Recorded March 25, 2007
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“Con­nect­ing the dots” between GOP scan­dals that have received major news cov­er­age and the largely ignored South Florida con­nec­tions to the events of 9/11, this pro­gram notes some shady deal­ings in and around San Diego and ask the musi­cal ques­tion: “Did the fir­ing of U.S. Attor­ney [in San Diego] Carol Lam have any­thing to do with these activ­i­ties? Did Carol Lam come across more than she was allowed to pur­sue?” Not­ing a link between what Daniel Hop­sicker calls “Hook­er­gate” and Huff­man Avi­a­tion in Venice Florida, the broad­cast high­lights the fact that two inde­pen­dent oil men from Mid­land [Texas] were the last known own­ers of a plane belong­ing to Huff­man Avi­a­tion [the Florida flight school through which Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 hijack­ers infil­trated the United States.] That air­craft was busted with 43 pounds of heroin on board. The pro­gram empha­sizes the fact that there are a num­ber of other evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries con­nect­ing highly pub­lic GOP scan­dals such as the Jack Abramoff case with the South Florida 9/11 connections.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of the fact that Atta and com­pany vis­ited one of the late Gus Boulis’ Sun­Cruz casino boats shortly before the 9/11 attacks; review of the fact that George Bush friend Gus Boulis was mur­dered by a man who received a large pay­ment from Abramoff asso­ciate Adam Kidan; review of the fact that Makram Chams worked for Titan secu­rity [a firm closely linked to the scan­dals sur­round­ing Randy “Duke” Cun­ning­ham]; the fact that Chams was deeply involved with a con­ve­nience store in Venice [Florida] fre­quented by Atta and his associates.

1. Not­ing the pri­mary focal point of the broad­cast, the pro­gram sets forth some of the inter­sec­tions of Randy Cunningham’s milieu with the South Florida avi­a­tion envi­ron­ment through which 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and com­pany infil­trated the United States. The brother of Cun­ning­ham col­lab­o­ra­tor Brent Wilkes was involved with a Bush Pio­neer (wealthy con­trib­u­tor) named R.D. Hub­bard. Hub­bard, in turn, was closely asso­ci­ated with two wealthy Mid­land [Texas] oil men named Wag­ner and Brown. Wag­ner and Brown, in turn, were the last known reg­is­tered own­ers of a plane that was busted with 43 pounds of heroin on board while being oper­ated by Wally Hilliard’s Huff­man Avi­a­tion. Huff­man was the school that was the vehi­cle for Atta and com­pany to infil­trate the U.S. This is but the lat­est exam­ple of hard, evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries con­nect­ing the larger and better-publicized Repub­li­can scan­dals to the clan­des­tine world of South Florida covert oper­a­tions that fig­ures in the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tion. “The Randy Cun­ning­ham ‘Hook­er­gate’ Scan­dal is not the first pros­ti­tu­tion scan­dal involv­ing close rel­a­tives of indicted defense con­trac­tor Brent Wilkes, The Mad­Cow­Morn­ingNews has learned. Brent Wilkes brother, Gre­gory Wilkes, man­aged the finances of The Wilkes Foun­da­tion, which was sus­pended by the State of Cal­i­for­nia after fail­ing to file finan­cial state­ments for three years in a row. (NOTE: The Wilkes Foun­da­tion link above, to the Way­back machine archived page on Gre­gory Wilkes, was removed less than 24 hours after this story was pub­lished. If only they worked this fast tak­ing care of sol­diers with trau­matic brain injuries. DH) When Greg Wilkes wasn’t busy fail­ing to file required doc­u­ments with the state on his brother’s char­i­ta­ble foun­da­tion, he was the Con­troller for an unfor­tu­nate ‘Bush Pio­neer’ named R.D. Hub­bard, busted fly­ing almost a dozen hook­ers by pri­vate jet in June of 2001 to a casino he owned to ser­vice men gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments have only iden­ti­fied as ‘48 wealthy guests.’ Back in the ’80’s Hub­bard was involved in a num­ber of Michael Milken-financed ‘green­mail’ takeover attempts, part­nered with Mid­land, Texas oil­men Wag­ner and Brown Ltd. Strangely, in 2001 Wag­ner and Brown became the last known reg­is­tered owner of the Lear jet which belonged to ter­ror flight school owner Wally Hilliard until it was seized by DEA agents in Orlando who found 43 lbs. of heroin onboard. It is the lat­est in an odd series of links between the Cun­ning­ham Scan­dal and inter­na­tional drug traf­fick­ing. . . .”
(“Going to Baby­lon by Cadil­lac” by Daniel Hop­sicker; Mad­Cow­Morn­ingNews; 3/8/2007.)

2. After not­ing that there were a num­ber of San Diego links to the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tion [aside from the Cun­ning­ham trib­u­taries], Mr. Emory and Daniel Hop­sicker spec­u­late about the pos­si­bil­ity that fired U.S. attor­ney Carol Lam may have been “onto” these con­spir­a­tors. The Bush administration’s con­tention that Lam was fired for main­tain­ing lax bor­der secu­rity is not cred­i­ble under the cir­cum­stances. (For more about the San Diego con­nec­tions to 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#507.) “Nonethe­less this seem­ingly inci­den­tal detail may pro­vide the con­text from which a bet­ter expla­na­tion might emerge for why Carol Lam, the U.S. attor­ney in San Diego who suc­cess­fully pros­e­cuted for­mer Repub­li­can Rep. Randy ‘Duke’ Cun­ning­ham, was just fired. The non­sen­si­cal rea­son cited this week by a Bush Admin­is­tra­tion offi­cial was that ‘her pros­e­cu­tion rate for bor­der vio­la­tions was insuf­fi­cient.’ Any sug­ges­tion that ‘bor­der vio­la­tions’ have become a pri­or­ity of the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion has slightly less cred­i­bil­ity than a press release from the Raelian Soci­ety announc­ing the immi­nent return of the ‘space broth­ers’ from an extended tour of Sir­ius. Since a close read­ing of the Cun­ning­ham Scandal’s drama­tis per­sonae reveals that its cast includes gam­bling czars, race-track boys, hook­ers, and more nephews than a years’ worth of reruns on ‘The Sopra­nos’, the dis­cov­ery that hooker scan­dals run in Brent Wilkes fam­ily comes as no great sur­prise. One plau­si­ble expla­na­tion why San Diego US Atty. Carol Lam was fired might be that, in a rapidly spread­ing scan­dal which could quickly grow too large to con­tain, she already knows too much. . . .” (Idem.)

3. The hook­ers that were req­ui­si­tioned by “Team Cun­ning­ham” were instructed to “play nice” with rich Arab investors: “ . . . The casino responded that the secu­rity direc­tor ‘may have said some­thing to the effect that he wanted (the two women) to inter­act more closely with cus­tomers.’ One of the two women stated she’d been told to attend the Keeneland horse sale in Lex­ing­ton. While there, ‘She should go to pop­u­lar bars to pick up rich Arab men to bring them to the casino.’. . .” (Idem.)

4. Not­ing evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries con­nect­ing this por­tion of the scan­dalous 9/11 milieu to other of its ele­ments, the pro­gram notes that con­victed GOP lob­by­ist Jack Abramoff was deeply involved in the acqui­si­tion of the late Gus Boulis’ Sun­Cruz Casino boat com­pany. That takeover occurred after George Bush’s friend Gus Boulis was mur­dered. [Abramoff busi­ness­man Adam Kidan wrote a check to the hit­man, allegedly as a “con­sult­ing fee.”] A few days before 9/11, Mohamed Atta and some asso­ciates vis­ited a Sun­Cruz casino boat, for pur­poses that have yet to be deter­mined. For more about Gus Boulis and his killing, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 516, 528, 542, 546.

5. Another major Repub­li­can scan­dal is the “Duke” Cun­ning­ham scan­dal, in which the GOP Con­gress­man from San Diego went to prison for a vari­ety of mis­deeds. One of the pri­mary ele­ments in Cunningham’s oper­a­tions was the Titan pri­vate secu­rity cor­po­ra­tion. Exem­pli­fy­ing the links between the milieu of 9/11 and GOP scan­dals that get a lot of cov­er­age is the oper­a­tional con­nec­tion between Titan and Makram Chams. Chams was deeply involved with a con­ve­nience store in South­ern Florida, at which Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 hijack­ers con­gre­gated. Although the Cun­ning­ham scan­dal has had a lot of cov­er­age, Makram Chams and the South Florida con­nec­tions of the 9/11 hijack­ers has received very lit­tle cov­er­age at all. One of the few places fea­tur­ing cov­er­age of the Chams/Titan/South Florida con­nec­tion is at: FTR#554.

6. Two video pro­duc­tions are being gen­er­ated by a cou­ple of doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Rela­tion­ship Between Fas­cism and Reli­gion.” To learn more about this, visit The Anti-Fascist YouTube.com page. In addi­tion, there will soon be a doc­u­men­tary about Mr. Emory, titled “The Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit theantifascist.com.