Posted on 04/19/2004 4:50:41 AM PDT by backhoe
In light of the Gorelick/Clarke/9-11 Commission affairs, this old article features a number of events, names, and places which may require further scrutiny.
"Of ALL of the public officials in
the Clinton administration, and the
Bush administration, the ONE who
is MOST directly responsible, in
my judgement, for 9/11 happening,
is Jamie Gorelick." -Dick Morris
Slick Willie's not going away until we put him away!!
FReegards...MUD
From your lips to God's Ears- thanks for looking.
The Iran-contra-cocaine criminal iceberg was subjected to a series of bogus investigations and damage control "exposés.". . .But, the hall of shame did not stop with John Tower, Ed Muskie and Brent Scowcroft or Dan Inouye and Lee Hamilton. It included Senator John Kerry and his Special Counsel Jack Blum and Staff Aid Dick McCall. It reached to the Special Counsel, Judge Lawrence E. Walsh, and to The Iran-Contra Scandal: the Declassified History, edited by Peter Kornbluh. . ."The Kerry Report" of December 1988 and the "Walsh Report" of 4 August 1993 are both obstructions of justice, just as were the "Select Committee" and "Tower Commission.". . .Prepared for Sen. John Kerry, Jack Blum and Dick McCall" (25 August 1988). . ."The Kerry Report," pages 130-32, blows Brenneke and Ambassador White off:. . .Then came the "Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters -- Lawrence E. Walsh, independent counsel, 4 August 1993," commonly called the "Walsh Report." It, like the Kerry Report, is a con job and cover-up.
For whom was Kerry covering up? Kerry's investigation and much of the literature commenting on it (by authors like Alfred McCoy, Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall, and Gary Webb) pointed the finger exclusively at the CIA while dismissing as "McCarthyist paranoia" any allegations of Communist involvement in drug trafficking. No doubt there are corrupt elements in the CIA--no doubt at all; but curious to correlate Kerry's exclusive emphasis on the CIA with the facts that Kerry's committee relied heavily on informants the FBI regarded as Sandinista agents, and that Kerry's associate Peter Kornbluh, whose name I've highlighted above, was a member of the Institute for Policy Studies and an advocate of the pro-Castro/pro-Sandinista lobby.
To put this in context: although it's often noted that after Castro took over Cuba he shut down Mafia gambling operations there, it's less often noted that he continued to allow drug trafficking to the United States, cutting a deal with Florida mob boss Santos Trafficante. Trafficante was at that time part of the CIA's assassination plots against Castro, and in that capacity became a double-agent for Castro (see for brief summary Santos Trafficante: "In September 1960 Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, took part in talks with Allen W. Dulles, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), about the possibility of murdering Fidel Castro. In 1961 Roselli persuaded Trafficante to join the conspiracy. Meyer Lansky also became involved in this plot and was reportedly offering a million-dollar reward for the Cuban leader's murder. Trafficante also worked closely with the CIA agent, William Harvey, in this operation. By 1962, Trafficante and his friends became convinced that the Cuban revolution could not be reversed by simply killing Castro. However, they continued to play along with this CIA plot in order to prevent them being prosecuted for criminal offences committed in the United States. . .Trafficante continued to work for the CIA and was involved in the Iran-Contra affair.").
Later in the 1970s when Carlos Lehder-Rivas was setting up the Medellin Cartel, he and Robert Vesco made a deal with Fidel Castro to allow use of Cuban air space: "Cuba allowed several major drug smugglers to hide out on the island. In 1982, one of them set up home here at the Marina Hemingway. Though Robert Vesco was indicted in 1989 for smuggling over a ton of cocaine through Cuba, he is still living there. . .Basically, Vesco was Fidel Castro's procurer. He was paying his dues to the Cuban government for his asylum there and in doing so, he was willing to procure anything that they needed, get involved in any type of operation that needed to be.. . .Vesco arranged for one of his business associates to visit Cuba. This is Carlos Lehder, a founding member of the Medellin Cartel. Today he's in a U.S. penitentiary serving a sentence of life plus 135 years. Because his case is under appeal, Lehder declined to discuss any drug business he may have done in Cuba, but he does confirm that he went there and that his visit was approved at a very high level." (Cuba and Cocaine). Cf. ALLEGATIONS OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CIA AND THE CONTRAS IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING TO THE UNITED STATES: Volume II: The Contra Story: Appendices: Appendix A: Jack Terrell, Note 19: "In a February 10, 1987 cable to CIA regarding information about Carlos Lehder-Rivas, the FBI reported that Frank Castro was considered to be a narcotics trafficker, mercenary and a person who would do anything for money. The cable also noted that Castro was the subject of a Miami narcotics case and that Castro's break from the anti-Fidel Castro movement was consistent with the ideology of Lehder-Rivas who was pro-Fidel Castro."; also Appendix C: "To what extent did CIA have information indicating that the Government of Nicaragua, the Government of Cuba, or Nicaraguan- or Cuban-sponsored individuals were involved in alleged drug trafficking activities of individuals associated with the Contras? No information has been found to indicate that either the Government of National Reconstruction (GRN) or the Government of Cuba (GOC) was involved in drug trafficking activities with individuals associated with the Contras. CIA reporting concerning drug trafficking by the GRN and the GOC during the 1980s concerned the use of Nicaragua and Cuba for the transshipment of drugs to the United States. None of the reporting linked any Contra organization or Contra member with such activities. . .An October 8, 1982 cable to Headquarters reported that U.S. fugitive Robert Vesco and Interior Ministry official Paul Atha had said in early October 1982 that the GRN was planning a drug smuggling operation to earn cash for the GRN Ministry of the Interior (MINT). . .Reportedly Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez would organize and direct the operation with U. S. fugitive Robert Vesco acting as his advisor. According to this report, the GRN was laying the groundwork through trusted collaborators in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica."
In this context I pose the question: for whom was Kerry covering up?
You found some good names, neighbor-- that's one reason I reposted this- so many players & names & events that, while old, still are interesting. Note Ben-Veniste' keeps popping up as well.
"So Seal went over their heads. Again he was rebuffed. Eventually, with help from his lawyer, Richard Ben-Veniste, he went over everybody's heads, to Washington, DC. "I did my part by launching him into the arms of Vice President Bush, who embraced him as an undercover operative," Ben-Veniste later told the Wall Street Journal. Seal appeared before Bush's Vice Presidential Task Force on Drugs in Washington, where he appeared to dazzle them with smuggling lore and how he had made millions in the "trade," as he called it. But what caught the panel's attention was the bombshell he dropped during his closed-door testimony: that the Sandinistas were directly involved in drug trafficking into the United States. According to Seal, the Medellin Cartel had made a deal with the Sandinistas, awarding them hefty cuts of drug profits in exchange for the use of an airfield in Managua as a transshipment point for narcotics.. . .The web of connections that such investigation uncovers seems to be nearly endless. Ben-Veniste, to cite but one example, had another client whose name may ring a bell. It was William Jefferson Clinton. He was governor of the state where Mena is located during the height of the shenanigans that went on there. Then there's Ben-Veniste's close friend and associate Alvin Malnik, a man regarded as Meyer Lansky's "heir apparent." Hopsicker calls him "Alvin of Arabia" because, unlike most Jews, he converted to Islam, took an Arabic name and married his son into the Saudi royal family. Both he and his son have taken up residence in the kingdom, where he acts as an advisor to the royal family. It's an odd little tale, but what does it have to do with Barry Seal? In 1982 Seal began flying weapons to the Contras from Mena, Arkansas which had been paid for with Saudi Royal family money. Coincidence? Perhaps. Small world? Without a doubt."The saga of Barry Seal 6/18/01
That was from a June 2001 article. Note how Ben-Veniste's story about his role in turning Seal into a DEA informant has changed since then--this is from an interview after Ben-Veniste was appointed to the 9-11 Commission:
I did represent Barry Seal, who was convicted. He thereafter, on his own, became a government informant.Exclusive Interview with R. Ben-Veniste, Commissioner on 9/11 4/24/03
More details:
"Major Democratic Party figures doing business with drug traffickers and intelligence agencies is not as surprising as it might sound. Hopsicker also interviewed Iran-Contra insiders who told him that Democratic powerhouse attorney Richard Ben Veniste had - also in 1982 - incorporated a company named Trinity Oil for Barry Seal as a vehicle to launder Seal's enormous cocaine cash flow.": The Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline
"Capital Consultants LLC of Portland has lent at least $6 million -- much of it from union pension funds -- to a Georgia-based auto lender linked to a businessman with reputed ties to organized crime. Alvin Malnik, a Boca Raton, Fla., lawyer and investor, is the beneficiary of two trusts that hold 100 percent of the stock of Title Loans of America, the nation's largest title-lending chain, according to Don Tucker, a Title Loans lobbyist in Florida. . .The New Jersey Casino Control Commission denied Malnik a casino license in 1980, citing, among other things, his long association with mob financier Meyer Lansky. The commission ruled that Malnik was "a person of unsuitable character and unsuitable reputation." And in 1993 the commission disciplined two Atlantic City casinos for allowing Malnik to set foot in them.": Firm Linked To Reputed Mob Figure Got Loans
"Alvin Malnik's son, "Shareef" - formerly known as Mark - was a young - Jewish - married man.* He was also an adviser and confidante to Prince Turki. Malnik controlled the Prince's schedule and contacts.* Prince Turki created a two-story apartment in Malnik's North Miami condominium, the Cricket Club, directly below Alvin's penthouse.*. . .Young Mark took to carrying the Koran around with him.*Then a devastating blow struck the Saudi Prince and his entourage.* Miami police, acting on a complaint that servants were being held as slaves, stormed the Cricket Club sancturary.*But the cops never got a chance to carry out their search.* One of the Princesses' began shouting very unroyal obscenities at them, biting a policewoman deep enough to leave toothmarks for days.*Family bodyguards quickly came to the rescue.* A stand-off ensued, and startled police were forced to retreat.*As suits and counter-suits began to fly between Saudi Prince Turki and an outraged Florida State Attorney, the U.S. State Department rushed in a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia to serve as intermediary.* He secured face-saving diplomatic immunity for the Prince.*Then the Prince's brother-in-law Al-Fassi offered to sell a stolen $1.2 million emerald-and-diamond ring to an undercover FBI agent.* He did not have diplomatic immunity, and was charged with interstate and international transportation of stolen goods, a felony punishable by amaximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.*The lucky Sheik had, at least, a well-connected lawyer: Richard Ben-Veniste.* When all this bad news reached the ear of the Saudi King back in Riyadh, he ordered the Prince to end his lolng exile and return home.* Once at home, the Prince's family circle broadened to include their friends formerly named Malnik.*Both father and son were said to have taken Arabic names and converted to Islam.*What pertinance does the story of Attorney Alvin Malnik, heir to Meyer Lansky, converting to Islam and living in Saudi Arabia as an adviser to a member of the Saudi royal family have to do with all this? *In 1982 Barry Seal began flying weapons to the Contras from Mena, Arkansas which had been paid for with Saudi Royal family money. Michael Fugler was Seal's frontman and attorney. Fugler also has insider shares to Khasshogi's GENI being shorted by Amr Elgindy."REUTERS: Saudis Plan to Sue U.S. over Sept. 11
So if Ben-Veniste represented a client tied to the Saudis, wouldn't that give him a conflict of interests in the 9-11 Commission?
BTW if you click on that last link, there's a list of the Malniks' corporate assets--handy.
I'm just about convinced the top is completely rotten, and there's no hope of achieving redress through conventional means.
It's got to be.
bttt
I don't disagree with you, at all.
I'd like to simply be left alone, but that does not seem to be an option, nowadays- there's no where to hide.
THANK GOD someone has a brain and courage enough to go beyond the braindead topic of Clinton/sex. I used to talk with liberals at work about Clinton. They tormented me by bringing up sex, pretending that there's nothing else to talk about regarding Clinton. THIS is the stuff that matters most. Obviously, I have no idea if every single claim is accurate. But I've studied some of the claims in detail:
1. There clearly was a coverup regarding Ron Brown. A lot of people don't stop to consider that Brown crashed into a mountain on the same date that Dr. Martain Luther King Jr. made his 'made it to the mountaintop' speech. Some people know about the four whistle blowers, with professional knowledge of forensics who were drummed out-- and for some reason don't care. Some people know about the x-ray and photographic evidence for all to see, and they still don't care. They just shoot back with their lame 'kamakazi shooter' mantra like brainless robots. And, then there was the accidental cremation of a witness and the alleged 'suicide' of the airfield worker in charge of the light beacons.
2. There clearly was something strange going on at Waco, with four of Clinton's former body guards from Arkansas being among the five dead there.
3. There clearly was something very strange about Betty Currie's two brothers: one beaten and the other run off the road by a truck and then run over by a truck a short time later. Both incidences happened a day before she was supposed to testify.
4. There clearly was a coverup regarding Vince Foster. Blood simply doesn't trickle uphill, and bodies don't levitate after they die. Looking at the Knowlton Appendix, and considering that the 'pushy lawyer from New York', whats-his-name, ended up convicted for raiding Foster's office, what is a person supposed to believe?
Just when you thought you had plumbed the depths- there was more.
And when you reached what you thought had to be the bottom- you just could not get any lower- there was more.
I don't know what it counts for in the great scheme of things, but my two teenage nieces grew up during what I have dubbed "the decade of frauds," and they viewed Clinton as a dirty, sniggering joke. Monica was "Little Miss Blowjob..."
I wish they had had a better example of manhood as a national leader, but I don't quarrel with their assessment of him.
I can't recall the woman's name
( she was one of those "disposable famous people of the nineteen-nineties"-- you've heard of her, she was held up back then as a shining example of womanhood; now nobody knows who she was... )
--but during Clinton's inaugueration she was quoted as saying to him
"Be careful, Bill- the children are watching..."
My point being that, even then, before he took office, his shills and sycophants knew exactly what he was. But they were willing to hold their noses and look aside for a taste of fame and power.
Aw, what the "H"-- let me toss in a file I have not posted in a long while:
Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )
-Some old strange clinton "stuff"--
-The Atomic Genie- what we know about North Korea's Nuclear program--
Madison Society - Slick Willy
... THE CLINTON TIME LINE. The Etherzone provides, in one location, all the events
of the Clinton Ongoing Corruption from 1977 through 2000. Read more. ...
CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:
... And that gets to my second chart, Mr. Speaker, which is the time line.....Up until
1993, Mr. Speaker, under Democrats and Republican Presidents alike, there ...
The Cost of Life (Clinton/Gore Sellout of Security for Campaign Contributions) **FR EXCLUSIVE** #2
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame
Is Bill Clinton Responsible for September 11?
Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE
-The number of "suicides" for people linked to this and other Clinton-related cases--
-Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears--
-SEND JUANITA BROADDRICK VIDEO TO THOSE WHO WANT CLINTON TO SPEAK--
Nothing phony about response to Hillary at fete
Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention
-Sen. Hillary Clinton--NewsMax.com Hot Topics--
-All Hillary, all the time...--
-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research --
1. The Clintons are pro-abortion. Our children deserve better.
2. The Clintons are against school vouchers. Our children deserve better.
3. The Clintons are against our ballistic missile defense system. Our children deserve to be protected from rogue North Korean nuclear missiles.
4. The Clintons want Americans to be subjected to the International Criminal Court, which has no Bill of Rights, no right to see your accuser, no jury, and no appeal. Our citizens deserve better.
5. The Clintons want the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming to become law. That treaty will eventually lead to the prohibition of gasoline-powered automobiles. We deserve better than to return to the pre-industrial age.
Thank you for the extra links. This is now THE KEY thread to respond to Clinton's book, IMHO. Good timing. Great work. I'm glad you keep organized.
As we say down South, "Son offa B!tch!!!"
Like Ron Silver complaining about the military jets flying overhead, and being told "but they're our jets now..."
Fleetwood Mac, all-night pizza parties, MIRVs to the heathen Chinee... oh, those memories of the Decade of Fraud(s) just keep on giving... kind of like penicillin-resistant gonorrhea, you just can't be rid of them.
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