Brown Misrepresented His Professional Experience Under Oath
Brown Misrepresented His Professional Experience Under Oath
On Thursday, Time Magazine reported that Mike Brown had misrepresented his professional qualifications. Time noted that Brown’s official biography says that he was the “Assistant City Manager†in Edmond, Oklahoma. In fact, he was assistant to the city manager which is “more like an intern.”
Yesterday, Brown defended himself in an Associated Press interview:
[Brown] angrily denied padding his résumé, blaming mistakes on the White House and on FEMA for misrepresenting his background.
In fact, it was Brown who misrepresented his background. Here is a question that Sen. Jim Bunning (R-OK) asked Brown during his confirmation hearing on 6/19/02:
Senator BUNNING. You were in city government like I was before I became a State Senator and a Member of the House and a Member of the U.S. Senate. You were an Assistant City Manager in Edmond, Oklahoma, one of my old hangouts when I managed the Oklahoma City 89-ers, in the mid-1970s, actually. So was I, 1976. How has the responsibility and focus of local officials changed since September 11, the relationship to FEMA?
Brown, while under oath, answered the question without correcting Sen. Bunning. It’s impossible that Brown didn’t notice the error, because the entire question was premised on the idea that he had significant responsibility while working in Edmond.
President Bush continues entrust the nation’s emergency response capacity with Michael Brown.
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Lying under oath seems to be a typical career move for Republicans… How else would an incompetent fascist be able to get through the gauntlet of criticism that would/should otherwise be leveled against them…
September 10th, 2005 at 7:11 pmOne of the qualifications of the Bush group is that you have to be able to lie with a straight face!!
September 10th, 2005 at 7:16 pmCareful you tread in murky waters.
Legaly Brown cannot be held accountable for others statements. He did a good job of dodging the point if he did notice, never directly stating his former responsibilities.
I belive he should still be fired though, for incompatance. Thats just my oppinion though, it has no legal grounds.
Oh and god forbid a politition misrepresenting himself.
September 10th, 2005 at 7:19 pmI would be more worried about the way he was handed this job, than any statements made.
There you may find legal cause.
You can be guilty for doing nothing…a drowning man reaches out to you….and you do nothing…GUILTY.
September 10th, 2005 at 7:31 pmHe’s guilty of NOT stopping mis-information.
Thoes qualifications were written down for the panel, WHO wrote them? If we fail at our jobs, we get fired, and so should he.
The apples don’t fall far from the Tree(bushcheneyco)
September 10th, 2005 at 7:52 pmCareful Folks,
Don’t think this is not part of Rove’s game. They’ve got their scapegoat…EVERYTHING is now his fault. And not that of the Bush admin…at least directly.
Not really off subject…but has anyone put a timeline chronology on what Bush was doing before Rove put him into damage control mode? There was the speech in CA, the air guitar thing, the 12min. peek out the airplane window, the now famous Brownie line, and certainly much more. But wouldn’t it be nice to see this timeline compared side to side with the suffering in NO?…before the spin?
September 10th, 2005 at 7:54 pmCould it be the Michael Brown is still employed because of what he knows. No, not emergency management. Perhaps he knows that troops and relief materials were deliberately held up. He may know how many troops were ready to move on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, etc. He probably doesn’t know “why”, but I bet he could tell us “who” delayed help. And he could probably provide insider details that would lead to embarassing questions. Yup, his job is secure.
September 10th, 2005 at 8:12 pmWe need that timeline reporters requested from the Pentagon, the one that would describe call up and deployment.
Lying under oath is not only rep., look at clinton.
September 10th, 2005 at 8:20 pmSenator Bunning was a first team water boy for bushlandia.
You know, OK has the worst senators in Washington. One is a drunk and the other a psychopath. What a pair to draw to.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:03 pmFirst, the Senator asking the questions obviously had some information to refer to regarding this “candidate”. This information was padded or INCORRECT. The senator was using this information for the questioning.
Second, Brown(nose) should have corrected the statements. If you want to excuse his ommission or not correcting the truth as a technical reason for not calling it lying under oath then by that precident you should excuse everyone that does the same.
This piece of incorrect and not corrected information was critical enough for it to be considered in appointing/confirming Brown, therefore it follows logic that since it is incorrect he should NOT BE THE CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB.
His job performance just proves the case.
He was recommended for the job, he knew he was not qualified for it, the people recommending him knew he was not qualified. Someone misrepresented this man to us.
Someone misrepresented him, the WMD, war in Iraq. I would say it is the same people all around.
In the private sector if you will notice on an application, if it comes to light that you falsified ANY information on that application, or job contract you will be immediately terminated. EVEN IF YOU DID NOT PAD YOUR OWN RESUME.
He should be removed.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:04 pm#9 YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT HAVING BAD SENATORS FROM OKLAHOMA.
Browns appointment and confirmation is just another pay back for a political favor.
I suspect it has something to do with J.C. Watts (kickbacks from sbc while on the corporation commission) or Bellmon or Keating.
Look at roberts…..delay….scrotorum….all not the men for their jobs, all political thank yous.
Hell, if you helped me steal a presidential election giving you a lifetime job would be the least I could do for you.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:08 pmI will try to check and see where brownie went to college (if at all) and see if he has links to Boren.
Boren might be the key to this one, as he also is scull and bones.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:09 pmRe the ABA ethics rules regarding misrepresentation, it seems Michael Brown’s resume at findlaew was changed on 9/8/05. Anybody else wonder what these changes were?
September 10th, 2005 at 9:21 pmhttp://pview.findlaw.com/view/2507976_1
Didn’t W lie under oath when he said: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” last January, as well as 4 years earlier?
September 10th, 2005 at 9:23 pm#14 – Scratch that, the “to the best of my ability” part gives him a perfect out.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:35 pmI’m not a lawyer, so this is probably irrelevant gibberish, but what the heck… I’m an old pro at gibberish!
Federal Rules of Evidence
Rule 603. Oath or Affirmation
“Before testifying, every witness shall be required to declare that the witness will testify truthfully, by oath or affirmation administered in a form calculated to awaken the witness’ conscience and impress the witness’ mind with the duty to do so.”
False Swearing
“The making of false statements under oath or affirmation in a setting OTHER than a judicial proceeding.” (Judicial setting = Perjury)
“The truth, THE WHOLE TRUTH, and nothing but the truth.” Would “the whole truth” include correcting others’ statements or other information that one knows to be wrong?
Girl-next-door hottie MaryAnne regularly made those awesome coconut creme pies, while Ginger just sat around posing like the useless primadonna slut that she was. (Sorry, I just feel very strongly about that.)
September 10th, 2005 at 9:50 pmTAC – So MaryAnne fed you and did it while Ginger teased you and kept her knees together. I’d be worried about STD if I were you.
September 10th, 2005 at 10:24 pmWorth a sat night laugh…
September 10th, 2005 at 10:53 pmhttp://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushpictures.htm
Why isn’t that guy toast?
September 10th, 2005 at 11:53 pmI don’t want to continue to pay his salary.
In the private sector, such misrepresentations would be grounds for firing.
#6 Wiscoduk makes a good point. Brown is now the fall guy, and all the federal blame will be placed on him, with the rest of the blame on the Democratic leaders of the state, once again, leaving the boy-king off the hook. Rove is a master at this sort of thing.
Why isn’t that guy toast?
September 10th, 2005 at 11:54 pmI don’t want to continue to pay his salary.
In the private sector, such misrepresentations would be grounds for firing.
#6 Wiscoduk makes a good point. Brown is now the fall guy, and all the federal blame will be placed on him, with the rest of the blame on the Democratic leaders of the state, once again, leaving the boy-king off the hook. Rove is a master at this sort of thing.
How’d that get on twice? Sorry.
September 11th, 2005 at 12:22 amMaybe some certified letters to Mr. Fitzgerald are in order?http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/10/132258/603
September 11th, 2005 at 9:52 amDoes anyone watch that show “The Office”? This “Assistant to the City Manager” stuff is the exact misrepresentation the officious, synchophantic underling convinces himself is true.. hilarious.
September 11th, 2005 at 11:03 amBrownie’s rather fluid (& misleading) resume(s):
Michael D. Brown’s profile (resume) information on FindLaw’s web site was last updated on 09/08/2005
The Google cache does not reveal the previous data therein but some of these sources do:
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 3, 2001
Nominations
President Bush to Nominate Two Individuals to Serve in His Administration
The President announced his intention to nominate two individuals to serve as members of his administration.
The President intends to nominate Michael D. Brown to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Brown was appointed FEMA General Counsel in February, and Acting Deputy Director in September, where he has served as the Chairman of the Consequences Management Working Group. From 1991 to 2001, Brown was the Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, an international subsidiary of the national governing organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee. From 1988 to 1991, Brown was General Counsel to Dillingham Insurance, Suits Drilling, Suits Rig, Latigo Energy, Dillingham Ranch and Dillingham Enterprises, and from 1980 to 1988, he was an attorney in private practice. In 1978 to 1980, he worked for the Oklahoma State Senate Finance Committee, and from 1975 to 1978, Brown worked for the City of Edmond, Oklahoma, overseeing the emergency services divisions. Brown is a graduate of Central State University and Oklahoma City University Law School.
SOURCE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011203-6.html
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Home > About FEMA > Michael D. Brown
Michael D. Brown
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response
Michael D. Brown was nominated by President George W. Bush as the first Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response in the newly created Department of Homeland Security in January 2003. As the head of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Under Secretary Brown leads federal disaster response and recovery operations and coordinates disaster activities with more than two dozen federal agencies and departments and the American Red Cross. He also oversees the National Flood Insurance Program and the U.S. Fire Administration, and initiates proactive mitigation activities.
Additionally, Under Secretary Brown helps the Secretary of Homeland Security ensure the effectiveness of emergency responders, and directs the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center, the National Disaster Medical System and the Nuclear Incident Response Team.
Under Secretary Brown has led Homeland Security’s response to more than 164 presidentially declared disasters and emergencies, including the 2003 Columbia Shuttle disaster and the California wildfires in 2003. In 2004, Mr. Brown led FEMA’s thousands of dedicated disaster workers during the most active hurricane season in over 100 years, as FEMA delivered aid more quickly and more efficiently than ever before.
Previously, Mr. Brown served as FEMA’s Deputy Director and the agency’s General Counsel. Shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mr. Brown served on the President’s Consequence Management Principal’s Committee, which acted as the White House’s policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks. Later, the President asked him to head the Consequence Management Working Group to identify and resolve key issues regarding the federal response plan. In August 2002, President Bush appointed him to the Transition Planning Office for the new Department of Homeland Security, serving as the transition leader for the EP&R Division.
Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. Brown practiced law in Colorado and Oklahoma, where he served as a bar examiner on ethics and professional responsibility for the Oklahoma Supreme Court and as a hearing examiner for the Colorado Supreme Court. He had been appointed as a special prosecutor in police disciplinary matters. While attending law school he was appointed by the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee of the Oklahoma Legislature as the Finance Committee Staff Director, where he oversaw state fiscal issues. His background in state and local government also includes serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight and as a city councilman.
Mr. Brown was also an adjunct professor of law for the Oklahoma City University.
A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration/Political Science from Central State University, Oklahoma. He received his J.D. from Oklahoma City University’s School of Law.
SOURCE: http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/brown.shtm
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S. HRG. 107–616
Nomination Of Michael D. Brown
Hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs
United States Senate
One Hundred Seventh Congress
Second Session
On the Nomination of Michael D. Brown to be Deputy Director Of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
June 19, 2002
Employment record: List all jobs held since college, including the title or description of job, name of employer, location of work, and dates of employment. (Please use separate attachment, if necessary.)
February 2001 ro Present
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, DC
January 2001 to February 2001
Executive Director
Independent Electrical Contractors
Denver, Colorado
August 1991 to January 2001
Commissioner
International Arabian Horse Association
Denver, Colorado
1988-1991
General Councel
Dillingham Insurance, Suits Drilling, Suits Rig, Latigo Energy, Dillingham Ranch and other Dillingham
Family Partnership
Enid, Oklahoma
1983-1988
Attorney at Law
Enid, Oklahoma
1982-1983
Attorney
Jones, Gingoll, Jackson, Collins & Dodd
Enid, Oklahoma
1980-1982
Staff Director
Senate Finance Committee
Oklahoma Legislature
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1978-1980
Executive Secretary
Edmond Scientific Development Authority
Economic Development Director
Edmond Chamber of Commerce
Edmond, Oklahoma
1975-1978
Assistant City Manager, Police, Fire & Emergency Services
Edmond, Oklahoma
SOURCE: http://www.voluntarytrade.org/downloads/Brown_ConfirmHrg.pdf
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P.S. Here’s the “updated” info from FindLaw (which still contains “irregularities”:
Bar Admissions:
Oklahoma, 1982
District of Columbia, 1987
Colorado, 1991
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1982
U.S. District Court Northern District of Oklahoma, 1982
U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma, 1982
U.S. Federal Court, 1982
Education:
Oklahoma City University School of Law, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1981
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma, 1978
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Outstanding Pol. Science Senior, Dean’s & President Honor Rolls
Representative Clients:
Dillingham Insurance
Farmers Home Administration (Bond Counsel)
HARSCO Corporation (Oklahoma Counsel)
Suits Drilling Company
References:
Northwest Bank of Enid
Honors and Awards:
Who’s Who in American Law
Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders
Who’s Who in South and Southwest
Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University
Professional Associations and Memberships:
National Health Lawyers Association, 1986 – Present
Member
Oklahoma Republican Party
General Counsel (Associate) Rules Chairman, Congressional Nom.
Oklahoma City University School of Law, 1987 – Present
Adjunct Professor in State and Local Gov’t. Law, Legislation
Chairman, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, Edmond, OK, 1980 – Present
Director, Foundation for Enid Education & Economic Develop., 1988 – Present
Director, Oklahoma Christian Home, Edmond, OK, 1983 – Present
Birth Information:
1954, Guymon, Oklahoma, United States of America
West Practice Categories:
Government Agencies & Programs
Profile Last Updated:
9/8/2005
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P.P.S. Hree is an “interesting” “Statement of Under Secretary Michael D. Brown at the 2004 National Hurricane Conference, Orlando Florida, April 7, 2004
SOURCE: http://www.fema.gov/library/speech_brown04082004.shtm
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September 11th, 2005 at 11:11 amNitpick: Isn’t Bunning R-KY?
September 11th, 2005 at 4:31 pmAfter watching and listening to Mr. Brown, I’m not really certain he didn’t misrepresent his species under oath.
September 12th, 2005 at 1:53 amBARBARA BUSH THREATENS LIVES OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
Not a single mention in the media of the bizarre threat.
by voxfux
Here is the comments from the CNN transcript:
11/14/2003
KING: He takes it badly?
BUSH: He and I both do. He — he curses, and I grit my teeth.
But, no, he really — he knows that’s the name of the game. But it gets pretty ugly.
KING: But was it harder for you…
BUSH: Much.
KING: …when he — when the current president is criticized than when the husband was criticized?
BUSH: Right.
KING: How do you explain it — motherly?
BUSH: Motherly. And fatherly. I mean, that’s just a normal reaction.
But the same would be true if something happened that was difficult for Jeb or for Doro or Neil or Marvin. And you can criticize me, but don’t criticize my children and don’t criticize my daughters-in-law and don’t criticize my husband, or you’re dead.
Well, I guess we better back off then.
BECAUSE:
The Bushy Knoll
The following is a partial list of deaths of persons connected to the family of current President George W. Bush and his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
An internal FBI memo reported that on November 22 a reputed businessman named George H. W. Bush reported hearsay that a certain Young Republican had been talking of killing the President when he came to Houston. According to a 1988 story in The Nation, J. Edgar Hoover said in a memo that Mr. George Bush of the CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. George H. W. Bush has denied this, although he was in Texas and cannot account for his whereabouts at the time.
Paul Wellstone
Senator Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three of his staff and both pilots were killed when his small plane went down in Evelyth, Minnesota, on October 27, 2002. He was a vocal opponent of the Bush administration and the only real progressive in the Senate.
Barbara Olson
Author of “Hell to Pay” – a book critical of Hillary Clinton, killed in the Pentagon bombing. Her husband, Ted Olson, is Soliticor General in the Bush II Administration.
Nicola Capilari
Italian Secret Service agent murdered by America forces in Iraq trying to assassinate freed hostage and Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena, March 2005. Sgrena was warned by her captors that the Americans would try to kill her. They were right.
Senator Henry John Heinz III
He chaired the three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-contra affair. He died in a plane crash in April 1991.
Dr. David Kelly
Dr Kelly was called to give evidence before the foreign affairs select committee of the British Parliament, and was the acknowledged source of the BBC for revealing that the Bush-Blair premise for the invasion of Iraq, namely the Weapons of Mass Destruction scenario, was a fraud. Kelly was founded dead of an “apparent suicide”, but under suspicious circumstances, July 18, 2003, at Harrowdown Hill, 45 minutes from his home.
Colin McMillan
President George W. Bush’s nominee to be civilian head of the Navy, “committed suicide” at his southern New Mexico ranch July 25, 2003.
Steve Kangas
His web site, Liberalism Resurgent, was meticulously researched and presented such a problem to Richard Scaife, that he hired a private detective to look into Kangas’ past. Steve Kangas was found in a 39th-floor bathroom outside of Scaife’s offices at One Oxford Centre, in Pittsburgh, an apparent suicide. Mr. Kangas, a very prolific writer, left no note. He had brought a fully-packed suitcase of clothes with him to Pittsburgh. He bought a burglar alarm shortly before he left for Pittsburgh. Why did he need a burglar alarm if he was going to commit suicide? An avowed advocate of gun control, he nevertheless bought a gun. What was he afraid of? Why did he go to Pittsburgh? After his death, his computer was sold for $150 and its hard drive wiped clean. Everything in his apartment was thrown away. Scaife is heavily connected to Bush I.
Bertha Champagne
Household servant for Marvin Bush, brother of the President, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County on September 29, 2003. The vehicle was supposedly left in gear. No explanations have been offered as to why the vehicle did not move until Champagne was in a position to be crushed. There is a rumor that Champagne may have had incriminating knowledge of connections between the 9-11 hijackings and Marvin Bush’s companies.
Danny Casolaro
He was working on a book that tied together the scandals surrounding the presidency of George H. W. Bush, the Mena airport drug running operation, and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He told his friends he was going to “bring back” the head of the Octopus. Instead, his body was found in a hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 10, 1991, with slit wrists.
Mark Lombardi
He was an accomplished conceptual artist who, while chatting on the phone with a banker friend about the Bush savings and loan scandal, started doodling a diagram and was inspired to create a complex series of drawings and sketches that charted the details of the scandal. According to the New York Times, “He was soon charting the complex matrices of personal and professional relationships, conflict of interest, malfeasance and fraud uncovered by investigations into the major financial and political scandals of the day; to keep facts and sources straight, he created a handwritten database that now includes around 12,000 3-by-5-inch cards.” On the evening of March 22, 2000, Mark Lombardi was found hanging in his loft.
James Hatfield
Mr. Hatfield was the author of Fortunate Son, an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush. The book detailed Bush’s cocaine use and cover up of a cocaine arrest. He was found dead, in a motel room.
Darlene Novinger
Former FBI operative, January 23rd, 2003. Novinger was known to hold sensitive information on the Clinton and Bush I administration’s drug operations. Her husband murdered March 1987 when she went public with initial reports. Her father died July 8, 1993 four hours after Darlene was a guest on the Tom Valentine show. Suffered retaliation after reporting discussions by government protected drug smuggler who described contacts with Vice President George Bush and his son, Jeb Bush.
Bob Stevens
Mr. Stevens died of a mysterious case of anthrax. He worked as a photo editor for American Media, who owns the National Enquirer. The Bush family suffered enormous embarrassment at the hands of the Enquirer when they published a photo of daughter Jenna Bush, obviously intoxicated, cigarette in hand, cavorting on the floor with another drunken female.
Don C. Wiley
Dr. Wiley disappeared November 15, 2001 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was attending a two-day annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His work on deadly diseases such as ebola and HIV raised fears of a terrorist kidnapping. Four hours later, his rental car was found on a bridge, raising the question of suicide, which his family vehemently refuted. Dr. Wiley was found a month later in the Mississipi River.
Salem bin Laden
In 1979 Bush business Arbusto Energy obtained financing from James Bath, a close family friend. Bath had extensive ties to BCCI and the bin Laden family. Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, the brother of Osama bin Laden. It is well known in certain circles that the Arbusto money came straight from Salem bin Laden, although Bush denies it. Salem bin Laden died when for no apparent reason, he flew his airplane into power lines where it became entangled, and fell 150 feet to the ground. “He was a very experienced pilot. He was a good pilot. We just can’t understand why he decided to go right instead of left,” recalled airstrip owner Earl May field.
John O’Neill
He was Director of Counterterrorism at the New York offices of the F.B.I. until he resigned in August 2001. One of the world’s top experts on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he grew to believe that “all the answers” regarding what they needed to destroy Al Qaeda lay in Saudi Arabia. However, starting in January 2001, Bush blocked all efforts by Mr. O’Neill to investigate Saudi ties to bin Laden. In the summer of 2001 O’Neill declared that the main obstacles to his investigation were U.S. oil interests. In late August, a frustrated O’Neill quit the FBI and took a position as head of security for the World Trade Center. On O’Neill’s second day of work on the 34th floor, the WTC is hit by the first plane. O’Neill makes it out of the building safely, calls his son to say he is OK,. then goes into the other tower to help guide those still inside to safety. Minutes later, O’Neill, along with hundreds of others, is dead, killed by the terrorist the Bush administration refused to allow him to pursue to the best of his ability.
Thomas Morris Jr.
Mr. Morris was a postal worker who died October 21, 2001, of inhalation anthrax.
Joseph Curseen
Mr. Curseen died October 22, 2001, of inhalation anthrax. It has been reported that the anthrax infections since September 11 are of the same strain that was kept in a military facility.
Kathy T. Nguyen
Ms. Nguyen died on October 31, 2001, of inhalation anthrax.
Katherine Smith
She had been implicated in February in a phony documents scheme said to be related to the September 11 hijackers. One day before she was due in court, she was incinerated in her car after having hit a utility pole. An investigation revealed that the crash was minor and was not the cause of the fire that burned Smith beyond recognition.
Governor Mel Carnahan
In the midst of a heated race for the Senate against John Ashcroft, the Governor died in a plane crash on October 16, 2000. His death affected Democrats in two ways – it would hurt their chances of seizing control of the US Senate, and it would strongly impact the Presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Lori Klausutis
Lori Klausutis, age 28, was found dead behind a desk in the offices of US Representative Joe Scarborough of Florida, a Republican, on July 20, 2001. Death was apparently due to a blow on the head. Claims that a heart condition precipitated an accidental fall are tenuous at best; Lori was a marathon runner, and one would think that a heart condition would already have become apparent. At the time of her death, she was treasurer of her chapter of the Florida Federation of Young Republicans. Tim Klausitus, Lori’s husband, worked on targeting technology for missiles. Rep. Scarborough sat on both the Military Construction and the Research and Development Subcommittees. Scarborough resigned from Congress and now hosts a Cable TV show on MSNBC.
Dan Rocco
He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty “felons” list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, thousands of voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.
Florence Martin
Accountant subcontractor for the CIA related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. Dead of three gunshot wounds.
Paul Wilcher
Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 “October Surprise” was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington DC Apartment. Had delivered report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
Olof Palme
He was the prime minister of Sweden, assassinated in 1986. Oliver North had met with Mr. Palme to discuss the possibility of obtaining false end-user certificates for the plethora of weapons that were being purchased, so that they would seem to have come from a country other than the U.S. Mr. Palme refused to participate, after the plan was presented to him. He was dead within weeks.
William Casey
William Casey was CIA Director during the Reagan/Bush Administration. He died 2 days before he was to testify about his and others’ involvement in the Iran/Contra scandal.
John Shaheen
John Shaheen was a Republican businessman and best friend of William J. Casey, head of the Reagan/Bush campaign, who helped set up arms negotiations with the Iranians.
Cyrus Hashemi
He was an Iranian banker who worked with John Shaheen, a Republican businessman and best friend of William J. Casey, head of the Reagan/Bush campaign. According to Hashemi’s brother, Jamshid Hashemi, he arranged a meeting between William Casey and a radical Iranian mullah in July of 1980 that eventually derailed Carter’s hostage negotiations and delayed the release of the 52 American hostages until January of 1981. Hashemi died suddenly in July of 1986 of what was later diagnosed as leukemia. His brother and his lawyer, William Wachtel, remain convinced that Cyrus was murdered. Richard Babayan, an Iranian in prison for securities fraud, claims that Hashemi’s death was ordered by high-ranking officials.
Amaro da Costa
Then Defense Minister of Portugal, he died in a plane crash in Lisbon in 1980. He was planning to disclose that he had discovered documents that showed Portugese officers were helping to traffic arms to Iran.
Sa Carneiro
Former Prime Minister of Portugal and a very popular leader, he died in the same plane crash that killed Amaro da Costa.
Edmond J. Safra
Banker Edmond J. Safra died mysteriously when a fire swept his Monaco penthouse apartment. His banks had been used for laundering money by the Iran/Contra conspirators.
Charles M. McKee and Matthew Gannon
Charles M. McKee, ostensibly a military attache for the CIA in Beirut, Matthew Gannon, CIA Deputy Station Chief in Beirut, and three others were on board Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. They were part of a counterterrorist team in Beirut investigating the possible rescue of 9 American hostages in Lebanon. The McKee team uncovered evidence that a rogue CIA unit called COREA, based in Wiesbaden, was doing business with a man called Monzer Al-Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer and drug trafficker. Al-Kassar was part of the covert network run by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. Outraged that the COREA unit in Wiesbaden was doing business with a Syrian who had close terrorist connections and might endanger their chances of rescuing the hostages, the McKee team decided to fly back to Virginia unannounced and expose the COREA unit’s secret deal with al-Kassar. They never got there. “For three years, I’ve had a feeling that if Chuck hadn’t been on that plane, it wouldn’t have been bombed,” said Beulah McKee, 75, Charles McKee’s mother, to Time Magazine. Four months after her son was killed for his efforts to expose the CIA, Mrs. McKee received a sympathy letter from George H. W. Bush. Mrs. McKee has never been satisfied with the government’s version of events.
Don Aronow
He was a close friend of George H. W. Bush. According to the book “George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography,” there is compelling evidence to conclude that Aronow was a drug smuggler and suspected drug-money launderer. He was murdered by professional killers on February 3, 1987. In the days before his death, he made many personal calls to George H. W. Bush. Tommy Teagle, a man interviewed by author Thomas Burdick, was afraid of being murdered by Bush because he had knowledge that Aronow and Jeb Bush had been partners in cocaine trafficking.
Frank Nugan and Michael Hand
They were partners in the Nugan Hand Bank, a front for CIA drug money, in Sydney, Australia. Michael Hand was a Green Beret and an Army Colonel assigned to the CIA. Hand was in frequent contact with George Bush after his election to Vice President, according to CIA operative Trent Parker. Frank Nugan was found in his car on a remote road outside Sydney. There were no fingerprints on the gun. Michael Hand disappeared shortly afterwards, and has not been seen since.
Amiram Nir
He was a former Israeli agent who was in Jerusalem with George Bush during Iran Contra. He went under the assumed name of Pat Weber. Nir was scheduled to testify to the Senate subcommittee and it was feared he would reveal the truth. He perished when his aircraft was shot down with missiles from the helicopter of a man called Gene Tatum, 25-year CIA deep cover agent.
Senator John Tower
He was appointed by the Reagan/Bush Administration to chair the bipartisan committee to investigate the Iran/Contra scandals. He directed the Tower Report and had all the Iran Contra documents that told the real story. He was killed in an airplane crash later in Georgia in 1991. Also killed was his daughter, Marian.
Mohammed Zia al-huk
Dictator of Pakistan, and knew all about Iran/Contra, the training, funding, and arming of narco-terrorists like Osama bin Laden. In August 1988, the same day George Bush got the Republican nomination, his plane crashed into the ground with all engines running. The Pakistanis kept the bodies around (in violation of Islamic custom) for weeks, awaiting US experts. They showed up three weeks later and never checked the bodies.
Barry Seal
He was supposedly murdered by Medellin cartel members, but a 6-month investigation by Sam Dalton, attorney for three of the accused murderers, into Mr. Seal’s life and death uncovered some interesting points. The accused’s cartel connections were well known, but not their association with Oliver North’s enterprise. Mr. Seal was a drug smuggler, up to his armpits in smuggling cocaine for the CIA. During the penalty phase of the Columbians’ trial, testimony by one government witness on the activities of Mr. Seal was so damaging to the government that 2 of the jurors wanted to change their verdict to “not guilty”. The personal telephone number of George H. W. Bush was found in the trunk of Mr. Seal’s car.
William Colby
This former CIA director disappeared in an apparent boating accident, and a body was later discovered (minus the life jacket Colby’s friends insisted he always wore while boating) and buried promptly. John DeCamp, a lawyer from Lincoln, Nebraska, and Colby’s close friend and confidant, said Colby’s death was not an accident. He stated that Colby was prepared to disclose that missing P.O.W.’s were working for a dope smuggling operation orchestrated by General Colin Powell, Pentagon official Richard Armitage, and George H. W. Bush.
Mario Ruiz Massieu
An apparent suicide, Massieu was facing charges that he laundered money for the cocaine cartels. A Houston, Texas jury had found that $8 million in his bank accounts was paid to him by cocaine cartels.
Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Known as “The boys on the track” case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas Airport Drug operation. This controversial case where initial report of death was due to falling asleep on railroad track. Later reports claim the two had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many people linked to the case died (see below) before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING SIX PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
KEITH CONEY – Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck in July, 1988.
KEITH McMASKLE – Died, stabbed 113 times, November 1988.
GREGORY COLLINS – Died from a gunshot wound, January 1989.
JEFF RHODES – He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.
JAMES MILAN. Found decapitated-Coroner ruled death due to natural causes.
JORDAN KETTLESON – Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
RICHARD WINTERS – Winters was a suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. Was killed in set-up robbery in July 1989.
Lou Russell
Lou Russell worked as a private detective for an agency that was helping George H.W. Bush, then chairman of the RNC, prepare for a press conference. It is a rumor that Lou Russell was the fabled “sixth burglar” of Watergate, the one who got away. On May 16, 1973, “Deep Throat” warned Bob Woodward that “Everyone’s life is in danger.” and that “electronic surveillance is going on and we had better watch it.”. On May 18, Lou Russell suffered a massive heart attack that put him in Adventist Hospital, where he recovered somewhat and stayed until June 20. Russell told his daughter that he believed he had been poisoned. On July 2, two weeks after his release from the hospital, he had another “heart attack” and died.
John Leon
He was a friend and associate of Lou Russell. He was collecting statements about Watergate, and was to be the focus of a press conference. Leon suffered a “heart attack” and died, on the day before the conference was to be held.
Hale Boggs, Nick Begich and Don Jonz
Boggs sat on the Warren Commission, which concluded that President Kennedy was slain by a lone assassin. Later, in 1971 and ‘72, Boggs said that the Warren Report was false and that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI not only helped cover up the JFK murder but blackmailed Congress with massive wire-tapping and spying. He named Warren Commission staff member Arlen Specter as a major cover-up artist. Congressman Boggs’ plane disappeared on a flight to Alaska in 1972. The press, the military, and the CIA publicly proclaimed the plane could not be located. Investigators later said that was a lie, that the plane had been found. On the plane were Nick Begich, a very popular Democratic Congressman, and Don Jonz, an aide to Mr. Boggs. All were killed.
George de Mohrenschildt
A rich Russian oilman, he was described with his wife as being the two people friendliest to Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. De Mohrenschildt was the man who moved Oswald to Dallas. In the late 1970’s, shortly before the first meeting of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, de Mohrenschildt started seeing a new doctor in town. He quickly became mentally unstable, at which time his wife convinced him to stop seeing the doctor. They moved away and left a false forwarding address. On the same day that the Committee tried to contact him about testifying, he was found dead of a gunshot wound. In his personal address book was the entry George H.W.Bush, and Zapata Petroleum Midland (the oil company owned by George H.W. Bush).
Dorothy Hunt
In December 1972, while George H. W. Bush was at the Republican National Convention, a United Airlines flight carrying Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, CIA operative and wife of E. Howard Hunt, (CIA operative and suspect in the Kennedy assassination) crashed. Believed to be carrying $25,000 in “hush money”, she died in this crash.
Jack Delaney and Ted White
These young men were killed when pilot George H. W. Bush abandoned his plane when it was hit by enemy fire. An eyewitness to the event tells us otherwise: Chester Mierzejewski, who was the turret gunner in another plane, had an unobstructed view. He states that he saw a “puff of smoke” come from Bush’s plane and quickly dissipate. He states that the plane was never on fire and that Bush never attempted a water landing, which was standard procedure, and which would have given Mr. Delaney and Mr. White a chance.
Gary Caradori
He was investigating Lawrence E. King, Jr., a very influential black Republican who was also a friend of George H.W. Bush. King was director of the Franklin Community Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, and was suspected of embezzling $40 million. The Nebraska Senate questioned child prostitutes, who accused King of running a child prostitution ring. One of these children said that she saw George H.W. Bush at one of King’s parties. On July 11, 1990, Gary Caradori was killed along with his 6-year old son in the crash of his small plane, after a mid-air explosion, the cause of which was never discovered. He had told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he was afraid his plane would be sabotaged.
Orlando Letelier
He was torn to bits by a car bomb on the streets of Washington DC just before he was to testify against the Chilean dictator Pinochet. After the bombing, CIA Director George H. W. Bush told the FBI that there had been no Chilean involvement whatsoever. In 1991 the post-Pinochet Chilean Supreme Court asked George H. W. Bush if he would submit to questioning. Bush refused.
Ronni Moffit
She was Letelier’s assistant. She and her husband were riding in the car with Letelier when the bomb exploded. Mr. Moffit survived. Ronni didn’t.
J. Clifford Baxter
Found dead in his car, shot in the head. Mr. Baxter was vice chairman of Enron Corp. when he resigned in May 2001. Enron was the largest campaign contributor for George W. Bush.
Charles Dana Rice
He was the senior vice president and treasurer of El Paso Corp., an energy corporation swept up in the recent energy scandal. Two months after the “suicide” of Enron executive Clifford Baxter, in the midst of questions about the accounting practices of El Paso Corp., Charles Rice was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head.
James Daniel Watkins
His body was found on December 1, 2001 in the Pike National Forest in Colorado, a gunshot wound to the head. Mr. Watkins was a consultant for Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm for Enron. He disappeared on November 13 after he left work. He was described as a devoted family man who always called home if he were going to be late.
Jake Horton
He was the senior vice-president of Gulf Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, a cohort of Enron in the energy industry, and a major contributer to the Bush agenda. According to reporter Gregory Palast, Horton knew of the company’s appalling accounting practices, and “… had no doubt about its illegal campaign contributions to Florida politicans – he’d made the payments himself. In April of 1989 Horton decided to come clean with state officials, and reserved the company jet to go confront company officials. Ten minutes after takeoff the jet exploded.
Eleven million people, Jews and other ethnic and social minorities, were murdered by the Nazi regime. Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Walker Bush, did business and made money from, and for, the Nazis.
William S. Farish
He was one of Prescott Bush’s partners in business deals with Adolph Hitler. He was devastated by the intense grilling he received from the Senate about his dealings with Nazis, and while Prescott Bush skated free, Farish collapsed and died on November 29, 1942.
James Forrestal
He was Undersecretary and Secretary of the Navy during WWII, and became the first Secretary of Defense in 1947. On March 28, 1949, he was forced out of office and flown on a military plane to Jupiter Island in Florida. From there he was taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where he was given insulin shock treatments. He was shielded from all visitors except his estranged wife. On May 22, 1949, he was found hanging by his bathrobe cord out a sixteenth-story hospital window. His death was ruled a suicide, but results of the Army inquest were not made public.
Karla Faye Tucker
She was executed in spite of enormous protest from the public, even those religious groups that advocate the death penalty. Even Pat Robertson thought that Karla was truly repentant and asked George W. Bush to spare her life. He refused. Afterward, in a Talk Magazine interview, Bush mocked the woman whose death warrant he had sanctioned, pursing his lips and whimpering, “Please don’t kill me!”
David Wayne Spence
David Wayne Spence was executed in Texas in 1997 in spite of compelling evidence of his innocence. Two of the State’s witnesses were co-defendants who testified to avoid the death penalty, one of whom changed his story three times in response to discrepancies. He later testified that police officer Truman Simons encouraged him to alter his testimony. Two other witnesses for the State were jailhouse snitches who recanted later and stated that they were offered favors in exchange for testimony. All of this and more was supposedly reviewed by Governor George W. Bush, but Bush refused to commute his sentence, and did not order the Board of Pardons and Paroles to review his request for clemency.
Gary Graham
Gary Graham was convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man in 1981. Nearly two weeks after the crime, the state’s prime witness could not pick Gary’s picture out of a photo line-up. Mr. Graham was arrested with a 22 caliber pistol. The victim had been killed with a 22, but the police firearms examiner determined that Mr. Graham’s gun DID NOT fire the fatal bullet. Four witnesses said Gary Graham was with them, miles away from the convenience store, when the murder occured. All four took and passed polygraph tests. George W. Bush, predictably, expressed his faith in the Texas judicial system and allowed Mr. Graham to be put to death. Mr. Graham maintained his innocence to the end.
Lt. Colonel William Harris, Jr.
Lt. Col. William Harris was one of two commanding officers who could not perform George W. Bush’s annual evaluation covering the year from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973. They stated in their filing that “Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report.” Fortunately for George W. Bush, Lt. Col. Harris is not here to verify his 1973 statement. He’s dead.
Lt. Colonel Jerry B. Killian
Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian was another of George W. Bush’s commanding officers. He cannot testify in a court of law as to George W. Bush’s dereliction of his sworn duty. Lt. Col. Killian is dead.
And finally, Ronald Wilson Reagan. He survived an assassiantion attempt at the hand of John Hinckley, who is the son of a close friend of George H. W. Bush. Reagan is said to have ordered the military to guard him instead of the Secret Service in the aftermath of the assassination attempt. Hinckley has never been tried for the attempted murder of the President, and it is this crime which originated the phrase “The Bushy Knoll”.
Credit to David Blomstrom, of the website Bush Body Count who provided significant material for “The Bushy Knoll”.
Guess they mean business, because the quaker oats man (babs)
said so.
Didn’t Naustradamus (unsure of spelling)
Mention something about the anti-Christ and come up with
MA BUSH?
Could Ma Bush be Texan?
hmmm….
September 12th, 2005 at 3:31 amSorry for the length, but DEMOCRACY IS NEVER TIDY.
September 12th, 2005 at 3:33 amI don’t get it: George O’leary gets fired for lying on his resume, and he only wanted to coach football. Brown lies and he is “relocated” I don’t understand!
September 12th, 2005 at 9:28 amwith respect to brown’s resume:
it occurred to me tha the white house might be responsible for the embellishments.
wouldn’t it be nice to see scottie respond to a question about whether the white house knew of or tampered with brown’s resume.
i’m willing to bet they did.
was sen bunning’s questi0on intended to help brown or to help the white house get this appointment through?
September 12th, 2005 at 9:55 amI checked the bio online today, it has been changed to read “assistant to the city administrator”, but other dubious employment claims persist.
September 12th, 2005 at 11:43 amHomeland Security starts at home. When remodeling your home, I would recommend a simple security assessment on 3 of the most vulnerable spots: door, window, and patio door. Check http://magsecurity.blogspot.com for information on how to secure your home.
September 13th, 2005 at 10:06 am