Obama: No Grounds to Probe Afghan War Crimes

http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2009/07/obama-no-grounds-to-probe-afghan-war.html

And then there’s funny news, for afters.
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Apparently this super-secret CIA program was intermittent, switched on whenever circumstances warranted, and then switched off, lying dormant in some CIA department, until something triggered it being switched on again…which actually accurately describes what a CIA special “operations” team would experience between assassination assignments, let’s say. (Although this intermittent CIA activity could involve some other CIA operation, even worse than assassinations, torture, illegal spying on U.S. citizens, although it’s hard to imagine what this might be).

One clue might be what was in the news around the time CIA director Leon Panetta learned of this CIA program. Something in the news which might indicate what triggered this dormant CIA program to be activated, thus coming to the attention of Panetta, a CIA program that he scuttled within 24 hours, leading him to inform Congress about it’s existence.

So, what was in the news about two months ago that might hint at what caused a dormant CIA program to be activated, a program created after the 9/11 attacks on orders of former CIA director George “Slam Dunk” Tenet, probably on orders of Dick Cheney and the neo-con Republicans in the Bush administration?

Something to do with Iran, maybe? Using covert CIA agents to destabilize Iran, similar to the reports that the Bush administration inserted CIA agents into Iran after the 9/11 attacks to map Iran’s nuclear facilities and work with sympathetic anti-Tehran Iranian tribes? Or something else, somewhere else?

Whatever, wherever, this super-secret CIA program, that was even deemed too sensitive to be reported to our representatives in Congress, will someday be revealed, as will all the criminal acts committed by Republicans over the past eight years will be revealed, just not anytime soon apparently.

Israel moved a step closer to receiving its first stealth fighter jets this week after the Israel Air Force submitted an official Letter of Request (LOR) to the Pentagon to purchase its first squadron of 25 F-35 stealth fighter jets.

How much is the U.S. taxpayer providing in subsidy?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443770618&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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So, to the (deep) backstory of AIG and why the news is reasonably unfathomable the way we see the news is:

( waynemadsenreport.com …/articles/20080918_2)
September 18, 2008 — AIG is “special case”
With the U.S. government now in control of AIG, the Bush family will breathe particularly easier. On June 20, 2005, WMR reported the following concerning the connection between Greenberg and the Bushes:

“The investigations of the secret Bush money tranches are coming to the fore as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer focuses in on the scandal involving Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and the inflation of the worth of American International Group (AIG) through shady affiliates, including AIG reinsurer Coral Re of Barbados. Greenberg was the CEO of AIG but was forced to step down amid the Spitzer probe. …”

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Cornelius V. Starr started AIG as “American Asiatic Underwriters” in 1919 in Shanghai. Starr moved AIG from Shanghai to New York after the Communists came to power in 1949. Ironically, AIG is back in China through its ownership of People’s Insurance Company of China. AIG also owns AIG Korea Insurance.

Ever since the days of Ken Starr’s uncle Cornelius, AIG has, on behalf of U.S. intelligence, kept tabs on rising players on the Asia political scene, particularly in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries. The quid pro quo for AIG is that it has weathered the storms generated by Spitzer and the global financial melt down from the strong support from the U.S. government in return for permitting the mining of data from AIG’s insurance files by the CIA.

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AIG’s chairman, before he was forced to resign amid scandal, was Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. In 1962, Greenberg was hired by AIG’s founder, Cornelius Vander Starr, the uncle of President Bill Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr, as the chief of AIG’s North American operations. Greenberg eventually took over as AIG’s chairman, as well as assuming the Chairmanship and CEO position of Starr’s other firm, C. V. Starr and Company. Greenberg retained control of C. V. Starr and Company after having stepped down as AIG’s chairman in 2005.

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( … /articles/20090302 )
March 2, 2009 — AIG’s new $30 billion handout to protect a U.S. intelligence operation

Maybe with now the Third Bailout, it’s time to ask the hard questions about AIG.

The third bailout fund for AIG of 30 billion US dollars makes that insurance company the largest corporate recipient of federal funds, according to Bloomberg, which calculates its debt to the government at 70 billion dollars. AIG requested the third tranche, claiming that it could find no buyers for its Asian insurance operation, AIA.

This is patently untrue. In fact, China Life has shown strong interest in purchasing AIA’s (AIG’s Asian unit) assets in the Greater China region but, insurance industry insiders say, was rebuffed by AIG’s asking price, which was astronomical considering the company’s heavy debt burden. The transfer of AIA to the federal government, probably to protect sensitive private data that cannot be shared with foreign companies without igniting a major scandal, confirms suspicions long held about the ‘revolving door’ between AIG executives and the US intelligence agents.

Intelligence agencies in Japan, Indonesia and China have long suspected that AIG and its Asian unit, AIA, were heavily used as cover for placement of NOC agents, eavesdropping operations and for collecting private data unrelated to insurance matters on their nationals.

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Considering the estimated 60 billion in losses sustained by AIG thus far, the Obama administration has an obligation to disclose to both investors and taxpayers the extent of US intelligence manipulation of the insurance company – and whether Agency officials were involved in diverting funds from the company to finance ‘black operations’ or to line their own pockets. Did the Agency-based executives run AIG into the ground by funneling corporate funds into covert operations outside of congressional authority? [nota bene: Recent news items report on-going CIA "lies to" and "misleading" Congress's oversight.]

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( … /articles/20090325_4 )
March 26-27, 2009 — AIG’s airplane business and its ties to covert U.S. ops (publication date: Mar 25, 2009)

WMR previously reported on Sir Allen Stanford’s aviation fleet and its curious links to covert U.S. intelligence operations. [n.b.: 'Stanford' in recent news same as 'Madoff.'] American International Group (AIG) is also in the aviation business and its subsidiary, International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), is one of the largest aircraft leasing businesses in the world.

Last year, ILFC’s CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian emigre who founded ILFC in 1973, attempted to buy back ILFC from AIG.

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Questions remain as to why a company primarily involved in insurance would have taken over an aircraft leasing business that leases Airbus and Boeing passenger jet liners to airlines, the super wealthy, and Hollywood stars. The answer may be found in AIG’s classified files that would put the spotlight on AIG’s clandestine work for U.S. intelligence since the company’s founding in 1919 …. In 1992, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg took over majority shares in the company from Starr.

Greenberg, a close confidante of Henry Kissinger, was once considered by Clinton to head up the CIA after James Woolsey’s departure in 1995 and Greenberg named Kissinger as chairman of AIG’s International Advisory Board.

A check of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show that ILFC leased aircraft to three large U.S. airlines that have been involved with various CIA and U.S. military operations for a number of years: World Airways, Tower Air, and Evergreen International Airlines.

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In 1975, upon the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese and Vietcong, World Airways was the last flight out of Saigon.

During the first Gulf War, the airline flew 300 flights into the Persian Gulf region, bringing in troops and supplied ….

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Tower Air was also used by the Pentagon to shuttle troops to the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield and Storm.

Evergreen International Airlines was part of a network of covert CIA airlines that was founded by George A. Doole, Jr., a veteran CIA agent. In the CIA’s network were Air America, Air Asia, Civil Air Transport, Intermountain Aviation, and Southern Air Transport. Pinal Air Park, near Marana, Arizona, was the base for Doole’s Evergreen International’s maintenance operation and a storage facility for 60 boneyard airliners, some of which may have been used after 9/11 for CIA detainee renditions.

From CIA airlines to covert operations using its American International Assurance Asian (AIA) unit as cover in Asia, AIG has plenty to answer for. Unfortunately, for the American taxpayers, those answers will be buried ….

I have read all you have to say – and I agree, the conservatives are a bunch of kCock-suckers who can’t make it in a reality based world …so we had to create a world of illusion and confusion. I guess the reason I’m such a moron is because I was gang raped by a bunch of preachers from my church.

This is #1 in a series of Republican Love Facts

..It seems my charade worked. The other Hijacker has fled. If he comes back, I’ll be right behind him.

sorry for the Ot but I’m trying to find info debunking Michele Bachman’s rant about Gangster Gov’t and GM dealership closures but I’m comming up short.

A little Help?!?!

House overwhelmingly rejects signing statement

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-overwhelming-rebukes-obama-signing-statement-2009-07-09.html

Why no list of the exclusive ‘black only’ clubs? Shameful?

Because, Republicans Love Racism, I’ve never heard of one.

Next…?

This is outrageous. Enough! The American public is dying economically. We need to fire everyone at AIG, not give them bonuses. Don’t you hear us Congress? We’re watching. Congress, you either shine or sink based on your response buddies. The public is in economic agony and we’ll bring you down with us if you refuse to stand up for us.

It’s really the only explanation that makes sense.

Republicans Love Facts Says:

Party before country? Yep!

Nice to see you admit this, Rebecca Lobo. But really, you fringe lunatic righties should try putting your country first instead of traitorously hoping that Osama bin Laden deploys and detonates a major weapon in the United States.

Read somewhere this morning the FDA is pulling punches with small farmers and home growers…If I read all the stuff correctly, before I give my neighbors any of my snow peas I need to file papers on how every thing was grown and apply for inspections and approval..It do’s not apply to corprate growers because they are inspected sometimes by half the food inspecters we use to have 12 year’s ago..Jeebos all the crap and continued war funding is wareing me out…P. B. & J..

Why no list of the exclusive ‘black only’ clubs? Shameful?

You said “Party before country? Yep!”

You must be talking about Bush’s Interior department doing blow and getting blown by and with the oil companies that were supposed collecting revenue from.

Right? That’s what your talking about?