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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: The Strange Suicide Of Col. Ted Westhusing The Strange Suicide Of Col. Ted Westhusing A West Point Professor Shoots Himself Found Dead In His Trailer By A Mercenary He Was Laying On The Floor With A Bullet Wound To The Head He Oversaw This Company Of Israeli Mercenaries His Body Guard Was Absent Colonel Westhusing's Career Born in 1961, raised in Tulsa Oklahoma, he graduates with honors, and attends West Point in 1979. Westhusing graduates West Point, third in the class of 1983. He serves in Italy, South Korea and Honduras, and eventually became division operations officer for the 82nd Airborne, based at Ft. Bragg, N.C. West Point Professor Westhusing returned to teach philosophy and English at West Point as a full professor with a guaranteed lifetime assignment. He settled into life on campus with his wife, Michelle, and their three young children. He wanted to apply his skills in Iraq, he transferred in early 2005. Col. Westhusing Iraq Assignment Westhusing job was to oversee USIS, a private company which was given the contract to train Iraqi forces for Counter Terrorism Special Operations. They would eventually take over security duties from U.S. troops. He is an administrator in the Green Zone, and the training was at Camp Dublin. Private Death Squads Basically, USIS is using Israelis to train an elite core of assassins. They even had platoons that accompanied the US forces on the Fallujah assault. They killed hand picked civilians who would resist the Israelis occupation after the Americans left. Westhusing Found Dead On June 5th, 2005, the day after he met with General Petraeus at Camp Dublin, he was found dead. An USIS contractor said he 'Looked into' the Colonel's trailer, and saw him on the floor. Another USIS manager entered, rearranged the gun, and tried to revive the Colonel. General Petraeus Petraeus, Westhusing's commanding officer, said the investigation ruled it suicide. Petraeus, who is Jewish, no doubt felt Westhusing's contempt of the Israelis from USIS. After the incident Petraeus was reassigned to Fort Leavenworth. USIS - A Federal Service That Was Privatized In 1996 President Clinton had the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations privatized. Their job is to run background checks on government employees. The first move was to transfer 2000 investigators from the Defense Security Service to USIS. OPM is responsible for 90% of federal security clearance investigations, which it contracts out to USIS. Awarded No Bid Contracts USIS is owned by a Zionist controlled Venture Capitalist firm, the Carlyle Group. USIS was initially awarded a sole-source no-bid contract for conducting all of OPM's investigations. Abbie Kaminsky These Contractors Are Street Thugs These are Israel's private army of assassins paid for by US taxpayers. Where Did The $77 Million Go The USIS contract was for some instructors, who were provided room and board at Camp Dublin. The coalition paid the Iraqi trainees' salaries, their equipment, etc., and the US government provided all the facilities. So, the only USIS's real costs were salaries. Fifty instructors at $125k salary and $25k living expenses, that's $7.5 mil. From The Discipline Of West Point To Insolent Sewer Rats Col. Westhusing was use to spit and polish decorum of West Point. He arrives Iraq, and is put in charge of Israelis, and common street thugs, who considered him an annoying clown. He was even assigned a bodyguard relations were so bad. The USIS contractors would tell him to "Mind your own f****g business, and keep your mouth shut". He went to Gen Petreaus and was told the same thing, until he threatened to go public. This Was An Assassination Col. Westhusing was extremely educated, had three children, and was heading back to West Point to a secure lifetime appointment, he was not a candidate for suicide. He walked into that Viper's nest of Israeli contract killers, posing as counter terrorists, and was about to go public. Whatever he had would be devastating, because you don't kill a full bird Colonel from West Point. Poster Comment: Who investigates the Investigation Services? I went looking to see where security clearances get approved. I once again ran across the story of late Col. Ted S. Westhusing, who was likely murdered by private contractors in Iraq in 2005. Westhusing was one of those guys who has an impossible job: He was driven to go shut down corrupt military contractors in Iraq. Not surprisingly, they killed him and lied about it, apparently. It's suspected Westhusing was going to expose USIS corruption: U.S. Investigative Services, a firm spun out of the privatized federal office that hands out security clearances. These contractors worked for USIS, the same secretive corporation that hands out federal security clearances under the authority of the Office of Personnel Management. (the Defense Security Service generally handles the Pentagon, and sometimes stop by this website. Hi guys! last April there was a snag in the system at DSS) Ensuring a Safer Future Today. Assassination of Garfield Civil Service Commission Established Formation of USIS Who owns USIS? USIS was promptly purchased by the Carlyle Group, where it now has control over and who gets rejected. (more on Carlyle and war outsourcing from CPI) Answers.com: USIS is the privatized arm of the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations. OPM privatized its investigations function in 1996 into what became US Investigations Services, or USIS. The company began as an employee-owned company, but has since been purchased by private investors and is now owned by The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, two private equity firms. Since OPMs privatization of its federal investigators, approximately 2000 investigators from the Defense Security Service have been transferred to OPM, and OPM has since reconstituted its federal investigations program in the Center for Federal Investigative Services, located within OPM. OPM is responsible for the bulk of federal security clearance investigations, but it contracts out most of this work. Duly noted on Wikipedia, USIS originally had all of OPM's background checks, but now Kroll (the "Wall street CIA" heavies handling WTC security on 9/11), and CACI - the shadeballs running the Abu Ghraib interrogators -- also have a handle on who gets security clearances in America today. In Iraq, USIS has some kind of role. And Westhusing was going to try to put a stop to it. So they put a stop to him - and USIS personnel reported the whole damn murder ('suicide') scene. No one cares.... Here is a 2004 story about Ollie North and more on USIS from Wayne Madsen and John Stanton. In other military-industrial news, a shady holding firm called Cerberus, which seems linked to bribe-nexus MZM and the Cunningham contractor bribery scandal, now ends up the ugly failed contractor for Walter Reed soldiers. This DKos diary had many links to major stories on it: Larger CIA and DoD Privatization Scandal Emerging from Walter Reed Story, US Attorneys Firing. Yeah they canned US attorneys to protect some of that. It is also duly noted here that MZM somehow inserted its lackeys in the WMD Whitewash commission - IE the Silberman/Robb report that absolved the Bushies of Iraq intel spoofing. Many onion layers etc. AP story on Westhusing from June 2005 from a thread dedicated to him on iraq.pigstye.net (which notes all the casualties): Wednesday, June 08 2005 @ 08:05 AM EDT "He wanted to go over there and make things better," Tim Westhusing said. "He has a wife and three children. He didn't have to go. This is the worst of all possible results." His mother, Terry Clark, of Tulsa, said he gave up "the good life" of a full-time teaching job to go to Iraq because he felt it was what Americans should do. His six-month leave for the Iraq assignment was scheduled to end next month, Clark said. "He was a strong, Christian, ethical man and did what he believed was right," Clark said. A basketball player at Jenks and a National Merit Scholar, Ted Westhusing could have gone anywhere, Clark said, but he chose the U.S. Military Academy and the Army as a career. "He came from a military family, a family with a history of military service," Clark said. "We are all very proud of him." Westhusing graduated from West Point in 1983. He left for Iraq near the end of the year and was helping train the Iraqi Army, working as counter-terrorism and special operations director under Lt. Gen. David Petraeus. He wrote a number of columns on his military experience that were printed in West Point and elsewhere. Among them was an opinion piece that appeared in The Tulsa Tribune on the eve of the first Iraq war in December 1990. In it, he detailed the nature of the modern soldier. "In the minds of friend and foe alike, our Army is, without a doubt, the best-trained, best-equipped, best-led and most intelligent of any in our nation's history," he wrote. "Our soldiers are recognized as the world's finest." He was an adviser for the movie "Troy." He explained military planning and troop movement to filmmakers. "He was a smart, moral man," his brother said. "He was an upstanding member of his community. He was an incredible guy. He saw the inhumanity and he wanted to make a difference." Ted Westhusing will be buried at West Point, Clark said. Funeral services are pending. There was this article that someone posted here: Westhusing's 352-page doctoral dissertation is a dense, searching, and sometimes personal effort to define the ideal spirit for a modern American soldier. His lantern held high, he plucked specific examples from history and picked each apart in a search for the perfect warrior. Achilles was a fierce fighter, adept with his spear and physically fit. But he desecrated Hector's corpse and selfishly pouted on the sidelines as the Trojans nearly destroyed the Greeks. Ridgway was a brave leader of men, but,Westhusing noted, some considered him too eager for his own glory. The bridge between the sometimes competing virtues of competition and cooperation was honor, a soldier's desire for approval from his fellow man and his country.Westhusing called it a "beguiling virtue"- difficult to define and difficult to recognize. The job of the American soldier was to embrace the true form. Westhusing cautioned that devotion to honor could be taken too far. The "regimental honor" of the British infantry in the Victorian era was so extreme that officers suffering even a slight moral lapse would occasionally commit suicide rather than face disgrace. Westhusing called it a "monster" of a notion. "This sense of regimental honor tends to prevent and transfigure both greatness of mind and extended benevolence," two of the requirements needed for true honor, he said. We're gonna throw in the bit from Wayne Madsen. Madsen is one of those "out there" journalists, so take your grains of salt, etc. This was posted on the same spot: January 23, 2006 -- More details emerge on Col. Ted Westhusing's "suiciding" in Iraq. Days before his supposed suicide by a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound in a Camp Dublin, Iraq trailer, West Point Honor Board member and Iraqi police and security forces trainer Col. Ted Westhusing reported in e-mail to the United States that "terrible things were going on Iraq." He also said he hoped he would make it back to the United States alive. Westhusing had three weeks left on his tour of duty in Iraq when he allegedly shot himself in June 2005. It is noteworthy that after Westhusing's death, two top Army generals, both responsible for training Iraqi forces, General Dave Petraeus, the Commander of the Multi National Security Transition Command Iraq (MNSTCI), and Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, the Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, were quickly transferred without much fanfare to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Hood, Texas, respectively. U.S. Army cover-up of Colonel Westhusing's death: Highlighted by fabricated evidence and quick transfers of senior officers Informed sources report that Westhusing was prepared to blow the whistle on fraud involving US Investigations Services (USIS), a Carlyle Group company, when he died. [See Jan. 14 story below]. He had also discovered links between USIS principals and clandestine events involving the Iran-Contra scandal of the Reagan-Bush I administrations. Westhusing has also linked USIS to the illegal killing and torture of Iraqis. USIS personnel whom Westhusing was investigating had the keys to his trailer. In addition, Westhusing's personal bodyguard was given a leave of absence shortly before the colonel's death. The U.S. Army's official report on Westhusing's death contained a number of falsehoods, according to those close to the case. Most importantly, the Army report stated that Westhusing had electronically communicated an interest in obtaining hollow point bullets. The bullet which killed Westhusing was a hollow point. However, the Army's statement was false, according to an informed source. In addition, the Army combed Westhusing's service record and interviewed a number of colleagues in order to concoct a story that would make suicide appear plausible. California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer is reportedly trying to get the Senate to investigate Westhusing's death. However, with the Republicans in firm control, it appears that murder of senior U.S. military officers is also something the GOP is more than willing to cover up. Please contact your local congressman or woman or senator and press them to investigate Colonel Ted's death. He represents the good in us all. January 14, 2006 -- Serious questions remain concerning Col. Westhusing's "suicide" in Iraq. Army's chief ethics expert was murdered, according to Carlyle Group insider. According an informed source within The Carlyle Group business consortium, Col. Ted Westhusing, the Army's top military ethicist and professor at West Point, did not commit suicide in a Baghdad trailer in June 2005 as was widely reported in the mainstream media five months later. At the time of his death, Westhusing was investigating contract violations and human rights abuses by US Investigations Services (USIS), formerly a federal agency, the Office of Federal Investigations (OFI), which operated under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In 1996, OFI, which conducted background investigations for civil service personnel, was privatized. The 700 government employees of OFI became employee-owners as part of USIS. In January 2003, the New York investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe, described by a Carlyle insider as a virtual shadow operation for The Carlyle Group, bought USIS for $545 million. With 5000 current and former employees of USIS sharing $500 million, the deal made them wealthy with the stroke of a pen. However, upper management within USIS became much wealthier than the rank-and-file. Insiders report that the twelve top managers at USIS became multimillionaires as a result of their cashing in of their Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). Many of these instant millionaires already had a close relationship with The Carlyle Group. Carlyle had been a shareholder in USIS since 1999 and with the buy-out deal via the Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe deal, Carlyle became the major shareholder. USIS continues to have a virtual exclusivity deal to perform background security investigations for OPM [all the feds! -dan]. The company bills itself as "one of the largest Intelligence and Security Services companies in North America." With the Iraq invasion, USIS obtained lucrative Pentagon private security contracts in Iraq. At a 2004 job fair in Falls Church, Virginia, USIS was advertising for "interrogators" and "protection specialists" for "overseas assignments." While he was in Iraq training Iraqi police and overseeing the USIS contract to train police as part of the Pentagon's Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, Westhusing received an anonymous letter that reported USIS's Private Services Division (PSD) was engaged in fraudulent activities in Iraq, including over-billing the government. In addition, the letter reported that USIS security personnel had murdered innocent Iraqis. After demanding answers from USIS, Westhusing reported the problems up the chain of command. After an "investigation," the Army found no evidence of wrongdoing by USIS. That decision signed Col. Westhusing's death sentence. USIS and Carlyle have powerful allies in the administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Princeton roommate of Carlyle Chairman Emeritus and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. Former President George H. W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former British Prime Minister John Major are Carlyle international advisers. George W. Bush was formerly employed by a Carlyle subsidiary and the Bin Laden business cartel was a one-time investor in the firm. Westhusing, who, according to friends and colleagues, showed no signs of depression, left a suicide note the Army concluded was in his handwriting. However, Westhusing's family and friends have thrown cold water on the Army's investigation. WMR can report that based on information obtained from Carlyle insiders, Col. Westhusing's death was not caused by suicide. The fact that Westhusing was investigating one of the most politically and financially powerful firms in the world resulted in higher-ups wanting him out of the way. According to the Los Angeles Times, all of the witnesses who claimed Westhusing shot himself were USIS employees. In addition, a USIS manager interfered with the crime scene, including handling Westhusing's service revolver. The USIS manager was not tested for gunpowder residue on his hands. Westhusing's investigation threatened to unearth a network of fraudsters looting the US Treasury that included the Bush family and some of their closest financial partners. After Westhusing's murder, USIS management sent a vaguely-worded memo to employees about how to respond to derogatory information in the media or rumors about USIS. Management's attention, described as "psychotic" in nature, was on USIS's upcoming IPO (initial public offering), according to a well-placed source. USIS also owns Total Information Services of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a commercial personal data mining operation. Someday we'll find out the truth. Many more articles on Westhusing here. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Eoghan, Fred Mertz, aristeides, HOUNDDAWG, Ferret Mike (#0)
Westhusing and Petraeus ping
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Wow. Thanks for the ping. Devastating set of facts to get my mind around.
I would like to hear more than one opinion on the facts as presented from these sources. They do make a convincing case, and expose some facts I was unaware of, but there may be opposing and equally convincing viewpoints.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
It's so very sordid that I doubt anyone will want to further validate it. Especially since it will put whoever in the sights of some unsavory characters. The bottom line is Col. Westhusing was by no evidence or implication a candidate for self destruction. His death is by definition foul play and deserving of more than the convenient dustbin where all suspiciously dead officers and non coms go, the suicide drawer. Outstanding career officers and exempliary ethicists don't just off themselves for the convenience of the Israelis.
Men such as this do not commit suicide, imo.
You might find this interesting.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
great post. it is painful to watch some of America's best men sacrificed in this manner.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Did you know about USIS, Carlyle and Petraeus? I didn't.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
I did know that Westhusing was particularly upset about some practices of a contractor he was investigating and that he had told Petraeus and that he was very disappointed in Petraeus' response. I did not know the contractor was associated with Israel, that it is owned by Carlyle or that Petraeus is jewish or that the 'suicide' happened only 1 day after his unsatisfactory meeting with Petraeus, and I did not know that an Israeli mercenary 'found the body'. our people are so deceived.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
This is why I don't like this particular source, robin: Petraeus as far as I know is not Jewish but of Dutch descent from the Hudson Valley in New York, which is historically where a lot of Dutch Americans live. He is no more Jewish than Stalin was.
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
This is why I don't like this particular source, robin: Petraeus as far as I know is not Jewish but of Dutch descent from the Hudson Valley in New York, which is historically where a lot of Dutch Americans live. He is no more Jewish than Stalin was. Jewish or not, Petraeus is in the hip pocket of the neo-cons. That is proof enough for me that he is bad merchandise.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Sixtus Petraeus, his father, came over during WWII...a Dutch ship's captain. It's possible he's Jewish as the family name appears in Dutch-Jew genealogical records. Undeniable Ashkenazi facial features. He could pass for Joe Lieberman's son. Very eye-opening, though I'm not surprised.
I don't deny that the Dutch Republic gave sanctuary to Sephardic Jews, and that accordingly some modern ethnic Dutch may have Jewish ancestry. That wasn't what this source is saying, however, and that's why I found the bald statement I quoted that Petraeus is "Jewish" deceitful and objectionable. You know that the Nazis, who did not in my opinion do the cause of investigation of the truth of Jewish power and influence any favors, called anyone who disagreed with them "Jews" willy-nilly---their term was "weisse Juden," i.e., white Jews, which underscored how absurd and juvenile they were. This "judicial biz" site appears to employ the same tactic: anyone that can be associated with Jewish activity, causes or interests (Stalin with the Bolsheviki, Petraeus with the neo-cons) ipso facto becomes a "Jew." It's nonsense and doesn't serve the cause of truth.
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
I saw it from the angle of how men with honor and integrity don't make it in this war, there is so much corruption.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Ge.neral_petraeus.htm Ok, skip the Jewish part, what about Westhusing, USIS and Carlyle?
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
To me, he has a goyishe punim ;)
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
I believe Westhusing was murdered. No doubt in my mind. My point is, why confuse that important issue with a lot of poppycock about Petraeus being "Jewish"? You know the way the neo-cons argue: it's pilpul, taking something like this allegation out of context to support discrediting the whole article.
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
Westhusing's investigation threatened to unearth a network of fraudsters looting the US Treasury that included the Bush family and some of their closest financial partners. After Westhusing's murder, USIS management sent a vaguely-worded memo to employees about how to respond to derogatory information in the media or rumors about USIS. Management's attention, described as "psychotic" in nature, was on USIS's upcoming IPO (initial public offering), according to a well-placed source. USIS also owns Total Information Services of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a commercial personal data mining operation. It is significant if the Carlyle connected USIS (Israeli mercs) that Westhusing was in charge of had anything to do with his death and/or coverup.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
We're on the same page on that point, robin. :)
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
And Westhusing died one day after seeing Petraeus, who was his superior. Then Petraeus is suddenly reassigned. It's reasonable to wonder about motivation. Then a couple years later Patraeus is in charge of forces in Iraq. Yet, he's never been in combat before 2003 in Iraq.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Then a couple years later Patraeus is in charge of forces in Iraq. Yet, he's never been in combat before 2003 in Iraq. Maybe he's shabbes goy ;)
Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!
Another Jew murder bump.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Goyimcaust deniers are personal private joke...still amazes me the grade school 'learning' still takes hold as adults....It's not like the Russians didn't know what hit them. They never had a 2nd Amendment...thus never a chance. Gen. Patton...'we're fighting the wrong enemy'...The Talmud wins the 20th Century (future historians..."The Jewish Century.")
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