FTR #663 Badjacketing Obama, Part III

Mus­lim Broth­er­hood staffs “mod­er­ate” Mus­lim out­reach to Obama; GOP pre­dicts terrorism.

Spitzer’s mouthpiece has his own secrets to hide

by Peter LanceRAW STORY
As the sex scan­dal hur­ri­cane engulfed Eliott Spitzer last week, one of his clos­est advi­sors at the eye of the storm was Diet­rich “Dieter” Snell. An ex U.S. Attor­ney from the same office con­duct­ing the pros­ti­tu­tion probe, Snell is now defend­ing Spitzer in the “Troop­er­gate” scan­dal and report­edly rak­ing in hun­dreds of [...]

Interview: Cindy Sheehan

by Liam Stack in CairoAl Jazeera
Cindy Shee­han, an Amer­i­can activist who was nick­named the “Peace Mom” by the media for her crit­i­cism of the Iraq War, retreated from her pub­lic cam­paigns in 2007.
The death of her son Casey, a US sol­dier, in a Bagh­dad bat­tle in 2005 had trans­formed Shee­han into a pub­lic fig­ure in the US.
But [...]

Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base’ – MEP report

by Noel Gri­maThe [Malta] Inde­pen­dent Online
A Euro­pean Par­lia­ment work­ing doc­u­ment drawn up by Gio­vanni Clau­dio Fava has claimed “Malta is the oper­a­tional base of Black­wa­ter, the organ­iser of pri­vate mil­i­tary mili­tia which are increas­ingly tak­ing on more and more roles which used to be under­taken by US forces in Iraq and else­where”.
Amer­i­can left-wing and anti-war [...]

FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­ity to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism could lead to [...]

Ahmadinejad walks away with a win

His Colum­bia engage­ment gives him what he wants — legit­i­macy — and his hosts look rude to Islamic eyes.
by Tim Rut­tenLA TIMES
One of the world’s truly dan­ger­ous men, Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, left New York a clear win­ner this week, and he can thank the arro­gance of the Amer­i­can acad­emy and most of the U.S. [...]

Cheney to address secret group

The con­ser­v­a­tive Coun­cil for National Pol­icy will meet in down­town Salt Lake
by Thomas BurrSalt Lake Tri­bune
Vice Pres­i­dent Dick Cheney will speak to a super-secret, con­ser­v­a­tive pol­icy group in Utah on Fri­day dur­ing his sec­ond trip to the state this year.Cheney will address the fall meet­ing of the Coun­cil for National Pol­icy, a group whose self-described mission [...]

FTR #603 I Told You So Part III Update on the Subversion of Operation Green Quest

Recorded July 8, 2007
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Illus­trat­ing inves­tiga­tive and his­tor­i­cal method­ol­ogy, this pro­gram excerpts sev­eral of Mr. Emory’s broad­casts recorded from 2001 to 2004. The excerpts doc­u­ment the sup­pres­sion of the 9/11 money trail. Begin­ning with FTR#310, the pro­gram high­lights the con­se­quences of the appoint­ment of Robert Mueller as FBI direc­tor. In that [...]

How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington

WALL STREET JOURNAL
For­mer Fed­eral Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion direc­tor William Ses­sions once con­demned Russia’s ris­ing mafia. “We can beat orga­nized crime,” he told a Moscow secu­rity con­fer­ence in 1997.
Today, Mr. Ses­sions is a lawyer for one of the FBI’s “Most Wanted”: Semyon Mogile­vich, a Ukraine-born Russ­ian whom the FBI says is one of Russia’s most pow­er­ful organized-crime [...]

Flunking Our Future

by Mau­reen DowdTHE NEW YORK TIMES
The only sects that may be more sav­age than Shi­ites and Sun­nis are the Demo­c­ra­tic fem­i­nist law­mak­ers rep­re­sent­ing North­ern and South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.
After Nancy Pelosi and Jane Har­man had their final cat­fight about who would lead the House Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee, aptly enough at the Four Sea­sons’ hair salon in George­town, the new [...]