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Bob Woodward spills the beans..$#@#! upset
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Bob Woodward spills the beans..$#@#! upset
Bob Woodward: 60 Minutes Interview.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6054.htm
Deal made with Saudis to Influence November Election:
George W. Bush made a deal with Saudi Arabia to lower fuel prices before the coming November election. The lowered prices would give the appearance of a strong economy in contrast to the current, record high prices. http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000079.html
Bob Woodward: With CIA Push, Movement to War Accelerated :
"I want you to do it," Bush told the secretary of state. "You have the credibility to do it." Powell was flattered to be asked to do what no one else could. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6057.htm |
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Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:25 pm
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Glad you posted this! Woodward's all over the media! Kudos to him!
Keep them coming!
The truth is rising all around us!
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** THE DONALD RUMSFELD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
"Whenever I read the full account of a one-on-one conducted by Donald Rumsfeld, I can't shake the feeling that Rumsfeld is playing to the transcriber," writes blogger Spencer Ackerman. "For a four-decades-deep Washington insider like Rumsfeld, such cover-your-ass moves are surely par for the course. But the transcripts of Rumsfeld's interviews with Bob Woodward for Plan of Attack surely raise the bar for CYA."
(The New Republic)
http://www.tnr.com/blog/iraqd
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from Citizens for Legit Gov
All links to articles as summarized below are available here:
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
'I Haven't Suffered Doubt' --Bush wanted to invade Iraq. What's striking, Bob Woodward's new book reports, is how little he discussed it with anyone --In his interview with Woodward, conducted over two days in December of last year, Dictator Bush displayed no second thoughts about Iraq's postwar miseries or the failure to turn up any WMD. "I haven't suffered doubt," he told Woodward. When the author—quoting Bush's political adviser Karl Rove—suggested that "all history gets measured by outcomes," Bush "smiled," reports Woodward. " 'History,' he said, shrugging, taking his hands out of his pockets, extending his arms out and suggesting with his body language that it was so far off. 'We won't know. We'll all be dead'.
INSANE!
"The new book by Bob Woodward, 'Plan of Attack,' is making headlines, but Powell's critics say he gave far too much to Woodward, in an effort to paint himself as the clear-headed diplomat. Whatever Powell's motives, there's plenty of juice in Woodward's narrative of the ramp-up to war. And there's plenty of sources other than Colin Powell. A sampling: *The Bush administration took $700 million from appropriations the U.S. Congress had earmarked for the war in Afghanistan and used it for Iraqi planning, a move which could be illegal. *Saudi Prince Bandar learned of the attack plans on January 11, 2003, two days before Powell was told of the decision. *Bush on his father: '...there's a higher father that I appeal to...'" (The Countdown Lowdown) [no link, email summary from Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann]
PLAN OF ATTACK: Making the Case With CIA Push, Movement to War Accelerated --Agency's Estimate of Saddam Hussein's Arsenal Became the White House's Rationale for Invasion --by Bob Woodward (second Washington Post excerpt) "The meeting was for presenting 'The Case' on WMD as it might be presented to a jury with Top Secret security clearances. There was great expectation. In addition to the president [sic], Cheney, Rice and White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. attended... When [Deputy Director John E.] McLaughlin concluded, there was a look on the president[sic]'s face of, What's this? And then a brief moment of silence. 'Nice try,' Bush said. 'I don't think this is quite -- it's not something that Joe Public would understand or would gain a lot of confidence from.' ...Bush turned to Tenet. 'I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD and this is the best we've got?' From the end of one of the couches in the Oval Office, Tenet rose up, threw his arms in the air. 'It's a slam-dunk case!' the director of central intelligence said. Bush pressed. 'George, how confident are you?' Tenet, a basketball fan who attended as many home games of his alma mater Georgetown University as possible, leaned forward and threw his arms up again. 'Don't worry, it's a slam dunk!'"
OH YEAH, GEORGIE PORGY? YOU'RE GOING TO HANG!
PLAN OF ATTACK : Deciding on War Behind Diplomatic Moves, Military Plan Was Launched --'We're Going to Have to Go to War,' Bush Said to Rice (first Washington Post excerpt) --by Bob Woodward " "[national security adviser Condoleezza] Rice was the only member of his war cabinet whom Bush directly asked for a recommendation of whether to go to war. 'What do you think?' he had asked her a few weeks before. 'Should we do this?' 'Yes,' she said. 'Because it isn't American credibility on the line, it is the credibility of everybody that this gangster can yet again beat the international system.' ...Other than Rice, Bush said he didn't need to ask the principal advisers whether they thought he should go to war. He knew what Vice President [sic] Cheney thought, and he decided not to ask Secretary of State Colin L. Powell or Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.'I could tell what they thought,' the president [sic] recalled."
FER SHER!
Woodward Shares War Secrets --Journalist Bob Woodward calls his new book, Plan of Attack, the first detailed, behind-the-scenes account of how and why the dictator decided to wage war in Iraq. "And there's this low boil on Iraq until the day before Thanksgiving, Nov. 21, 2001. This is 72 days after 9/11. This is part of this secret history. President [sic] Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically, and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, ‘What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret.'" Woodward says immediately after that, Rumsfeld told Gen. Tommy Franks to develop a war plan to invade Iraq and remove Saddam - and that Rumsfeld gave Franks a blank check.
White House reels from Woodward book --A new book on the run up to last year's invasion of Iraq has rattled the White House with the most detailed account yet of the deep divisions within the Bush administrations over the war. Implicitly, it raises the question of why Colin Powell, Secretary of State and the chief in-house sceptic about the war, did not resign once it was clear he had lost the argument.
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My question to Bob Woodward is," If you knew 700 million US tax dollars was being misappropriated why didn't you say something earlier?" This guy is the CIA's mouthpiece.Do a little research about Watergate and you'll see.He was a very quick study. This is my personal opinion. |
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Good possibility Increase....
The thought had crossed my mind. It could be that they are giving us something to THINK the corruption is being exposed when its being covered up with yet another SHILL story. |
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I'll say it again "Where's the outrage people"?$700,000,000.00 and this jerk sits on it to push his book.Amazing how this guy gets the in to the Presidents.Hell he was a spy in the Nixon white house,for TPTB. |
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Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:11 pm
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And the big secret is:
9/11 was an inside job!
And poppies (heroine) and coco leaves (cocaine) finance Wallstreet and our government and the CIA runs it!
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
http://www.solari.com
All levels of truth help get to the bottom of the s!@# pile!
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Couldn't have said it any better.We need to be as informed as possible if we're get this monkey off our backs.Keep the information flowing .Impeach Bush |
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Thanks! Smooch! 
More info. from Woodward's book:
(CBS)(YES CBS! AMAZING ISN'T IT?) Journalist Bob Woodward calls his new book, “Plan of Attack,” the first detailed, behind-the-scenes account of how and why the president decided to wage war in Iraq.
It’s an insider’s account written after Woodward spoke with 75 of the key decision makers, including President Bush himself.
The president permitted Woodward to quote him directly. Others spoke on the condition that Woodward not identify them as sources.
Woodward discusses the secret details of the White House's plans to attack Iraq for the first time on television with Correspondent Mike Wallace.
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Woodward permitted 60 Minutes to listen to tapes he recorded of his most important interviews, to read the transcripts, and to verify that the quotes he uses are based on recollections from participants in the key meetings. Both CBS News and Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Woodward's book, are units of Viacom.
Woodward says that many of the quotes came directly from the president: “When I interviewed him for the first time several months ago up in the residence of the White House, he just kind of out of the blue said, ‘It's the story of the 21st Century,’ his decision to undertake this war and start a preemptive attack on another country."
Woodward reports that just five days after Sept. 11, President Bush indicated to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that while he had to do Afghanistan first, he was also determined to do something about Saddam Hussein.
”There's some pressure to go after Saddam Hussein. Don Rumsfeld has said, ‘This is an opportunity to take out Saddam Hussein, perhaps. We should consider it.’ And the president says to Condi Rice meeting head to head, ‘We won't do Iraq now.’ But it is a question we're gonna have to return to,’” says Woodward.
“And there's this low boil on Iraq until the day before Thanksgiving, Nov. 21, 2001. This is 72 days after 9/11. This is part of this secret history. President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically, and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, ‘What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret.’"
Woodward says immediately after that, Rumsfeld told Gen. Tommy Franks to develop a war plan to invade Iraq and remove Saddam - and that Rumsfeld gave Franks a blank check.
”Rumsfeld and Franks work out a deal essentially where Franks can spend any money he needs. And so he starts building runways and pipelines and doing all the preparations in Kuwait, specifically to make war possible,” says Woodward.
“Gets to a point where in July, the end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. …Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the Treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this."
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Woodward says there was a lot happening that only key Bush people knew about.
”A year before the war started, three things are going on. Franks is secretly developing this war plan that he's briefing the president in detail on,” says Woodward. “Franks simultaneously is publicly denying that he's ever been asked to do any plan.”
For example, here's Gen. Franks’ response to a question about invading Iraq, in May 2002, after he's been working on war plans for five months: “That’s a great question and one for which I don’t have an answer, because my boss has not yet asked me to put together a plan to do that.”
But according to Woodward, the general had been perfecting his war plan, and Vice President Dick Cheney knew all about it. Woodward reports that Cheney was the driving force in the White House to get Saddam. Cheney had been Secretary of Defense during the first Gulf War, and to him, Saddam was unfinished business – and a threat to the United States.
In his book, Woodward describes Cheney as a "powerful, steamrolling force obsessed with Saddam and taking him out."
"Colin Powell, the secretary of state, saw this in Cheney to such an extent, he, Powell, told colleagues that ‘Cheney has a fever. It is an absolute fever. It’s almost as if nothing else exists,’” says Woodward, who adds that Cheney had plenty of opportunities to convince the president.
”He’s just down the hall in the West Wing from the president. President says, ‘I meet with him all the time.’ Cheney's back in the corner or sitting on the couch at nearly all of these meetings.”
The president had hoped Saddam could be removed in some way short of war. But early in 2002, Woodward reports, the CIA concluded they could not overthrow Saddam. That word came from the CIA's head of Iraq operations, a man known simply as “Saul.”
"Saul gets together a briefing and who does he give it to first? Dick Cheney. He said, ‘I can count the number of sources, human sources, spies we have in Iraq on one hand,’” says Woodward. “I asked the president, ‘What was your reaction that the CIA couldn't overthrow Saddam? And the president said one word. 'Darn.'"
The vice president led the way on declaring that Saddam Hussein definitely had weapons of mass destruction. Before that, the president had said only that Saddam “desires them.”
But ten days later, the vice president said Saddam already had weapons of mass destruction. And 12 days after that, the president too had apparently been persuaded: “A lot of people understand he holds weapons of mass destruction.”
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Three months later, on Dec. 21, 2002, Woodward says CIA Director George Tenet brought his deputy, John McLaughlin, to the oval office to show the president and the vice president their best evidence that Saddam really had weapons of mass destruction.
”McLaughlin has access to all the satellite photos, and he goes in and he has flip charts in the oval office. The president listens to all of this and McLaughlin's done. And, and the president kind of, as he's inclined to do, says ‘Nice try, but that isn't gonna sell Joe Public. That isn't gonna convince Joe Public,’” says Woodward.
In his book, Woodward writes: "The presentation was a flop. The photos were not gripping. The intercepts were less than compelling. And then George Bush turns to George Tenet and says, 'This is the best we've got?'"
Says Woodward: “George Tenet's sitting on the couch, stands up, and says, ‘Don't worry, it's a slam dunk case.’" And the president challenges him again and Tenet says, ‘The case, it's a slam dunk.’ ...I asked the president about this and he said it was very important to have the CIA director – ‘Slam-dunk is as I interpreted is a sure thing, guaranteed. No possibility it won't go through the hoop.’ Others present, Cheney, very impressed.”
What did Woodward think of Tenet’s statement? “It’s a mistake,” he says. “Now the significance of that mistake - that was the key rationale for war.”
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It was just two weeks later when the president decided to go to war.
“That decision was first conveyed to Condi Rice in early January 2003 when he said, ‘We're gonna have to go. It's war.’ He was frustrated with the weapons inspections. He had promised the United Nations and the world and the country that either the UN would disarm Saddam or he, George Bush, would do it and do it alone if necessary,” says Woodward. “So he told Condi Rice. He told Rumsfeld. He knew Cheney wanted to do this. And they realized they haven’t told Colin Powell, the Secretary of State.”
“So Condi Rice said, ‘You better call Colin in and tell him.’ So, I think probably one of the most interesting meetings in this whole story. He calls Colin Powell in alone, sitting in those two famous chairs in the Oval Office and the president said, ‘Looks like war. I'm gonna have to do this,’” adds Woodward.
“And then Powell says to him, somewhat in a chilly way, ‘Are you aware of the consequences?’ Because he'd been pounding for months on the president, on everyone - and Powell directly says, ‘You know, you're gonna be owning this place.’ And the president says, ‘I understand that.’ The president knows that Powell is the one who doesn't want to go to war. He says, ‘Will you be with me?’ And Powell, the soldier, 35 years in the army, the president has decided and he says, ‘I'll do my best. Yes, Mr. President. I'll be with you.’” And then, the president says, ‘Time to put your war uniform on.’"
Woodward says he described Powell as semi-despondent “because he knew that this was a war that might have been avoided. That’s why he spent so much time at the United Nations.”
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But, it turns out, two days before the president told Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld had already briefed Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador.
”Saturday, Jan. 11, with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, ‘Top secret. No foreign.’ No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this,” says Woodward.
“They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, ‘So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?’ And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: ‘Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.’"
After Bandar left, according to Woodward, Cheney said, “I wanted him to know that this is for real. We're really doing it."
But this wasn’t enough for Prince Bandar, who Woodward says wanted confirmation from the president. “Then, two days later, Bandar is called to meet with the president and the president says, ‘Their message is my message,’” says Woodward.
Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day.
Woodward says that Bandar understood that economic conditions were key before a presidential election: “They’re [oil prices] high. And they could go down very quickly. That's the Saudi pledge. Certainly over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly.”
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For his book, Woodward interviewed 75 top military and Bush administration officials, including two long interviews with the president himself. Mr. Bush spoke on the record, but others talked to Woodward on condition that he not reveal their identities.
60 Minutes won’t name those Woodward interviewed, but we've listened to the tapes and read the transcripts of his key interviews to verify that his accounts are based on recollections from people who took part in the meetings he describes, including a historic meeting on March 19, when Bush gives the order to go to war.
He’s with the National Security Council, in the situation room. Says Woodward: “They have all these TV monitors. Gen. Franks, the commander, is up on one of them. And all nine commanders, and the president asks each one of them, ‘Are you ready? Do you have what you need? Are you satisfied?’ And they all say, ‘Yes, sir.’ and ‘We're ready.’”
Then the president saluted and he rose suddenly from his chair. “People who were there said there were tears in his eyes, not coming down his cheeks but in his eyes,” says Woodward. “And just kind of marched out of the room.”
Having given the order, the president walked alone around the circle behind the White House. Months later, he told Woodward: “As I walked around the circle, I prayed that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty. Going into this period, I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will. I'm surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray that I be as good a messenger of his will as possible. And then, of course, I pray for forgiveness."
Did Mr. Bush ask his father for any advice? “I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, ‘Well, no,’ and then he got defensive about it,” says Woodward. “Then he said something that really struck me. He said of his father, ‘He is the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength.’ And then he said, ‘There's a higher Father that I appeal to.’"
Beyond not asking his father about going to war, Woodward was startled to learn that the president did not ask key cabinet members either.
”The president, in making the decision to go to war, did not ask his secretary of defense for an overall recommendation, did not ask his secretary of state, Colin Powell, for his recommendation,” says Woodward.
But the president did ask Rice, his national security adviser, and Karen Hughes, his political communications adviser. Woodward says both supported going to war. And in the run-up to war, Woodward reveals the CIA hired the leaders of a Muslim religious sect at odds with Saddam, but nonetheless with numerous members highly placed in Saddam's security services. The CIA's code name for them: the Rock Stars.
"Before the war, they recruit 87 of them all throughout the country and they give them satellite phones. And they report in regularly on secret things that are going on,” says Woodward.
And it turns out, reports from the Rock Stars led to the first bombing attack, on March 19, to try to kill Saddam – at a place called Dora Farm, a farm south of Baghdad that Saddam’s wife used.
"And Saddam went there at least once a year with his two sons. The security person at Dora Farm was a CIA spy, a Rock Star, and had a telephone, a satellite phone, in which he was reporting what he was seeing."
Other Rock Stars are apparently there too, so Rumsfeld and Tenet rush to the oval office to tell the president what the spies are seeing.
"They’ve seen the son. There is communications equipment coming in that would show that Saddam is going there. They get overhead satellite photos that show dozens of security vehicles parked under palm trees. And they say, ‘Holy Moses, this is for real.’ And they start getting better and more detailed reports that they think Saddam is coming. And the question is, do we take them out,’” says Woodward.
“The president asks everyone, and they all recommend doing it. And then he kicks everyone out, except Cheney. And he says, ‘Dick, what do you think?’ And Cheney says, ‘I think we ought to do it, and at minimum, it will rattle Saddam's cage.’ ...They start getting intelligence that maybe they hit Saddam."
But Woodward says that Tenet was wrong. Again. And to this day, Woodward reports, the CIA still doesn’t know if the information from the Rock Stars was reliable, or if Saddam was really there that night. “Again, we have the fog of war, the fog of intelligence,” says Woodward.
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Although Saddam has finally been captured, Woodward says that so far, interrogators are learning very little from him.
”What people have told me is that he he's kind of out of it. Unreliable,” says Woodward. “That he, at some moments, thinks he's still president. He's not in touch with reality, to the point where they can find what he says is reliable.”
And in the wake of the war, according to Woodward, there's a deep rift between Powell and Cheney.
”The relationship between Cheney and Powell is essentially broken down. They can't talk. They don't communicate,” says Woodward. “Powell feels that Cheney drove the decision to go to war in Iraq. And Cheney feels that Powell has not been sufficiently supportive of the president in the war or in the aftermath.”
Which of the two was more prescient about how Iraq would turn out? “All of Powell's warnings think of the consequences, Pottery Barn rules: If you break it, you own it. And that's exactly what has happened in Iraq. We own it. In a way, they've had victory without success,” says Woodward.
“Dick Cheney’s view is that in a way, it doesn't matter how long the aftermath is... What matters is the ultimate outcome... Whether there’s stability and democracy.”
Are there post-war plans? “There were innumerable briefings to the president about currency about oil. And on the real issue of security and possible violence, they did not see it coming,” says Woodward.
Did the administration really believe that they were going to get flowers and kisses? “Some of the exiles told them that,” says Woodward. “I think the president was skeptical of that. I think people like Cheney believed it more.”
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Today, while most doubt that Saddam still possessed any weapons of mass destruction, the president told Woodward he has no doubts at all about going to war.
”The president still believes with some conviction, that this was absolutely the right thing, that he has the duty to free people, to liberate people. And this was his moment,” says Woodward.
But who gave President Bush the duty to free people around the world? “That's a really good question. The Constitution doesn't say that's part of the commander in chief's duties,” says Woodward. “That’s his stated purpose. It is far-reaching, and ambitious, and I think will cause many people to tremble.”
How deep a man is President George W. Bush? “He’s not an intellectual. He is not what I guess would be called a deep thinker,” says Woodward. “He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’ I think he feels there is an intellectual world and he's indicated he's not a part of it … the fancy pants intellectual world. What he calls the elite.”
How does the president think history will judge him for going to war in Iraq?
“After the second interview with him on Dec. 11, we got up and walked over to one of the doors. There are all of these doors in the Oval Office that lead outside. And he had his hands in his pocket, and I just asked, ‘Well, how is history likely to judge your Iraq war,’” says Woodward.
“And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”
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Prior to publication, the contents of Woodward's book were closely guarded to prevent any leaks, and 60 Minutes agreed not to interview anyone else for this report.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml
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Only a dumb president would have started such a dumb war and accepted the plans of the neocons around him! I'm not surprised, nor am I amazed!
Oh, and Bush is threatened by people with minds?
Obviously! Just look at his appointments?
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Spooky Bob Woodward:Watergate Hangman Cometh Again (continued)
by SHERMAN SKOLNICK
Offenses of treachery plainly subject to provisions of the U.S. Constitution, Article Three, Section 3.
In the view of some at a decade earlier date, a prior secret group deemed themselves warranted and justified to conduct a public execution of the highest official of the nation. That is, in full view of the anguished naive public, to blow out his brains in an open car, using military-style triangulation firing. But that infamous event was far too well studied by assassination researchers. Replicating the same ten years later would be unraveled, and not subject to blame simply on a lone, deranged assassin.
How to carry out the sentence of a secret tribunal having ordered the removal short of a firing squad, a beheading, a crew of assistants knocking out the pins on the gallows to hang the found-guilty grand vizier?
The headquarters of the doomed leader was a spy's dream. The basement had admirals and generals. Supposedly simply carrying messages, from that site up and back to the Pentagon, was somebody seemingly as harmless as a messenger. This supposed courier later started quietly as an alleged reporter on the major circulation newspaper in the District of Columbia.
Sitting right at the door of the Oval Office was a highly-skilled officer of the America CIA. Step by step, the Chief Magistrate, the President, was ensnared in a scandal.
A group of CIA operatives, some current, some former, one actually in charge of the physical security of the CIA headquarters, was ordered to supposedly break into a hotel complex, at the time, owned by the Pope. One of the burglary crew for years and years, under various pen-names, had written supposed fiction books enveloping the espionage business in swirls of romance and intrigue.
As later understood, one or more of this group of wire-tappers and records snatchers, actually wanted the operation exposed to be blamed as having been under the supervision of the President and the U.S. Atttorney General, and others in their circle.
So as the primary agent of the Military Junta, as ordered by a faction in the Aristocracy, the alleged "Pentagon messenger" had been installed as an ambitious supposed "reporter" of the Washington Post. This pretended scrivener was assisted by a left-wing leaning journalist, Carl Bernstein, apparently not on to what was really happening.
The events were dubbed the Watergate Affair, named after the hotel where the CIA break-in crew was exposed and grabbed by the authorities.
Just prior to one of the break-ins, the long-time dictator of the secret political police, J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I., was apparently assassinated, May, 1972, by being poisoned within his private residence.
Just one University publication, the Crimson, apparently of Harvard, carried the reputed murder details.
Richard Milhous Nixon, bolstered by his top official, the infamous Henry Kissinger, a Rockefeller puppet, were engaging in treasonous arrangements with the North Vietnamese. At the same time, they promised to bring the Southeast Asia conflict to a conclusion. On that basis, part secret, part public, Nixon in re-election in 1972, swept the nation. His Democrat opponent carried just one state of the fifty.
None of the real scandalous details came out prior to November, 1972. This was for various reseaons.
In October, 1972, a young fellow named William Jefferson Clinton, drove Congressman Hale Boggs (D., La.) to an airport. Boggs together with an Alaska official named Begich, took off for a flight to Alaska. Their airplane disappeared somewhere in Alaska.
The media version was that the airplane could not be found. However, our later interviews with investigators convinced us the plane was found by a secret team of U.S. Military Intelligence who would not publicly reveal what happened to Boggs and his associate.
Boggs had been a member of the Warren Commission whose fraudulent 1964 report asserted that a lone assassin slaughtered President John F. Kennedy.
In years thereafter, however, Boggs expressed misgivings. He said there was a cover-up. Moreover, he dared reveal that J.Edgar Hoover, through wire-tapping, was spying on Congress.
Boggs knew further of the role of Nixon with the planning group just prior to the Dallas assassination.
To blackmail her way into the top level of the monopoly press, on ABC Television network, the Congressman's daughter, Cokie Roberts (nee Boggs), made public statements she was in a position to know were false. Namely, that her late father was satisfied with the Warren Commission Report. And further, that her father's airplane flight was never found. As a further pay-off, her mother, widow of the Congressman, briefly held his seat. The widow Boggs became the first actual U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. Previously, no such Ambassador was sent to the theocracy, only a "delegate" to the Pontiff.
Cokie Roberts' brother, Thomas Boggs, became one of the most plugged-in lobbyists in Washington. At one time, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, in 1982, Tommy Boggs was the lobbyist for Central American death squads. Tommy's lobbyist/partner, was U.S. Commerce Department chieftain, Ron Brown, murdered in 1996, by a sabotaged plane crash in Yugoslavia. He survived the crash and was on the crash scene, shot through the top of his head, according to forensic details dared to be discussed by government officials. Brown was part of a Red Chinese Secret Police scandal, if he lived, which would have without question, put his business partners, Bill and Hillary Clinton , in prison for treason, bribery, and other federal crimes.
At the same time as the murder of Ron Brown, his business partner, Tommy Boggs, traveling also overseas, survived an assassination attempt.
A driving force in the Watergate burglars, was long-time CIA officer, E. Howard Hunt. His wife, Dorothy Hunt, courier of hush money to various spies, assassins, and operatives on behalf of the Nixon White House, was part of twelve Watergate related operatives murdered by way of a sabotaged plane crash in Chicago. That was in December, 1972, one month aftter the re-election of Tricky Dick.
Right after the Nixon re-election , Pentagon operative, Bob Woodward, under cover as a "reporter" for the Washington Post, wrote story after story about the Watergate Affair.
Woodward contended he was getting details planted, for example, in a purported "flower pot" at his apartment. Or, that certain "sources" were meeting him in underground auto parking garages.
The real role of Woodward did not become plain until the 1991 publication of "Silent Coup: The Removal of a President", by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991.
The entire book can be read ON-LINE --www.nixonera.com/etexts/silentcoup/contents.asp
Various members of the Military Junta are named and identified in the book; those who wanted Nixon removed for treason and other high crimes using Bob Woodward as their driving force.
The history of Naval Lt. Robert U. Woodward and his top Pentagon security clearance on super-secret projects, and his role with General Alexander Haig, are mentioned such as at pages 69-70 of the book. The monopoly press either ignored the book or it was for a while tied up by various proceedings.
Bob Woodward's father was Du Page County Chief Judge Alfred Woodward. The Judge had the infamous "Equity Funding" case, litigation of a giant insurance firm with vast investments.
Who were those who quietly made multi-million dollar claims against the firm's assets? Why Watergate officials such as Leon Jaworski and the family of top Nixon staff member Erlichman. Others, like a Teacher's Pension Fund were denied payment. The case became a giant money laundering device.
When I asked the Chief Court Clerk for the file, he informed me that I could not have it because it was locked up and suppressed in the Office of Chief Judge Woodward.
When I insisted to the Chief Judge that court files are to be public records in the custody of the Chief Clerk's office, the Judge set about to have me arrested for contempt. When I told the Chief Judge I would sue him for false arrest, he relented and turned over a copy to me of the entire file. So, we are the only ones that still have the secret file.
In other litigation, Chief Judge Woodward was identified, as documented, in a court case, as being also a director of a hospital that engaged in satanic rituals on children.
[In another Woodward detail, Bob Woodward's first cousin was murdered, to remind Bob Woodward he better stay shut about certain details regarding certain Admirals and Generals.]
The public execution of JFK is detailed in our website, Overthrow, part 42. The murder of twelve of the Watergate group by the sabotaged plane crash is documented in the four part website series, "The Secret History of Airplane Sabotage".
Butterfield was the CIA officer sitting at the door of the Oval Office, who just happened to mention, during Congressional hearings, 1973, that Nixon had a secret taping system in the Oval Office. That led to the Impeachment Resolutions being prepared against Nixon, culminating in his resignation as President in August, 1974.
[From about 1996 to recent dates, we have posted on our website how a group of disgruntled Admirals and Generals tried, in vain, to arrest their Commander-in-Chief Clinton for treason, which they are authorized to do under the Uniform Military Code. Further, that a now larger such group are determined to remove, by arrest, or whatever other means available, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush for treason and other federal criminal offenses. ]
George W. Bush would not dare to deny Bob Woodward to interview him. Bush, though considered a misfit and incompetent, still in all, knows enough that when the Aristocracy sends their front man, Bob Woodward, to question Bush, that Bush better permit the interview. Like the faction in the Aristocracy, and their operatives, the Military Junta, they are jointly attempting to rescue themselves by, in some manner, throwing away Bush and his circle of iron-fisted Fascist types. Of course, the cynical joke is, there is a wrong assumption that the Establishment, "the powers that be", the Ruling Class---that is THEM---are not at the same time war-mongers and creators of financial Depressions, and vowing to cause destruction of Nation-States, such as the now developing disunited Breakaway States of America.
With inside details and powers, on behalf of a faction in the Aristocracy, Bob Woodward, as a supposed book author, often using ghost writers did the following:
* The U.S. Supreme Court was sitting on an important spy case. Bob Woodward, through inside data from a faction in the aristocracy, was able to penetrate the secrets of the high court's judges, law clerks, and offices. This, by way of pressuring and blackmailing the judges as to the spy case. "The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court", by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, 1979.
* On behalf of insurance companies that carried the liability insurance, and movie completion liability insurance, as to numerous movie stars, Bob Woodward, with a ghost writer, came up with secret inside details of movie stars who were a liability to the insurance firms, in that such celebrities were users of dope, in many instances making the completion of certain movies doubtful. The insurance firms apparently violated the privacy of certain movie stars by divulging to Woodward and his ghost writer, details of what movie stars are addicted to dope. "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" by Bob Woodward, 1984.
* With numerous reputed fake details of the Watergate Affair was Bob Woodward's 1974 book "All The President's Men". To promote himself, Woodward came numerous times to the Chicago area, at press conferences. I was present at most every such event. The moment Woodward showed up, he announced to the gathered mostly mass media reporters, "That man there in the wheelchair(pointing to me), the police and the security patrol have to remove him or the press conference cannot proceed." I was sitting there without having uttered a single word. I informed the police and the security patrol, that if they arrest me, without me having said or done anything but sit there, and I being a fairly well-known free lance journalist, that I would sue Woodward and the police and security patrol for false arrest. So, they backed off, although throughout the press conference, Woodward persisted in threatening not to proceed unless I was removed and jailed.
Evidently Bob Woodward was worried I would say something about his father, the Chief Judge, having permitted the suppressing of the records of the massive insurance company, Equity Funding, and the unlawful payments, supposedly authorized by the Judge, to various Watergate officials.
By the way, the Washington Post as a business is based on the embezzling of huge federal government sums by a member of the Federal Reserve Board, namely, the father of long-time Washington Post boss Katherine Graham.
Also, as to the swindling/spy-riddled background of the newspaper, see my website story "The Late Grand Dragon of the Washington Post".
Some may consider it not pertinent, but I feel it is very revealing of his character, that Bob Woodward, according to reliable other news reporters, has been a vicious wife-beater.
In April, 2004 was published the book supposedly by Bob Woodward, with a ghost writer, with Woodward having interviewed the occupant and resident of the Oval Office, namely George W. Bush, and numerous others. "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward.
In time, answers may emerge, to the following questions:
* Bush had to allow Woodward and his ghost writer to scandalize Bush, or the faction that wants to blame the Iraq U.S. Military eventual disaster on Bush, might have to do something more severe or even violent to Bush, by way of throwing him away. What is THEIR plan and time-table?
* A country like the U.S. is like a giant ship. Is Woodward's attack, also through CBS' "Sixty Minutes" interview of Woodward, the beginning of turning this big ship around?
Remember, CBS, like the other mass media networks, are skilled blackmailers.
CBS has long had a Military Games Division, planning, scheming, and otherwise testing, various ideas for and on behalf of the Aristocracy, the Bilderbergers, the Bohemian Grove gang, and other high-level satanists and malefactors, of counter-insurgency, the overthrow of governments, and similar dirty business.
So, is Bob Woodward the front man, on behalf of the Aristocracy, out to lynch George W. Bush for acts of treason and other high crimes against the U.S. Constitution and the people of the U.S.?
Is Woodward actually the black-hooded executioner, having arrived, on behalf of the Aristocracy, to chop off the head of George W. Bush, and maybe, the head of his father as well? As part of a cover up of the home-grown, not Arab involved, violence of 9-11 and the false-basis attack on Iraq simply to seize their oil treasure?
More coming. Stay tuned.
* Mr. Sherman Skolnick's articles are compiled and archived on various websites. Such as, www.skolnicksreport
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Mech
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Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:37 am
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Man that Sherm is one sharp tack.
God bless em. |
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Boomer Chick
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Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:13 am
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Well how timely and how historically enlightening!
Mech loves Skolnick, too!
It was about time to read his take on things!
God! What an investigator!
Keep posting his stuff, plese! Both of you! |
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