The tag 'Cover-Up' is associated with 228 posts.

Sirhan Sirhan’s Lawyers Moving to Reopen the Case

COMMENT: Attor­neys for Sirhan Sirhan have moved to reopen his case, con­tend­ing (among other things) that a bul­let was switched at his trial, inval­i­dat­ing his con­vic­tion.
Ear­lier this year, Sirhan’s defense team rein­forced the “girl in the polka-dot dress” anec­do­tal infor­ma­tion fol­low­ing a hyp­no­sis ses­sion with their client.
Any­one famil­iar with the [...]

A 9/11 Message

Dave Emory is tem­porar­ily sus­pend­ing pro­duc­tion of new “For The Record” programs.

Signs of the Times: Insecure Securities and Irregular Regulation

COMMENT: A for­mer Moody’s employee has stated for the record that the firm’s employ­ees were pres­sured to give AAA rat­ings to instru­ments that the company’s own inter­nal memos referred to as “shitty.”
In addi­tion, it turns out that the SEC has destroyed records of scan­dals dat­ing back 20 years.
“Moody’s man­agers Pres­sured Ana­lysts: Ex-Staffer” by Sarah N. Lynch; [...]

Update on the Alabama Body Count and FTR #742

COMMENT: The coura­geous and inci­sive legal/political blog Legal Schnau­zer con­tin­ues its ground­break­ing cov­er­age of  an epi­demic of lethal polit­i­cal skull­dug­gery in Alabama, all of it appar­ently linked to the Karl Rove/GOP con­spir­acy against for­mer gov­er­nor Don Siegel­man. The key to Rove’s destruc­tion of Siegel­man was the manip­u­la­tion and politi­ciza­tion of U.S. attorneys–Rove was [...]

Nobody Here But Us Chickens: Murdoch Whistle Blower Found Dead

COMMENT: A Mur­doch whis­tle blower, cen­tral to help­ing to expose the phone hack­ing scan­dal, has been found dead in his apart­ment.
In what seems to be almost oblig­a­tory down­play­ing of the sig­nif­i­cance of this event, the author­i­ties are already spin­ning this death as “not sus­pi­cious.”
Remem­ber that this case goes to the high­est lev­els of the British [...]

Senate, Obama Administration Join Deadly Alabama Political Farce Surrounding Don Siegelman

 
COMMENT: Appoint­ing a quin­tes­sen­tial fox to guard the Alabama polit­i­cal chicken house, the U.S. Sen­ate, fol­low­ing Obama’s shame­ful lead, sees fit to ignore the “body count” dis­cussed in FTR #742.
Worth remem­ber­ing in the con­text of Alabama polit­i­cal mis­chief is the fact that the the state’s Air National Guard was under the super­vi­sion of the governor [...]

FTR #747 Bringin’ It All Back Home

GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to Allende in Chile; Repub­li­cans appear ready to destroy U.S., global economies to gain power; Bush admin­is­tra­tion deficits delib­er­ately struc­tured to force end of New Deal social pro­grams; Tea Party fas­cists pro­vid­ing “boots on the ground” for this effort.

Update on the Piggy-Back Coups and the Muslim Brotherhood

COMMENT: Con­ser­v­a­tive Frank Gaffney–among the VERY few in this coun­try will­ing to attack Grover Norquist and Karl Rove for their sup­port for the Mus­lim Brotherhood–has  prop­erly exco­ri­ated the Obama admin­is­tra­tion and Hillary Clin­ton for their diplo­matic rap­proche­ment with that Islamic fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion.
(I note that the Obama admin­is­tra­tion is sim­ply extend­ing an ini­tia­tive that was [...]

18 1/2 Minute Gap in Watergate Tape to Remain Mystery

COMMENT: It turns out that the high-tech efforts by inves­ti­ga­tors to restore the mate­r­ial lost in an 18 1/2 minute gap in one of Nixon’s Water­gate tapes have failed. We will never know, for sure, what was in that sec­tion of tape.
One of the cen­tral con­sid­er­a­tions in ana­lyz­ing Water­gate is the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy–what [...]

A Canary in the Mineshaft? (Or the “Gemeinschaft?”)

COMMENT: In FTR #742, we exam­ined (among other things) a series of highly sus­pi­cious deaths of peo­ple con­nected to the milieu of for­mer Alabama gov­er­nor Bob Riley, Karl Rove and Jack Abramoff. These deaths, in turn, loom large in the machi­na­tions that led to the down­fall of for­mer Alabama Gov­er­nor Don Siegel­man.
The inci­sive blog [...]

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