Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts

28 June 2015

Pentagon "Backpack Nuke" Spy Chief Undersecretary Of Defense Michael G. Vickers USD-1 Despite Career Of Failures Highest Civilian Military Intelligence Official "Quietly Retires" Under Obama New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

     Sunday, 28 June 2015, WASHINGTON - Perhaps but doubtfully intentionally on the internationally recognized day on which Socialism is celebrated worldwide, on Thursday, 1 May 2015 United States Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-1) chief Michael G. Vickers "quietly retired" from a position that most Americans including New York Times reporters apparently unsurprisingly have no idea is the highest-ranking civilian military intelligence position which oversees the Pentagon's $80 billion largest portion of the United States "intelligence community's" (publicly known) annual spying budget and also manages the nation's largest number of about 180.000 "intelligence people".
     Considering the responsibility of Vickers' position for imposing a major financial burden on the most unfairly heavily burdened taxpaying effectively chronically poverty-stricken portion of the country due to the government's obscenely wastefully unnecessary so-called "defense" spending not to mention the untold numbers of killings Vickers had overseen and ordered worldwide in the American people's name Vickers' reported departure from the Pentagon received very little publicity there with a low-key goodbye and curiously little coverage in the press.
     The New York Times article linked to below reporting Vickers' future plans simply confined itself to relate the uninformative news that Vickers himself provided that he intended to "sleep" claiming often having been woken up during his Pentagon service as Vickers told it on his special apparent "Batman"-type phone (reminiscent of the 1960's telephone drama "Batman" special red phone) presumably to authorize drone strike kills as well as other murders and so on which now allegedly had had its line "cut" along amusingly quaintly as told accidentally with his lined phone and cable service laughably claimed to have "cut him off" from the world as if he relied on technology for Pentagon communications from roughly a century ago.
     The Pentagon apparently had not heard this anecdote as it told the Washington Post at the same time that Vickers future assignments had not been ascertained although with his common drone strike kill experience he may find himself in some future assignment with the seemingly reassigned to disappearance CIA's "the Wolf" aka "Roger" aka "Mike" both of whom regardless of the atrocities for which they may have been responsible at least along with the CIA agent responsible for the "Argo" f*ck yourself mission have been portrayed in feature films although neither is known likewise to have received the "Intelligence" star.
     As to his curious career journey earning him such positions of enormous responsibility including for at least $80 billion of the taxpayers' money Vickers hardly distinguished himself in high school focusing his energy instead on lifting weights while maintaining a "gentleman's" (had he been attending Harvard which he did not) C+ average although a high school teacher oddly inexplicably did introduce him (according to the exceedingly sparse obviously slanted Wikipedia article also linked to below suspiciously seemingly poorly written by a friend) to the "realities of International Relations and the CIA's Secret War in Cambodia."
     The vision of the CIA's illegal activities killing foreigners in their homes overseas in undeclared war in a failed effort to achieve unobtainable objectives apparently resonated with Vickers and allegedly ignited a lifelong interest in Vickers in "International Relations" apparently as used in the loose sense by organizations such as the CIA as assassinating and killing people rather than as might be otherwise recognized in more established academic settings although Vickers would later use his contacts to get into these institutions for which he clearly was academically unfit in his "off years" to falsify a pedigree of "scholarship" much like a Bush might at Yale.
     Somehow being admitted to Pierce College where after being beat out for quarterback by Mark Harmon (later to become the star in the television drama "NCIS" and apparently enjoying a significantly more successful career at least by objective standards than Vickers) Vickers joined the Green Berets where he had the opportunity to prepare for his now "ideal occupation" of being in the C.I.A. Vickers reportedly scored 160 points on the Army's "Intelligence" test whatever that might be being the highest score possible and excelled at "Special Operations" training and hand-to-hand combat with many other similar extraordinary accomplishments apparently attributed to him in Wikipedia by an apparent admirer of equal academic ability given the misuse in this section of the Wikipedia piece of words more commonly confused by elementary school students such as the use of the word "through" for "throw".
     Sometime after this as a Green Beret during Cold War 1.0 Vickers reportedly either "volunteered to parachute" or depending on which version one prefers actually with a team infiltrated the borders of Warsaw Pact countries to place "backpack nukes" in those countries which as described in the Wikepedia article linked to below (there described under "suitcase nukes") were a later generation of portable nuclear weapons first developed by the C.I.A. and placed by Navy SEALS in North Vietnam in the early 1960's although never detonated. Although Vickers seemingly allegedly claimed his team actually "detonated" the weapons brought into Warsaw Pacts countries this seems an extremely unlikely claim as the portable nukes hidden in Warsaw Pact countries' populated or strategic areas might have been magnitudes more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and presumably someone would have noticed the large thermonuclear explosions with WWIII ensuing.
     (Today many do believe that the United States and the Russian Federation may still have powerful portable nuclear devices hidden in one another's countries left over from Cold War 1.0 near population centers as confirmed by one Russian spy defected to the U.S. but never found in the Shenandoah Valley that can be triggered on command of considerably more concern again as the United States and the Russian Federation effectively now have entered Cold War 2.0 with the "Atomic Clock" nearly as close to zero as ever. The portable devices reportedly incidentally also have been developed by the Israelis should this help calm anyone's nerves about global security.)
     What is particularly curious about Vickers' ever-advancing career is that it appears that almost all subsequent major covert military operations in which he participated or commanded in an intelligence capacity eventually proved to be spectacular failures ending in disastrous unforeseen consequences to the United States such as the creation and/or empowerment through funding and weapons supplies in the CIA's wildly expensive "Operation Cyclone" establishing the Taliban and al-Qaeda as obviously major later threats which succeeded in inflicting great harm to the U.S.
     Vickers bad judgment apparently continued after a lengthy sabbatical from "service" to the U.S. which later came to include later colossal failures such as the policies Vickers enthusiastically supported against Iraq now seen as being largely directly responsible for the circumstances allowing for the creation of ISIS incidentally totally unforeseen by Vickers both in his major "think tank" paper with web address below for interested readers as well as his Johns Hopkins' PhD. 1,000 page thesis on the need for aggressive action against Iraq presumably available upon request from that institution.
     In other words not very intelligent "Intelligence" at all with a remarkable inability to foresee the horrible consequences of the mistakes in which he played a leading role regardless of Vickers' alleged "perfect 160" score on his Army "Intelligence" test but seemingly more consistent with his high school C+ average suggesting he might have been better qualified for a less responsible position than the Undersecretary for Defense (USD-1) for which position President Obama unbelievably appointed Vickers after he was brought back into the federal government first for consultation by not-really-elected Cheney lapdog "President" George "litttle shrub" Bush after an apparent self-imposed period of decades of exile following his failures.
     It was during this period of exile that Vickers somehow got his Masters from Wharton followed by what sounds to be his bogus PhD. from Johns Hopkins with the adviser Eliot A. Cohen who sounds as if he should have been a certified lunatic apparently obsessed with the fanatical belief that the U.S. should go to war with Iraq simply because "Iraq had tried to assassinate Bush's father". This view which apparently deeply influenced Vickers in the writing of his 1,000 page PhD. thesis as well as his later "think tank" paper available as noted to interested readers somehow through the web address provided below.
     Vickers apparently after being taken care of at the private think tank was taken back into the federal fold of idiots willing to buy into the the Bush-Cheney obsession with attacking Iraq. Also of course actual cerebral intelligence clearly was not a qualification required for any senior position in the not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration thus catapulting he new "scholar" Vickers in 2007 to the major Pentagon position of Assistant Undersecretary for Defense serving as adviser to the Secretary of Defense in such matters as "counter-terrorism" and other "operational activities". As mentioned above President Obama unbelievably retained him upon becoming President seemingly inconceivably naming him Undersecretary of Defense (USD-1) replacing James A. Clapper who became the Director of National Intelligence with blanket oversight of all intelligence operations.
     Vickers finally cemented his ineptitude in 2013 when along with the Snowden disclosures of the N.S.A. which he oversaw he appeared before the Armed Services Committee jointly predicting with the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency "future risks" that completely missed the imminent explosive emergence of ISIS. Previous to this Vickers was implicated but ultimately exonerated apparently for leaking information to the producers of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" over which the CIA essentially required script-review authority over in order to make sure it implied torture was "successful" in the ongoing efforts of Bush-Cheney Administration including top CIA officials to avoid prosecution for war crimes against humanity in return for assisting the producers with the film much as the police chief of Los Angeles had years earlier in requiring pre-review of scripts of the television drama "Dragnet" in exchange for assisting the producers of that show with the use of official Los Angeles Police Department personnel and equipment. Interested readers can find more information on this in the appropriate link below.
     According to the Washington Post article linked to below for interested readers Vickers did state at a recent conference that there was not so much one over-riding security threat to the United States today but rather those caused collectively by Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorism and cybersecurity risks. There apparently are those who might not agree as referenced in last Saturday night's airing of the HBO program VICE devoted to what has become known due to the growing threat of NATO conflict with Putin's Russian Federation as Cold War 2.0 which as noted is reflected in the least time remaining until nuclear annihilation on the infamous "Atomic Clock" since the time of the Cold War. In any case it looks as if Vickers may be batting close to .999 in wrong predictions perhaps making him a likely candidate for yet another top military security position in the disastrous case of "Latino"  Jeb Bush 2016 should he become the third Bush to seek to destroy the country whether by Presidential win or coup d'etat.
     Readers interested in the above can go to various links provided below for more information with commentary on certain links which appear either incomplete and/or to contain significantly different information from one another.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G. Vickers - surprisingly little information on him in Wikipedia considering especially the last position in which he served, as highest ranking civilian, former Green Beret, special forces, CIA, Afghanistan operation Cyclone, Wharton business masters, and Johns Hopkins PhD under Eliot A. Cohen apparent Iraq war fanatic because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father" and notably Vickers PhD adviser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen - Vickers PhD. thesis adviser appears to be an idiot fanatic for war against Iraq since 2001 including because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father". Query how could Obama let Vickers continue in his Bush position then advanced in 2011. His credentials in Afghanistan sound ultimately like a failure and his PhD adviser an idiot for war in Iraq which Vickers later echoed in calling for smaller force as in Afghanistan to win in Iraq after it already clearly was a disastrous war started with lies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/a-secret-warrior-leaves-the-pentagon-as-quietly-as-he-entered.html?_r=0 - Vickers responsible for largest share of U.S. $80 Billion annual (claimed) intelligence budget which goes to Pentagon not to the CIA nor any other agency

http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/04/pentagon-intel-chief-retires-citing-no-wrongdoing-zero-dark-thirty-leak/111514/  - Vickers denies on "retiring" allegations of leaking information for "Zero Dark Thirty" re which there are other CIA-prroducer conference calls and meetings re CIA review of script for film. Vikkers admits he missed ISIS threat. Makes clear his future plan is not just to "sleep".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke - Vikker was Green Beret responsible for placing portable nuclear weapons in Warsaw Pact countries during Cold War 1.0. Were these actually not yet placed as New York Times reports or already placed as indicated in Wikepedia article link internally here.  Claims his Green Beret teams infiltrated Warsaw Pack countries with "backpack nukes" to detonate them.

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2013_hr/022713vickers.pdf -Unclassified report by Vickers and head of DIA in early 2013 complains of "budget cuts" to defense and intelligence while reporting over 100, 000 employees and list current national security risks for Armed Services Committee in open hearing and completely miss coming threat of ISIS with no mention at all of ISIS, its formation or even recognizing a potential for its formation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/1c9/mike-vickers-longtime-senior-intelligence-official-and-former-cia-strategist-to-leave-pentagon/ - Vickers spent from 1980s to 2006 out of work perhaps because of involvement with massive buildup of future Taliban and Al-Qaeda funded by CIA and DOD in obsession to drive USSR from Afghanistan in massively long-term failure Operation Cyclone. Vickers later oversaw DIA, NSA and other "intelligence" agencies. His departure follows by just a month the appointment by Obama of new Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Obama kept Vickers as a holdover from the Bush Administration.

Vickers "Think Tank" Paper:

file:///home/chronos/u-7a51b375f12f0369d925e36ea5039d09383d6cb2/Downloads/2004.12.01-Revolution-in-War.pdf - go to this address for Vickers' paper at CSBA about predictions of future warfare and budget-economic issues (in conservative think "how to get rich off war" tank)

http://www.muckety.com/Michael-G-Vickers/165727.muckety - Vickers has more connections to influential people than 93% of Americans according to this source perhaps explaining his later "higher education" and official appointments.

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14 April 2015

RE-UPDATED: Cheney Blackwater Thugs Sentenced To Life And 30-Year Prison Terms For 2007 Slaughter Of 14 Iraqi Civilians Wounding 17 Others

     Tuesday, 14 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney has yet to be brought to justice in the United States or overseas for his central role in Bush-Cheney Administration CIA torture war crimes against humanity about which acts of torture Cheney upon release of a summary of the United States Senate Torture Report stated he would "do it again" if given the chance to commit further acts of torture nevertheless the noose does appear to be tightening with the conviction and sentencing of at least some of the first of Cheney's worldwide criminal conspiracy of the several times since renamed Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor thugs made up among others of mercenaries, felons, early release violent prisoners, psychopaths, sadists, the dishonorably discharged, murderers, assassins and the criminally insane four of whom have been brought to justice in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court where the four Blackwater "guards" were convicted last year of a host of extremely violent crimes stemming from the horrific slaughter unleashed by them in 2007 upon innocent Iraqi unarmed civilians killing 14 and injuring 17 others who were caught in a traffic circle in Baghdad's crowded Nisoor Square in what was called a "wartime atrocity".
     Cheney's Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killer former army sniper Nicholas A. Slatten convicted of murder last year was sentenced to life in U.S. federal prison for his role in the slaughter which ignited worldwide outrage and belated wonderment among many as to why Cheney's homicidal maniacs were engaged at all by the U.S. Government to serve in various misnamed roles such as "guards" as well as paid allegedly with cash in the form of palettes of U.S. $100 bills lowered from helicopters for a great many grossly inadequate incomplete construction projects in Iraq which put United States armed forces at increased risk of death and injury due to late and or fraudulently shoddily or never completed projects such as airstrips.
     The other Cheney Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killers Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty and Paul Slough faced multiple counts of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and using firearms while committing a felony for which they also were convicted in the Washington, D.C. Federal Court last year for their roles in the slaughter of the Iraqi civilians. Prosecutors argued in a daylong hearing that 30-year sentences were not harsh enough as the defendants had continued to maintain their innocence and expressed no remorse claiming they were "under attack" although they had been convicted on the finding that their homicidal rampage was an entirely unprovoked ambush unleashed upon Iraqi civilians caught in traffic.
     Defense attorneys asked for leniency for the killers who repeatedly invoked religion including citing "God as my witness", exoneration in "this life and the next", as well as Dustin Heard telling the judge that he did nothing "wrong", which judge also was told the "verdict is wrong" by Nicholas Slatten sentenced to life in prison for murder for "having started the melee with a precision shot through the head of a young man stopped at the intersection" before also telling the judge "[y]ou know I am innocent, sir". U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth according to The New York Times "strongly disagreed'. He rejected all requests from all parties telling the court that "[b]ased upon the seriousness of the crimes, I find the penalty is not excessive".
     Former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney once head of the giant Halliburton all-purpose government contractor oft-rewarded with enormously profitable no-bid U.S. Government contracts supposedly cut his ties with that company while "serving" (himself) in the office of Vice-President although his rapidly escalating reported income while "serving" (himself) as Vice-President would seem to belie that claim. Halliburton has since payed out $1.1 billion to settle claims against it for its responsibility in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and delayed response leading to a subsequent environmentally disastrous huge oil spill filling the Gulf of Mexico (aka the "Gulf of Corexit") which British Petroleum (BP) now is using to advertise its self-described alleged status as a model corporate citizen while environmentalists and HBO's VICE program have maintained that claim to be as far from the truth as it could be as the Gulf is still filled with an oil and highly toxic Corexit "dispersant" mixture far more toxic than the oil itself actually now merely hidden beneath the surface by BP as reported here in an earlier post. BP's payout to claimants injured by BP's massive oil spill disaster now has topped $5 billion and is expected to reach nearly $10 billion in total payouts.
     During that time of alleged "service" to the United States Cheney also seemingly maintained a very cozy relationship with his Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor outfit as it was rewarded amply with contracts including in war zones newly created by the Bush-Cheney administration as exemplified above as well as in worldwide positions serving in such dubious roles as "replacing" or "supplementing" Marine guards stationed at worldwide U.S. embassies for example in Pakistan where a local Blackwater office was raided and found by Pakistani police to contain an arsenal of illegal criminally-oriented weapons such as blackjacks, sawed-off shotguns and many others reportedly used in part violently to control long lines of Pakistani visitors waiting outside the United States embassy there. Meanwhile stateside in Texas Dick "Pigheart" Cheney in 2006 with a shotgun shot to the heart area Texas attorney Harry Wittington nearly killing him.
     Cheney also as mentioned above in addition to having maintained his close ties to Halliburton and the many times renamed (after each outrage) Blackwater "Blackdeath" outfit has been found to have played a central role in the Bush Administration's torture program carried out by the CIA committing war crimes against humanity all of which to date has not been known to have resulted in any criminal action against Cheney (who recently was interviewed by Playboy magazine) at home or abroad. Interested readers can find significantly more detailed information in the BBC World News and New York Times articles linked to below as well as several previous posts in the Ninth Amendment concerning the above Baghdad slaughterous rampage, other Blackwater transgressions, Halliburton, Cheney and the CIA's kidnapping and torture program of war crimes against humanity largely committed under the legal nod of CIA Acting General Counsel John "Goodfella" Rizzo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html?ref=us&_r=0

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32292921

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23 October 2014

Republican Former United States Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney Mob Protection Racket Leaves 'Em Hanging With Blackwater aka "Blackdeath" Company As Federal Jury Convicts All Four Of Cheney Employee Blackdeath "Security Guard" Cell Of Massacre 14 Innocent Iraqi Civilians Seven Years After Blackwater Murders In Cold Blood Of Innocent Men, Women And Children Sitting Ducks Stuck In Baghdad Traffic As Cheney Sniper Convicted Of Murder And Three Cheney Co-Killers Voluntary Manslaughter With Use Of A Machine Gun To Carry Out A Violent Crime Picked Them All Off Helpless Defenseless Trapped In Vehicles

       Thursday, 23 October 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - One only need review the released income tax returns from the two terms of former U.S. Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney during this period of moderately paid "public service" instantly to see the astounding degree Cheney apparently used the Nation's second highest office of Vice President as a multi-faceted cashflow machine to accumulate vastly more (reported) wealth than he ever had prior to that while heading Halliburton Company the huge multinational "oilfield services" company that has been charged with, found guilty of and settled for an unfathomable quantity and range of worldwide misconduct charges often encompassing brazenly lawless acts of criminal, civil, governmental,  enforcement, regulatory and private violations without limitation of which to list a comprehensive record of just non-confidential resolutions could consume entire lifetimes endlessly compiling Halliburton and related entities' misdeeds which like its cashflows ever accumulating faster than they ever would or could be compiled to conclusion (excluding those never even discovered or pursued).
       A few examples confined just to Halliburton Company involving alleged seriously "bad acts" could be expected to help inform readers' understanding as to the brothers-in-arms (literally) as well as the public and not so public evident dominance of Halliburton whether formal or informal very often by former CEO and Chairman of the Board Dick "Pigheart" Cheney in deference to his corporate and political power, degree of cunning persistence, depth of ruthlessness and seemingly unbounded capacity for depravity should anything like a person, law, nation or necessary war to destroy it (other than its oil producing assets) in any way dare interfere with an enormous need for the fulfillment of rank greed and power to the lowest insatiable level.
       As to its apparent unflagging intensity it almost seems akin (but completely contrary to) the drive to achieve a near unconquerable lofty goal of perceived monumental human greatness one feels the draw of destiny to accomplish ultimately to give thanks and express gratitude, but he here somehow rather instead drilling ever downward into some filthy black muck rather than soaring ever higher to help all humankind finally to accomplish the distant promise of the greatest of gifts fulfilled. But with such will instead buttressed by a malevolent crumbling foundation of corruption it is destined for a wretched collapse from the shattered individual up to its entire global enterprise with an unimaginable (and unacknowledged) capacity for "collateral damage" to both the innocents (and not so innocents) caught up in what to some is a seemingly clearly scripted course for disaster producing tragedy of potentially apocalyptic proportions for an untold and often largely unpredictable population of all inhabitants of the Earth expected and not.
       The first of just a few instances of Halliburton Company's frequent proximity to controversial events of catastrophic proportions raised here is the disaster of the "Deepwater Horizon" deep sea drilling platform series of explosions and the resulting loss of human and other life and as well as the viability of a huge body of water that this world cannot afford to have threatened, harmed nor killed resulting in extensive persistent pollution (often hidden by the "BP cleanup" by mixing it with the notorious toxin Corexit which mixes with oil only to form a more toxic semi-solid layer of poison hovering just feet below the surface where regulators cannot so readily see it) in the Gulf of Mexico and much of its coastline. Halliburton Company in the "Deepwater Horizon" case ended up paying out $1.1 billion to settle litigants' claims against it.
       The Wikipedia entry linked to below is an excellent source of material on allegations of and subsequent action on several further deeply troubling and distressing events which can be read about in more detail there continuing with Halliburton Company coming to take a leading role as a federal contractor with Dick "Pigheart" Cheney having assumed the Vice President of The United States position. In the run-up to the allegedly long planned invasion of Iraq with Cheney's avid support before the United States even invaded Iraq in 20003 Halliburton was awarded a  $7 billion contract described as unusual as no one else was allowed to bid. Cheney had been CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995-2000, retired from the company with a $36 million severance package during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election which miraculously landed both he and not really elected "President" George "little shrub" Bush in their respective positions despite their ticket having won neither the popular nor electoral vote. Cheney's Halliburton severance was later "augmented" by Halliburton amounting to almost another $40 million by 2004.
       Cheney reportedly stayed in frequent contact with Halliburton management according to some sources which meanwhile was the subject of a variety of continuing complaints now focusing more on allegations of Halliburton's demands of favoritism, special treatment and the like since Cheney took public office. Too lengthy to list here but worthwhile for background on Blackwater featured in this story because of its apparent close ties with and even possible growing out of some elements of Halliburton in some form like another former Halliburton subsidiary KBR which among other things was charged with having committed 38 rapes of women in boxcars and having left them their for 24 hours with no food or water.
       Meanwhle when BP brought claims that Halliburton had destroyed documentation demonstrating Halliburton's responsibility for the "Deepwater Horizon" tragedy Halliburton subsequently was found guilty of destroying evidence. Later yet the Nigerian government brought corruption charges in 2010 against the ever-busy Cheney and Halliburton which were settled by Halliburton for $250 million. Beyond this but not limited to it readers may also be interested to know that the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database details 10 instances since 1995 of Halliburton misconduct in this regard resulting in penalty payments of $791 million per offense. Also a further 22 such instances of misconduct have been determined to relate to former Halliburton Company subsidiary KBR.
        The Ninth Amendment because of the longstanding conduct of Cheney and related often intertwined companies believes it important to share with readers the background culture of Blackwater ("Blackdeath") which after several  name changes to relatively threatening names in the wake of lawsuits finally began changing its name to shall we say less laden more or less forgettable names in the wake of a large numbers of  charges, lawsuits and presumably settlements at least at locations not fully known but most likely spanning the globe. In another post previously reported here Blackdeath at one point was even given embassy security duties always traditionally the positions manned by marines.
       In Pakistan Blackdeath was performing outdoor "crowd control" which they accomplished by beating U.S. visa applicants with billy clubs as they tried to stand in line waiting to get in the embassy to apply for visas. Later local police arrested the Blackdeath contractors and took them back to their "business office" where they were charged with keeping a large stash of illegal (even in Pakistan) arms including blackjacks, sawed-off shotguns and similar thuggery weapons. An older Ninth Amendment post based on recent information at the time examined reports that Cheney in his Blackdeath and related and subsequently named business endeavors had managed to assemble one of the largest private security forces in the world often comprised of felons, early release prisoners, killers and large numbers of skilled or at least willing fighters and veterans with mercenaries and similar types as well filling its ranks.
       In any case please refer for detailed accounts of the trial that finally took place after an amazing series of U.S. prosecutorial blunders such as letting the statute of limitations for bringing charges lapse such that the prosecution had to be saved by a murder charge to the New York Times article and BBC report linked to below. Blackdeath to our knowledge came to prominence not surprisingly with Cheney achieving high office and access to U.S. Government funds which apparently were quite soon put to use at first reportedly preparing for the American military by building sub-standard housing, providing sub-standard meals and building aircraft runways that cracked apart on U.S. planes arriving on them in Iraq. Cheney's preferred method of payment as previously reported here was $100 bills wrapped and lowered on pallets from helicopters. In any case as these non-professionals became "security services"  the incident which brought some of these actors to justice clearly demonstrates their unfitness and inappropriateness for such jobs that should properly be done by trained U.S. servicepeople.
       Together with a reported predisposition in their Blackdeath culture that was "anti-Iraqi" although the United States and later some of the U.S. dutiful reluctant partners that showed up on behalf of the United Nations were reportedly there to "help" (the U.N. Building not built purposely inside the "Green Zone" subsequently tragically was destroyed by a truck bomb which with it killed the former Argentinian Secretary-General of The United Nations) on the day of the incident in question in the trial reported on here the Blackdeath security group for some reason heavily armed killed 14 Iraqi men, women and children stuck in a traffic intersection with "Guard" Slaten the sniper and the use by "Guards" Liberty, Slough and Heard of weapons including rocket propelled grenades and machine guns while the American military watched in apparent horror. Under United States law the use of a machine gun in the commission of a violent crime carries a mandatory thirty (30) year prison sentence. The attached BBC link reportedly includes some of the footage of the murders that took place that day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/us/blackwater-verdict.html?_r=0

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29727314

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

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25 September 2014

CREDO Action Plea To American People Resist Manipulation Into Another Unwinnable Mideast Conflict In "President Obama Just Bombed Syria" Calls For Signing Of Petition To Congress To Vote

11 September 2014

ISIS "Threat" To U.S. National Security Vastly Overblown Or Non-Existent Senior U.S. Counterterrorism And Intelligence Officials Assert Follows Month-Long Public Terror Fueled By Incessant CNN Other Media Repetitive Coverage Exploiting Same Isolated Events Such As Deeply Sick Beheading Of Two American Journalists

        Thursday, 11 September 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Welcome to the new paradigm of "news" (acronym for North, East, West, South) courtesy most obviously of CNN where seemingly every item very effectively makes viewers feel compelled to be sure to return after (or hopefully sit entranced through) incessantly repetitive advertisers' brainwashing "breaks" for morbid fear that should viewers fail to be present for what the odds should have long ago taught them almost certainly just will be yet another exactly the same word-for-word image-for-image similarly "brainwashing" piece that previously has been aired (cabled or whatever) most likely several hundred times already in the past day other than perhaps with a slightly different introduction reflecting the winning personality of the host of the hour be it Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper the man present at all places at all times, Don Lemon or whomever.
       After how many hundred airings does the same segment lose the status of "Breaking News" on CNN which with its ever-growing casual interpretation of the term now seems to blaze it across the bottom of the screen constantly for most anything along with the casual convenient repetition of the term "LIVE" even for items seen days before presumably based on the unlikely argument that CNN lacks the technical capability to remove the term "LIVE" from the piece even once it becomes untrue (immediately), and now in any case failing the above CNN it would seem has resorted to more or less denoting entire news shows as "Breaking News" or at the very least "Developing News" should CNN really not be able to come up with a straight face with anything else sounding more like the commercially invaluable imminent unfolding crisis of the moment.
       In any case as touched on in the below linked article in today's New York Times apart from the apparent commercial benefit to CNN of the above tactics unfortunately for example as in the case at hand of the repetitive flooding literally thousands of times of Americans' and the world's television screens with the same images of two deeply pathologically depraved ISIS beheadings of American journalists unfortunately this has the presumed effect of serving exactly the purpose of aspiring terrorists to panic viewers into absorbing these two incidents rather than isolated as into what then become in viewers' minds rather cumulatively into virtually thousands of separate acts greatly distorting the presumed reality of at least the present American situation including unfortunately vastly inflating any immediacy of any threat to hundreds of millions of Americans such that they mistakenly perceive this scant totally incomplete information as any kind of actual proof of a infinitely powerful ISIS of unlimited reach which senior American officials increasingly have come to conclude it is not.
       Admit it or not CNN thus becomes the necessary tool of the vast dissemination of the gratification of distortions of a propaganda machine which without CNN would be essentially non-existent. Having stated this the Ninth Amendment editorial board however emphasizes it is appropriate, necessary and essential to expose such atrocities most widely to the extent that it makes a nation and its people accurately informed, rightly on guard and justly enraged at the sheer unmitigated evil which has been perpetrated against its citizens although this should not extend to the counterproductive fostering of uncontrolled terror which ultimately interferes with people's ability to adopt the most rational and lethally effective strategies in response.
       Readers in no way should interpret this as a downplaying of the significance of known horrific acts of heinous murders of Americans be it of a couple or hundreds by ISIS and most especially all kidnapping, torture and/or murder of innocent human beings who moreover as journalists have with their families and loved ones made huge personal sacrifices and risked their lives every day exercising their rights of free speech and the press in the extreme so that all of us comfortably at home in safety may stay informed of vital developments the world over that inform our opinions and help properly guide our governments' policies every day. These journalists are heroes and be it the work of special forces or whomever those who commit these abominations must be hunted down like rabid dogs and should they make it out alive be tried as the war and/or genocidal human rights criminals mass murdering terrorists that they are.
       The proof of this effect on Americans is addressed more extensively for interested readers in the New York Times article linked to below which documents the huge shift in public opinion on the threat of ISIS in the past month not only among a vulnerable population of average Americans but extending to those in serious government leadership positions as well. Most notably Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel apparently has been caught up in the hysteria although President Obama has refrained from describing the ISIS threat to American domestic national security as "imminent".
       However on reading the article in its entirety readers may draw comfort or not depending on their assessment of the individuals involved from the fact that current and former top U.S. counterterrorism, intelligence and Homeland Security officials including those with vast Al Qaeda experience in no uncertain terms in most cases describe the present ISIS threat to U.S. national security as "non-existent" or virtually so. In fact the main concern of many now is to "tamp down" the media-manipulated "terror" of United States citizenry such that decision-makers may step back and give thoughtful and deep consideration to actions which as we long ago have learned could lead to all kinds of unintended consequences including some that are more dangerous in many complex ways ultimately to U.S. regional and national security interests than those the U.S. actually would achieve by "eradicating" ISIS. This could be expected experts say also to lay the groundwork (or rather trap) for another "yearslong" U.S. combat presence in the Middle East just at the time the U.S. finally had hoped to extricate itself from some of the remaining vestiges of the Cheney-Bush debacle which started in a matter of hours but has taken well over a decade to even come close to ending.
       Perhaps most telling an omen it has come to the attention of the Ninth Amendment's editorial board that Dick "Pigheart" Cheney whom sources frankly believed was dead (as in not just the walking kind either) has in past days made a very rare appearance before a closed-door group of House Republicans whom he urged not to walk away from the Middle East but encouraged increased involvement without specifically mentioning ISIS. Any advice comes from Dick "Pigheart" Cheney after his head spins and he emits green projectile vomit and in our humble opinion it is time to run, not walk, as far as possible from anything he recommends or anywhere he goes, especially in which he participates or offers the services of one of his latest renamed gang of mercenaries, felons and as yet unconvicted (or escaped) criminal killers and murderers from whose serious misdeeds he stands to profit whether by more atrocities and murders or just another tired scheme to rip off the United States Government from which he already has profited so handsomely. Luckily in this case the Republican group reportedly humored him with his meeting but at least publicly said they paid his words little heed indeed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/struggling-to-gauge-isis-threat-even-as-us-prepares-to-act.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpBlogHeadline&module=first-column-region&region=top-neaws&WT.nav=top-news&_r=w

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07 August 2014

President Obama Authorizes ISIS Airstrikes On Convoys Advancing On Irbil, Iraq Kurd Haven For U.S. Military And Consular Personnel, Confirms Humanitarian Airdrop For 40,000 Mountain Besieged Religious Refugees Okaying Airstrikes On ISIS To Break Siege, Pledges No New U.S. "Boots On Ground" But Airstrikes Continue As Needed To Protect U.S. Persons In Baghdad Or Throughout Iraq

       Thursday, 7 August 2014, McALLEN, TEXAS - Broadcast world news reports have been dominated in recent weeks by the outbreak of sustained violence on the Gaza Strip and tunnel and rocket attacks threatening Israel  with a shaky 72-hour cease-fire just ended, severely increased intensity of battle conflicts at eastern Ukraine's border with Russia where today another Ukrainian warplane reportedly was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile such as allegedly shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet and where the leader of Eastern Ukrainian separatist forces today announced his resignation, as well as what has been described as the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded world history with perhaps the first known Ebola cases ever possibly now incubating in the United States, while many newswatchers have been left wondering about developments in the dire Iraq situation across the northern section of which a wide swath of terror that has been cut by the terrorist group ISIS (also ISIL) reportedly so senselessly vicious and apparently genocidal as a matter of policy that even Al Qaeda has severed ties with the group believing that their actions elsewhere such as Syria have "given Islamic world jihad a bad name".
       After this seeming dearth of in-depth Iraq coverage President Obama today was shown meeting in the White House Situation Room with senior advisers on the Iraq ISIS crisis concluding this evening with President Obama's public briefing on the status of the most recent U.S. actions and announcement of the most recent U.S. positions on various strategic and tactical matters in Iraq as detailed in the headline above. The components of the President's U.S. Iraq comments basically at this time include threats of airstrikes as well as the provision of humanitarian aid. The U.S. also presumably is considering plans to consult with Congress including on supplying Kurds fighting on the ground against ISIS without new "U.S. boots on the ground".
       One "real concern" that has been repeated by several military and security officials is that firstly the rapid movement of ISIS terrorists into large areas of Iraq adds a dynamic to the Mideast scene which is bound only to increase the training capability and global potential of all terrorists roughly in an axis of different terrorist groups down to Yemen.  Secondly a number of officials and experts have repeated the further "real concern" of ISIS in particular responding to the U.S. use of force against it with retaliatory attacks which may conceivably include attacks on U.S. soil. Many have noted that there are as many as 1,000 persons holding European passports that could get them into the U.S. who are fighting with or have fought with ISIS in the past. Of those who do not hold passports some ISIS terrorists are rumored possibly to have planned to cross the U.S. border from the south in Mexico into the U.S. Homeland.

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10 July 2014

BREAKING: The Islamic State Terrorists Reportedly Acquire Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Unknown Capability Or Condition

          Thursday, 10 July 2014, SAADA, YEMEN - Media organizations early this morning have released preliminary news reports that ISIS self-renamed The Islamic State may have acquired weapons-grade nuclear materials at unidentified locations in an unknown condition nor state of capability for use. Meanwhile in the notorious arms bazaar outside of this city a wide selection of major weaponry apparently remains for sale by arms dealers documented to include such weapons as RPG's with a variety of available warheads to any buyer with the funds to make purchases, as is reportedly the case at many locations outside of the United States for weapons such as RPGs. The availability of weapons at this notorious weapons bazaar at Saada extends to many other heavy weapons however even including in less public areas armaments such as shoulder-launched Stinger missiles for sale by one dealer for one million dollars (U.S.) which missiles are known to be capable of taking down airplanes such as commercial passenger airliners.
       The Ninth Amendment editorial board stresses that it has no confirmed information whatsoever as to the actual existence of any type of weapons-grade nuclear materials purchased and/or captured by what has been preliminarily reported to be The Islamic State "terrorists". Recent media reports have focused particularly on the proximity of the group's control of territory in the area of the airport northwest of Baghdad's outskirts as the airport reportedly provides the only escape route for many American critical government personnel presently remaining attached to the United States Embassy and presumably largely confined to the extremely heavily secured United States "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
       The growing presence of United States Marines to supplement existing Marine security, as well as military "advisers" to the Iraqi Army, followed by further combat troops to protect the advisers and help maintain/regain control of the airport, as well as unknown numbers of United States special forces units in and being dispatched to the area and region has been widely reported. The actual total numbers of all these United States forces is unknown and presumably classified especially given foreign combatants and/or "terrorists" in the region are widely reported to collect information from publicly available news reports.
       Reports have not focused on the possibility that even if The Islamic State does not overrun the apparently critical northwest Baghdad airport escape route of last resort for American government personnel what the status may be of the group's access to Stinger missiles which presumably may have fallen into its hands in the large areas of territory the group has overtaken and/or by purchase by the group with the well-publicized extremely ample funding of the Islamic State not only originally from certain (private) wealthy donors in countries such as Saudi Arabia but the very large amounts of funds stolen by the group by overtaking a major Iraqi government bank holding a significant percentage of the country's currency reserves. This is in addition to many large caches of weaponry including much supplied previously by the United States to the Iraqi Army but largely abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops in their haste to escape the advancing forces of ISIL now renamed The Islamic State.
       This editorial board of the Ninth Amendment must stress that the above information on the extremely serious matter on any acquisition of nuclear materials is based solely on unconfirmed first incomplete reports and should not serve as the basis for any certainty on the part of readers of its accuracy to any degree, which is completely unknown. The lessons of the lies of the Bush Administration as to the presence previously in Iraq of "WMDs" under the control of Saddam Hussein widely now believed by a great  many Americans to have been a heinous bogus justification for the peremptory invasion of Iraq most likely motivated by former Vice President Dick "Pigheart" Cheney's insatiable monstrous greed for oil and cash for his many related commercial endeavors remain fresh in the minds of many Americans and Iraqis including those having suffered enormous personal grief and loss as a result of the pointless ensuing manufactured conflict.
       Concerned readers it is emphasized emphatically are provided the information in this post as that available at this time in UNCONFIRMED BREAKING NEWS reports and are urged absolutely to perform further research and review any developing news in reaching conclusions of their own of what actual facts are or become known based on developing informed sources at this time and the ensuing hours and days.

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27 April 2013

George W. "little shrub" Bush "'Presidential' Children's Library And Video Arcade" Inauguarated As Barbara Bush Pleads "No More Bushes In White House" Beside Wheelchaired "Bush 41" Nearing Deathbed As Shunned Armed Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry And Dick "Pigheart" Cheney Looks On In Phony "Cowboy" Hat

     Saturday 27 April 2013, THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL - The Ninth Amendment editorial board from the beautiful nude beaches of this country which has decriminalized the possession and use of all drugs in case readers also chose to miss one of the great bogus non-events in memory featuring some of the most loathsome persons to disgrace recent American history reports that this past Thursday the "President" George "little shrub" Bush "Presidential" Children's Libray and Video Arcade was inaugurated on the grounds of Southern Methodist University in suburban Dallas (site of the probable "Bush 41" orchestrated JFK assassination and serious "magic bullet" wounding of then-Texas Governor John Connelly) in clear violation of the United States Constitution's absolute separation of church and state.
     Barbara Bush pleaded in probable hope for redemption that neither her other idiot son Jeb Bush (Florida facilitator of his older brother's coup d'etat against actual 2000 Presidential election winner former Vice-President Al Gore) nor any other Bush ever be elected to the White House again as her husband CIA Headquarters' namesake George Herbert Walker Bush aka "Bush 41" attended in a wheelchair as his days before his rendezvous with the devil appeared numbered.
     "Little shrub" Bush noted the irony of having a library named after him since he had never spent time in one in his life although America will never forget his steadfast efforts to continue reading to young schoolchildren even after being twice told by handlers on the fateful morning of 11 September 2001 that the United States was under probable alleged "terrorist" attack with both towers of the World Trade Center (then under little publicized  security contract with his other brother) having been struck allegedly by foreign terrorists in hijacked U.S. Airliners as United States fighter jets lethargically scrambled and raced toward the site at half speed arriving later that day.
     Of particular note of all Presidents present and former as well as unelected "little shrub Bush" former President Jimmy Carter stood off at a distance in apparent disgust at the lot of them. With "Bush 41" apparently wheelchair-bound and Dick "Pigheart" Cheney apparently only kept going by the thought of how much money he has daily ripped off from the United States through his Halliburton, "Blackdeath" and other criminal mercenary contractor enterprises ("cash only, please") the Ninth Amendment currently is investigating who will inherit the mantle to the so-called "Fourth Reich".
     Finally it bears mentioning that faced with such "difficult" decisions as whether to pre-emptively bomb Iraq and then kill and maim millions of its citizens and sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of United States armed forces on the basis of obviously bogus "WMD" information and chicanery which responsible CIA personnel have admitted they were given about one week's time to gin up from millions of documents flashed before them on a Langley projection screen Americans with nothing better to do (such as visit Revolutionary War battlefields) will be able to play video games at the "little shrub" Bush Southern Methodist "Presidential" library and see if they too can make as bad decisions as were made by (or rather for) the man who will surely go down as the worst President ever not elected in United States history. 

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