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Title: THE FAA KNEW! - But were they set up?
Source: FromTheWilderness.com
URL Source: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/021405_faa_knew.shtml
Published: Feb 15, 2005
Author: By Michael Kane
Post Date: 2005-02-15 18:02:40 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: KNEW!, were, they
Views: 13799
Comments: 22

BUSH KNEW of Terrorist Plot to Hijack US Planes


By Paul Sperry
MARCH 28, 2004

FBI informant revealed 9-11 plot in April 2001 - Two D.C. agents filed report that al-Qaida planned suicide attacks **involving planes**
"In April 2001, the long-time FBI source is said to have told two counterterrorism agents from the Washington field office that al-Qaida planned to carry out terrorist attacks in major U.S. cities, including New York, using planes and suicide operatives."


"THE ATTACK WILL BE SPECTACULAR AND DESIGNED TO INFLICT MASS CASUALTIES AGAINST U.S. FACILITIES OR INTERESTS. ATTACK PREPARATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. ATTACK WILL OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING."
CIA Intelligence Report to President Bush, July 2001, 60 days prior to 911. - Source.

"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people,"
George W. Bush


THE FAA KNEW! But were they set up?

FromTheWilderness.com
By Michael Kane
February 14, 2005

A recently declassified document reveals the FAA was warned about hijacking threats prior to 9/11. If the FAA was warned, who warned them?

The answer is on page 61 of the now declassified document. The intelligence came from CIA, FBI and the State Department. But from page 53 to the very end, this document is so heavily redacted that it's impossible to decipher just what it reveals.

http://www.familiesofseptember11.org/includes/viewfile.asp?vfile=../docs/staff_report_3.pdf

The scapegoating of the FAA is a continuation of the 9/11 Commission's agenda: to direct attention away from NORAD & NCA (National Command Authority - Commander in Chief) responsibilities for what happened on 9/11.

However, the Air Force itself has cleared the FAA of any wrong doing on 9/11.

In a book commissioned by the Air Force documenting what happened on 9/11 titled "Air War Over America," it is consistently and repeatedly stated that the FAA was "Johny-on-the-spot" that morning. Flight 11 was reported off-course to the military by FAA before 8:30 am. The 9/11 Commission report and the Air Force account directly conflict; it's as if they were documenting two separate events.

The real issue with the FAA on 9/11 is Ptech.

Ptech (now Go Agile) was the company that supplied the enterprise architecture software for most of the federal government and its military agencies. This included the Whitehouse, Secret Service, Air Force and FAA. This software is able to analyze the critical data throughout an enterprise in real-time. For federal aviation, the most critical data of all lies on FAA radar screens.

Ptech was owned and funded by Saudi terror financiers with reported links to the Bush administration. But it was the Clinton administration that granted Ptech high military security clearance in 1996, when they began receiving contracts throughout the entire federal government.

Why wasn't Ptech ever mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report? Why is the FAA being blamed for 9/11 without any mention of the appalling fact that Ptech was in the FAA for (at least) 2 years with access to their entire data blueprint and all FAA databases?

Ptech's software is powerful enough to have allowed intentional, specific manipulation of real-time information on FAA radar screens. Remember, on 9/11 the Air Force was in the middle of simulated war games that involved false blips, referred to as "radar injects," on FAA screens (see Crossing the Rubicon for full documentation). Add into this equation the very real possibility of such an inject remaining on FAA screens after the war games were called off - which seems to be exactly what happened.

The FAA, Ptech, and "phantom flight 11" In the 9/11 Commission report a "phantom flight 11" was added to the official version of what happened that day. A tape was played at the final commission hearing on June 17, 2004, of a woman from the FAA telling NORAD that flight 11 was still airborne at 9:24 am, long after it had actually struck the WTC. Originally this was reported to be the time when the FAA notified NORAD that flight 77 was off course and headed to the Pentagon.

This information was used by the commission to claim NORAD had never been informed that flight 77 was headed towards Washington D.C., leaving the FAA holding the bag for the penetration of the most heavily guarded airspace in the world. The commission's report states that they were "unable to identify the source of this mistaken FAA information."

It has been clearly documented that "false blips," or radar injects, were placed on FAA radar screens on the morning of 9/11 as part of the Air Force war games that morning. "Phantom flight 11" fits the description of a "false blip." If it was, in fact, a radar inject, that would explain why the 9/11 commission was unable to locate the source of the "mistaken FAA information." The 9/11 war games are classified and specific information regarding such details is not publicly available. We do know by the time "phantom flight 11" appeared on FAA screens - 9:24 am - the war games had reportedly been called off.

So what was it doing there?

FTW's position is that "phantom flight 11" was injected onto FAA radar screens by "the maestro" of the 9/11 war games (either Dick Cheney or General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart) using Ptech software to override FAA systems. Let's examine the feasibility of such a scenario.

Ptech had been working on the data blueprint of the FAA's entire network for 2 years prior to 9/11. Their confidential business plan lays out just how much access they had to the FAA's data systems.

Ptech Inc. Confidential Business Plan: Page 37 of 46, 11/7/2001

The FAA recognized the need for leveraging its IT investment, with a means of centralizing activities and introducing consistency and compatibility within the operating systems environment. A Ptech consulting team was organized to use activity modeling to identify key functions that could be examined for improvement in network management, network security, configuration management, fault management, performance management, application administration, network accounting management, and user help desk operations.

What the above tells us is that Ptech had access to the entire informational barn door of the FAA's data systems. In an amazing exchange published in part 1 of this series, FTW editor Jamey Hecht was able to confirm a central thesis of Crossing the Rubicon while interviewing Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh. Ms. Singh is an IT professional who started First Boston's first Information Technology group in 1975 and had worked on Wall Street until 2002. She's been an IT consultant for Banker's Trust, the U.N., JP Morgan, and American Express. In 1988 she started TibetNet - a derivative of DARPA's Internet, the service on which you are likely reading this report at the moment. The exchange was as follows:

Jamey Hecht: You said at the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings, you mentioned - its on page 139 of transcript - that Ptech was with Mitre Corporation in the basement of the FAA for 2 years prior to 9/11 and their specific job was to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force, in case of an emergency.

Indira Singh: Yes, I have a good diagram for that…

Jamey Hecht: And that relationship had been going on mediated by Ptech for 2 years prior to 9/11. You elsewhere say that the Secret Service is among the government entities that had a contract with Ptech. Mike Ruppert's thesis in Crossing the Rubicon, as you know, is that the software that was running information between FAA & NORAD was superseded by a parallel subsuming version of itself that was being run by the Secret Service on state of the art parallel equipment in the PEOC with a nucleus of Secret Service personnel around Cheney.

…In your view, might it have been the case that Cheney was using Ptech to surveil the function of the people who wanted to do their jobs on the day of 9/11 in FAA & NORAD, and then intervene to turn off the legitimate response?

Indira Singh: Is it possible from a software standpoint? Absolutely it's possible. Did he (Cheney) have such a capability? I don't know. But that's the ideal risk scenario - to have an over-arching view of what's going on in data. That's exactly what I wanted for JP Morgan.

You know what's ironic about this; I wanted to take my operational risk blueprint which is for an operational event going wrong and I wanted to make it generic for extreme event risk to surveil across intelligence networks. What you're describing is something that I said, 'boy if we had this in place maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened.' When I was going down to In-Q-Tel and getting these guys excited about creating an extreme event risk blueprint to do this, I'm thinking of doing exactly what you're saying Cheney might have already had! [emphasis added]

-- end of transcript

Ptech was working with Mitre Corp. in the FAA and, according to Singh, Ptech was the Alpha dog in that relationship. Mitre has provided simulation-and-testing technologies for the Navy. They provide multiple FAA technologies and boast in their annual reports that their two biggest clients are DOD and FAA. Mitre knew the FAA's technological enterprise inside and out, including any simulation-and-testing (war game) technology operated by the FAA.

This was the perfect marriage to ensure that the capacity to covertly intervene in FAA operations on 9/11 existed - in the middle of simulated war games. It was also the perfect marriage to ensure that the command and control of these capabilities was readily available to Dick Cheney via Secret Service Ptech software in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker to which Cheney was "rushed" by the Secret Service. As already pointed out in part 1 of FTW's series, Ptech does what Total Information Awareness (TIA, the DARPA program designed to monitor all electronic transactions in real-time) is supposed to do. There are an undetermined number of other software programs in the hands of an undetermined number of corporations also capable of this. Again, top-level enterprise architecture software is designed for the express purpose of knowing all the critical information produced across the entirety of the "enterprise" in real-time.

In the case of Ptech software, installed on White House, Secret Service, Air Force and FAA systems (as well as most American military agencies), the enterprise included all of the real-time data of the above-mentioned agencies. Singh has confirmed that Ptech software could have been set up to allow Dick Cheney to surveil and intervene on FAA radar screens.

As documented by former Bush counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke in his book, Against All Enemies, on 9/11 the Secret Service had the capability of seeing FAA radar screens in real time; and as documented by Mike Ruppert in Crossing the Rubicon, Secret Service has the authority to take supreme command over any and all American agencies - including the Air Force.

So when you read the Associated Press, or New York Times, or any other mainstream account of how the FAA failed our country on 9/11, ask yourself why none of the above is mentioned in those reports. Ask yourself why the executive branch cleared Ptech software of being a threat to national security on the very same day the FBI first raided their offices. Ask yourself why Ptech software is still in the Whitehouse. And ask yourself whose interests the Bush administration really serves.

Please see…

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1_summary.shtml
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012705_ptech_pt2_summary.shtml
…for more info on Ptech, the FAA & 9/11




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BLINDED VIGILANCE - Insight Magazine
"While the terrorists and their sponsors were plotting to hijack airliners and crash them into Manhattan skyscrapers and the Pentagon, senior CIA officials were compelling analysts and operations officers to attend sensitivity-training classes and sew diversity quilts. That is a fact." (4 images)

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#1. To: OKCSubmariner (#0)

Do you know if Michael Chertoff sick?


1999


2005

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   19:28:31 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

Uncle Bill, have you invited OKCSub here? ;)

christine  posted on  2005-02-15   19:31:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

Gosh he's aged a lot in 5 years..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-02-15   19:32:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Zipporah, Uncle Bill (#3)

AIDS?

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2005-02-15   19:34:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

This Montgomery Burns look-a-like shall serve the Zionist masters well.

wbales  posted on  2005-02-15   19:34:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#4)

? .. he certainly looks like he's aged a lot in 5 years...

Zipporah  posted on  2005-02-15   19:38:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: christine (#2)

I haven't officially, but I know he's smart enough to know this site exists, and out of respect for him I would want him to make up his own mind. I'm having fun though. 8-)

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   19:40:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#4)

I don't know, but I was shocked when I saw that photo today. Maybe he's just feeling tortured inside.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   19:44:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Uncle Bill (#8)

I just can't believe that's him. Looks like someone else.

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2005-02-15   19:49:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Uncle Bill (#7)

I'm having fun though.

I'm glad. ;)

christine  posted on  2005-02-15   20:06:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#9)

I think he's sick. He looks sick. I was just looking around the net real quick and there are other people noticing it.

Anything is possible anymore.


Ukraine's opposition presidential candidiate Viktor Yushchenko before and after his poisoning.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   20:24:51 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

He's dead Jim!

looks like someone OVER embalmed him for the love of Pete!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-02-15   20:30:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#9)

Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. [Fire Engineering - 1/4/2002]

Bombs and Explosions in the WTC: Suppressed 9/11 Firefighters Testimony

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   20:34:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

Michael Chertoff

Anton Lavey

Bayonne  posted on  2005-02-15   20:35:05 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#9)

Michael Chertoff, appointed by President Bush to head the Homeland Security Department, may have shielded from criminal prosecution a former client suspected by law enforcement of having funneled millions of dollars directly to Osama Bin Laden while in charge of the U.S. Government’s 9.11 investigation.

Egyptian-born Dr. Magdy el-Amir, a prominent New Jersey neurologist, was at the center of terrorist intrigue in Jersey City.

El-Amir gave money to a conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.

His brother in Cairo was caught on tape attempting to buy weapons from an American undercover agent for Islamic militant groups.

Before being arrested in a terrorist deal involving oil and heroin for guns and training, arms smuggler Diaa Mohsen was paid at least $5,000 by one of Dr. el Amir's companies, NBC’s Dateline reported.

And his HMO was suspected by law enforcement of being used to funnel money directly to Osama bin laden.

Wire Transfers to "Unknown Parties"

Chertoff’s client "caused more than $5.7 million to be paid by wire transfers to unknown parties," said the lawsuit filed shortly before the state took over his failing HMO.

News accounts about el-Amir’s legal difficulties contain unanswered questions about undue political influence and its effect on national security.

For example, how did el-Amir, who only the month before had been granted a state license to operate an HMO, finagle a lucrative contract from the state of New Jersey in 1995?

“Why was this doctor allowed to start a health plan?” asked the October 25, 1999 issue of the medical trade journal Medical Economics.

“How could this medical entrepreneur, who had no experience running a managed- care or health insurance company, receive a license for an HMO that now provides care to 44,000 of New Jersey's most vulnerable citizens?" asked The Bergen Record. “Moreover, how could the state pay such a novice $ 6 million a month in taxpayers money to take on such a responsibility?”

Why did Michael Chertoff even take the case?

Skimming for Osama in New Jersey

Answers were slow in coming, until it was revealed that at the same time el- Amir was pitching state business he had begun making generous contributions to the governing Republican party, donating nearly $ 18,000 to various GOP candidates in 1996.

And a foreign intelligence report made available to the Chairman of the House International Committee alleged that an HMO owned by Dr. el Amir in New Jersey was “funded by Ben Laden,” and that in turn Dr. el Amir was skimming money from the HMO to fund “terrorist activities.”’…

Stuff like that doesn’t happen, does it? In New Jersey?

Barely three years after enrolling its first patient, APPP lay in financial ruins, its network doctors and hospitals were saddled with millions of dollars in unpaid claims, and its founder had retained the services of Michael Chertoff.

Did Chertoff know where the stolen money was going?

"Frankly, we can't differentiate between terrorism and organized crime and drug dealing," then-Asst Attorney General Michael Chertoff told the Senate Banking Committee looking into the terrorists’ money trail in the aftermath of 9.11.

“These groups don't hold themselves independently: They work with one another. Terrorists get engaged in drug activity. They have relationships with organized crime," Chertoff said.

Paging Tony Soprano

Chertoff was undoubtedly worth every penny Dr. Magdy paid him: though doctors and hospitals calculated they were owed more than $45 million, Dr. ElAmir faced no criminal charges.

When the MadCow Morning News first reported on Mob and terrorist connections to "Magic Dutch Boy” Rudi Dekkers and the covert operations conducted at the Venice Airport, Michael Chertoff was running the official U.S. investigation.

Dekkers remains free.

Magdy el-Amir continues to live and practice in New Jersey.

Now that Chertoff has been tapped to keep America safe, questions are sure to resurface about whether he hadn’t himself been instrumental in helping to make America dangerous.

Documents in the el-Amir case remain under seal. Fortunately, the following information does not. From the Bergen County Record (New Jersey) on January 24, 1999:

“For a while, Magdy Elamir looked like the Horatio Alger of managed care in New Jersey.”

“An Egyptian immigrant who parlayed a storefront medical practice in Jersey City into a multimillion-dollar health-care empire that served thousands of the state’s poorest citizens, he lived in a Saddle River mansion and contributed generously to candidates for political office”…

“His health maintenance organization, American Preferred Provider Plan Inc., is about to be sold by state regulators to salvage some money for doctors and hospitals who calculate they’re owed more than $ 45 million.” Link

In August 2002, NBC’s Dateline reported on the el-Amir case:

“Last fall, DATELINE obtained information about this man, Magdy el Amir. He’s a prominent doctor, a neurologist with a practice in Jersey City. Born and educated in Egypt, he moved to this country about 20 years ago and since then has built a fortune”…

My brother likes tanks, is all.

“Well, take a look at this document obtained by DATELINE last fall. A foreign intelligence report that makes a startling allegation about the doctor, that he has had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years. The report was given to a senior member of Congress, Ben Gilman, back in 1998 when he was chairman of the House International Relations Committee”…

“The report alleges that an HMO owned by Dr. el Amir in New Jersey was “funded by Ben Laden,” and that in turn Dr. el Amir was skimming money from the HMO to fund “terrorist activities.”’…

“Less than a year after the congressman says the FBI received the report, Dr. el Amir’s HMO was taken over by the state of New Jersey… according to sources close to the investigation, more than $15 million is unaccounted for. Where did the money go? DATELINE has reviewed documents that show at least some of it went into hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts”…

“But the intelligence report suggests one thing that he doesn’t deny, that he has donated money to the mosque where the blind sheik once preached, Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is now in prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing”…

“DATELINE has found another reason why federal investigators might want to pay close attention to Dr. el Amir and his family. It’s something we learned when we interviewed Randy Glass, the con man-turned-undercover operative who helped the government break up an illegal weapons ring allegedly tied to terrorist groups. It turns out that one of the people recorded trying to arrange an arms deal with Randy Glass was Dr. el Amir’s own brother, Mohamed, an engineer, also a US citizen now living in Egypt. And just listen to what he was interested in”…

“Mr. GLASS: (From tape) OK. They want to ship things like tanks, correct?”

“Mr. EL AMIR: (From tape) Uh-huh… No, no, no, no, just ammunition, not tanks.”

“Glass says federal agents told him to drop the matter”…

“That same intelligence report that talks about Dr. [Magdy] el Amir also names his brother Mohamed as having ties to Osama bin Laden.” Link

Chertoff for the Defense

The el-Amir’s appear to be intimately linked with Osama bin Laden, making the following report from The Bergen Record quite puzzling, dated December 11, 1998:

“A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered state Insurance Commissioner… to take control of American Preferred Provider Plan Inc., a health-maintenance organization for Medicaid patients allegedly bled dry by its Saddle River owner, neurologist Magdy Elamir”…

“But in a hint of the gravity of his legal predicament, he was represented in court by Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in Newark and counsel to U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato’s Whitewater investigation.” Link

Yes, the soon-to-be Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff represented a known bin Laden operative. Perhaps more troubling, Chertoff also headed the U.S.’s investigation into the September 11th attack. From the New Jersey Law Journal, August 4, 2003:

“The Sept. 11 investigation was supervised by Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, head of the U.S. Criminal Justice Division, who is now a Third Circuit judge.”

More on Chertoff from the New Yorker, November 5, 2001:

“Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, Chertoff’s office has become the funnel for what is probably the most important criminal investigation in American history, as prosecutors and F.B.I. investigators pour in to seek the boss’s approval. What leads can we use from the search of a hijacker’s car in Portland, Maine? Where do the hijackers’ credit-card records lead?… For day-to- day decisions, Chertoff has the last word”…

“Graduating from Harvard Law School, in 1978… he served as a model for an intense and brilliant character in his classmate Scott Turow’s book “One L,”

Intense, brilliant...corrupt?

Though el-Amir’s HMO was known to be affiliated with bin Laden since the mid- 1990s, Chertoff offers an alternate view of the HMO’s financial statements. From The Record, December 18, 1998:

“Elamir’s attorney, Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in Newark, offered the doctor’s first in-depth defense to the state charges Thursday, insisting that Elamir had not misappropriated any funds from APPP [el-Amir’s HMO].” Link

Also from The Record, December 16, 1998:

“Michael Chertoff, a former U.S. attorney who is Elamir’s attorney, said the state’s papers don’t give the complete picture of the company’s finances. “It’s a one-sided picture of what’s going on,” he said.” It would be unfortunate if the state’s approach is to find someone to punish, rather than solve the problem.”’

“Chertoff said Elamir would like to work with the state in its effort to rehabilitate the HMO.” Link

Chertoff’s comments on the case made The New York Times on December 18, 1998:

"“Dr. Elamir’s lawyer, Michael Chertoff, said that all transactions were approved by state agencies and that his client has done nothing improper.” Link

The Bergen Record printed a post-trial wrap-up of the case on February 22, 2000:

“A year after a Medicaid HMO accused of misusing state and federal funds was dissolved by the state, its founder is still enjoying a millionaire’s income while the hospitals and doctors who allegedly were defrauded delay programs for the poor and fight for restitution”…

“APPP’s founder, Saddle River neurologist Magdy Elamir, continues to practice medicine in a Jersey City storefront office and lives in a $ 1.8 million mansion in one of Bergen County’s toniest suburbs, court records show. His car leases alone total $ 65,000 per year, the records show.”

“The Egyptian immigrant also operates a chain of MRI facilities in Newark, Irvington, and Paterson, a limousine company, and a medical management company. Combined with his medical practice, his income totals more than $ 18,000 weekly, nearly $ 1 million a year, records show.”

A Republican voice for the downtrodden

‘“He’s still in good spirits,” said Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in Newark whom Elamir hired as his defense lawyer.”

“Public records in the civil case contain no reference to a criminal investigation, but court officials said some documents in the case were under seal. The state Attorney General’s Office would neither confirm nor deny an investigation. The state’s Medicaid fraud division is not involved in the case, a Medicaid spokesman said”…

“Elamir’s property and bank accounts are worth more than $ 8.8 million, according to his financial statement, but mortgages and other liens reduce his net worth to $ 760,000”... Link

Why would New Jersey’s Top Attorney Michael Chertoff represent a person of el- Amir’s relatively modest financial position? Though comfortable, el-Amir had failed to reach millionaire status. Not exactly Chertoff’s typical clientele, as reported by The Bergen Record on June 19, 2000:

“New Jersey is home to about 65,000 lawyers, some of whom are quite good at what they do. But if the state had a First Lawyer, or a Lawyer Laureate, it just might be Michael Chertoff”…

“His counsel is sought by public corporations, politicians, government agencies, and high-profile defendants”…

“Columbia/HCA, the health-care consortium… is the ninth-largest employer in the United States… As the lead attorney for Columbia, Chertoff negotiated a partial settlement of the case in May for about $ 745 million”…

“When he entered private practice, Chertoff said he would not represent drug dealers and mobsters, preferring to work for “decent people.”’ Link

Well, after all, it was only a preference.

Source

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   21:01:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Bayonne (#14)

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-15   21:06:44 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#9)

FAA may close air traffic towers at night

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-02-16   3:29:35 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: christine, Zipporah (#6)

Watch while you can

Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation

Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.”

Uncle Bill  posted on  2007-07-14   23:35:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Uncle Bill, Christine, Jethro Tull, Honway, Robin, Minerva, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#0)

The FAA set up 9-11, by just their refusal to enforce ordinary airport security provisions.

The FAA managed the offending aircraft and the supposed responding fighters. Where's the FAA radar data? And they lied through their teeth about nearly everything!

The FAA is the most complicit agency of them all.

Just the hijacking of Air France 8969 & "Project Bojinka" forewarned 9-11 in some fashion - to what end???


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-07-14   23:49:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, christine, All (#9)

I just can't believe that's him. Looks like someone else.

He looks like..... SATAN!!

Seriously when I see his picture I always picture him having horns coming out of his head, holding a pitchfork and wearing a red cape.

He should go to a Holloween party dressed that way.

Diana  posted on  2007-07-15   0:26:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

Do you know if Michael Chertoff sick?

I certainly hope so but suggest it is normal aging.

Comrade Chertoff is and has always been IMNSHO a traitor and a disgrace to be allowed any job in the US Govt...

oops I forgot he IS after all a rabbi and an Israeli citizen, thus rightfully OWNS the United States...lock , stock and barrel.

JCHarris  posted on  2007-07-15   0:47:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Uncle Bill (#1)

Do you know if Michael Chertoff sick?

If he's a Republican, then it's AIDS. Excuse me, I mean HIV...although the original name was GRIDS -- Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Chickenhawk: the weakest link that squeaks the loudest.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2007-07-15   20:37:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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