SPIES LIKE U.S.
“His
malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in
the assembly.” Proverbs 26:26
Evidence
indicates Bush wire-tapped alternative media
Is Bush using warrant-less spying as a pretext to monitor U.S.
“enemies” list?
by Tom Flocco
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WASHINGTON—December
22, 2005—TomFlocco.com—There is evidence that President Bush’s
executive order authorizing eavesdropping on phone conversations of U.S.
citizens, monitoring email and gaining access to private computers while
failing to follow the law requiring court-ordered warrants may amount to
criminal activity.
Internet IP address logs from this writer’s computer firewall security
system provide evidence that the Department of Defense (DOD) is
conducting surveillance, since logs show DOD internet identification
numbers during specific occasions while we conducted phone interviews with
intelligence agents and sources, and also while reports were being
word-processed for stories regarding White House crime family activities.
DOD intrusion attempts to monitor the contents of our computer, track
key-strokes or install a surveillance device were listed in our firewall
security log as “high-rated attacks” by the U.S. government, the
circumstances about which this writer and other witnesses would be willing to
testify if subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury or Congress.
In a move reminiscent of President Nixon’s secret “enemies list,” Mr.
Bush’s domestic surveillance program raises questions whether he is
employing the Defense Department to spy on Americans not only for the “War
on Terror,” but also as a pretext to conduct warrant-less monitoring of
political enemies, anti-war activists, whistleblowers and unfriendly
alternative journalists without a paper trail—both inside and outside the
USA.
The reason the Patrick Fitzgerald grand jury may question Mr. Bush’s
sidestepping the courts for domestic spying on Americans lies in the fact that
according Senator Joe Biden, Bush could have conducted electronic surveillance
for 72 hours without even telling the court; but then he would have to tell a
judge who he wiretapped—leaving a legal paper trail.
Keeping “the list” covered up prevents publicizing presidential abuse of
power; but the issue of shredded documents becomes problematic for a grand
jury, even as Bush summoned New York Times executives to the oval
office on December 6 to ask them not to make public his secret spying
program—10 days before the story ran.
Notwithstanding the oval office meeting, how did Mr. Bush know that the Times
story was going to be released?
Curiously, Mr. Bush intimated in passing during questioning at a Monday
morning press conference that phone/email surveillance also emanated directly
out of foreign countries.
During one recent series of four TomFlocco.com reports, the day after each
story was placed online we lost phone service for between 8 to 30 hours—on
clear summer days—culminating with the classified
report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr. when phone service was
disconnected and the computer hard drive was destroyed.
Interestingly, our hard drive was rendered useless after previous phone
conversations about high-rated Defense Department attacks showing up on
firewall logs.
A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News
lists the a Lake Worth, Texas anti-war meeting as a “threat” and one
of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent
10-month period.
NBC reported that DOD spokesmen said domestic intelligence is
“properly collected,” but the news outlet added that critics said
“...the Pentagon now collects domestic intelligence that goes beyond
legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military
installations,” and “two-hundred and forty-three other incidents in the
database were discounted because they had no connection to the Department
of Defense—yet they all remained in the database.”
The secretive National Security Agency (NSA), which had
generally been forbidden from domestic spying except in narrow circumstances
involving foreign nationals, has monitored the e-mails, telephone calls, and
other communications of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of people under the
program, The New York Times also reported.
Consequences of controversial news reports
A few days after witnessing a Verizon telephone repairman climbing the utility
pole in
front of our house, we have experienced periodic heavy telephone echoes, hums
and multiple clicks when talking with certain intelligence agents, sources and
others during phone interviews for stories appearing during late spring
through this winter.
Reports indicate that federal agencies employ vehicles bearing logos of U.S.
companies to disguise surveillance operations; thus contract agents in such
vehicles—normally having access to public utility poles—like Verizon or
Asplundh tree trimming, etc., could facilitate wire-taps on unsuspecting
citizens reporting in alternative media.
Verizon employees told us the government did not authorize nor require them to
divulge whether there was a wiretap placed on a customer’s phone lines.
Moreover, Verizon personnel blamed our four separate phone service
disconnection incidences during clear summer weather, approximately once a
week each time, as “squirrels chewing on wires,”—within hours after
placing a story online which shed light on varying aspects of White House
crime family activities via intelligence agents and sources.
Within five minutes after a phone conversation with Stew Webb and placing “Who
killed John-John?” online at the website, this writer’s computer was
attacked, resulting in damage costing $300 to reformat the hard-drive and
nearly a week without a computer.
Several witnesses can attest to the phone service failures when attempting to
call each time about the new stories, and there are two witnesses to our hard
drive attack with whom we were discussing the JFK Jr. assassination story who
would also be willing to testify before a grand jury or congressional hearing
about these issues.
The strong echoes, hums and clicks could constantly be heard during
conversations with key sources, including some connected to U.S.
intelligence—and in one particular case, one of the agents who participated
in the actual writing of the classified report on the JFK Jr. murder just
prior to the 2000 election season.
The coincidence on several occasions in losing telephone service, then a
destroyed hard drive immediately after releasing controversial stories and DOD
high-rated government attacks showing up on firewall logs, would seem highly
suspect—especially while receiving millions of hits from some 100+
countries.
Consequences of microwaves during phone surveillance
Federal whistleblower Stewart Webb—whose infant daughter was taken from him
by Bush family associates 21 years ago—told TomFlocco.com that his computer
was also taken down seven days prior to the release of our JFK Jr.
assassination story, at a cost of $300 to repair a locked up hard drive.
It was Webb’s online copy of the leaked preliminary report on the murder of
John Jr. at StewWebb.com
that led to our series of three interviews with a U.S. intelligence agent
named “Delbert,” who was one of six participants in writing the JFK Jr.
assassination report implicating three Presidents, an FBI Director, an
Attorney General and a current U.S. senator—classified by the Clinton
administration until the year 2025. The report is online at both TomFlocco.com
and StewWebb.com.
So nuclear are Webb’s documents and store of knowledge regarding government
corruption that just yesterday the administration sent an unmarked black
helicopter to circle his house during daylight hours while on the phone with a
New York reporter who simultaneously confirmed his server company’s call
that his website was taken down.
The company told Webb that the $15,000 server hosting his website was
destroyed on Monday by a strong electronic current.
On another occasion Webb was talking to a contributor to his website when both
heard a loud pop over the telephone, wherein the contributor complained, “oh
my ear—my ear hurts,” after which massive pain and a doctor visit proved
the pop caused a perforated ear drum—a broken drum which had also destroyed
the phone handset in front of another witness.
Webb told us that federal whistleblower Tom Heneghan’s telephone/fax machine
was destroyed by electronic interference while also having his hard drive
locked up—during this same recent time period.
Webb told us that his hard drive was destroyed last winter and he had received
electronic microwaves through the telephone, destroying both handsets—while
also revealing the microwaves caused him to have chest pains and he could see
the electric current coming out of the phone.
Grand jury secrets of White House spying
Webb also revealed that secret White House wiretaps have continued going back
before Bush 41 was president and when he was CIA Director, and then the
Clinton and current Bush 43 administration: “House and Senate members,
judges and police chiefs across the nation…local ‘red-squad’ hit teams
via the ‘True Colors’ transcripts…have all been subjected to secret
wiretaps for the purpose of political and criminal blackmail.”
Webb said his revelations about surveillance of United States congressmen,
senators and other Americans can be confirmed in the explosive “Colonel
Cutolla affidavit.”
Much of the secret surveillance Webb described emanated “from the West-Star
satellite systems appropriations—also known as KH-11 audio communications
satellites—covertly transferred from the congressional budget by the
Bush-Clinton secret shadow government within the government into the control
of E-Systems Dallas, a subsidiary of the Raytheon Corporation.”
Fox News / Iran contra figure Colonel Oliver North called the operation
“the company,” what Webb described as “a system involving
government-organized narcotics, weapons and child-sex trafficking, and there
are scores of witnesses willing to testify before the Fitzgerald grand jury
about how this is continuing up to the present time.”
“The satellites have almost instant voice recognition ability to monitor any
telephone in the world within one minute, and the White House can abuse this
ability to spy on Americans even when their computer is turned off…a phone
can act as a speaker unless it’s unplugged from the wall,” he said,
adding, “they can hear everything you say.”
“But it gets worse,” said Webb. “High-frequency transponder devices can
listen to and see Americans through their own television screens via cable
transmissions.”
Operation Orpheus
Besides asking congressmen and Bush-Clinton officials about the explosive True
Colors transcripts detailing Bush-Clinton finance linked to Oklahoma City
and 9-11, White House hit-teams and 150 witnesses interviewed in the JFK JR.
probe, the Fitzgerald grand jury may have interest in the current status
of “Operation Orpheus” and its implications for Mr. Bush’s secret
domestic spying on American citizens—particularly the subpoenaed testimony
of a certain U.S. Naval Intelligence officer.
Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and former officer in the Office of Naval
Intelligence Alexander Martin described a Miami meeting in late 1984:
“It was one of the regular bi-weekly meetings which Jeb Bush chaired. But in
this meeting Oliver North was present. This was one of the few meetings that
Donald Gregg himself was present, and Frederick Ikley and his sidekick, Nestor
Sanchez.”
Martin’s list of meeting attendees represents what Fitzgerald grand jury
deputy prosecutors would call a mother-lode of White House crime family
witnesses still living:
“These were all the top people. [Donald] Gregg was the National Security
Adviser to Vice President Bush, His aide, Lt. Colonel Samuel C. Watson,
Frederick C. Ikley, then Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
for Caribbean and Central American Theater Operations, etc.”
“In this meeting, North gave an extensive speech about the Orpheus Operation
and how monies were being diverted from narcotics operations to rebuild,
reinvigorate, and to refurbish these various Civilian Inmate Labor Facilities
(CILFs), most of which had been built early in the 1970s under the guise of
housing Iranian Americans should there be a problem down the line.” [The
Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran contra insider, Al Martin, 2001, pp 337-340]
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In describing the
meeting, Lt. Commander Martin said “Orpheus actually went to the point where
if the liability could not be controlled, it would be necessary for [CIA
Director William] Casey, North and George Bush Sr. to secretly formulate and
potentially launch an outright coup d’ etat against the Government of the
United States…the pretext was going to be a limited nuclear exchange with
the Soviet Union.”
“CILFs were also built for those American civilians who would be
incarcerated. These were a combination of citizens who knew too much and
citizens, whom they felt would be difficult to control under a provisional
military government,” wrote Martin.
“This is the only meeting I actually attended, where I was actually searched
to see if I had a tape recording device on me. We were not allowed to make any
notes at this meeting. But fortunately I did make extensive notes about it
directly afterwards, and I hid those notes over the years,” said Martin,
adding, “I know where certain individuals were on a certain day, where they
were, and what was said. They would have to prove that they were somewhere
else on those days. Oliver North has tried to prove that before—and
unsuccessfully—thanks to me in some cases.”
“On the morning he was scheduled to testify before Congress and expose the
shadow government and national programs office,” said Webb, “CIA Director
William Casey was rushed from his Langley, Virginia office to the Bethesda
Naval Hospital with needle marks in his temple which caused a cerebral
hemorrhage, according to agents I talked to.”
“The hospital floors above and below Casey were closed off according to my
intelligence sources, and Casey told all the nurses and doctors to call people
and have congressional investigators and members of congress come to see him
right away, but he died—and all the doctors and nurses attending to him have
died mysteriously—all the shifts…suicides, car crashes, accidental
deaths,” said Webb.
“There are scores of intelligence agents who would testify to this
information if Patrick Fitzgerald subpoenaed them to appear before the grand
jury,” said Webb.
Shredding documents
It remains to be seen whether Congress or a grand jury will protect the
privacy of all Americans by subpoenaing Mr. Bush for a complete and
un-redacted list of all Americans spied upon from within the U.S. and from
foreign countries since entering office—while certifying via witnesses that
no lists were shredded to obstruct justice.
We have already reported that intelligence sources implicated senior
presidential advisor Karl Rove and former vice-presidential advisor Mary
Matalin as having knowledge of a paper shredding operation in the White
House—a matter reportedly before a grand jury.
This, as legal authorities and reports said Mr. Bush may have also obstructed
justice to affect news reports and polling, and violated his oath of office to
defend and uphold the Constitution as to 4th Amendment privacy rights
regarding search and seizure.
MSNBC Hardball reported Monday that Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) sent
a sealed letter for the record last July to the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee complaining about Mr. Bush’s domestic spying; and other committee
members were reportedly not informed that Bush would spy on American citizens,
which may also have obstructed justice if Congress and the courts decide to
find Bush in criminal violation of U.S. law.
Jonathan Turley, George Washington University law professor and specialist in
surveillance law, said “The President’s dead wrong. It’s not a close
question. Federal law is clear.” Turley’s analysis referred to the 1978
Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and court oversight as to
warrants for electronic intercepts targeting terrorists.
Congressman Curt Weldon (R-7-PA) said, “It certainly wasn’t my intent to
give the administration the right to tap the phone conversations of
Americans,” when he voted for the Patriot Act.
During this writer’s private meeting in the Capitol Hill office of a U.S.
congressman last spring regarding issues of government involvement in the
September 11 attacks, the House member went over to the sound system and
turned it up louder before we began to converse, indicating the member’s
suspicions that House offices are bugged too.