caging list lists, from 2004 Greg Palast story, secret document, emails, Bush campaign headquarters, Florida, disrupt voting, voter suppression, African-American voting districts, BBC Newsnight investigation, "caging list", lists of voters predominantly in Democratic areas of Jacksonville, Tallahassee, mass challenge voters on election day, only vote by provisional ballot, or provisionally, after signing an affidavit attesting to their legal voting status, 
• BBC RNC response to BBC article excerpt: If the reporter had asked the Elections Supervisor in Duval County, the area in question, he would have learned that this area has been affected by massive fraud efforts this year as a result of the work of ACORN, a third party organization supporting the Kerry campaign and the Democrats.  He would have learned that many people who were registered this year in Duval County in fact do not have valid addresses. It seems his goal was not to obtain accurate information, but to help the Democrats launch a political attack.  In a year when reporters are under heavy scrutiny for showing political leanings toward the Democratic Party, I would think that your new organization would take greater care to understand the facts and use sources that will yield objective information, rather than carry one party's political agenda.  Please post this letter on your website and in any other place that the above-mentioned story appears. It is your responsibility to make sure that the facts are relayed to your viewers and readers. Full article (clever denial of exaggeration of voter fraud). 

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Palast, who first reported this story for BBC Television Newsnight (UK) and Democracy Now! (USA), is author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse.  The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.  A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts. Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.   search terms: Amy Goodman, discussion with Palast, scheme:RNC mailed voters letters in envelopes marked  'do not forward', to be returned to sender, then mailed to the US homes of military personnel stationed overseas, thus undeliverable, and subject to challenge by the RNC, voter forced to file 'provisional ballot', RNC leaders in scheme include Tim Griffin, Brett Doster, ... file caging.xls, also targeted African Americans, blacks, felons, Katherine Harris, 

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Ann Dunham was 18 when Obama was born – so she wouldn’t have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16.

(Interestingly, apparently there isn’t much paperwork on Obama’s parents’ marriage. Obama: From Promise to Power, page. 27: “Obama later confessed that he never searched for the government documents on the marriage, although Madelyn (Obama’s maternal grandmother) insisted they were legally married.” Also note that Obama’s father apparently was not legally divorced from his first wife back in Kenya at the time, a point of contention that ultimately led to their separation.)

Rumor Two: Obama’s middle name is not “Hussein” but “Muhammad.”

As Politifact notes, all available public records going back to 1991 refer to the candidate as “Barack H. Obama.”

It is theoretically possible, if not plausible, that Obama changed his name at some earlier point in his life, as he was sorting out his issues of culture and identity. But this would mean that Obama recognized how emotionally-charged the name “Muhammad” would become in American life long before the 9/11 attacks. And if you’re going to change your middle name from that of the central figure in Islam because you fear controversy, picking the last name of the highest-profile anti-American dictator in the Middle East (Saddam) doesn’t seem like a huge improvement.

Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name him after his father, and his birth certificate says “Barry.” Perhaps the most plausible of the rumors, as Obama was known by that name through much of his childhood and young adulthood. If true, this would spur a new round of “When Barry Became Barack” stories – a minor headache for the campaign, but hardly a major scandal.