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Israelis Hold Keys to NSA and U.S. Government Computers
 Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:39 am
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=89717
Israelis Hold Keys to NSA and U.S. Government Computers *PIC*
Posted By: ChristopherBollyn <Send E-Mail>
Date: Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:39 p.m.
CRITICAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY COMPUTER
NETWORKS USING ISRAELI "SECURITY" SOFTWARE
Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
The most critical computer and communication networks used by the U.S. government and military are secured by encryption software written by an Israeli "code breaker" tied to an Israeli state-run scientific institution.
The National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. intelligence agency with the mandate to protect government and military computer networks and provide secure communications for all branches of the U.S. government uses security software written by an Israeli code breaker whose home office is located at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
A Bedford, Massachusetts-based company called RSA Security, Inc. issued a press release on March 28, 2006, which revealed that the NSA would be using its security software:
"U.S. Department of Defense Agency Selects RSA Security Encryption Software" was the headline of the company's press release which announced that the National Security Agency had selected its encryption software to be used in the agency's "classified communications project."
RSA stands for the names of the founders of the company: Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard M. Adleman. Adi Shamir, the lead theoretician, is an Israeli citizen and a professor at the Weizmann Institute, a scientific institution tied to the Israeli defense establishment.
"My main area of research is cryptography – making and breaking codes," Shamir's webpage at the Weizmann Institute says. "It is motivated by the explosive growth of computer networks and wireless communication. Without cryptographic protection, confidential information can be exposed to eavesdroppers, modified by hackers, or forged by criminals."
The NSA/Central Security Service defines itself as America’s cryptologic organization, which "coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information."
The fact that the federal intelligence agency responsible for protecting the most critical computer systems and communications networks used by all branches of the U.S. government and military is using Israeli-made encryption software should come as no surprise. The RSA press release is just the icing on the cake; the keys to the most critical computer networks in the United States have long been held in Israeli hands.
AFP inquired with the NSA about its use of Israeli-made security software for classified communications projects and asked why such outsourcing was not seen as a national security threat. Why is "America’s cryptologic organization" using Israeli encryption codes?
NSA spokesman Ken White said that the agency is "researching" the matter and would respond in the coming week.
American Free Press has previously revealed that scores of "security software" companies – spawned and funded by the Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence agency – have proliferated in the United States. The "security" software products of many of these usually short-lived Israeli-run companies have been integrated into the computer products which are provided to the U.S. government by leading suppliers such as Unisys.
Unisys integrated Israeli security software, provided by the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies and Eurekify, into its own software, so that Israeli software, written by Mossad-linked companies, now "secures" the most sensitive computers in the U.S. government and commercial sector.
The Mossad-spawned computer security firms typically have a main office based in the U.S. while their research and development is done in Israel. The Mossad start-up firms usually have short lives before they are acquired for exaggerated sums of money by a larger company, enriching their Israeli owners in the process and integrating the Israeli directors and their Mossad-produced software into the parent company.
RSA, for example, an older security software company, acquired an Israeli-run security software company, named Cyota, at the end of 2005 for $145 million.
In January 2005, Cyota, "the leading provider of online security and anti-fraud solutions for financial institutions" had announced that "security expert" Amit Yoran, had joined the company's board of directors. Prior to becoming a director at Cyota, Yoran, a 34-year old Israeli, had already been the national "Cyber Czar," having served as director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division.
Yoran had been appointed "Cyber Czar" at age 32 by President George W. Bush in September 2003.
Before joining DHS, Yoran had been vice president for worldwide managed security services at Symantec. Prior to that, he had been the founder, president and CEO of Riptech, Inc., an information security management and monitoring firm, which Symantec acquired in 2002 for $145 million.
Yoran and his brother Naftali Elad Yoran are graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at Westpoint. Elad graduated in 1991 and Amit in 1993. Along with their brother Dov, the Yoran brothers are key players in the security software market. Amit has also held critical positions in the U.S. government overseeing computer security for the very systems that apparently failed on 9/11.
Before founding Riptech in 1998, Yoran directed the vulnerability-assessment program within the computer emergency response team at the US Department of Defense. Yoran previously served as an officer in the United States Air Force as the Director of Vulnerability Programs for the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team and in support of the Assistant Secretary of Defense's Office.
In June 2005, Yoran joined the board of directors of Guardium, Inc., another Mossad-spawned "provider of database security solutions" based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Guardium is linked with Ptech, an apparent Mossad "cut out" computer security company linked with the 9/11 attacks.
Ptech, a computer software company in Quincy, Mass., was supposedly a small start-up company founded by a Lebanese Muslim and funded by a Saudi millionaire. Yet Ptech's clients included all the key federal governmental agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Naval Air Command, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, NATO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and even the White House.
The marketing manager at Ptech, Inc. when the company started in the mid-1990s, however, was not a Muslim or an Arab, but an American Jewish lawyer named Michael S. Goff who had suddenly quit his law firm for no apparent reason and joined the Arab-run start-up company.
Goff was the company's information systems manager and had single-handedly managed the company's marketing and "all procurement" of software, systems and peripherals. He also trained the employees. Goff was obviously the key person at Ptech.
In the wake of 9/11, during the Citizens' Commission hearings in New York, Indira Singh, a consultant who had worked on a Defense Advanced Research Project, pointed to Ptech and MITRE Corp. being involved in computer "interoperability issues" between the FAA and NORAD. At this time Ptech's ties to Arabs was the focus, and Goff was out of the picture.
"Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the basement of the FAA for two years prior to 9/11," Singh said. "Their specific job is to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force in the case of an emergency. If anyone was in a position to know that the FAA – that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software or to change anything – it would have been Ptech along with MITRE."
The Mossad-run Guardium company is linked with Ptech through Goff Communications, the Holliston, Mass.-based public relations firm previously run by Michael S. Goff and his wife Marcia, which represents Guardium. Since being exposed in AFP in 2005, however, Michael's name no longer appears on the company website.
Photo: Amit Yoran, the Israeli "Cyber Security Czar" appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003. Yoran has held various positions since the 1990s in which he oversaw computer security for the Dept. of Defense computers.
Although he and his brother reportedly grew up in Pound Ridge, New York during the 1970s and 1980s, the heads of the Jewish community told AFP that they had never heard of him. One said that she had conducted a survey of the Jews living in the small village of Pound Ridge in the 1970s and she would have remembered if a wealthy Israeli family named Yoran had been found.
Why did the locals in Pound Ridge NOT remember the Yorans?
Probably because they were NOT in Pound Ridge - but in Israel. The Pound Ridge address was used to give the appearance that the Yorans were Americans. I spoke with Elad and he has a distinctive Israeli accent - not what you would expect for a guy who grew up in a posh Yankee village.
So who are the Yorans? Who are their parents and why did they come to the United States? To raise a couple high-level moles to infiltrate the most sensitive U.S. computer networks? How could they have lived for 20 years in Pound Ridge and NOT be remembered. |
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Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:45 pm
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http://www.dailyherald.com/news/cookstory.asp?id=217516&cc=c&tc=hes&t=hoffman%20estates Police arrest former mayoral candidate
By Ed Fanselow
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006
A former candidate for mayor in Hoffman Estates was arrested outside his home Tuesday after an altercation with police that ended when officers used a taser gun to subdue him.
Christopher Lee Bollyn — who won roughly 325 votes in the village’s 2000 mayoral primary — was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault following the incident, which began outside his home at 220 Kingman Lane.
Police say they responded to the home shortly before 8 p.m. after Bollyn called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle cruising his block.
When officers arrived to inform him that the car was in fact an undercover police vehicle, the 49-year-old Bollyn allegedly became “irate and belligerent” and made statements that led the officers to believe he might try to retrieve a weapon from his home, police reported.
After a prolonged struggle on the front lawn, officers were able to subdue Bollyn with a taser gun, police said.
He was released from custody a short time later after posting $100 bail.
In an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday, Bollyn claimed the incident was retaliation for his theories that the Sept. 11 attacks were a U.S. government-led conspiracy.
“I have never been treated so brutally in my life,” he said, adding that he plans to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. “I do not feel safe in the United States.”
Bollyn is expected to appear in court on Sept. 13. Politics and Prosecutions
Amazing how the print media here interpruts this. At least they did report it.I grew up in this part of the Chicago area.The Nazi Stormtroopers have nothing on these local cops.The late Sherman Skolnik even commented on the old DuPage County Courthouse resembling the red brick Nazi style architecture.I learned at an early age that these Jackboots could and would do just as they please,not to worry about any reprocusions.The states attorney and numerous state police were found guilty of framing a couple individuals that they knew were innocent of the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, Jeanine Nicarico .The reason I moved from DuPage County to the west coast had to do with the legal system,or illegal system of DuPage County,Illinois. In December 1996, an Illinois Special Prosecutor charged four DuPage County sheriffs (including Montesano, Kurzawa and Vosburgh) and three former DuPage County prosecutors (including Knight) with conspiring to withhold evidence and use of false testimony to frame an innocent man for murder. In 1984, then-DuPage County State's Attorney J. Michael Fitzsimmons,"Major league ass-hole," announced he was indicting Rolando Cruz and two other defendants for Jeanine's murder just 12 days before the GOP primary.
Cruz spent more than 11 years in prison - part of the time on death row - before his 1995 acquittal when new evidence was revealed.
At the time of his original indictment, critics suggested Fitzsimmons timed the indictments to influence his chances in the election. He lost to Jim Ryan, whose opponents later criticized him for the Cruz prosecution when he successfully ran for attorney general and then again during a failed gubernatorial bid in 2002.
Birkett, when he first took office, pledged to end the Nicarico saga and rid the office of the black cloud that has hung over it for decades.
Months ago, Birkett told his top prosecutors in a closed-door meeting he'll likely not seek another term as state's attorney - meaning he'll either seek higher office or slip into a private civil practice.
As a career prosecutor, Birkett always has said he would not let politics influence his decisions in a courtroom. If he wanted to time a Dugan indictment to an election, Birkett supporters say he could have done so three years ago when he was narrowly defeated for attorney general.
Unlike his predecessors, who lacked physical evidence tying Cruz to the murder, Birkett has DNA evidence through semen and hair said to link Dugan to the crime.
The investigation had stalled for several years while DuPage County faced lawsuits from Cruz and his co-defendants, and seven DuPage County law enforcement officials were accused of conspiring to railroad Cruz. It picked up speed after the lawsuits were settled for $3.5 million in 2000 and, one year earlier, the law enforcement officials, dubbed the DuPage 7, were acquitted of wrongdoing.
"I can't control the timing of this case," Birkett said.
Nonetheless, many agree the Dugan indictment is sure to be a major issue for Birkett if he runs for governor.
"One thing I can predict is both Democrats and Republicans in the primary will use it to define his candidacy," said Kitty Kurth, a Democratic political consultant. "He's going to hear criticism either way whether he indicts or not."
The grand jury case
Dugan, 48, is serving two life sentences at the Pontiac Correctional Center for similar rapes and murders that occurred after Jeanine died.
Dugan long ago surfaced as a suspect in her murder, claiming sole responsibility during plea negotiations for the two later killings. He remained a suspect, but prosecutors never brought charges because he refused to officially confess without their guarantee he wouldn't face execution.
Meanwhile, authorities prosecuted Cruz, Alejandro Hernandez and Stephen Buckley for Jeanine's murder. All three men later were cleared or the charges were dropped. Former Gov. George Ryan later pardoned Cruz.
At that time, Birkett revealed in papers filed with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board he had more solid DNA evidence from semen that conclusively points to Dugan. More recently, forensic experts linked him through a hair recovered from Jeanine's body.
Prosecutors also had obtained a court order a few years ago to draw a fresh sample of Dugan's DNA for a comparison - a move they hope will quell the anticipated argument by defense attorneys that the original sample through the years has been compromised.
Prosecutors recovered an old recorded interview with a prison psychiatrist studying sexual offenders in which Dugan details killing Jeanine, officials said. The office also has finished scanning some 200,000 pages of documents into computerized files to turn over to the defense.
The prosecution also is expected to call as a witness a Naperville woman who, while working in a church near the Nicarico home the day of the murder, claims Dugan stopped in to inquire about a job. Dugan's former employer also may testify he did not go into work that day.
If the indictment comes down as planned, experts said Birkett is wise to have built such a careful prosecution so as to not repeat past mistakes from the Cruz prosecution.
"So many people have lost their careers, not to mention the anguish this has caused the Nicarico family," said Thom Serafin, a Chicago political consultant who has worked with both parties."...If you're going this route (of indicting) and running for a political office, you better be damn sure you've got all the i's dotted and t's crossed and get a conviction."
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