Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Seven

The Washington Times ^ | 4-26-04 | Bill Gertz

[JustPiper]

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Laboratory guard post near classified facilities in what U.S. officials think was an intelligence mission, The Washington Times has learned.

[milkncookies]

It's at Fortune Magazine's site, but you need a subscription. I'll look later to see if it's out there on the web.

[WestCoastGal]

I don't know if you got a chance to see Cong. Cunningham on C-Span last night, but here is the transcript.........

We have a good friend of the committee who used to serve on the Committee and now serves on Defense Appropriations, and also happens to be one of, in fact the only Navy ace from Vietnam, and a gentleman who was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his own service to our country, Mr. Cunningham.

And he's been with us all day.

Duke, we'd like to give you an opportunity to ask some questions.

The gentleman's recognized.

CUNNINGHAM: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I've sat here for nearly three hours because I believe this is important, critically important.

And, Mr. Secretary, not exaggerating, I've spoken to thousands of our enlisted and our officers -- military, active duty and our veterans -- and they would follow you into hell because they know you'd get them back.

You've got us through two wars. You did it efficiently. You've fought tooth, hook and nail against the enemy.

And I would follow you. And you have my full support.

You know something, I saw the Congressional Black Caucus press conference. When they talk about minimum politics in this, I sure hope somebody prays for me as they try and slip the knife in.

You know that I'd like to elude a little bit to what Mr. Taylor said and why all of us feel so bad in this thing.

And all of us do, on both sides of the aisle, and out there.

But I'll tell you, it comes down to a word, un-American, what happened.

It's not this country. But what is American is the results that are going to come out of this. The world's going to see just how fair under a free enterprise, under a free nation, that justice will come about, and that the leaders themselves will take measure.

CUNNINGHAM: One thing that does bother me is the word I think "scapegoat." Because there was another event that I lived through. It was called Tailhook.

And I beg you, Mr. Secretary, I know a hundred officers that were tied up in that that shouldn't have been penalized, but because of politics, many members of Congress dug their heads in and ran for cover and would not stand up for those kids.

You know, penalize the guilty ones, but, by God, protect those fine kids.

RUMSFELD: You can count on it. .

CUNNINGHAM: Thank you.

I've got a recommendation for you. It's an advantage sitting here listening to other people. And that's why I wanted to sit in. I wanted to get kind of a feel and a tempo.

When I was in the service, I had an admiral -- one of the best guys I ever worked for. We had a problem with DUI, DWIs in the military. I mean, it's in the regulations, it's in the rules. You get trained, "Hey, don't do it." But we hit a rash of them.

This admiral, who was commandant NAVAIR PAC (ph), brought all of us COs in and he said, "Guys, any one of you get a DUI or a DWI" -- probably like that guy on TV -- "you're fired."

And then we went down to our division officers and officers and enlisted and said, "If you do this, you're fired."

CUNNINGHAM: And my concern was, at that prison, I don't feel that someone came across -- yes, they were trained. They had the rules, they had the regulations. But in my own mind, I don't know if someone told them, said, "These are the consequences if you act in a certain way." Small recommendation.

Second recommendation.

The day of my chains of command I pulled my squadron together because I had women in it too, shore-based, and I know how important the chain of command is. People that have never served in the military don't understand that many times, that it's chaos without it.

But I told my squadron mates that there were some exceptions to the chains of command. One of those was anything known racial and that included verbal, because I saw an aircraft carrier lose its mission capability because of it, and it wasn't something that I wanted to wait on over a period of time.

I wanted to know about it. They could bypass my chief. They could bypass my division officer. They could bypass my department head, my executive officer, my command master chief and they could walk right into that office.

The other one was any known use or sale of drugs. The third was any sexual abuse, because I had women in there. And the fourth, which I think would be applicable to this hearing especially, that if any of my kids, enlisted or officers, did anything that reflected negatively on my unit, the Navy or the United States, they could walk right through that door.

Let me give you another good example.

I never went to Tailhook without my wife. She went right along and so did my daughters go along with me. And this was actually before the blow up, Mr. Secretary. I told my squadron that I was going to pay for our admin where everybody could go. It was going to be a place where the wives, the girlfriends and your daughters or your sons could go and there would be no alcohol in our admin suite. But yet, I didn't restrict them from going to the other activities.

CUNNINGHAM: But I said, "If you do anything that violates the rules, if your conduct reflects negatively or if you get a DUI or DWI going or coming" -- I paid for the bus to get them there -- "I'm going to fire your butts."

You know not one of my kids had a problem, and it's leadership I think.

And then, you know, I was so proud. One of my lieutenants that just took over as a commanding officer said he (inaudible) down and did the same exact thing. But it gets down, right down to the nitty gritty that it may be in rules, it may be in regulations, and I heard it over and over.

One of the big concerns we have is the timeliness. And I think maybe in the future something like this, especially, even at a lower level, if we know that these things are available, that they go right straight to the top and they walk through that door to the C.O..

Thank you.

RUMSFELD: That's good advice.

Thank you, and thank you for your wonderful, courageous service also.

CUNNINGHAM: Thank you.

[I want to know]

Here is an interesting article about Daleel.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131987/posts

[Rushmore Rocks]

Awesome post.

Thanks

[SCR1]

Interestingly enough regarding comets/asteroids, Check out Steve Quayle's site:

http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html

it's headed our way — what the world's governments are preparing for but aren't broadcasting. . .

Projected impacts from multiple sources, NOT confirmed:
Atlantic Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean and Siberia

[LayoutGuru2]

If this report is true it looks to me that the fingerprint evidence may be a bit shaky.

Number Found at Spain Site Leads to Arrest (Madrid Train bombing )
			Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach to lowbridge; gcruse; Ranger; NonValueAdded; LayoutGuru2; HairOfTheDog; DugwayDuke

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.wbir.com/News/news.asp?ID=18071


EMERGENCY AT K-25 PLANT
A chemical reaction created an emergency situation this afternoon at the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge. Evacuations were ordered within a half mile radius of the plant.

All plant employees have been accounted for.

The reaction is believed to have been caused by liquid sodium mixing with water vapor in the air. The chemical involved is not radioactive. It is, however, an irritant which is why the evacuation was called for by the Roane County Sherriff's department.

Stay tuned to WBIR-TV and WBIR.COM for further updates


http://hazmat.dot.gov/

[milkncookies]

Why quote the bible but not post or reference sources?

I saw nothing to indicate there was more to come either.

[milkncookies]

Whoops, nevermind. It's in the STORY OF THE DAY section. They are simply copying BushCountry.org, who copied dragonslayer2001 over at TB2000.

Sensationalism and nothing more. No commentary, no additional references.

[SCR1]

Did you notice the picture change on his website?? You know he had a different before the current one you see with a different caption. Now it's says "it's headed our way
"

It used to be that single sentence on the page with that pic. I believe it changes around beginning of April. It use to say 'When worlds collide' and had a different picture. That was about a month ago.

[Lucy Lake]

BTT.

[SCR1]

A little more detail:

On about Mar 20th. he posted this pic and headline:

When Worlds Collide:

http://www.stevequayle.com/GG.Images/Worlds.Collide2.jpg

Next on April 19th

Guess Whats Headed our Way

http://stevequayle.com/GG.Images/Guess-Whats-Headed-Our-Way.jpg

So clearly he was deveolping this story up to over a month ago.

[Indie]

Sensationalism and nothing more

The man makes money by selling doomsday books and selling doomsday products. In short, with my science background, and knowing what I know about astronomy, if a comet was going to hit the earth, many many amatuer astronomers could have [and would have] already calculated the trajectory and there is NO way on this earth they wouldn't spill the beans. This site's "warning" is Bravo Sierra.

The most likely scenario for an impact on the earth would be an asteroid hit without warning, per any antronomer you talk to, or at the very best, a few days warning..if that.

[SCR1]

I believe that his postings coincide with the newly discovered comet Bradfield reportedly found on Mar 23. April 19th is about when the Comet was rounding the Sun.

I do not know if this comet or perhaps debris in its tall are a danger. I am just reading the info.

[milkncookies]

I have not been following Quayle's site. However, in my opinion, if he wants to attract readers to his site with specific and sensationlist pronouncements, which have been plagiarised from other sites, the least he could do would be to offer up his own thoughts on this, additional "credible" information or tone down the headlines.

[Indie]

I hope everyone is haveing a beautiful day today.

you have PM grizz :)

[milkncookies]

Agreed.

[SCR1]

The original source for the Bushcountry article was from TimeBomb2000 dated APR. 22, 2004 By Dragonslayer2001.

Steve Quayle had posted vague information on his page starting Mar 22 and April 19th.

Recently he just linked to the BushCountry link. But I think he may have been working on something himself. but again I don't have any direct information as to the veracity of any claim of inbound comets OR asteroids OR meteors.

[jerseygirl]

Good afternoon, granny! Just trying to catch up on the thread....have quite a long way to go!

[jerseygirl]

Re- Rense. I agree. His site is loaded with anti-semitic articles- jewish conspiracy nonsense.