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