The Chris Pentico Case

Criminalizing Citizen Activism: The Chris Pentico Case

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?EdNo=001&At=0057120

Confessed incompetence or obstruction of justice?

Assciated Press reports

"Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, said that looking back, he can't think of a thing “we could have done that would have changed anything.” Black, a top executive with Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm, made the comment in an interview published in November issue of Men's Journal. More...."

Some doubt this man's credibility:

http://911blogger.com/node/18074/print

Some, such as Lee Hamilton and Daniel Marcus,  even suggest the CIA committed acts of obstruction of justice:

(from George Washington Blog:)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2007

More Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in 9/11 Investigation

By now you've heard that the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of alleged Al Qaeda members. The interesting part of this story is that the 9/11 Commission claimed that it obtainedmost of its information about the attacks from these interrogations (and then only indirectly as reported by the military to the Commission; the Commission never met the alleged detainees, was not allowed to submit questions to them directly, nor was it allowed to question the alleged interrogators to assess their credibility).

The New York Times confirms that the government swore that ithad turned over all of the relevant material regarding the statements of the people being interrogated:

“The commission did formally request material of this kind from all relevant agencies, and the commission was assured that we had received all the material responsive to our request,” said Philip D. Zelikow, who served as executive director of the Sept. 11 commission ....

“No tapes were acknowledged or turned over, nor was the commission provided with any transcript prepared from recordings,” he said.

But is the destruction of the tapes -- and hiding from the 9/11 Commission the fact that the tapes existed -- a big deal? Yes, actually. As the Times goes on to state:

Daniel Marcus, a law professor at American University who served as general counsel for the Sept. 11 commission and was involved in the discussions about interviews with Al Qaeda leaders, said he had heard nothing about any tapes being destroyed.

If tapes were destroyed, he said, “it’s a big deal, it’s a very big deal,” because it could amount to obstruction of justice to withhold evidence being sought in criminal or fact-finding investigations.

Indeed, 9/11 Commission co-chairman Lee Hamilton says:

"Did they obstruct our inquiry? The answer is clearly yes," says Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, in the wake of reports the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two al-Qaida suspects. "Whether that amounts to a crime, others will have to judge," adds Hamilton.

95 percent of the sugar beet crop in Idaho Genetically Modified

naturalnews.com reports:

John Schorr, agriculture manager for Amalgamated Sugar, estimates that 95 percent of the sugar beet crop in Idaho will be of the new GM variety in 2008, or a total of 150,000 out of 167,000 acres.

In 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed the classification of Roundup Ready sugar beets from regulated to deregulated, meaning that the GM beets could be planted without a special permit. But the lawsuit alleges that the USDA failed to properly conduct an environmental review into the impacts of this deregulation.

"The law requires the government to take a hard look at the impact that deregulating Roundup Ready sugar beets will have on human health, agriculture and the environment," said Greg Loarie of Earthjustice. "The government cannot simply ignore the fact that deregulation will harm organic farmers and consumers, and exacerbate the growing epidemic of herbicide resistant weeds."

Read more...

http://www.naturalnews.com/z024417.html

SR says Blackball Blackwater

SR says Blackball Blackwater

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/opinion/story.asp?ID=249355

Feds Raid Blackwater in Shady Arms Deal

Feds Raid Blackwater in Shady Arms Deal

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feds_raid_Blackwaters_armory_in_firearms_0626.html

Blackwater's shady deal allows company to have AK-47s

Blackwater's shady deal allows company to have AK-47s

http://blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=7066

Blackwater, Backup papers filed

http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=archives.month&ProgramID=46&year=8&month=5&backURL=index.php%253Fcmd%253Darchives.getyear%2526ProgramID%253D46%26year%3D8%26backURL%3Dindex.php%253Fcmd%253Darchives


http://www.sos.idaho.gov/tiffpilot/tiffpilot.exe?FN=\\sosimg\corp$/%2F10152007%2FLLC%23ORIG07288140903.tif

Letter to Craig, Crapo, and Sali in support of HR 2756, "Honest Money Act," and HR 4683, the "Free Competition in Currency Act."

DownsizeDC.org
Preview Letter

Note: the final letters will be addressed properly, each to its appropriate recipient.

Please co-sponsor HR 2756, "Honest Money Act," and HR 4683, the "Free Competition in Currency Act."

My personal comment to you:

Please support the Constitution of the United States of America. The privately owned Federal Reserve is not authorized by the Constitution, is in violation of the intent of the Constitution, and is not operated in the interest of the people of the United States, therefore it should be abolished. HR 2756, "Honest Money Act," and HR 4683, the "Free Competition in Currency Act" will go a long way toward bringing to the American people the honest and stable monetary system which the Federal Reserve has failed to provide.

I will be eagerly awaiting to share your reply with friends, fellow citizens, and voters of Idaho

The Honorable Larry Craig
United States Senate
520 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-1205
202-224-2752 (Phone)
202-228-1067 (Fax)
http://craig.senate.gov/webform.cfm



The Honorable Mike Crapo
United States Senate
239 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-1204
202-224-6142 (Phone)
202-228-1375 (Fax)
http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm



The Honorable Bill Sali
United States House of Representatives
508 Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC 20515-1201
202-225-6611 (Phone)
202-225-3029 (Fax)
http://sali.house.gov/zipauth.shtml

Blackwater above the law

From the International Herald Tribune:

Security contractor in Baghdad shooting is flying high

By James Risen

WASHINGTON: Last autumn, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril.

Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater's ouster from the country, a criminal investigation by the FBI, a series of internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and high-profile congressional hearings.

click here for complete story

5 USC 3108 - Sec. 3108. Employment of detective agencies; restrictions

http://vlex.com/vid/19265891

An individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization, may not be employed by the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.


If this law doesn't cover Blackwater then the fine, upright, moral gentlemen in Congress should write a new one that does.

Honoring the Victims of 911 on the Sixth aniversary of this act of treason.

Honoring the victims and families with a search for the truth. Satyagraha.

911 WAZ INSIDE JOB Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

911 WAZ Inside Job white chalk graffiti at Independence Point Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

These photos were taken around 9:30 AM

Later it was obliterated.

Chemtrails Over Rathdrum Prairie, Idaho

Chemtrails photographed over Rathdrum Prairie, Idaho. Viewed from Hayden and Post Falls.

6 April 2007

Coming to Coeur d'Alene

A new world order lackey, traitor, war profiteer, high-end looter, advocate and author of torture, war criminal, liar, and prime suspect in the 9-11-01 attack on the World Trade Center will be visiting the Coeur d'Alene Airport Thursday.

Famous quote: "deficits don't matter"

O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired. http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm



ORDERED NORAD TO STAND DOWN
So, I was standing in the SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), which is basically this underground bunker command post for USCENTCOM, when the first plane hit. We were watching the fly patterns of all the planes on the aerospace grid. This contained not only all commercial flights at the time, but all military flights, and fake enemy planes that were supposedly put on there for the exercise. Many of the planes sent to intercept the fake blips were scrambled from Andrews which is an air defense AFB for the East Coast. They were sent across the US and left very few planes to defend the capital. After the first plane hit the tower we were all in disbelief. After the initial shock was over, our questions were what are the odds this could happen for real, during a training exercise thats covering the same scenario? We were all at wits end. Then to top all of this off, Cheney gave NORAD the order to stand down scrambling jets to intercept. A few moments later tower 2 was hit. Only after the Pentagon was hit, did he give the orders to scramble the jets to intercept the plane bound for the White House. Lauro "LJ" Chavez

http://www.halturnershow.com/MilitaryEyeWitnessSaysCheneyOrderedAirForceToStandDownon9-11.html

MEMBER OF PNAC

PNAC pined for a "New Pearl Harbor."

http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Disturbing-Administration/dp/1566565529/sr=8-1/qid=1162247584/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0097944-9484941?ie=UTF8&s=books


It is a little disheartening to see sycophants flock to see him. We remind ourselves
that Hitler, Caligula, Stalin, Castro and other villains have had their fawners and followers too, who are merely revealing their own depravity and moral bankruptcy by association with the evil ones.

Let us disengage from our own disgust, outrage, and anger and in the stillness of our hearts pray for the salvation and enlightenment of the depraved and their victims




http://faithandpolicy.org/blog/?p=228

Mylo Enterprises Phone Jamming Links

Talking Points Memo
TPM timeline


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/phonejamming.php

Was the Mylo Enterprises attack on democracy a foretaste of the New World Order attack
on freedom of communication?

http://hannah.smith-family.com/archive/001167.html

Betsy Devine
Background, timeline

Spokesman-Review more details subscription

Financing for Phone Jamming May Have Come from Jack Abramhoff

A "...new liberal Senate advocacy group has filed a Federal Elections Commission criminal complaint against the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, who they allege may have illegally concealed the receipt and amount of a contribution from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians -- a native American client of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, RAW STORY has learned.

The Senate Majority Project says the Choctaw's contribution helped finance the Republicans’ efforts to stymie get out the vote phone lines by illegally "jamming" calls." Click through to Raw Story for complete details


See previous post for more details
"... contracted the job out to an Idaho firm called Mylo Enterprises for $2,500.... Shaun Hansen, founder of Mylo Enterprises, were indicted.... Hansen will stand trial in October."

GOP Jams Democracy: GOP Jams Democracy

GOP Jams Democracy
How high did the Republicans’ New Hampshire phone scheme reach?
By Paul Kiel inthesetimes.com

"All McGee needed was the machinery to carry out his scheme. Being a military man, he went up the chain of command, to James Tobin, the regional director for both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Republican National Senatorial Committee. McGee reported what he needed; Tobin, without a word of caution, gave him the number of Allen Raymond, who ran GOP Marketplace, a political consulting firm. McGee dialed up Raymond, and they struck a deal. For $15,600, Raymond would arrange for repeated hang-up calls throughout Election Day to six numbers: five New Hampshire Democratic Party offices and a Manchester, N.H., firefighters union that was offering voters rides to the polls. The NHRSC footed the bill. Raymond in turn contracted the job out to an Idaho firm called Mylo Enterprises for $2,500.

Although it might have been construed as a dirty trick, McGee believed the jamming was an acceptable battle tactic, like a borderline defamatory attack ad. This was not a covert operation. It had been authorized. He’d spoken to Tobin, and he spoke about the scheme with NHRSC Chairman John Dowd on the eve of the election. On Election Day morning, everything was going according to plan.

It went downhill from there. Early that morning, Dowd consulted the NHRSC’s legal counsel and was told that the jamming was illegal. He called McGee, who in turn called Raymond’s partner to call it off. But Mylo’s machines had been at it since 7:45 a.m. By the time they stopped, at 9:10 a.m., they’d jammed the six numbers for 85 minutes.

The ensuing Justice Department investigation has netted all four of the players at the heart of the conspiracy. McGee and Raymond pled guilty—McGee has already served his seven months in prison, and Raymond is currently serving his three-month sentence—and Tobin and Shaun Hansen, founder of Mylo Enterprises, were indicted. Tobin was convicted last December, mostly on the testimony of McGee and Raymond, and immediately mounted a vigorous appeal. Hansen will stand trial in October."

click through for complete story

IDAHO TELEMARKETING FIRM OFFICIAL INDICTED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PHONE JAMMING CASE

TELEMARKETING FIRM OFFICIAL INDICTED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PHONE JAMMING CASE

FBI Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CRM
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2006
(202) 514-2008





WWW.USDOJ.GOV TDD
(202) 514-1888





"TELEMARKETING FIRM OFFICIAL INDICTED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PHONE JAMMING CASE

WASHINGTON, DC - Shaun Hansen, former co-owner of Idaho-based telemarketing firm Mylo Enterprises, appeared in a federal court in New Hampshire today to face charges for conspiring to commit, and aiding and abetting the commission of, interstate telephone harassment relating to a scheme to jam several New Hampshire telephone lines on Election Day, 2002, the Department of Justice announced today.

The two-count indictment was returned under seal on March 8, 2006, and unsealed today upon his appearance in court. Hansen, 34, is charged with conspiracy to commit telephone harassment and aiding and abetting telephone harassment.

The indictment alleges that Hansen was contacted by others involved in the scheme and asked to assist in making harassing phone calls to five telephone numbers associated with the New Hampshire Democratic Party and one number associated with the Manchester Professional Firefighters Association on Election Day, November 5, 2002. Hansen allegedly agreed that, in return for $2,500, employees of Mylo Enterprises would place repeated hang-up calls to those numbers on that day. The indictment charges that, at Hansen's direction, employees of Mylo Enterprises in Idaho placed several hundred hang-up calls to those New Hampshire telephone numbers on that morning before the scheme was discontinued.

If convicted, Hansen faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on the conspiracy charge, and a maximum penalty of two years in prison on telephone harassment charge.

Hansen is the fourth individual charged in the Justice Department's investigation into the phone jamming scheme. Allen Raymond, former president of a Virginia communications consulting company, and Charles McGee, former Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit telephone harassment. McGee was sentenced to seven months in prison and Raymond was sentenced to three months. James Tobin, former New England Regional Chairman of the Republican National Committee, was convicted after a December 2005 jury trial on for conspiring to commit, and aiding and abetting the commission of, interstate telephone harassment. Tobin will be sentenced on May 17, 2006.

The prosecutions have been led by Andrew Levchuk, Senior Counsel, and Lily Chinn, trial attorney, with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and by Nicholas Marsh, trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Department's Criminal Division. The investigation was conducted by Bedford Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New Hampshire state Attorney General's Office.

Criminal indictments are only charges and not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty"