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Kid Berwyn
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October 14, 2021
Why do so many Trump holdovers still work at Justice?
Click in a box on the Org Chart and it opens to the page with relevant info:
https://www.justice.gov/agencies/chart
Me, I’d have canned the lot of them January 20, 2021.
October 13, 2021
PS: Posted at the suggestion of the great DUer niyad.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181571075#post7
Pablo Casals on pedagogy...
PS: Posted at the suggestion of the great DUer niyad.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181571075#post7
October 12, 2021
There is a certain deja vu miasma going on.
We’ve seen this movie and its 60 remakes. And it’s always We the People who get left on the short end of the stick and in the middle of the stink. The Trumpies are just tools of Crime Inc., the fusion of capital and fascism that has corrupted the planet so horribly and thoroughly. Some of the turds escaped justice after 1945 and have created the current cesspool we find ourselves in.
October 12, 2021
I wonder why so many Trump holdovers are still in top jobs at Justice?
Click in a box and it opens the page with relevant info:
https://www.justice.gov/agencies/chart
October 12, 2021
During a speech by President Harry S Truman, a supporter yelled out, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!"
Truman replied, "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's Hell."
Subsequently, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" became a lifetime slogan for Truman supporters.
So what if Fox and OAN and the rest of Corporate McPravda stand with the pukes? Boycott them and the cheap pillow they rode in on.
Speak it loud and clear: The law is on our side. The facts are on our side. The good people are on our side.
Make it plain. The message will get through to voters.
Let’s give them hell, Democrats! Tell the truth!
NOW is the time to fight like hell!
During a speech by President Harry S Truman, a supporter yelled out, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!"
Truman replied, "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it's Hell."
Subsequently, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" became a lifetime slogan for Truman supporters.
So what if Fox and OAN and the rest of Corporate McPravda stand with the pukes? Boycott them and the cheap pillow they rode in on.
Speak it loud and clear: The law is on our side. The facts are on our side. The good people are on our side.
Make it plain. The message will get through to voters.
Let’s give them hell, Democrats! Tell the truth!
October 11, 2021
Jack Colhoun
Covert Action Quaterly, Spring 1993
Jack Colhoun was Washington correspondent for the (New York) Guardian news weekly from 1980 to 1992. He has a Ph.D. in history and specializes in post-World War II U.S. foreign policy. His soon-to-be-published book The George Bush File (Los Angeles: ACCESS, 1993) includes reprints of several of his articles cited below.
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal opens a window with a spectacular view of a subject usually shrouded in secrecy: How the CIA uses banks to finance clandestine operations.
The view is spectacular because BCCI, which earned the moniker the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International,” worked closely with former Director of Central Intelligence William Casey and the Reagan administration’s off-the-shelf arms Enterprise. BCCI financed some of the Enterprise’s arms-for-hostages deals with Iran. Arms merchants linked to the October Surprise banked with BCCI. The CIA funneled funds through the bank to underwrite the Agency’s secret wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
But BCCI’s ties to the shadowy world of intelligence go deeper. Clark Clifford and Richard Helms--retired, but still connected senior members of the U.S. intelligence community--helped pave the way for BCCI’s secret acquisition of the Washington, D.C.-based banking network, Financial General Bankshares. Sheikh Kamal Adham, the founder of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, also played a key role on behalf of BCCI in the takeover of Financial General, which was renamed First American Bankshares.
Casey met “every few months” with Agha Hassan Abedi, the Pakistani founder of BCCI, in Washington, D.C. and Islamabad, Pakistan, over a three-year period in the 1980s. Casey and Abedi talked about Iran-Contra arms deals, the Agency-funded war in Afghanistan, and the ever volatile situation in the Persian Gulf. Abedi even made arrangements for Casey’s travels in Pakistan.1
1. For the Casey-Abedi meetings, see Peter Truell and Larry Gutwin, False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, The World’s Most Corrupt Financial Empire (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), p. 133; and NBC News, Sunday Today, February 23, 1992.
CONTINUED...
https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAQ44-1993-1.pdf
Lots from DU of Old:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6201672
Patriotic Profits
BCCI: The Bank of the CIAJack Colhoun
Covert Action Quaterly, Spring 1993
Jack Colhoun was Washington correspondent for the (New York) Guardian news weekly from 1980 to 1992. He has a Ph.D. in history and specializes in post-World War II U.S. foreign policy. His soon-to-be-published book The George Bush File (Los Angeles: ACCESS, 1993) includes reprints of several of his articles cited below.
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal opens a window with a spectacular view of a subject usually shrouded in secrecy: How the CIA uses banks to finance clandestine operations.
The view is spectacular because BCCI, which earned the moniker the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International,” worked closely with former Director of Central Intelligence William Casey and the Reagan administration’s off-the-shelf arms Enterprise. BCCI financed some of the Enterprise’s arms-for-hostages deals with Iran. Arms merchants linked to the October Surprise banked with BCCI. The CIA funneled funds through the bank to underwrite the Agency’s secret wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
But BCCI’s ties to the shadowy world of intelligence go deeper. Clark Clifford and Richard Helms--retired, but still connected senior members of the U.S. intelligence community--helped pave the way for BCCI’s secret acquisition of the Washington, D.C.-based banking network, Financial General Bankshares. Sheikh Kamal Adham, the founder of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, also played a key role on behalf of BCCI in the takeover of Financial General, which was renamed First American Bankshares.
Casey met “every few months” with Agha Hassan Abedi, the Pakistani founder of BCCI, in Washington, D.C. and Islamabad, Pakistan, over a three-year period in the 1980s. Casey and Abedi talked about Iran-Contra arms deals, the Agency-funded war in Afghanistan, and the ever volatile situation in the Persian Gulf. Abedi even made arrangements for Casey’s travels in Pakistan.1
1. For the Casey-Abedi meetings, see Peter Truell and Larry Gutwin, False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, The World’s Most Corrupt Financial Empire (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), p. 133; and NBC News, Sunday Today, February 23, 1992.
CONTINUED...
https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAQ44-1993-1.pdf
Lots from DU of Old:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6201672
October 10, 2021
The Man Who Told the Truth and Paid the Price
by Tamar Sullivan
Ami, January 28, 2015 - 8 Shvat 5775
Via Project On Government Oversight
Richard Barlow was simply doing his job when he uncovered an illegal network of Pakistani procurement agents acquiring US components to build a nuclear bomb. But his irrefutable intelligence and his intention to go after the criminals were politically problematic, so his rivals sought to discredit him with one of the most dishonest smear campaigns in this nation’s recent history. Despite overwhelming evidence in his favor and President Bill Clinton’s full support while in office, Barlow has never been compensated for sacrificing his career by exposing the facts that could have prevented the bomb from falling into Pakistani hands, leaving us in the precarious global situation in which we find ourselves today.
Barlow’s last request for personal restitution from the White House in 2009 was probably his last. President Obama’s silence in Barlow’s case follows the latter’s two decades of failed attempts to clear his name and receive his pension. After years of backstabbing sabotage and dashed hopes, Barlow laments the reality of this last shot at compensation.
“That was the end of it for me,” Barlow, 60, quietly acknowledges. He now lives in a motor home with his dogs and barely a penny to his name.
Snip…
The news of the operatives on American soil enraged many in Congress, and they began to call for a termination of aid to Pakistan under the Solarz Amendment. Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz called for an immediate hearing to ascertain the truth about Pakistan’s nuclear program. Barlow, as the CIA’s top expert on Pakistan, was called to the hearing along with a national intelligence officer, David Einsel. Because Einsel’s priority was to keep intelligence regarding Pakistan from interfering with the Afghan war, his testimony was expected to be purposely deceitful. Barlow’s supervisors and attorneys instructed him to tell the truth when asked.
Continues…
http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/wi/ami201_feature_barlow.pdf
That was the PREVIOUS Afghan War, the one where we helped give the Soviets their Vietnam.
CIA analyst Richard M. Barlow blew the whistle and got ruined.
The Whistle BlowerThe Man Who Told the Truth and Paid the Price
by Tamar Sullivan
Ami, January 28, 2015 - 8 Shvat 5775
Via Project On Government Oversight
Richard Barlow was simply doing his job when he uncovered an illegal network of Pakistani procurement agents acquiring US components to build a nuclear bomb. But his irrefutable intelligence and his intention to go after the criminals were politically problematic, so his rivals sought to discredit him with one of the most dishonest smear campaigns in this nation’s recent history. Despite overwhelming evidence in his favor and President Bill Clinton’s full support while in office, Barlow has never been compensated for sacrificing his career by exposing the facts that could have prevented the bomb from falling into Pakistani hands, leaving us in the precarious global situation in which we find ourselves today.
Barlow’s last request for personal restitution from the White House in 2009 was probably his last. President Obama’s silence in Barlow’s case follows the latter’s two decades of failed attempts to clear his name and receive his pension. After years of backstabbing sabotage and dashed hopes, Barlow laments the reality of this last shot at compensation.
“That was the end of it for me,” Barlow, 60, quietly acknowledges. He now lives in a motor home with his dogs and barely a penny to his name.
Snip…
The news of the operatives on American soil enraged many in Congress, and they began to call for a termination of aid to Pakistan under the Solarz Amendment. Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz called for an immediate hearing to ascertain the truth about Pakistan’s nuclear program. Barlow, as the CIA’s top expert on Pakistan, was called to the hearing along with a national intelligence officer, David Einsel. Because Einsel’s priority was to keep intelligence regarding Pakistan from interfering with the Afghan war, his testimony was expected to be purposely deceitful. Barlow’s supervisors and attorneys instructed him to tell the truth when asked.
Continues…
http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/wi/ami201_feature_barlow.pdf
That was the PREVIOUS Afghan War, the one where we helped give the Soviets their Vietnam.
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