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Federal judge’s ties to Islamic radical to be exposed
By Rick Wiles
American Freedom News
Copyright June 6, 2002
American Freedom News has learned that Attorney General John Ashcroft has been told that a sitting federal judge has close ties to Islamic radicals. He is suspected of being the same federal judge who refused to authorize over 20 FBI wiretaps on al-Qaeda suspects before September 11.
Judge Royce Lamberth is the chief judge in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court (FISA) that meets weekly in the Justice Department to consider requests from federal agents for wiretaps of terrorist and espionage suspects. The secretive court was established in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Judge Lamberth presides over the secret court that has authorized over 7,500 wiretaps.
Barbara Honegger, a senior analyst in the Defense Department, made the accusation to an FBI agent that Judge Lamberth’s relationship with Islamic radicals is suspicious. Honegger is a former member of the Reagan administration who held several sensitive positions.
According to intelligence reporter Martin Dillon, Honegger wrote a blistering memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that Judge Lamberth be investigated. Dillon reported that Honegger’s memo to Ashcroft states:
“It is absolutely critical that Congress obtain the list of the names of the up to 20 suspected Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist operatives whose wiretaps were shut down or refused by Judge Royce Lambert and the FISA Court and match them with the names of the 20 9/11 hijackers, as well as with the names of all post 9/11 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and elsewhere,”
When questioned by intel reporter Martin Dillon, Honegger told him:
“In the mid 1980s, an Iranian fluent in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Russian, and a number of other languages was in frequent contact by telephone with someone he described as `my good buddy Royce, an important judge in Washington, who got me into this country.’ Further questioning of this individual, who also claimed to be a mullah able to perform Islamic marriages and funerals, led to me being told that the last name of the Washington judge was Lamberth.
Honegger said she sent an “Extreme Alert” memo to Ashcroft on September 19, 2001, insisting that Judge Lamberth be investigated. The memo also went to Thomas Picard, the FBI agent in charge of the September 11 investigation. Her memo informed Ashcroft and Picard that Judge Lamberth “may have himself been acting with and on behalf of Islamic extremists.”
She said an FBI agent Sean Moore questioned her on April 4, 2002. Honegger also told Martin that both the House and Senate intelligence oversight committees are aware of her accusations.
According to Martin’s report, Honegger told him:
“Given this context, it is critical to the 9-11 Congressional investigation that, prior to 9-11, this same Chief FISA Court Judge Royce Lamberth shut down "up to 20" FISA wiretaps of Al Qaeda-related suspects linked to the near-simultaneous -- "twin" -- 1998 Africa U.S. embassy bombings. These 20 may well be, or significantly overlap with, the 20 9-11 hijackers -- 19 plus suspected "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui.
“It is therefore absolutely critical that Congress obtain the list of names of all of the "up to 20" suspected Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist operatives whose wiretaps were shut down or refused by Judge Lamberth and the FISA Court, and match them with the names of the 20 9-11 hijackers, as well as with the names of all post 9-11 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.”
Thanks for looking that up. Is this Lamberth still in office?
I long for the good old days, when traitors like him would meet with a sudden "accident"...you know--his brakes would fail going down a steep hill; his canoe would tip over; his house would go on fire and the smoke alarms wouldn't work.
...but I digress...
That sounds real bad. So did anything happen after Honegger wrote those memos?
That's an explosive story. Is Lamberth still chief judge in the FISA court?
OMG!!! The enemy has infiltrated deep into our government!
No wonder things keep getting covered up!
Thank you!!!
Freepers are sssssooo smart and helpful!!!