2009/04/30

Pre-9/11 Upgraded GPS Service Provided 243 Foot Wide Aerial Navigation Corridors

Amended Version of Journal of 9/11 Studies Paper

Enhanced GPS service (WAAS) now in use by the U.S. commercial aviation industry and activated 13 months prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, provided virtual aerial navigation corridors only 243 wide and a 95% confidence that an aircraft's true position will fall within such a corridor . Such corridors can be navigated entirely by autopilot and flight management systems scheduled in 1996 and 1998 to be contained by United and American airlines Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft like those used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

RNP .02 / Boeing 767-200 / World Trade Center Tower

WAAS also supports required navigation performance (RNP) operations, says Raytheon, providing a precision navigation capability down to RNP 0.02 (an accuracy of 0.02nm).

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2003/01/07/159964/ups-wins-faa-cert...

RNP is a required navigation performance level described by the specification of a numeric value indicating the required navigation accuracy for a specific operation, typically specified laterally in nautical miles - e.g., RNP 1 is a Required Navigation Performance of ± 1 nautical mile (95% Probability).

http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCirc...

1 nautical mile = 6,076 feet

RNP 0.02 = RNP (0.02 nautical mile radius) x 2 = RNP (121.5 foot radius) x 2 = a 243 foot wide corridor.

Boeing Example
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http://clacsec.lima.icao.int/Reuniones/2008/CE73/NE/BoeingPresentacionFT...

AMENDED VERSION: Wide Area Augmentation System Signal Now Available

August 24, 2000

WASHINGTON, DC — After a successful 21-day stability test of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) signal in space, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared that it is now available.

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=5249

According to Raytheon’s director-satellite navigation systems, the newly activated WAAS signal was used by rescuers at New York City's Ground Zero site following September 11, 2001 in order to precisely survey the site:

And, at the World Trade Center, rescue teams used WAAS to survey the site during the recovery program.

http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/12571.html

By 1996 and 1998, United and American airlines Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft, like those used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were scheduled to contain flight management systems and signal receivers capable of utilizing the new GPS service.

HONEYWELL ANNOUNCES ORDERS FOR NEW-GENERATION "PEGASUS" FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, SEPT. 7, 1998 - The Honeywell "Pegasus" flight management system earned its first FAA certifications March on the Boeing 757, 767 and MD-90 aircraft types ... Airlines get FANS-1/FANS-A capability ... FANS-1 ... allows operators to obtain more economical routings and to utilize satellite navigation.

http://www.aviationnow.com/shownews/farnday1/pressr15.htm

Key elements of Future Air Navigation System (FANS): RNP – Required Navigation Performance

http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/Go_Direct_Downloads_for...

Using WAAS, a satellite-based system ... has allowed the FAA to move toward a performance-based NAS, exploiting the concept of “required navigation performance,” or RNP.

http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/issue9/aviation_navigation.html

Rockwell's Collins Landing System Picked for Both Airbus and Boeing Planes

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 6, 1996 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell's Collins Commercial Avionics, based in Cedar Rapids, has made major announcements of the selection of its Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR) landing system by two of the world's leading aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing ... Subsequent certifications are planned for Boeing's ... 757 and 767 ... The Multi-Mode Receiver ... expands capabilities required by the air transport industry as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is phased into operation.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18652301.html

GNSS-1 is the first generation system and is the combination of existing satellite navigation systems ... In the United States, the satellite based component is the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_navigation_satellite_system

October 1999:

Digital flight control systems on Boeing airplanes ... automatically fly the airplanes on pre-selected routes, headings, speed or altitude maneuvers.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55993162.html

An Air China Boeing 757, generally containing common flight systems with the Boeing 767, reportedly navigated a complex flight segment exclusively under GPS guided autopilot control via RNP operation:

Guided entirely by autopilot, an Air China Boeing 757 jet last month snaked along a narrow river valley between towering Himalayan peaks ... Pilots and passengers looked out to mountains left and right as the airplane automatically followed the twists of the valley, descending on a precisely plotted highway in the sky toward a runway still out of sight ... Using global-positioning satellites and on-board instruments, Naverus' navigation technology pinpoints the location of a fast-moving jet to within yards ... "You're watching the whole thing unfold. The airplane is turning, going where it's supposed to go ... it's all automatic."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003316294_nave...

The WAAS signal also made possible under autopilot control, the 370 degree decending right turn from an altitude of 7,000 feet, performed by American Airlines flight 77 prior to its reported impact with the Pentagon building in Arlington, VA on September 11, 2001.

Stanford University, 1998:

The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) ... allows pilots to fly ... approaches that cannot necessarily be flown with current instrumentation ... Complex curved approaches, including approaches turning to a short (less than one mile) final ... Pathways were constructed from ... climbing, or descending constant radius arcs ... Autopilots could use WAAS position and velocity to fly curved trajectories.

http://waas.stanford.edu/~wwu/jennings/publications/ION98/iongps98.pdf

In October of 2001, Cubic Defense Systems applied for a U.S. patent for a system that utilizes GPS guided aircraft autopilot systems to implement a programmed or remotely transmitted flight plan, that overrides pilot control of an aircraft and navigates it to a given destination.

Responsive to the override input, the manager deactivates on-board control of selected aircraft flight systems and the autopilot system, and directs the autopilot to fly the aircraft ... In planning the flight routing ... the manager may utilize ... GPS direct routing.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=...
Plausibility Of 9/11 Aircraft Attacks Generated By GPS-Guided Aircraft Autopilot Systems
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/AutopilotSystemsMonaghan....

Ron Paul makes important comments on the alleged "Swine Flu"

Mexican Flu Outbreak 2009: SPECIAL REPORT by Dr Leonard Horowitz

This unprecedented H1N1-H5N1 flu outbreak implicates the Ango-American Vaccine Pipeline, says world leading consumer health protector, Dr. Leonard Horowitz Consider the skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc., precipitated by dozens of alleged flu deaths in Mexico. Then investigate the leading Anglo-American network of genetic engineers manipulating, mutating, and distributing these viruses. The evidence compels you, for the benefit of public health and safety to seriously consider, even decree, a conspiracy to commit genocide, according to this Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases. Here, Dr. Horowitz urges an investigation of Dr. James S. Robertson, Englands leading bioengineer of flu viruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Government funding for lucrative biodefense contracts, along with collaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). These suspects helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, produce genetically-modified recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish flu viruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented Mexican virus that is allegedly spreading to the United States at the time of this posting. The outbreak was precisely timed to promote the companys new research and huge vaccine stockpiling contracts. Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are implicated through collaborations and publications involving private contracts with Novavax, a company that obtains its biosimulars through CDC Influenza Branch director, Ruben O. Donis, and Dr. Rick Bright, previously working with Donis at the CDC, now Novavaxs Vice President of Global Influenza Programs. Descriptions of this virus is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertsons circle of friends, Dr. Horowitz charges. No other group in the world takes H5N1 Asian flu infected chickens, brings them to Europe, extracts their DNA, combines their proteins with H1N1 viruses from the 1918 Spanish flu isolate, additionally mixes in swine flu genes from pigs, then reverse engineers them to infect humans. The end product could only have ended up in Mexico via the United States from Britain in care of the CDC. The CDC had to have sent them to Novavax, where Rick Brights team is now implicated in a conspiracy to commit genocide—the mass killing of people for profit.

2009/04/29

Finding the "LOADED GUN" of nano-thermiite indicts the "official" 9/11 story

Apr 23, 2009 640 Architects and Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation Evidence of Explosives Found in Destruction of All 3 WTC High-Rises AE911Truth to Display Evidence at National AIA Convention 4/30 — 5/2, Moscone Center Press Conference/Speaking Engagement Saturday May 2 at 4 pm, Westin Market Street Hotel FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Phone: 510-292-4710 Site: AE911Truth.org Email: Contact rg-aia at ae911truth.org Berkeley, CA, April 23, 2009 — More than 640 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) are calling for a new, independent investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center high-rises. These building professionals cite evidence of explosive demolition at all three WTC high-rises on 9/11 and document the evidence at their website. Michael Heimbach, assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, wrote that their claims and conclusion were "backed by thorough research and analysis." AE911Truth will host exhibitor's information booth #2609 at this year's annual convention of the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA). The convention, with more than 800 exhibitors and more than 20,000 participating architects, will take place in San Francisco's Moscone Center, April 30-May 2. SEM image of red/gray chip from WTC dustThis exhibition will be followed up on Saturday May 2nd with a dynamic multi-media presentation by AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA. Mr Gage will cover the forensic evidence found at the crime scene as well as a review of the omissions in the official FEMA and NIST reports. Join AE911Truth at the Westin Market Street Hotel at 50 Third St. in San Francisco at 4:00 pm on Saturday for this thorough review of the myth-shattering information. Time Magazine acknowledged in 2006 that the 9/11 Truth movement was not a "fringe phenomenon," but "a mainstream political reality." As well, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition signers have been encouraged by President Obama's promise to "restore science to its rightful place." Join AE911Truth at booth #2609 to review the startling evidence not reported in the media or by agencies in charge of the investigations.

2009/04/28

Swine Flu Pandemic Hoax Exposed

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Resources to combat swine flu hysteria

#1. Math. The greater Mexico City Metropolitan area has a population of 22 million people according to Wikipedia. Many millions of them live in crushing poverty, poor health and with poor sanitary conditions. 1,000 "cases" (which is higher than the so-far reported number) equals 0.005% of the population. 60 deaths equals 0.0003% of the population. #2 Deaths? Of the few deaths, no one has mentioned who these casualties are. Are they elderly or infirm people who could just as easily be killed by the common cold or a slip and fall? It makes a difference. #3 The long history of government/pharmaceutical industry scams These guys have tried to institute national flu vaccination programs before. The last time was 1976 (under Gerald Ford). The public recognized the foolishness and danger involved in accepting the government vaccine and rejected it. The much-threatened "pandemic" never happened.

Study the timeline

All the things discussed in the video were laid down during the pharmaceutical industry-friendly Bush administration. They're all still in place and Obama has shown no signs of dismantling or looking at the legal structures that make is possible for the US to: 1. Declare a pandemic 2. Use this declaration as grounds for arrest and imprisonment without charge, without representation and for an undetermined amount of time 3. Compel vaccination 4. Remove any liability from the drug companies involved if their products kill and maim Study the timeline and see how an administration that could not get anything of value accomplished was a model of efficiency and speed in creating the infrastructures to make this happen. Note that in a previous video, local law enforcement are already being commanded by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to submit plans and run practice drills for vaccinating the entire US population in 48 hours or less. Fortunately, this is a logistic impossibility if people are informed and don't cooperate. Unfortunately, few are informed and a combination of draconian laws, garbage science, and a corrupt/incompetent media are working together to make "voluntary" acceptance a real possibility. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/609.html

Howard Zinn weighs in on new 9/11 investigation

An excerpted interview with Howard Zinn on the need for a new 9/11 investigation. Fair use clip courtesy of THE REAL NEWS .

2009/04/27

Fear of Global Pandemic Won't Stop Global Chemtrail Ops

Posted by NY Skywatch Member Airshipal Evidence of different aerosols compounds deployed in Chemtrails over NY City as Swine FLU takes hold. See 2 different colors of aerosols at 2 Mins and 30 seconds runtime. www.newyorkskywatch.com

Chemtrail issues slowly achieve media exposure.

Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:02 AM Subject: Chemtrail issues slowly achieve media exposure. While New World Order taxing schemes are planned as a fix for Global Warming, the public is becoming aware that the Intergovernmental Aerosol Operations, coined as Chemtrails has been a significant CAUSE of atmospheric heating since 1996. It's documented that the military has been illegally experimenting with weather modification for decades - and the global aerosol operation (Chemtrails) has been central to these experiments. Chemtrails have been visible for years and appear frankly abnormal to any reasonable person willing to look up to make a critical observation. But despite the overwhelming evidence, personal observations and complaints to government agencies, the media has largely ignored the Chemtrail issue for more than a decade....apparently at all costs to their corporate & shareholders' "bottom line". Government documents confirm that our military has conducted numerous and illegal bio-warfare and toxic-chemical experiments on unwitting and unsuspecting populations in the USA and elsewhere.

Researchers have substantiated the presence of toxins and pathogens in the fallout from Chemtrails. The coincidental intensification of Chemtrail activity and the current Swine Flu Pandemic hysteria should not be necessarily considered a mere "coincidence" of two seperate events - one overtly clandestine "in plane sight" and another that seems suspiciously contrived as a rush job to create a "Public Health Emergency". The evidence for illegal aerosol Ops is so compelling as to reveal the "conspiracy of silence" by the mainstream media even while they go bankrupt over revenue challenges that could benefit from reporting the sensational truth about Chemtrails and other covert Ops.

German News Reveals Chemtrail Ops by their own military defense.

Is Swine Flu Hysteria a Hoax?

BrasscheckTV

Study the timeline

This was posted by Bloomberg, a major business news network over the weekend: (4/25/2009) "The World Health Organization is set to declare the deadly swine flu virus outbreak in Mexico and the U.S. a global concern...potentially prompting travel advisories... An emergency committee of the WHO in Geneva will declare the outbreak "a public health event of international concern" in a teleconference that began at 4 p.m. today, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting is confidential." If you're over 40, you've seen the "swine flu" routine before. It came out of the blue. The government created hysteria over it and tried to herd everyone into mandatory vaccinations. The vaccinations killed and disabled numerous people before they were discontinued. Here's some material about ANOTHER government/media created hysteria-hoax, avian bird flu. The mechanics are the same. This video starts slow, but is worth watching and studying.

All the things discussed in the video were laid down during the pharmaceutical industry-friendly Bush administration. They're all still in place and Obama has shown no signs of dismantling or looking at the legal structures that make is possible for the US to: 1. Declare a pandemic 2. Use this declaration as grounds for arrest and imprisonment without charge, without representation and for an undetermined amount of time 3. Compel vaccination 4. Remove any liability from the drug companies involved if their products kill and maim Study the timeline and see how an administration that could not get anything of value accomplished was a model of efficiency and speed in creating the infrastructures to make this happen. Note that in a previous video, local law enforcement are already being commanded by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to submit plans and run practice drills for vaccinating the entire US population in 48 hours or less. Fortunately, this is a logistic impossibility if people are informed and don't cooperate. Unfortunately, few are informed and a combination of draconian laws, garbage science, and a corrupt/incompetent media are working together to make "voluntary" acceptance a real possibility.

Torture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11

THE INDEPENDANT April 26, 2009 Torture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11 A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq. By Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for journalism The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers as civilians killed in 9/11, says the leader of a crack US interrogation team in Iraq. "The reason why foreign fighters joined al-Qa'ida in Iraq was overwhelmingly because of abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and not Islamic ideology," says Major Matthew Alexander, who personally conducted 300 interrogations of prisoners in Iraq. It was the team led by Major Alexander [a named assumed for security reasons] that obtained the information that led to the US military being able to locate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qa'ida in Iraq. Zarqawi was then killed by bombs dropped by two US aircraft on the farm where he was hiding outside Baghdad on 7 June 2006. Major Alexander said that he learnt where Zarqawi was during a six-hour interrogation of a prisoner with whom he established relations of trust. Major Alexander's attitude to torture by the US is a combination of moral outrage and professional contempt. "It plays into the hands of al-Qa'ida in Iraq because it shows us up as hypocrites when we talk about human rights," he says. An eloquent and highly intelligent man with experience as a criminal investigator within the US military, he says that torture is ineffective, as well as counter-productive. "People will only tell you the minimum to make the pain stop," he says. "They might tell you the location of a house used by insurgents but not that it is booby-trapped." In his compelling book How to Break a Terrorist, Major Alexander explains that prisoners subjected to abuse usually clam up, say nothing, or provide misleading information. In an interview he was particularly dismissive of the "ticking bomb" argument often used in the justification of torture. This supposes that there is a bomb timed to explode on a bus or in the street which will kill many civilians. The authorities hold a prisoner who knows where the bomb is. Should they not torture him to find out in time where the bomb is before it explodes? Major Alexander says he faced the "ticking time bomb" every day in Iraq because "we held people who knew about future suicide bombings". Leaving aside the moral arguments, he says torture simply does not work. "It hardens their resolve. They shut up." He points out that the FBI uses normal methods of interrogation to build up trust even when they are investigating a kidnapping and time is of the essence. He would do the same, he says, "even if my mother was on a bus" with a hypothetical ticking bomb on board. It is quite untrue to imagine that torture is the fastest way of obtaining information, he says. A career officer, Major Alexander spent 14 years in the US air force, beginning by flying helicopters for special operations. He saw combat in Bosnia and Kosovo, was an air force counter-intelligence agent and criminal interrogator, and was stationed in Saudi Arabia, with an anti-terrorist role, during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Some years later, the US army was short of interrogators. He wanted to help shape developments in Iraq and volunteered. Arriving in Iraq in early 2006 he found that the team he was working with were mostly dedicated, but young, men between 18 and 24. "Many of them had never been out of the States before," he recalls. "When they sat down to interrogate somebody it was often the first time they had met a Muslim." In addition to these inexperienced officers, Major Alexander says there was "an old guard" of interrogators using the methods employed at Guantanamo. He could not say exactly what they had been doing for legal reasons, though in the rest of the interview he left little doubt that prisoners were being tortured and abused. The "old guard's" methods, he says, were based on instilling "fear and control" in a prisoner. He refused to take part in torture and abuse, and forbade the team he commanded to use such methods. Instead, he says, he used normal US police interrogation techniques which are "based on relationship building and a degree of deception". He adds that the deception was often of a simple kind such as saying untruthfully that another prisoner has already told all. Before he started interrogating insurgent prisoners in Iraq, he had been told that they were highly ideological and committed to establishing an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, Major Alexander says. In the course of the hundreds of interrogations carried out by himself, as well as more than 1,000 that he supervised, he found that the motives of both foreign fighters joining al-Qa'ida in Iraq and Iraqi-born members were very different from the official stereotype. In the case of foreign fighters – recruited mostly from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen and North Africa – the reason cited by the great majority for coming to Iraq was what they had heard of the torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. These abuses, not fundamentalist Islam, had provoked so many of the foreign fighters volunteering to become suicide bombers. For Iraqi Sunni Arabs joining al-Qa'ida, the abuses played a role, but more often the reason for their recruitment was political rather than religious. They had taken up arms because the Shia Arabs were taking power; de-Baathification marginalised the Sunni and took away their jobs; they feared an Iranian takeover. Above all, al-Qa'ida was able to provide money and arms to the insurgents. Once, Major Alexander recalls, the top US commander in Iraq, General George Casey, came to visit the prison where he was working. Asking about what motivated the suspected al-Qa'ida prisoners, he was at first given the official story that they were Islamic Jihadi full of religious zeal. Major Alexander intervened to say that this really was not true and there was a much more complicated series of motivations at work. General Casey did not respond. The objective of Major Alexander's team was to find Zarqawi, the Jordanian born leader of al-Qa'ida who built it into a fearsome organisation. Attempts by US military intelligence to locate him had failed despite three years of trying. Major Alexander was finally able to persuade one of Zarqawi's associates to give away his location because the associate had come to reject his methods, such as the mass slaughter of civilians. What the major discovered was that many of the Sunni fighters were members of, or allied to, al-Qa'ida through necessity. They did not share its extreme, puritanical Sunni beliefs or hatred of the Shia majority. He says that General Casey had ignored his findings but he was pleased when General David Petraeus became commander in Iraq and began to take account of the real motives of the Sunni fighters. "He peeled back those Sunnis from al-Qa'ida," he says. In the aftermath of his experience in Iraq, which he left at the end of 2006, Major Alexander came to believe that the battle against the US using torture was more important than the war in Iraq. He sees President Obama's declaration against torture as "a historic victory", though he is concerned about loopholes remaining and the lack of accountability of senior officers. Reflecting on his own interrogations, he says he always monitored his actions by asking himself, "If the enemy was doing this to one of my troops, would I consider it torture?" His overall message is that the American people do not have to make a choice between torture and terror. How to Break a Terrorist: The US interrogators who used brains, not brutality, to take down the deadliest man in Iraq, by Matthew Alexander and John R Bruning (The Free Press) © 2009 Independent News and Media. Permission granted for up to 5 copies. All rights reserved. You may forward this article or get additional permissions by typing http://license.icopyright.net/3.7463?icx_id=news/world/middle-east/torture-it-probably-killed-more-americans-than-911-1674396.html?service=PrintICopyright into any web browser. Independent News and Media Limited and The Independent logos are registered trademarks of Independent News and Media Limited . The iCopyright logo is a registered trademark of iCopyright, Inc.

2009/04/26

Chemtrails over Vancouver Island Concern Citizens

Chemtrails Cause for Citizen Concern Pacific Free Press by Tanya MacDonald - from the Comox Valley Record Dear editor, I am writing with great concern over the recent chemtrail activity above the Comox Valley, and in the hopes of raising public awareness on this issue. Over the past weeks, I have observed numerous chemtrails (trails left behind after military jets spray chemicals in the sky), which last several hours (normal jet contrails disappear after about 22 seconds). On at least a couple of days recently, almost all of the "clouds" above Courtenay were artificial (over time, chemtrails fan out, creating what appear to be long, wispy clouds). Since the arrival of the Snowbirds, chemtrail activity has slowed considerably, presumably because there are more people watching the sky than usual, which could naturally spark a lot of questions, which the military apparently doesn't want to deal with. In the past, CFB Comox denied the existence of these chemtrail operations (Google Comox Chemtrails for more information). "Although chemtrails have crossed the sky over Comox, B.C., a Canadian Forces spokesman at the Comox air base recently insisted that 'no such joint operation exists.' However, doctors are puzzled by the results of hair sample analyses of sick patients on Denman Island and in Vancouver and Toronto, which show aluminum levels much higher than usual 'kitchen contaminant' levels." - Quoted from an Alive magazine article entitled Chemtrails Secret Confirmed. We, the citizens of the Comox Valley, have the right to breathe clean air, and to enjoy the beautiful scenery without these ugly lines in our skies. We have the right to raise our children here, without fear they are being slowly poisoned. Furthermore, we have the right to know exactly what is being sprayed on us, almost daily it seems, as well as why we are being sprayed in the first place. If you have further questions, the number for CFB Comox Wing Operations is 250-339-8231. I have also started a blog with photos and further information on chemtrails. The address is www.comox-chemtrails.blogspot.com Tanya MacDonald, Courtenay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxOxFcAJqY

Swine Flu Is Deadly Mix Of Never-Before-Seen Viruses

Alarm spreads as human to human infection confirmed, bug is an intercontinental mix of never-before-seen human, avian and pig viruses, top globalists stand to benefit from Tamiflu stockpiling

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Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Saturday, April 25, 2009

Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst, and that the bug is a never-before-seen intercontinental mixture of human, avian and pig viruses from America, Europe and Asia.

Clues that the virus may be a synthetic creation are already manifesting.

According to reports, the virus is a “never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses” which consists of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

“CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before,” according to an Associated Press report.

“This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified,” said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director (video clip here).

Alarming reports are now filtering in about people catching the illness who have had no contact with pigs whatsoever. These include a man and his daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County and two teenagers in San Antonio, Texas. In fact, in all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs.

Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer, told KPBS “We have had person-to-person spread with the father and the daughter,” says Wooten, “And also with the two teenagers in Texas, they were in the same school. So that also indicates person-to-person transfer.”

“Dr. Wooten says it’s unclear how people were exposed to swine flu. She says none of the patients have had any contact with pigs,” according to the report.

Although the situation in the U.S. looks under control, panic is spreading in Mexico, where 800 cases of pneumonia in the capital alone are suspected to be related to the swine flu and the virus has hit young and healthy people, which is very rare with an flu outbreak. Despite the danger of a pandemic, the U.S. border with Mexico remains open.

“Mexico has shut schools and museums and canceled hundreds of public events in its sprawling, overcrowded capital of 20 million people to try to prevent further infections,” reports Reuters.

“My level of concern is significant,” said Dr. Martin Fenstersheib, the health officer for Santa Clara County. “We have a novel virus, a brand-new strain that’s spreading human to human, and we are also seeing a virulent strain in Mexico that seems to be related. We certainly have concerns for this escalating.”

The WHO insists that the outbreak has “pandemic potential” and has been stockpiling supplies of Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection, according to officials.

As we previously highlighted, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Indeed, Rumsfeld himself played a key role in hyping an outbreak of swine flu back in the 1976 when he urged the entire country to get vaccinated. Many batches of the vaccine were contaminated, resulting in hundreds of sick people and 52 fatalities.

The fact that the properties of the strain are completely new, that the virus is spreading from people to people, and that the young and healthy are being hit worst, has disturbing parallels to the deadly 1918 pandemic that killed millions.

It is unclear as to why, if the virus is a brand new strain, that public health officials are so confident programs of mass vaccination, which are already being prepared, would necessarily be effective.

It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that deadly flu viruses have been concocted in labs and then dispatched with the intention of creating a pandemic.

When the story first broke last month, Czech newspapers questioned if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.

Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.

However, this is not the first time that vaccine companies have been caught distributing vaccines contaminated with deadly viruses.

In 2006 it was revealed that Bayer Corporation had discovered that their injection drug, which was used by hemophiliacs, was contaminated with the HIV virus. Internal documents prove that after they positively knew that the drug was contaminated, they took it off the U.S. market only to dump it on the European, Asian and Latin American markets, knowingly exposing thousands, most of them children, to the live HIV virus. Government officials in France went to prison for allowing the drug to be distributed. The documents show that the FDA colluded with Bayer to cover-up the scandal and allowed the deadly drug to be distributed globally. No Bayer executives ever faced arrest or prosecution in the United States.

In the UK, a 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease that put Britain on high alert has been originated from a government laboratory which is shared with an American pharmaceutical company, mirroring the deadly outbreak of 2001, which was also deliberately released.

As we reported yesterday, last time there was a significant outbreak of a new form of swine flu in the U.S. it originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Chemtrail News From NY Skywatch

President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren, said in his first interview that, “global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air.”

We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table - One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.

Most of us are aware that fleets of planes take off daily to “shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere” it is a global agenda that has been going on for the past 10 years. Now these programs are almost obvious to anyone who looks up at the sky. Is this being pushed forward so there is no liability for past program damage and experimentation? Owning the weather still seems to be the goal. Meanwhile, Russian scientists say according to their data, that the Earth is nearing another ice age.

Remember Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s (newly named) weather modification bill will allow government agencies, military contractors, the military and international corporations to continue their chemical alteration of the atmosphere as an experimental platform with impunity. Is there a secret so secret, it can’t be divulged and the Earth’s atmosphere is at stake? Airship continues to say that plant life depends on CO2, ecosystems depend on it. Rosalind Peterson continues to tell people that NASA research says persistent jet contrails heat the planet. Keep in mind also that multinational corporations have and continue to pollute the planet far worse than your carbon footprint.

Lastly, the northeastern US has been hit hard with massive spraying all day for 3 days.

Here is a short photographic record of some non-commercial jets that

were filmed spraying persistent jet contrails. The images are linked to the videos.

http://newyorkskywatch.com/2009/04/20/new-york-skywatch-april-20-2009/

2009/04/24

"CHEM-KILL": a 2009 Video Documentary on CHEMTRAILS

CHEM-KILL is a 2009 production - this video's mission is public education to explain the motive for the 13 year global aerosol operation that has been coined "CHEMTRAILS" by author and investigative reporter, William Thomas. Evidence is presented for Geo-engineering, Weather control, eugenics and de-population.

DHS Requiring Local Officials to Plan for Martial Law

FEMA and Homeland Security are requiring local officials to provide them with all kinds of detailed information about the communities. One of the requirements apparently is localities need to be prepared to provide mass inoculations to the entire population in 48 hours or less. These are the same people who didn't care enough to drop food and water to the thousands of people stranded in New Orleans for SIX DAYS after the US Army Corps of Engineer levees failed in New Orleans in 2005.

Planning for martial law

Mass vaccination of the population in just 48 hours? That's what FEMA wants to be ready to do - and they're training local officials for it. An Indiana county municipal official in the vicinity of Chicago reveals the contents of his meetings with FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. The initial requests seem reasonable enough when FEMA asks the county officials to prepare a Hazard Mitigation Plan to deal with flooding, fires, high winds and tornadoes. But as the required meetings and calls with FEMA and DHS continue over a two year period their request become more unusual, raising suspicions of county officials From the audio: We want to know every important thing in this county. We want to know where police departments are. Where weapons are stored. Hazardous material. Where can we land a helicopter. Where are the airports. How big a plane can you land at the airport. Where are all the bridges. Where are all the power stations. Where are all the generating stations.Where are all the substations. They literally wanted to know where everything was. Im sitting there thinking man if there was ever martial law. This kind of information is exactly the kind of stuff they are going to want. Were just laying it all out for them right there. During the legally mandated meetings held with FEMA and DHS different disaster scenarios were reveled to county officials: • In late December 2008 municipal officials were invited to Indianapolis for a briefing on the state of Indiana. There were told if industry were to collapse for example GM going bankrupt resulting in mass unemployment a depression would soon follow and municipalities could expect to loose 40% of their funds. • Every county in the nation would be required to prepare a Hazard Mitigation Plan. • The county should prepare a plan to vaccinate the entire population within 48 hours and practice the plan several times. • FEMA inquired to where mass graves could be placed in the county and would they accept bodies from elsewhere. • The sheriffs department via the state sheriff association was told that no .223 ammunition rounds would be available as the military would be purchasing all stocks. • The county was asked to make plans for hardening of police and fire stations, putting in hardened bunker type buildings around town. • The county was asked to make plans for the possibility of up to 400,000 refugees from Chicago.

2009/04/23

Eric Holder will FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE

David Bromwich

David Bromwich

Posted April 23, 2009 | 04:54 PM (EST)

Follow the Evidence

Barack Obama's initial statement on the torture memos and his remarks at CIA headquarters suggested that the release of the facts of the case would be accompanied by a policy of refraining from prosecutions. That preference was repeated by Rahm Emanuel last weekend in a televised interview on This Week. But the president, in speaking to the press on Tuesday, shifted ground, and while still promising immunity for agents who believed themselves to be operating within the law, he was careful to intimate no such support for the lawyers who worked up new laws in secret to construct an illegal rationale for torture. Yesterday, in testimony before Congress, Hillary Clinton said once more that agents would be spared who had stayed "within the four corners of the law," but willful distortions of legal understanding by drafters of new laws were another matter. Finally today a New York Times story by Charlie Savage reports the categorical statement by Attorney General Eric Holder that "No one is above the law." His department, said Holder, will "follow the evidence wherever it takes us."

The adjustment of stance is now definitive, and it is salutary. Yet the process by which the policy changed leads one to speculate about the temperamental qualities that showed so clear a face of ambivalence in President Obama on successive days. He had set the law in one eye and the spirit of conciliation in the other, and for a while imagined that publication of a series of crimes could inaugurate an agreeable national forgetting. He preferred, he said -- he had said it on his website as soon as he was elected -- to look forward and not back. He wished not to appear to score cheap points against his predecessor. And one of the marks of his own political character is an evident distaste for bluster and harangue. The farthest he tips toward the natural temper of the accuser or the unsentimental judge is the exhibited emotion of paternal outrage under firm control.

There was also visible in Obama in these days a certain confusion of roles. He has not settled yet into the posture of a leader--a role that carries distinct privileges but also distinct limitations. He slides between a sense of himself as leader, as a popular organizer, and as a national healer. His town meetings on the economy have cast him in the second role; his statement on the release of the torture memos showed him trying out the third. But he did so at a cost to his stature as chief magistrate -- the leader of a constitutional democracy, whose duty it is to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." You cannot at once support the laws and issue a preemptive pardon to those who knowingly distort or knowingly break the laws.

It is not a matter of looking back or looking forward but of looking at.

What have we done as a country over the past eight years? What wrong acts were performed in our name on the pretext of national security? How far have those actions harmed our fame in the world, and how deeply have our institutions been corrupted by a system of concealment devised to perpetuate those actions and to shelter them from inspection? Among those who broke laws by ordering criminal acts, who are those that remain even now in government, and to what extent can they be relied on not to break the laws again? Do Americans understand the Constitution better today than we did in 2002? We: not just secret agents and government officials, but the civilian lawyers in that time of panic who urged such nostrums as "torture warrants" (as Alan Dershowitz did) and representatives who said such things as "I'm OK with it not being pretty" (as Jane Harman said of extreme interrogations). We are at a moment of national inquest. It was not in the president's power to launch and contain it in a single stroke.

In an essay well known to the American founders, "That Politics may be Reduced to a Science," David Hume wrote that "A constitution is only so far good, as it provides a remedy against maladministration." Mere knowledge that crimes were committed is not in itself a remedy. It is necessary that the people responsible for acts of maladministration be rooted out and exposed to public opprobrium. If they committed crimes, they ought to be punished just as other citizens are, without any benefit owing to their official status. Praise of the good is meaningless where blame of the bad is prohibited. So long as servile lawyers and compliant executioners, who work in the dark, continue to be sheltered in the dark, every whistle-blower is at risk by his very loyalty to a public good that trusts the light of day.

Let us never forget that the Bush-Cheney administration, under the Military Commissions Act of 2006-a law drafted by some of the same parties that devised the rationale for torture-was given the power to seek punishments by secret tribunals against defendants with evidence obtained under torture. We are speaking not about a few mistakes, but an influential distortion of the American constitution, put into practice by military police and military lawyers, after being drafted by government lawyers higher up, all with the consent of both houses of Congress.

And the rottenness penetrated deeper down: from the extralegal culture of an administration drawn to adventurism in every realm, to a popular culture whose apparent sources were quite different. A TV show like 24 contributed heavily to the legitimation of sadism. The star of the show, Kiefer Sutherland, son of the actor Donald Sutherland, a famous anti-war activist of the 1960s and 1970s, doubtless squares it with himself by saying that his show is only fiction. But all fictions are influential: we don't try them on in our minds because they mean nothing to us but because they mean something to us. A series like 24 is as morally regressive for Americans as an Arab show would be, playing across the Muslim world, in which every episode ended with the ritual stoning of a woman who had transgressed the law by falling in love with an infidel. The costumes may differ, but under the burnoose and khaki the surrender to violence is just the same.

The Bill of Rights outlaws torture, explicitly, in two of its ten amendments, the fifth and the eighth. All Americans ought to know this; and President Obama might take the opportunity to say it some day: it could not hurt his position. "No person," says the fifth amendment, "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Torture is compulsion; its purpose, when used as evidence in a military tribunal, is to compel the prisoner to serve as a witness against himself. As Leonard Levy points out in Origins of the Bill of Rights, the history of this particular right lies in the horror of the American founders at the arbitrariness of Roman law and its legacy of ex officio oaths and coerced confessions. The non-conforming Protestants whose spirit animates the Constitution were looking to assure that nothing in the history of this country would resemble the Star-Chamber proceedings under Charles I. The language of the eight amendment is even plainer: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Writes Levy: "Cruel and unusual punishment referred to methods of punishment as well as their severity; they had to be as swift and painless as possible and in no circumstances involve a lingering death or any form of torture." Any form of torture: let those words stand alone against the hairsplitting sophistries of John Yoo and Jay Bybee.

It has sometimes been made a special plea for the contempt of the Bill of Rights in the Bush-Cheney administration that the laws we live by were intended be only for use by citizens. A weaker version of our laws may thus be all we choose to allow to our enemies. But that plea neglects a precedent and suppresses a fact. In previous wars, the rule governing the morale of America toward our enemies has been that "we bring the Constitution with us wherever we go." And indeed, how could we hold ourselves up as models for emulation unless we did so? At the same time, a disturbing feature of the Military Commissions Act has often been forgotten. It gives the president a free hand to declare an American citizen to be an enemy combatant and thereby to deprive a citizen as surely as an alien of rights under the Constitution.

A mood of national unity has thus far yielded an impressive indulgence toward the instigators of torture. It has, in fact, led to some curious refusals to blame, even among those who first detected the scandal of the new policies. Thus both Jane Mayer in The Dark Side and Barton Gellman in Angler, as well as Ron Susskind in The One Percent Solution, stood back and declined to draw the inference from their own discoveries that any motive darker than misguided patriotism could have driven the vice president and the president and their lawyers. Jack Goldsmith, who fought against the Yoo-Bybee memoranda behind the scenes, also took this sympathetic line in public. But actions, not motives, have to be the subject of any merely legal investigation.

People have reasons for the things they do, and sometimes they do bad things for good reasons. Sometimes also they do bad things for bad reasons. Were the governors and lawyers at the helm of the country beside themselves with perfervid pleasure at the new powers a national disaster had suddenly placed in their hands? It seems wrong to say it that way; but wrong, not because it is false but because it is conjectural. Yet the unkind hypothesis is no more conjectural than the saccharine notion that these men were high exemplars of an unselfish prudence, conscience- stricken by the disaster, and determined to follow the grim dictates of necessity even at the expense of American liberty and American laws. No: the unpleasant story and the pleasant one are equally speculative. The truth about what Bush and Cheney and Addington and Yoo and Cambone and Feith and a handful of others did, must be known before it can be judged, and all that can be judged is the content of their actions.

The proof that it was possible to do other or better than they did, was brought out in a Times story today by Scott Shane, who quotes Robert Mueller III, the director of the FBI, an opponent of the permissive laws on torture who forbade collaboration in those laws by his agents. Asked whether any attacks on the United States had been disrupted by intelligence obtained through torture, Mueller said: "I don't believe that has been the case." He later confirmed the statement through a spokesman. But what if torture "works"? The evidence is that it does not, because a man in constant fear under the threat of extreme pain will say anything. But this is a question that opponents of the practice ought to answer directly and without reference to pragmatic concerns. The question is whether we shall or shall not have a law that places a burden of prosecution always against the person who would employ such methods. People will do awful things, and violent things, when their backs are against the wall; we all know this; the question is: shall we have a law that gives permission and clearance? That was always what was at stake, and arguments about degrees of efficacy can only serve to conceal the depth of disagreement over the principle. As John McCain said in a moment for which he can still be remembered with respect: "It's not about who they are. It's about who we are." Romans of the imperial age practiced torture against enemy combatants on an imposing scale of unrestraint. The gloves were really off. Any viewer of the final montage of Kubrick's film of Spartacus will remember the captives of the slave rebellion nailed on their crosses like trees of that peculiar climate. The Christian religion was founded against the empire that did such things. It incorporated into its central symbol the purest revulsion from torture.

Can an investigation be pursued without the appearance of political opportunism? The people who are the first to raise that objection are people who will make the charge in any case. They like to speak, in a canting phrase, of "the danger of criminalizing political differences." But the depth of the cynicism in such a statement should surprise us. It suggests that we understand in advance that politics is essentially a criminal activity. If that were so, the United States would have boiled in its own acids long ago. What the objectors are actually worried about is not the criminalizing of political differences, but the politicizing of criminal differences. If a party in power has advanced its interests substantially by criminal means, it may have something to fear from the other party's success in presenting itself as non-criminal. But we are nowhere close to such a millennium; and it may be a cure for skepticism to recall that until this week no American had done more to rouse the conscience of the country against torture than John McCain.

Army prepares to invade US

Yes, this has been going on for a long time. The thread runs through it all? The Bush family: Bush I, Bush II, and the charismatic relief puppets Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama. What else would you expect from a family that providing banking services to the Nazis before, during and after World War II?

Chemtrail Fallout Linked to Candida Yeast Infection/Mood/Obesity?

This 2005 study may amplify the findings of forensic aerosol investigator, Cliff Carnicom. References to Candida yeast, Chlamydospore Formation during Hyphal Growth in Cryptococcus neoformans Link: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1265899

Ask The Pharmacist: Candida causes dozens of disorders

Q: I’ve been suffering with abdominal cramps, bloating, a yellow toenail and a white-coated tongue. My doctor told me I have a candida infection and prescribed Diflucan. This requires liver testing. Even though my tongue and toenails are yucky, I’d rather deal with that than damage to my liver. What other options will help me get rid of candida?

E.H. Gainesville

A: All of us have this yeast Candida albicans inside our bodies, but when your immune system is overworked, the yeast growth gets out of control and causes widespread, uncomfortable symptoms. Candida overgrowth (candidiasis) may cause irritable bowels, bad breath, constipation, eczema, psoriasis, vaginal yeast infections, jock itch, athlete’s foot, ringworm, and cancer. The brain gets involved too, and some people experience headaches, brain fog, mood swings, anxiety, as well as intense cravings for sweets and starches. That’s because candida needs sugar to grow. If you have a sweet tooth and a stressful life (and thus a compromised immune system), you will make candida spread like wildfire. Starve it to death by avoiding white sugar and carbs then boost your immune system with antioxidants, glutathione and vitamin D.

Doctors will usually attempt to kill candida with drugs. Using drugs long-term is not wise because candida replicates and comes back with a vengeance. This nasty trick is called “resistance.” Besides, if you don’t change your diet and boost immune function, you will need drugs forever, such as:

- Nystatin: This prescription drug does not leave the gut so it is only helpful for thrush or candida overgrowth in the GI tract.

- Monistat or Micatin: Over-the-counter creams used for vaginal yeast infections or jock itch.

- Diflucan: This medication gets into the bloodstream to kill fungus everywhere but it may adversely affect your liver; it also interacts with blood thinners, diabetic meds and a popular diuretic, HCTZ. A drug with similar anti-fungal properties is Nizoral.

The good news is that there are natural anti-fungal herbs available that do battle with candida and other nasty germs that try to make us sick. The following dietary supplements are well-studied and sold at most health food stores:

- Oil of oregano: A very powerful, natural and safe herb; choose a pure brand, one that is organic and not genetically modified (written as, “non GMO”).

- Pau d’arco: Fungus doesn’t normally grow under Pau d’arco trees which are native to the Amazon rain forest. Pau d’arco can demolish candida, H. pylori, and some strains of aspergillus, pneumonia and staph.

- Grapefruit seed extract (or GSE): I think this one is incredibly effective and it’s very inexpensive.

- Olive leaf: It has broad spectrum abilities so it destroys many dangerous pathogens.

- Saccharomyces boulardii: This supplement contains a friendly yeast originally extracted from lychee and mangosteen (fruits) and it drives out candida; some brands include Reflor, Florastor and DiarSafe.

- Candidase: This brand contains two enzymes that control yeast overgrowth.

Did you know?

Zinc supplementation protects against damage to the digestive tract from alcohol.

Suzy Cohen is a registered pharmacist. This information is not intended to treat, cure or diagnose your condition. Always consult your physician.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Torture, Iraq and 9/11

5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam".

He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time", is the statement "Hard to get a good case." In other words, top officials knew that there wasn't a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway.

Moreover, "Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda". And a Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy.

And yet Bush, Cheney and other top administration officials claimed repeatedly for years that Saddam was behind 9/11. See this analysis. Indeed, Bush administration officials apparently swore in a lawsuit that Saddam was behind 9/11. Moreover, President Bush's March 18, 2003 letter to Congress authorizing the use of force against Iraq, includes the following paragraph:

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Therefore, the Bush administration expressly justified the Iraq war to Congress by representing that Iraq planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks. See this.

Tortured Logic

Yesterday, Seator Levin revealed that the U.S. used torture techniques aimed at extracting false confessions.

Today, McClatchy fills in some of the details:

Former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration...

For most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there."

It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document...

When people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people to push harder," he continued."Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam . . .

A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.

"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."

"I think it's obvious that the administration was scrambling then to try to find a connection, a link (between al Qaida and Iraq)," [Senator] Levin said in a conference call with reporters. "They made out links where they didn't exist."

Levin recalled Cheney's assertions that a senior Iraqi intelligence officer had met Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague just months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The FBI and CIA found that no such meeting occurred.

In other words, top Bush administration officials not only knowingly lied about a non-existent connection between Al Qaida and Iraq, but they pushed and insisted that interrogators use special torture methods aimed at extracting false confessions to attempt to create such a false linkage.

Writing about this today, Paul Krugman says:

Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link.

There’s a word for this: it’s evil.

What Does That Say About the Persuasiveness of the 9/11 Commission Report?

As noted by Newsweek:

The commission appears to have ignored obvious clues throughout 2003 and 2004 that its account of the 9/11 plot and Al Qaeda's history relied heavily on information obtained from detainees who had been subjected to torture, or something not far from it.

The panel raised no public protest over the CIA's interrogation methods, even though news reports at the time suggested how brutal those methods were. In fact, the commission demanded that the CIA carry out new rounds of interrogations in 2004 to get answers to its questions.

That has troubling implications for the credibility of the commission's final report. In intelligence circles, testimony obtained through torture is typically discredited; research shows that people will say anything under threat of intense physical pain.

And yet it is a distinct possibility that Al Qaeda suspects who were the exclusive source of information for long passages of the commission's report may have been subjected to "enhanced" interrogation techniques, or at least threatened with them, because of the 9/11 Commission....

Information from CIA interrogations of two of the three—KSM and Abu Zubaydah—is cited throughout two key chapters of the panel's report focusing on the planning and execution of the attacks and on the history of Al Qaeda.

Footnotes in the panel's report indicate when information was obtained from detainees interrogated by the CIA. An analysis by NBC News found that more than a quarter of the report's footnotes—441 of some 1,700—referred to detainees who were subjected to the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation program, including the trio who were waterboarded.

Commission members note that they repeatedly pressed the Bush White House and CIA for direct access to the detainees, but the administration refused. So the commission forwarded questions to the CIA, whose interrogators posed them on the panel's behalf.

The commission's report gave no hint that harsh interrogation methods were used in gathering information, stating that the panel had "no control" over how the CIA did its job; the authors also said they had attempted to corroborate the information "with documents and statements of others."

But how could the commission corroborate information known only to a handful of people in a shadowy terrorist network, most of whom were either dead or still at large?

Former senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat on the commission, told me last year he had long feared that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking. ...

Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11 commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11. Those now calling for more 9/11-style panels would be wise to heed his words.

Indeed, as I have repeatedly noted, the 9/11 Commission Report was largely based on a third-hand account of what tortured detainees said, with two of the three parties in the communication being government employees. The 9/11 Commission itself is complaining that the government lied to - and hid evidence from - the Commission. See this, this, this and this. Now that we know that the interrogators used torture techniques aimed at extracting false confessions, does the 9/11 Commission Report carry any weight whatsoever?