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Title: Whistleblower Christine Axsmith
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WMR
URL Source: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Published: Jul 22, 2006
Author: WMR
Post Date: 2006-07-22 14:52:41 by robin
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July 22/23, 2006 -- Yesterday, the Washington Post's Dana Priest (about the only reporter there who still does actual investigative journalism) had a story about a CIA contractor for BAE Systems who was fired after posting an entry on the intelligence community's internal classified intranet, Intelink, which questioned the U.S. torture practices known as waterboarding and secret detentions. Using the screen name "Covert Communications," CIA computer software contractor Christine Axsmith has now been threatened with criminal prosecution for writing that CIA transcripts she read of prisoner interrogations indicated that the torture and detention practices had done nothing to prevent or stymie terrorist attacks in Europe, something alleged by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It is not surprising that Axsmith, whom this editor knows, has been the latest victim of General Michael Hayden's Gestapo-like security measures aimed at quashing dissent in any form. Hayden practiced the type of retaliatory measures experienced by Axsmith at Langley while he was Director of the National Security Agency. The least bit of questioning of NSA policies under Hayden earned a number of experienced NSA analysts and technicians a quick trip to the NSA Security and Psychological offices as a prelude for revocation of their security clearances and ultimate termination. In the case of Iraq shop analyst Kenneth Ford, Hayden's reign of terror earned him a six-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania on trumped up criminal charges -- charges brought by a U.S. prosecutor in Maryland with strong ties to Zionist and right-wing GOP causes. Meanwhile, this editor has learned from well-informed U.S. Senate sources that he was the subject of a recent National Security Council Deputies' meeting in which it was discussed how to bring about sanctions for an article written in 1996 that revealed a highly-classified NSA project that was exposed as a the result of the arrest of a Swiss businessman by Iran on espionage charges. Apparently, a number of nations that were subject to special NSA surveillance of encrypted communications have changed to other systems and manufacturers to encode their diplomatic and military traffic. Hayden is reportedly looking for ways to retaliate against this editor for exposing the malfeasance carried out under his watch at NSA, including an attempt to seek criminal charges by claiming that the exposure a decade ago of the classified NSA program has caused recent damage to U.S. signals intelligence capabilities. Hayden and Bush administration seek to "get" this editor for decade-old article.
Poster Comment: Christine Axsmith has now been threatened with criminal prosecution for writing that CIA transcripts she read of prisoner interrogations indicated that the torture and detention practices had done nothing to prevent or stymie terrorist attacks in Europe Whistleblowers, a dying breed. ALSO from WMR, 1st Amendment still being runover by this regime: July 22/23, 2006 -- This past Thursday, two audience members at the NAACP convention were arrested briefly by the Secret Service for responding to George W. Bush's call for curing diseases. They yelled, "How about curing a disease called Dick Cheney!" The Secret Service removed the protestors from the DC Convention Center and held them for about 15 minutes. One of the questions that Secret Service asked them was, "What's your problem with Bush?" It would take this editor much longer than 15 minutes to explain to the Secret Service what is wrong with Bush.
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#1. To: aristeides, Red Jones, Zipporah, Eoghan, BTP Holdings, Itisa1mosttoolate, Esso (#0)
ping!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers who is Christine Axsmith? ps you scared me for a second when I read the name Christine
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
#2. To: robin (#1)
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