Makes you wonder who was minding the store. Which leads me to the current question. Why would the senator from NY “recommended” Judge Mukasey to Bush as was reported in the MSM? Bush’s MO is well known and documented in using appointments as a ‘pic’ to frustrate investigations. Schumer prior to the judges appointment had enough information to be aware of the damaging testamony…of Ali A, Mohamed.
I remember seeing a survallience clip of the Ali A, Mohamed “cell” shooting weapons on Long Island.

Something stinks like Lindberger cheese and the narrotive about this guy as reported in the MSM needs a redo investigation.

Peter Lance’s Flawed Triple Cross
by
Larry C Johnson

I believe that Peter Lance’s new book, TRIPLE CROSS, is a flawed and inaccurate piece of investigative reporting. Not the kind of work one would expect from a five time Emmy award winning reporter. I write this not out of animus towards Peter Lance. I reached this conclusion based on evidence I have that flatly contradicts several of Lance’s claims. Let’s start with a minor issue. Peter Lance presents inaccurate and misleading information about me on page 384 of his book. Lance writes:

He [Johnson] then compounded that mistaken assessment five weeks later with a Times Op-Ed piece entitled “The Declining Terrorist Threat,” describing al Qaeda as a “a loose amalgam of people with a shared ideology, but a very limited direction.”[vi]

Peter is flat out wrong. At no point in that July 2001 op-ed did I write what he says I wrote (here is the link to the op-ed, read it for yourself). At no point did I refer to Al Qaeda in that piece because I was focused on the broader trends in terrorism.

Lance leaves the clear impression that I minimized the importance of Osama Bin Laden. That also is not true. Ironically, Milt Bearden, a retired CIA officer, and I wrote an op-ed in November of 2000 when we learned that Ali Mohamad (the subject of Lance’s latest work) had entered a plea agreement. We warned the next President that:

Mughniyeh and Bin Ladin are the two most prolific mass murderers currently at large. A new administration will have to take on the fundamental task of bringing to American justice the two men who have killed so many Americans. The full range of options, including military force, covert action, clandestine operations and diplomatic pressure must be brought to bear. The experience of the last two decades has shown that putting terrorists in American prisons is a very effective policy, but we must be prepared to take other steps if that option is not feasible.

cont’d – with appropriate links.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/peter_lances_fl.html

My money is on Larry.

I respectfully have to disagree with “great” though.

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca36_harman/harmanletter.pdf

As we informed both you and the leadership of the Intelligence Committees last September (2002)
…in the appropriate circumstances, use of these techniques is fully consistent with US law

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005016.php#more

And his response is a flip off as well. Do we do renditions on Bullshit?

What does one do when confronted with illegality in a classified setting?

Judge Mukasey helped bury the significance of Ali A, Mohamed, a shadowy figure who was working at the time for both Osama bin Laden and the FBI.

If Mohamed had been called to the stand and cross-examined in open court, defense lawyers could have ripped open the scandal of how the FBI failed to stop the first Trade Center attack. More important, they could have exposed the depth and breadth of al Qaeda’s shocking plan to attack America, six years before 9/11.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Author_Bush_nominee_helped_mask_FBIs_0925.html

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html

On to Mukasey

Although the tapes in question were not provided to any court or to the members of the government-appointed 9/11 Commission, they were evidently seen by CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson, who disclosed in a statement yesterday that he plans to recuse himself from the criminal inquiry to avoid a conflict of interest.

A Justice Department official, who spoke about internal deliberations on the condition of anonymity, said the U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria had recused itself to “err on the side of caution.” Several cases handled by that office, including the prosecution and conviction of al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui, involved CIA interrogations, possibly including those that had been videotaped.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/02/AR2008010202060.html?hpid=topnews

“There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone,” a senior Republican aide confides.

I remember when he went to Columbia. His escaped dying from a bomb and he was later sprayed.

Sen Wellstone Sprayed With Herbicide…

Hard-eyed men with Uzis stood guard as Sen. Paul Wellstone stepped out of a helicopter and into a bulletproof car and drove to a meeting with human rights activists. Hours earlier, police said they discovered a bomb along the airport road.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/120200-01.htm

Senator Wellstone announced that he had contracted Multiple Sclerosis, which is thought to be linked to toxic exposure such as the biocides sprayed by the US government on Senator Wellstone during his fact finding mission to Columbia.

Last but not least

Co-pilot played minor (so they say) role in story of Moussaoui

Associated Press, 26 October 2002

MINNEAPOLIS – The co-pilot who died in the crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone’s plane played a minor role in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged Sept. 11 conspirator who briefly attended an Eagan flight school.

Co-pilot Michael Guess had performed administrative work at the Pan Am International Flight Academy last year as he continued accumulating flying hours. There he met Moussaoui, the school’s most infamous student.

Two former Pan Am program managers who tipped the FBI to Moussaoui’s suspicious behavior at the school in August 2001 told the Star Tribune that Guess inadvertently gave Moussaoui unattended access to a computer program on flying a 747 jumbo jet.

http://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/PWcopilot.html

Have we forgot about Poland?

I was working in DC when the subway station at DuPont Circle was completed. Until they got the bugs out of the system, when commuters would stand crowded together right in the middle of a car close to the exit doors, the train would not move. It used to really bug me that the government employees never complained about the train not pulling out of the station and seemed content to just sit there all day, if necessary. I, however, was on my way to my job at IBM. I had places to go, people to see and things to do and I couldn’t afford to nor did I care to just sit on that platform. This is when I first noticed a big difference between us and them.

Say, I have been so busy that I just now realized that my Seahawks are playing Larry’s Redskins on Saturday at 1:30pm PST. Hope it’s a fun game. … dunno about the Hawks. I’ll just say that I hope the best team wins.