Mystery men keep handle on Security at Courthouse

Ark. Dem-Gaz | July 22, 2002 | LINDA SATTER

[rdavis84]

"Where's mancini?"

Don't like us no more.

'specially you.

and thinden.

[rdavis84]

"You still didn't answer my questions. Is Akal involved in the Murrah building bombing or not? If Akal is involved, what did they do exactly?"

Please see above.

[Poohbah]

I did.

Still no answer. dighton asked you a pretty simple question, and you went out of your way to avoid answering it.

[rdavis84]

I think you're confused on who asked what.

[Fred Mertz]

Why did TEG disappear off the face of the earth without a trace after the OKC bombing? No Freeper researcher could find a trace to the best of my recollection.

[Poohbah]

From Post #35, by dighton:

A simple question, and (speaking for myself only) I'll accept your answer as truthful. Did you initially assume that "AKAL" was Muslim? If not, apologies for my wrong assumption that you did.

Your non-answer to this question was Post #36:

"Did you initially assume that "AKAL" was Muslim?"

Actually, it WASN'T AKAL that first surfaced. I harped at Wallaby to come up with the security company's name via his search expertise and he turned up TEG.

About that time Nita went deeper into it and I think it was she that turned up AKAL. TEG appeared to be of Oriental/Asian ties to me as I recall.

Nita can probably flesh that a bit for us if she has time (and inclination ;-)

No definitive answer. Just some vague arm-waving.

Now, a simple yes or no: did you initially assume that AKAL was Muslim?

(Final Jeopardy music comes on while rdavis84 types answer.)

[Catspaw]

I saw the summary:

Summary:

1. A private security services company named "Teg" was responsible for security at the Murrah Building prior to the bombing of said building.
2. Security at the Murrah Building was, for all practical purposes, non-existent.
3. "Teg" promptly disappeared as an entity, if it indeed ever existed, after the OKC bombing.
4. A private security services company named "Akal" appears to have been in control of "Teg," even sharing a home office address in New Mexico at the time of the OKC bombing.
5. Akal, a company politically connected to the democrats via one attorney and Clinton fundraiser named Earl Potter, and having never been required to answer for its failings in OKC, is still in the private security services business and raking in some of the biggest security services contracts that the US dept. of Justice has to offer - to the point that duties previously performed by the US Marshall Service are privatized and in Akal's hands.

What I get out of this is that there was a company named Teg in charge of security prior to the bombing.  After that, Akal was the security company.  It shared an address with Teg.  There's a connection of some sort to an attorney and a Clinton fundraiser.  The Arkansas Democrat Gazette has Akal as the security company for the federal building in Little Rock.  (I'd add that Clinton is no longer President, but Bush is.  Does the OKC bombing also involve President George W. Bush and AG John Ashcroft and/or they're in on the conspiracy and/or cover-up?)

So your conclusion is what?  You're going to need to connect the dots for me.  I see tenuous connections at best.

 

[rdavis84]

This is as far as I'm playing your game ----

"dighton asked you a pretty simple question, and you went out of your way to avoid answering it."

My reply to dighton ---

"Did you initially assume that "AKAL" was Muslim?"

Actually, it WASN'T AKAL that first surfaced. I harped at Wallaby to come up with the security company's name via his search expertise and he turned up TEG.

About that time Nita went deeper into it and I think it was she that turned up AKAL. TEG appeared to be of Oriental/Asian ties to me as I recall.

Nita can probably flesh that a bit for us if she has time (and inclination ;-)

And -----

"Teg" promptly disappeared as an entity, if it indeed ever existed, after the OKC bombing."

That's one reason why we kept digging, and still have not resolved that detail. When a company is "disappeared" that quickly and completely, ya' just gotta say ...... hmmmmmm.

[Poohbah]

And you never gave a direct answer to the question. Did you initially assume "AKAL" was Muslim?

There's two useful answers to this question. One such answer is "Yes." The other one is "No." Unless you're going to quibble about the meaning of "is."

[dighton]

I think you're confused on who asked what.

To prevent all sorts of confusion, I'll repeat *my* question: Did you initially assume that "AKAL" was Muslim?

It's a simple matter of Yes or No, which IMO #36 didn't resolve.

[rdavis84]

Fred, they're feeling 'gamey'.

It's circle..... time.

If they had any concept of how really juvenile they come across with their "word games", well, they'd just be crushed :-)

But you've got to wonder what fires them up on a little matter of an article that brings up AKAL, don't ya' ?

[Poohbah]

If they had any concept of how really juvenile they come across with their "word games", well, they'd just be crushed :-)

Well, you sound about as mature as Bill Clinton did when he quibbled over the meaning of "is."

[Fred Mertz]

Did you initially assume that "AKAL" was Muslim?

It doesn't make any difference. Knock off the sideshow act.

Why does a foreign private enterprise 'protect' 3/4 of the federal courts?

[Fred Mertz]

Make that 2/3.

[rdavis84]

You really want to know something about that? I DON'T CARE if they're IRISH. I didn't turn up AKAL in my searching at first, somebody else did. My interest was and still IS --- Why did TEG disappear?

Now, you just flip a coin about AKAL and what my guess WOULD have been about their religious affinity might have been. At the time they were being discussed, I was still trying to get a handle on TEG (psssst... I think THEY, TEG, might have been Catholic). Butwho cares?

[dighton]

Knock off the sideshow act.

I neither need nor want your permission to ask questions. Knock it off yourself.

[Poohbah]

BTW, that question is still unanswered.

Why is it that a simple question provokes that much fancy footwork?

[Fred Mertz]

Where did TEG or Teg go?

[Catspaw]

I thought Akal is HQed in New Mexico. Unless New Mexico has seceded, it's still part of the country.

Or are you saying that the owners of Akal are foreigners--that is to say non-citizens--and shouldn't be providing the security?

[Fred Mertz]

I stand corrected. They are HQ'd in NM. They must be Muriccans.