Bernie Goldberg's Deep Throat Gagged

Vanderbilt and Redford movie, Truth, premiering on October 16, 2015, not likely to shed light on Bernie Goldberg claim

by Peter Pezonus for CPW News Service

     After Dan Rather and Mary Mapes' 2004 botched coverage of the testimony of the secretary from Ellington Field, Houston, Mrs. Marian Carr Knox, who typed the original memos of GWB's Texas National Guard records chronicling the concerns of his commanding officer, Bernie Goldberg claimed that "a deep throat type of chip" had told him that GWB volunteered to go to Vietnam, but that Bush lacked the requisite flying hours.
     Appearing on Bill O'Reilly's program Goldberg did not provide a name, but he did provide the page number from the CBS investigation overseen by Bush lawyer Dick Thornburg and former Associated Press head, Louis Boccardi, who met with Marian Carr Knox after Rather's 60 Minute program aired.  Thornburg and Boccardi claimed that Mrs. Knox recanted her story.   That was a charge that her son, Patrick Carr, denied according to USA Today reports that preempted Howard Kurtz' Washington Post, September 21, 2004 article on the Rather/Mapes story. 



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     Goldberg did not state just why Marian Carr Knox would not have mentioned Goldberg's Deep Throat assertion.  That GWB held a desire to serve in Vietnam would have seemed to have been common knowledge to his fellow Air National Guard officers and Knox's sense of fair play as evidenced in her Rather interview would surely have mentioned it.  It would have been common knowledge to his commanding officer who would have been desirous of Bush completing his training. Mrs. Knox, after all, typed Col. Killian's original memos.   Logic and wisdom dictated, according the media watchdog group, Intentional Bloopers, that Marian Carr Knox's strong assertion that Bush's commander and fellow officers felt that he was somehow "above the law," was widely held.
     "If Bush was deficient in flying hours and unable to join a U.S. military jet-powered mission over Hanoi isn't it likely that he would have been doing all he could to rack up additional hours instead of taking off for an unauthorized political campaign or avoiding a required physical?   This guy Bernard Goldberg is as slippery as a MOSSAD agent in a jar of Vaseline," said Roscoe Ronaldson spokesperson for Intentional Bloopers in Peoria, Illinois.
     "Bernie Goldberg's logic may play well in Haifa, but not here in Peoria," said Ronaldson.
    Meanwhile, the upcoming premier of the James Vanderbilt and Robert Redford film about the 2004 media scandal is drawing attention for its handling or lack of handling of the Marian Carr Knox contribution to the unfolding criticism of Bush in 2004.   The same story, known to Mary Mapes and Dan Rather in 1999 was available in 2000 when it might well have been used by Al Gore in defeating Bush whose legacy of sending American boys into battle in Iraq based on "cooked intelligence" and clearly bamboozled media manipulation has provided a mine field for the JEB Bush presidential campaign. "Stick another Bush in the White House and you're as likely to get another U.S. meltdown," said Ronaldson.
    Ronaldson noted that on December 10, 2000 a 23-year-old named Patrick Carr, not Marian Carr Knox's son, who had worked with Rather's niece in Austin, Texas as evidenced by his work history, personal biography and peer acknowledgements and whose uncle was the fishing partner of William E. King, the business partner in Southwest Airport Services, the fuel concession business at Ellington Field run by GWB's Air National Guard roommate, James R. Bath, died near Ellington Field, Houston.   "Patrick was murdered near Ellington Field," said the boy's father. The boy's father claims that the death, ruled a suicide by the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office, provided an impossible scenario and that the Houston-based HCME would come under investigation for corruption with the investigation led by Michael Bromwich, the prosecutor in the Iran-Contra investigation.  "Bromwich was as much a 'firewaller' in the Iran-Contra case as a prosecutor and with the 1992 book, The Mafia, CIA and George Bush written by Houston Post reporter Peter Brewton showing the Houston-based link between the 1980's S&L scandal and the Iran-contra criminals and you can see why there was the attack on Mrs. Marian Carr Knox and Patrick Carr her son.  You can also see why in December 2000, four years before the CBS 60 Minutes story by Rather and Mapes, anyone named Patrick Carr who was close to Rather or Bush's buddies at Ellington Field was in grave danger," said Ronaldson.
    "What you had in September 2004, specifically September 21st,  is USA Today at odds with the Washington Post's coverage of the Marian Carr Knox story and Mr. Mark Memmott of USA Today, now with NPR, unwittingly calling Mr. Kurtz with the Washington Post and by inference Mr. Bernard Goldberg's appearance on Bill O'Reilly liars as were Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi relative to the Knox account which Memmott and his fellow reporters at USA Today claimed her son verified she never recanted.  Now you can understand just why the Houston Chronicle imported Vernon Loeb to be the Managing Editor after he had been at the Washington Post where he approved the stories....falsified stories.... of the death of Lt. Pat Tillman, the rescue of Jessica Lynch and where he co-wrote the biography of General David Petraeus with Mrs. Paula Broadwell which lost for General Petraeus his position as Director of CIA.  And now you understand just why the Washington Post's Jeff Leen skewered the work of Gary Webb whose Dark Alliance was beholding to Peter Brewton's prior work in Texas and why both Leen and Loeb's boss at the Washington Post, Steve Coll, is now the Dumbledore at Columbia University's Journalism School as the Henry Luce Professor of Journalism and Dean of the Department," said Ronaldson. 
     "That  Gary Webb supposedly killed himself on December 10, 2004 with two shots to the head on the anniversary of Patrick Carr's murder (not Mrs. Knox's son, but the other one) on December 10, 2000 next to Ellington Field and it is quite easy to understand that elements of the U.S. government are clearly criminal enterprises backed by a debauched media," said Ronaldson.  "Peter Brewton's father graduated from the same seminary as Patrick Carr's father in Austin and that young man had worked alongside Rebecca Rather in 2000?  Holy sxxx!" said Ronaldson.

     The daughter of Houston FBI agent, Bronislaw Mogenis, was contacted by Patrick Carr's father who was contacted by Houston Judge, former FBI agent and daughter of Bronislaw, Julie Mogenis, owner of Third Eye Investigations to help her in the family's search for the killers and to reopen the case. Judge Mogenis, a noted hunting expert in Texas, suffered a near fatal gunshot wound on December 8, 2004 two days before the "suicide" of Gary Webb on the anniversary of the murder of William Patrick Carr near Ellington Field. This led to the following from Judge Mogenis' Youtube page that described her ordeal:

Robert Gage 3 weeks ago

It would be so much fun to shoot this cunt in the mouth.

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William Carr 3 days ago

Mr. Gage, that's really boorish stuff.  In 2001 I phoned the former Deputy Director of the FBI and told him I needed help.  My son had been murdered in Houston near Ellington Field where GWB had been stationed in 1972 and whose story concerning his National Guard record would come out in 2004 with Dan Rather and Mary Mapes whose film Truth directed by James Vanderbilt and starring Robert Redford will come out on October 16, 2015.  The Rather story depended on the testimony of the secretary of GWB's commander at Ellington.  The secretary was totally believable though Rather and Mapes could not have botched the story any more deliberately if they had tried.  Had they considering that Rather owned a ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico with Donald Rumsfeld? The secretary's son....same name as my son,  while my son had worked with Rather's  niece, Rebecca, in Austin before moving to Houston where his uncle, my brother-in-law, was the business partner of GWB's ANG roommate.    The GWB ANG story went all the way back to 1972 and, naturally, in 2000 when it would have been helpful in thwarting the national butt raping we all received from 2000-2008, it was absent from the scene.  Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes who knew how to make it public said "Gore didn't need it."    After my son's death in 2000 I called my friend the FBI director who choked up over the phone and said that his grandson in Dallas had  died of an unbelievable apparent suicide the day after my son.  His car found two blocks from his house on the side of the road with the door open, but his body found in his father's closet.   Both boys' deaths were suspicious and in my son's case impossible from the vantage point of the Harris County Medical Examiner's office which was under a cloud.  We hired the best fire cause investigator and CO poisoning investigator in the country and there were witnesses who saw a blue van coming from the scene an hour before the crime that would match the color of the Harris County Fire Department's crime scene van, but held three or four men, not one as was always the case the case with the HFD.  Who did they bring in later to clean up the Harris County Medical Examine's office?  The firewaller in the Iran-Contra case, Michael Bromwich.  So anyway, I ask the FBI director for help and he gives me the name of Bronislaw Mogenis, Julie's father, a respected FBI agent like Julie before becoming a judge in Houston.  For four years from 2000 to 2004 I'm digging for answers and have only one that seems plausible.  Julie couldn't take the case, but referred me to a postal inspector turned lawyer and private eye named Gregory Howard Walker* who would go on to handle the security for Bush International, Hobby and Ellington Fields.  The Iran-Contra network in Houston included the S&L scandal players....one and the same..... as evidenced by Peter Brewton's book The Mafia, CIA and George Bush which Simon and Schuster derailed in 1992 before the Bush/Clinton/Perot election.  Yea, the 1972 story was available in '92, but would have had even less effect on GHWB's election so why bother?  In 1996-98 Gary Webb was working on his Iran-Contra drug connection book that links with Brewton's work in Houston.  Webb will reference Brewton in a debate over the book with Jeff Leen of the Washington Post who skewers Webb for the WP whose former editor and author of the Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch and Paula Broadwell stories is now the Managing Editor at the Houston Chronicle, Brewton's competitor.   On December 10, 2004 Gary Webb died of a suicide in California with two shots to the head.  It was ruled a suicide.  Two days before that in Utopia, Texas Julie was "accidentally shot" in a "firing mishap".    Try to find the name of the accidental shooter!  December 10, 2004 was four years to the day of the death of my son near Ellington Field. 

William Carr 3 days ago

Wow, that was some kind of record for an erasure!  I can't blame you.  You may not remember me, but that info is legit.  You can contact me.  I'd give you my phone number, but later if you wish.   I was OBR's pastor in Dallas.  There's no getting around the truth of it, and while your accident may have been just that and a total coincidence, I would encourage you to use your connections....the ones you TOTALLY trust.... to look into the extended....I mean EXTENDED.....background of the clumsy Utopian.  You could ask OBR about me, but he's trying to forget and he won't tell you that his one son was the FBI agent who was returning with the son-in-law of Thomas Tweeton,  returning from Lebanon to press his case for more info on Al Qaeda for our common foot soldiers when his plane inexplicably blew up over Lockerbie.  Buck swears his son did not suddenly change his flight plans.  Nor that the father of the grandson Russell, his brother, was a telemetry expert on the SR-71 Blackbird that Perot had taken  a keen interest in 1980 and again in 1992....something to do with an October Surprise!  I'm so sorry if any of these connections led to anyone being harmed in any way, but as Gregory Howard Walker told us after dragging his feet for six months in finding us the name of the last person to talk to our son....a name that was WRONG!......"it's not your fault."   Damn right it's not! WHC

William Carr 3 days ago

Wow, you put it back up in total.  Gumption!

 

William Carr 3 days ago

Nope, you took it down again.   Leave it off. Can't blame you.  You have my name and number if you want to talk about it.  Wow, this is funny.  It shows on one computer and not on the other three I'm using to verify!  It shows, then drops.  Amazing!   Must be going through San Luis Obispo or Utah!








*Gregory Howard Walker's resume, a resume that carried no airport security experience prior to 2003,  indicates that his work with the Houston airport system including Bush International, Hobby and Ellington Field began in 2003 and reads...... 

October, 2003 To November, 2005

Airport Security Manager for Legal Affairs & Investigations

Public Safety & Technology Division

Houston Airport System -- Houston, Texas

Houston Airport System consists of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, William B. Hobby Airport and Ellington Field Airport based on land mass and passenger count, the Houston Airport System is one of the largest multiple airport systems in the world -- fourth largest multi-airport system in the United States and sixth largest in the world

Establish, Implement and Manage an Investigations and Audit Team

Liaison with federal, state and local law enforcement and other critical infrastructures

Establish, Implement and Manage Administrative Due Process System and Procedures

Provide legal advice to Airport Management in the area of security and investigations

Advise Airport Management and City Legal Department on Department of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) requirements as to preservation of restricted and classified status of security related information and other DHS requirements

Establish, Implement and Manage non-DOD document and information classification scheme and procedures for handling classified documents and information

Provide investigative and audit services to airports within the Houston Airport System

Manage Outside Consultants, Including $ 7.5 Million Security Master Plan Project

Establish, Implement and Manage numerous investigative, audit and compliance verification schedules, processes and procedures

Serve as Operating Airport Security Manager at one or more of the airports within the

Houston Airport System during the absence of the assigned Operating Airport Security

Manager

Defend and negotiate against burdensome rules and/or sanctions sought to be imposed by Transportation Security Administration and other regulators

Establish, Implement and Manage proprietary governmental Airport Security Officer

Training Academy

Serve on the Houston Airport System’s initial Balanced Scorecard Implementation Team as the representative from Public Safety & Technology.

Such other duties as from time to time assigned by the Director of Aviation or one of the five Deputy Directors of Aviation.

 

Provide investigative and audit services to airports within the Houston Airport System

Manage Outside Consultants, Including $ 7.5 Million Security Master Plan Project

Establish, Implement and Manage numerous investigative, audit and compliance verification schedules, processes and procedures

Serve as Operating Airport Security Manager at one or more of the airports within the

Houston Airport System during the absence of the assigned Operating Airport Security

Manager

Defend and negotiate against burdensome rules and/or sanctions sought to be imposed by Transportation Security Administration and other regulators

Establish, Implement and Manage proprietary governmental Airport Security Officer

Training Academy

Serve on the Houston Airport System’s initial Balanced Scorecard Implementation Team as the representative from Public Safety & Technology.

Such other duties as from time to time assigned by the Director of Aviation or one of the five Deputy Directors of Aviation.

   

In 2009, Houston Mayor Bill White, forced the Houston Airport Systems Directory, Richard Vacar, to resign on short notice.  Under his leadership the system that included the two largest Houston commercial airports and the CIA-linked Ellington Field had also developed contractual relationships with the major airports of Equador and Costa Rica.

 

 

FASCISM ALIVE AND WELL

1930's Revisited

by A. Hammond Ryhe for CPW News Services

     In the 1930's the rise of Nazi Fascism in Germany was, according to Edwin Black, author of The Transfer Agreement and War Against the Weak, encouraged and supported by key U.S. business magnates who embraced Fascism world-wide.  This was the same group that General Smedley Darlington Butler exposed as leaders of the U.S. "business plot" to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
     "At the same time you have the fascist Satanist, Aleister Crowley, receiving notoriety in the U.S. with followers like Hollywood starlet, Jane Wolfe, U.S. rocket expert, Jack Parsons, Grady McMurtry and later the U.S. Army's psychological warfare expert,  Col. Michael Aquino, embracing the gnostic traditions and mumbo jumbo of Crowley's bizarre rituals and dogma.     Crowley said quite famously "Before Hitler was, I am."

     Betty "Thelema" Bottoms of Lake Placid, New York was a life-long follower of Crowley until she realized that one of his little disciples, Leah Hirsiq, had committed suicide after being prompted by Crowley to copulate with a goat at his Temple of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily.   "When little Leah found that the goat couldn't perform during the Gnostic Mass she took it as a severe blow to her ego and committed suicide.   When Mussolini kicked Crowley out of Nazi Italy Crowley took it as a badge of honor.   As the self-professed "Master", "Beast" and "666", Crowley's influence did not stop in Italy, but he continued to promulgate his views from the United States where the average Joe Schmoe has no idea that his disciples are still running around chasing goat gonads," said Barry Bottoms, Betty's grandson from Boston, Massachusetts.   "You can see why it shakes the beejeebies out of normal Americans to learn that their U.S. Navy SEAL headquarters building in San Diego is shaped like a swastika or that GWB's father's office is in a building shared by the Thyssen Company," said Bottoms.

SICK SIGMA?

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Measuring Productivity or Camouflaging Conflated Objectives?

by Felix DeCatt for CPW News Services

 

     The United States Army had implemented Six Sigma metrics in 2005.  West Point initiated the program in 2007 according to the Academy's staff writer Kathy Eastwood ("Mastering Lean Six Sigma: SE professor earns master black belt status", April 10, 2013).   West Point's Brig. Gen. Tim Trainor was a close friend of Col. Ted Westhusing and a fellow West Point professor who would have been more aware than most of the ease with which an imported system of excellence can be used to hide the realities that exist in a battlefield and martial arts environment where camouflage is an important defense mechanism and the most ubiquitous technique in all of nature for self-preservation. 

 

     The November 2005 article "A Journey that Ended In Anguish," stated: When Westhusing entered West Point in 1979, the tradition-bound institution was just emerging from a cheating scandal that had shamed the Army. Restoring honor to the nation’s preeminent incubator for Army leadership was the focus of the day. Cadets are taught to value duty, honor and country, and are drilled in West Point’s strict moral code: A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal — or tolerate those who do. Westhusing embraced it. He was selected as honor captain for the entire academy his senior year. Col. Tim Trainor, a classmate and currently a West Point professor, said Westhusing was strict but sympathetic to cadets’ problems. He remembered him as “introspective.”

 

     Col. Theodore "Ted" Westhusing's case can be seen as a parallel to a GE middle-manager who during GE's military procurement bamboozles under Welch's administration walks into his office and tells him that the mission of the company is under a cloud of mixed and conflicted objectives, but for Westhusing the stakes were infinitely high since he was in the middle of the very battlefield supplied by GE.   There was Westhusing alongside civilian military contractors who had even more mercenary ambitions fueled by the lesser contractors' desire to replicate the GE "success" story and to remove any and all obstacles including Westhusing if necessary.  Trying to get to the truth in such a climate of conflated objectives proved to be an eye-opening experience for the families of Westhusing, Tillman, Lynch and others, but it is a repeated routine known throughout history with cases like Uriah, Belasarius, Henry Van Ness Boynton, Smedley Darlington Butler and others.
     We see a phalanx of the conflated objectives covered not just in the impressions created by the application of a Six Sigma program within a corporation or at West Point or the U.S. Army in general, but within the media and academic environments that should be covering the potential for abuse of these seemingly innocuous metrics.  Take, for example, the fact that the new Henry Luce Professor of Journalism at Columbia, Steve Coll, where General Raymond T. Odierno's successor as the Chief of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, received his Master of Arts in International Relations, was from the Washington Post.   Odierno was selected by General David Petraeus to head CENTCOM which was his stepping stone as Chief of Staff, while Petraeus went on from the 2005 encounter with Westhusing to have his story written by Paula Broadwell, a West Point grad whose affair with Petraeus cost him his job as the Director of Central Intelligence.   Broadwell's co-author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus was the Vernon Loeb from the Washington Post whose boss was Steve Coll before Coll moved to Columbia while Loeb approved at the WP the fraudulent stories of the death of Lt. Pat Tillman and the rescue of Jessica Lynch aimed at building "consent for war" and who went on to become the managing editor of the Houston Chronicle.    Columbia University's relationship to the application of mind bending "applied psychology" and "applied sociology" that has been used as a bamboozling tool for media moguls, Madison Avenue shysters and Wall Street con-artists should be of major concern for all Americans, but is it?  Odierno's aide in the Iraq war effort was British activist, Emma Sky, whose book The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq, has been widely criticized for missing the obvious....that the Iraq war was an unraveled bamboozle from the get-go.
    One critic of Emma Sky's book states in a rebuttal to his critics a response that went beyond Columbia University to include Yale's power elites where Sky is now at the Jackson Institute:
     It is not credible to ask why Ms. Sky did not include in a book on the unraveling of the Iraq War which even Brzezinski said "was a bamboozle based on absolutely false evidence," two significant personalities related to both the U.S. military's top leadership AND the 911 city upon which the invasion was based? Why Sky does not even mention Westhusing or Kerik? This author did not create Yale's Pavlovian peccadilloes. It created its own reality and myth quite apart from the real and imagined conspiracy theorists, but no more than Robert Merton at Harvard with Black Scholes and his credit default formulas. Why say "talented and well-connected officers in the US State Department generally avoided serving in Iraq," unless they knew damn well it was a bamboozle? That being so, then the very premise of an "unraveling" just came unraveled!
     Also, Emma worked closely with head of MI-6, John Sawer, who for the Downing Street Memo issued some mild resistance that Ray McGovern called little more than a "hiccup". Have you read the CIA's Ray McGovern's 2012 article "Downing Street Memo": Redux? In it he is asking if a similar cooking of the intelligence that we saw with Iraq by the Brits is being brewed up for Iran by Sawer. Does Emma envision a similar post-Iran invasion unraveling and if so, why not tell us NOW? If this is "conspiracy" theory stuff......who was conspiring when you line up the British and U.S. players in the development of the Downing Street Memo? Was Iran-Contra a "conspiracy"? British and U.S. opium policy in China that led to the Boxer Rebellion? The Gulf of Tonkin affair? Tuskegee Experiment? Hiding the fact that Big Tobacco hid the health effects of smoking for decades? That the U.S. Civil Defense lauded the use of lead-based paint (see film "The House In The Middle"....available on-line) at the same time we were developing the "MAD Theory" of mutually assured destruction and the same lead producers who made our bullets wanted to see it in gasoline or paint 50 years after its use was banned in Europe? What qualifies as a "conspiracy" and what does not? Have I nailed it, Mr. Hobbs?

     During GE's implementation of Six Sigma as a management tool for building efficiency the company went through an astounding array of legal problems related to military procurement rip-offs.  Productivity shot up markedly and Jack Welch retired with a record retirement package of $750 million dollars.  He left within the company a hierarchy of efficiency experts with certification in Six Sigma's martial arts-based colored belt award system.  This is a poignant example of what General Smedley Darlington Butler called the "racket of war" and its enculturation within a U.S. corporation, but the total social costs of the system is not adequately explored.  At odds is a system that implements military imagery when the overall mission of the corporation that implements it may be the health and well-being of the society it was created to serve.

For an excellent discussion of Six Sigma accredited black belt trainers see http://gotboondoggle.blogspot.com/2012/04/suffering-from-sick-sigma.html.

FURY IN THE NEWSEUM

FURY:   AN ANTI-WAR FILM?

By Lowell P. Wigglesworth for CPW News Service

    The 2014 film, Fury, starring actor Brad Pitt who was accompanied at the Washington premier by General Colin Powell, purveyor of the “yellow cake uranium bamboozle”  and whose encouragement of Iraq War (part II) that along with the Afghanistan war has created the longest war in U.S. history, has been declared a powerful anti-war film, but is it?  Powell has not often commented on the return of troops to capture and kill Saddam Hussein who had been supported in war against Iran  (September 1980-August 1988) by the U.S. at the same time the U.S. traded weapons with Iran to help secretly underwrite the Contras in Central America.  Neither has Colin Powell mentioned the irony of his leadership that proclaimed that we should during the first Gulf War find the Iraqi viper and cut off its head or of the green light given to Saddam Hussein in 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, whose tell-tale memo was released by WikiLeaks and clearly articulated on the floor of Congress by Congressman Ron Paul.  The failure to roll into Baghdad during the first Iraq war and to replace the government left the door open for GWB to reinitiate protracted war in the Middle East that coincides with General Wesley Clark's assertion that the Republican neo-cons were leading a "policy coup" to ferment war in the oil rich region.

     A close analysis of the supporters of the Brad Pitt's film, Fury,  including the flood of photographers who captured the premier for the Department of Defense would indicate that the film is hardly anti-war.

     Sylvia Darlington Butler of the Sherman-Abrams Institute claims that “this is one of the most blatantly pro-war films in U.S. history and it normalizes battle field anomalies and exceptions-to-the-rule of engagement like the Geneva Conventions.  When Brad Pitt takes a rookie soldier whose failure to kill quickly is resolved by shooting an unarmed prisoner of war in the back to steel his soldier’s heart for war, my stomach turned,” said Butler, a relative of two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner Smedley Darlington Butler.

      Ms. Butler has spent her life looking into just how the military of nations builds consent for war.  “Take the premier of the film, Fury, at the Newseum in Rosslyn a suburb of Washington, D.C..    Rosslyn sounds so much like Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, home of the famous and historic Knights Templars, that the similarity should not be lost on Frank Gannett’s Freedom Forum’s move from Alexandria, Virginia to Pennsylvania Avenue under the new name Newseum.   Board member of the Newseum at the time of its move in 2000 was Tim Russert who shortly after his attack on the Bush and Kerry membership in Yale’s secretive Skull & Bones fraternity and questioning of Colin Powell on the yellow cake issue which Powell had to admit was a mistake,  died of a massive heart attack on June 13, 2008.  Russert claimed that the Newseum would leave an indelible mark on American culture from its new more visible location.  Indeed it has. 

      While little is said of the battle that raged between media moguls Frank Gannett and William Randolph Hearst, the Freedom Forum maintains that it is a voice for the First Amendment in America, but is it?   When the San Jose Mercury New’s Gary Webb wrote Dark Alliance:  The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, neither the Gannett, Hearst or Knight-Ridder organizations backed up his well documented claims.   
 

     After his suicide by two shots to the head on December 10, 2004 shortly after CBS’s Mary Mapes and Dan Rather botched the report of the George Walker Bush Texas Air National Guard memos that opened the door to a narrow Bush win over John Kerry (50.7 to 48.3% of the total vote) those memos typed by Mrs. Marion Carr Knox, discredited as she was by the Associated Press’ Louis Boccardi who received the  Freedom Forum/Newseum’s highest journalistic award, and one must really wonder.  "The Knox story was available in 2000 when the margin of the Gore/Bush election was even slimmer.  So why wasn't it exposed then?  Mapes knew of it in 1999!  Boccardi and Bush lawyer, Dick Thornburgh, obviously threatened Marion Carr Knox after the Mapes/Rather interview in 2004, but why the silence in 2000? Knox's son, Patrick Carr, confirmed that his mother was, contrary to the Thornburgh and Boccardi finagling, being quite honest, " said Butler, who believes that Mapes' and Rather's winning a Peabody Award for their "breaking" the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in 2004 when it was Amnesty International that broke the story in 2003 while Rather was an owner with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld of a 9,000 acre private ranch in Las Vegas, Nevada, proved problematic for the claim of unbiased journalism.   "It shows a disgusting, incestuous, putrid, mutual-pud-pounding relationship between a reporter and an American war criminal.  It's like claiming that there is separation of church and state when the head of the U.S. Army's psychological warfare in the 1980's was Col. Michael Aquino, a disciple of Anton LaVey head of the Worldwide Church of Satan and who was investigated for a pedophilia case at San Francisco's Presidio Army base," said Butler.  "The modern soldier's arsenal of weapons includes the murder of civilians as a means of killing the soldiers' will to fight. That made the Confederate General William Tecumseh Sherman the first truly modern, albeit, barbaric soldier whose methods were incorporated into World War II carpet bombing recommended by Robert Lovett, Yale Bonesman and Assistant Secretary of War during World War II.  The evolution of an Abu Ghraib on top of the Col. Michael Aquino revelation is quite understandable," said Butler.  "This is why civilians should act swiftly and decisively to rid their culture of criminal despots to insure that peace prevails.   Had Deone Lucas served Hitler a poison stuffed squab in Hamburg in the 1930's Dietrick Bonhoeffer and the Scholls would have survived the 1940's," said Butler.  "Not to mention the six million Jews the majority of whom Edwin Black's book, The Transfer Agreement, shows were sold down the river for the future of some at the expense of the rest and a program that was as American-made by U.S. fascists as it was by the German's....as Black has meticulously laid out in War Against the Weak."

     When one realizes that the upcoming film by Robert Redford and James Vanderbilt, Truth, based on Mary Mapes book, Truth and Duty, about the 2004 Dan Rather story about GWB's National Guard performance, it is likely to be as problematic as the film Fury according to Butler.   "We see here a pattern that quickly becomes obvious.   The First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University is supported by the Freedom Forum and the Newseum, but is it really concerned about preserving what Thomas Jefferson said….'Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost,'" asked Butler. 
     "Just because James Vanderbilt is directing the Mapes and Rather story, Truth, and because the Newseum supports the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University does not insure that there's not significant slight-of-hand involved in the upcoming media event.  You have to remember that Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Walker fought each other over a Central American canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic that would insure the flow of goods from the Middle East to the Far East to Europe and the world and that included the game-breaking opioids from Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and India where the British's chief opium supplier, David Sassoon, had cornered the market that we now enjoy by virtue of our more powerful military, particularly our navy.   Walker was an unrepentant slaver who wanted to turn the Caribbean into a 'Golden Circle' of slavery.  Vanderbilt?  Well, look at the history of Vanderbilt's Chancellor, Harvie Branscomb, Sr.," said Butler.  "It's time for the Newseum to come clean," said Butler, "and to admit that the media is a boiling sludge pot of seriously mixed motives and ambitions not all of which are concerned about the furtherance of free speech and enlightened living.  The Roosevelts may have been a part of these U.S. insider's China Trading mercantilism, but they were unrepentant.....both Teddy and FDR.....populists who challenged the fascists without aligning with the commies," said Butler who admitted that Smedley Darlington Butler was as disillusioned with Teddy's "Yankee imperialism" as he was with the National City Bank gang for being their "goon on three continents."

    Butler has noted that after the Civil War Texas was occupied by Union troops, primarily the Buffalo Soldiers, black troops domiciled on the Nassau-Waldec Plantation near Round Top, Texas, a German plantation today owned by the Rather family.   "The plantation used the oversight of brothers Morgan and Giles Smith who operated out of Galveston, Texas and both having fought on for the Union during the Civil War to control in Reconstruction the Texas politics after the Civil War.  Both Morgan Lewis Smith and his brother, Giles Alexander Smith fought at the critical opening battle of the Civil War, Fort Donelson, and under William Tecumseh Sherman at Vicksburg and the March to the Sea....critical battles in destroying the South's rail ambitions to the Pacific. It's as if they damn well knew how to control the old Jefferson Davis highway from Savannah to San Diego that the rail road barons wanted so badly and to prevent it from becoming the preferred route to the China Traders' with their desire to control the route to the Pacific's opium, silk and spice trade," said Butler who claims that some of her family members were part of the Elder-Butler post-Civil War feud in Texas.

     “Tell that to Gary Webb,” said Butler.   “Tell it to the family of Pat Tillman or Jessica Lynch who found that the Department of Defense had in a Washington paper, the Washington Post, an ally in its metro-editor, Vernon Loeb, who approved the front-page debacle of that Washington Post’s propaganda on the Tillman friendly fire….if it was friendly fire given his outspoken criticism of the war….or of Jessica Lynch’s falsified rescue.    Tell it to General David Petraeus whose life was torn apart when Vernon Loeb and co-writer of Petraeus’ biography, Paula Broadwell, wrote All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.   I say that the Hoover Institute at Stanford should donate the diary of Joseph Goebbels to the Newseum so that the American people can really see what is going on here.  Never mind that Al Jazeera is domiciled at the Newseum Center.    Where is Loeb now?  In Houston at the Houston Chronicle,  from whose competitor, the Houston Post, came the author of The Mafia, the CIA and George Bush and a tightly documented analysis of just how the CIA, the Mafia, George Bush and the 1980’s S&L scandal and the Iran-Contra network had the same cast of characters….an observation not wasted by Gary Webb who used that information in Texas to prove his story in California.  Where was the Washington journalism establishment in supporting these two fine reporters?    Skewering them!   The Washington Post’s Woodward and Bernstein who saw Watergate as far worse than Iran-Contra would learn that the editor of their story, All The Presidents Men, made into another Hollywood snow job by Robert Redford, would find their editor, Alice Mayhew, jerked from editing the powerful The Mafia, CIA and George Bush in 1991 just before the 1992 Bush/Clinton/Perot election.  Who would come down mercilessly on Gary Webb’s 1996 revelations in Dark Alliance?   Vernon Loeb’s colleagues at the Washington Post, Jeff Leen and Steve Coll….with Coll now the Henry Luce Professor of Journalism at Columbia in New York and the head of the journalism department where the mass media department is educated in methods of  “applied sociology” and the mass-manipulation techniques of Robert Merton, father of the man who invented the Black-Scholes credit default formulas that tanked the U.S. economy in 2008 and led to the worst rape of the U.S. since the 1929 stock market crash and the disgraceful period of bamboozling from 1999-2008,” said Butler.  “It’s all bull shit folks and it’s bad for you,” concluded Ms. Butler who noted that the price of oil in 2008 sky-rocketed to $150 per barrel in the midst of the war and financial crisis and to the profit of the world's oil companies.

Dan Rather, Robert Redford, James Vanderbilt, Mary Mapes and CBS: OCTOBER 16, 2015 TRUTH OR DUTY?

OCTOBER 16, 2015

TRUTH

SCORE CARD
by Winsip Custer


On October 16th the Robert Redford and James Vanderbilt film based on Mary Mapes' book TRUTH AND DUTY will open nationwide.

Viewers will need to ask several questions of TRUTH, the name of the film:

• Why didn't Mary Mapes who knew of the story in 1999 inform the nation of it then or in 2000 during the Bush/Gore election?  What reason could possibly be given to prevent a major media outlet like CBS from pouncing on the story in an important election year even if Mapes was unable for professional or personal reasons for not reporting the story.
• How much weight is given to the testimony of Mrs. Marian Carr Knox?  Knox typed the original memos in 1972 and was interviewed by Rather in 2004 so how much weight is given in the Redford/Vanderbilt film to her validation of the accuracy of the contents of the falsified memos and does the film present the introduction of the falsified memos  as a "logical" means of managing the potential PR crisis for the Bush political empire by convoluting the argument?
• How well is the Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi visit to Mrs. Marian Carr Knox covered and with their discrediting of Mrs. Knox's testimony and her son's reported affirmations of the truth of her original testimony?  Is Patrick Carr's place in the story covered at all?
• Who was the Patrick Carr whose body was found in his burned out Ford Bronco near Ellington Field on December 10, 2000 just two days before the 2000 Presidential election was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court and why was he murdered?
•  Is the fact that Dan Rather and Donald Rumsfeld co-owned a 9,000 acre ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico mentioned in the film?  That Rumsfeld owned Misery Plantation in Maryland where Frederick Douglass was tortured or that the Rather family in Texas owns the historic Nassau-Waldec Plantation where the original Buffalo Soldiers were domiciled in Texas?
• Does the film mention that both Mapes and Rather won a Peabody Award for their "breaking" the story of Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison scandal in 2004 when it was Amnesty International that broke the story in 2003?
• Does the film mention that also at CBS was Lowell Bergman who wrongly covered the 1988 death of Salem Bin Laden in Cibolo, Texas saying that he was flying his BAC-111 jet instead of an ultra-light or that Salem owned the Houston Gulf Manor Airport near Ellington Field and that the purchase was made by the Saudi royal banker, Khalid Bin Mahfouz, with the help of Bush's Air National Guard roommate, Jim Bath?  Does TRUTH mention that Salem Bin Laden's Houston airport was razed after the 2001 World Trade Center attack of 911?
• How does the film handle the testimony of General Belasarius Flores who confirmed the essence of the original Killian memos that Marion Carr Knox typed?
• Is Marion Carr Knox's testimony from September 2004 that aired on 60 Minutes repeated in any form in Truth?  Why not?
• Does the film mention that Rather worked for the Houston Chronicle whose competitor's reporter, Peter Brewton of the Houston Post, found his 1992 book, The Mafia, CIA and George Bush, about the 1980's S&L scandal, its criminals and masterminds, intertwined with the Iran-Contra criminals while his book which was originally contracted with Simon & Schuster for publication and providing editor Alice Mayhew, editor of Woodward & Bernsteins' All The President's Men as Brewton's editor, but which was derailed during the Bush, Clinton and Perot election of 1992?  Does the Redford/Vanderbilt movie provide an epilogue stating that the Houston Chronicle's new managing editor, previously at the Washington Post, Vernon Loeb, who authored at the WP the falsified stories of Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch's rescue and then co-authored with Paula Broadwell the book ALL IN:  THE EDUCATION OF GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS add to the difficulty in discerning what is and is not "truth"?  Does the film, TRUTH, mention that Loeb's boss at the Washington Post, Steve Coll, became the Henry Luce Professor of Journalism and head of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York or that Coll and his other reporter, Jeff Leen, discredited the work of the San Jose Mercury News' Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance, whose work in California rested squarely on the previous work of Peter Brewton in Texas and which Webb specifically mentions in a debate with Jeff Leen just after the publication of Dark Alliance?  Gary Webb would die on December 10, 2004 the same day four years to the day of the death of the 23-year-old, Patrick Carr, who died near Ellington Field.   The medical examiner in Webb's case provided as unbelievable an assessment of the facts as that of the death in Texas of Patrick Carr....the same name as the son of Mrs. Marian Carr Knox (When the Houston/Harris County Medical Examiner's office became a symbol of local political corruption Michael Bromwich, leading prosecutor in the Iran-Contra investigation whose case stopped short of recommending impeachment of Reagan and GHWB, was imported to "clean up" the beleaguered office paid from confiscated drug money.  The indicted Iran-Contra co-conspirators were pardoned by GHWB, a move echoing Marian Carr Knox's criticism of GWB whom she said thought of himself as being "above the laws"). The 23-year-old Patrick Carr had just moved to Houston from Austin where he had worked for Ellas/Ranch 616/Rather Sweet, owned by the niece of Dan Rather, Rebecca Rather.  The boy's uncle was a fishing buddy of Jim Bath's business partner and Mayor of Kemah, Texas, William E. King.

   

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On Feb. 15, 2015 after listening to Jeff Leen's debate with Gary Webb just after Webb's book Dark Alliance was published and hearing Webb reference his conversation with Peter Brewton, Patrick Carr's father sent Leen the following letter copies out to Peter Brewton and to the people the father had known since high school.   Patrick's father had offered to meet with Leen, but not hearing back from him sent the following:

From: William Carr <willhcarr@yahoo.com>
To: "jeff.leen@washpost.com" <jeff.leen@washpost.com>; Pete Brewton <pete.brewton@ttu.edu>; "Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 12:30 AM
Subject: Gary Webb and WP redemption.....an alternative

Dear Mr. Leen,
 

There is another option.  I could come to Washington to meet you eyeball to eyeball.  There I could hand deliver 1200 pages of documentation that will provide you with the evidence you say isn't there.
 

Alternatively, you could fly to Houston.  I could introduce to you the private investigator, Gregory Howard Walker, the U.S. Postal Inspector turned lawyer and security expert recommended to us by Bronislaw Mogenis, Lockheed Martin's security advisor, and his daughter to find for us the last person our son saw that night.....Careen.....which Walker took six months to find, was not the right one, charged us thousands and then became the head of airport security for Bush International, Hobby and Ellington Airports.  Julie Mogenis, a Houston judge and former FBI agent like her father was nearly killed in a rare hunting accident in Utopia, Texas....no Utopia here, my friend.
 

We can visit the Fire Department that responded to the call on December 10, 2000 and ask William E. King, Jim Bath's lawyer and partner in Southwest Airport Services just why he and his associates at Bracewell & Giuliani are seeking to privatize the fireman's pension fund.
 

I can take you to visit the boat that our son was on that night....a boat owned by Halliburton executive William R. Breland, sold to his son-in-law, Thomas Hajecate, who was indicted and convicted in Operation Lone Star that had been used in money laundering and capital flight.....in the textbook by Professor Ingo Walter at Columbia University, The Secret Money Market, 1990.  I can show you the Bin Laden's airport site that is now a subdivision and the house along the tarmac I tracked to parties from the boat that night.  We can go to Dallas and put to Buck Revell why the FINCEN investigation went dormant in 1991-92!

I can show you the photos of Patrick's uncle fishing with William E. King in Alaska and his denials that he knows him!

 

I can show you.....well....there's so much.....you'll be writing a corrective to your article on Webb and praying to whatever journalistic deity you worship for less transparency or forgiveness!

This may well give you and the WP the story you need to regain your credibility! .

WHC



     Additionally, the FinCEN Investigation, the FBI's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network was investigating William E. King's business partner, James Reynolds Bath, in 1992 because he was a director of the Bank of Commerce and Credit International or BCCI often referred to those investigating the Iran-Contra scandal as the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals". 
     In 1992 the investigation into Bath's business dealings essentially received a "stand down" order.  The Houston Chronicle covered the story, but did not delve into just why so little was subsequently done with FinCEN investigation.  Today a number of online sites chronicle the great work of FinCEN and its year-to-year accomplishments, but without discussing the BCCI and Iran-Contra connections.

Houston Chronicle June 4 1992:
"Federal authorities are investigating the activities of a Houston businessman -- a past investor in companies controlled by a son of President Bush -- who has been accused of illegally representing Saudi interests in the United States. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network -- known as FinCEN -- and the FBI are reviewing accusations that entrepreneur James R. Bath guided money to Houston from Saudi investors who wanted to influence U.S. policy under the Reagan and Bush administrations, sources close to the investigations say. FinCEN, a division of the U.S. Department of Treasury, investigates money laundering. Special agents and analysts from various law enforcement agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Customs Service, are assigned to work with the FinCEN staff. The federal review stems in part from court documents obtained through litigation by Bill White, a former real estate business associate of Bath. White contends the documents indicate that the Saudis were using Bath and their huge financial resources to influence U.S. policy. Such representation by Bath would require that he be registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Department of Justice. In general, people required by law to be registered are those who represent a foreign entity seeking to influence governmental action or policy.
     An Annapolis graduate and former Navy fighter pilot, White, 46, claims that Bath and the judicial system, under the veil of national security, have blackballed him professionally and financially because he has refused to keep quiet about what he regards as a conspiracy to secretly funnel Saudi dollars to the United States. White became entangled in a series of lawsuits and countersuits with Bath, who for some six years has prevailed in the courts. White says the legal action has financially devasted him and Venturcorp Inc., the real estate development company in which he and Bath were partners. In sworn depositions, Bath said he represented four prominent Saudis as a trustee and that he would use his name on their investments. In return, he said, he would receive a 5 percent interest in their deals. (George W.) Bush said that to his knowledge, Bath's investment was from personal funds, and no Saudi money was invested in Arbusto. Bath, 55, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, declined to comment for the record. Spokesmen for FinCEN and the FBI also declined to comment. According to a 1976 trust agreement, drawn shortly after Bush was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Sheik Salem M. Binladen appointed Bath as his business representative in Houston.
     Binladen, along with his brothers, owns Binladen Brothers Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the Middle East. According to White, Bath told him that he had assisted the CIA in a liaison role with Saudi Arabia since 1976. Bath has previously denied having worked for the CIA. In a sworn deposition, Bath said he was the sole director of Skyway Aircraft Leasing Ltd., a company that a court document shows is owned by Khaled bin Mahfouz. Bin Mahfouz had been a major shareholder in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a banking empire that has been accused of money laundering and of using Mideast oil money to seek ties to political leaders in several countries. Mahfouz and his family own the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia. In 1990, Bath bought the Express Auto Park garage at Hobby Airport for $8.4 million, which included a $1.4 million loan provided by Mahfouz, according to transaction documents. Bath received a 5 percent interest in the companies that own and operate Houston Gulf Airport after purchasing it on behalf of Binladen in 1977. After Binladen died in 1988, his interests in the airport were taken over by Mahfouz, according to court documents.
Houston Chronicle Sept 10 1994
     A key figure in the world's largest banking scandal is participating in an attempt to take control of a major city of Houston aviation contractor, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court here. National Commercial Bank-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (NCB), which is controlled by the family of Sheik Khalid Bin Mahfouz, has claimed rights to 90 percent of the outstanding shares of Southwest Airport Services, according to documents accompanying the lawsuit filed by Sandra C. Bath, president of Southwest Airport Services.
     Southwest Airport Services provides fuel and other services for general aviation aircraft at the city-owned Ellington Field. The company also provides fuel to NASA and transient military aircraft, and to Air Force One, the president's plane, when it comes to Houston. Bath filed the lawsuit against the bank and her former husband, James R. Bath, a local entrepreneur.
     "Mr. Mahfouz, as owner of National Commercial Bank, hopes to accommodate Mr. Bath's desire to assume control of Southwest Airport Services Inc., and treat it as his personal piggy-bank as he has done over the preceding several years,'' says the lawsuit.



     Jerry Urban, another Houston Chronicle reporter, would cover on June 4, 1992 in the article "FBI Investigates Entrepreneur Allegedly Tied to Saudis," in which Urban essentially covers the "stand down" order on the investigation of GWB's National Guard roommate.  Urban wrote:

     Bath , 55, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, declined to comment for the record. Spokesmen for FinCEN and the FBI also declined to comment.

     According to a 1976 trust agreement, drawn shortly after Bush was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Sheik Salem M. Binladen appointed Bath as his business representative in Houston. Binladen, along with his brothers, owns Binladen Brothers Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the Middle East.

     According to White, Bath told him that he had assisted the CIA in a liaison role with Saudi Arabia since 1976. Bath has previously denied having worked for the CIA.

     In a sworn deposition, Bath said he was the sole director of Skyway Aircraft Leasing Ltd., a company that a court document shows is owned by Khaled bin Mahfouz. Bin Mahfouz had been a major shareholder in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a banking empire that has been accused of money laundering and of using Mideast oil money to seek ties to political leaders in several countries. Mahfouz and his family own the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia.

In 1990, Bath bought the Express Auto Park garage at Hobby Airport for $8.4 million, which included a $1.4 million loan provided by Mahfouz, according to transaction documents. Bath received a 5 percent interest in the companies that own and operate Houston Gulf Airport after purchasing it on behalf of Binladen in 1977. After Binladen died in 1988, his interests in the airport were taken over by Mahfouz, according to court documents.

 

     Urban fails to mention that Bath's new business partner Saudi Sheik Salem M. Binladen, Ossama's older brother, died in 1988 in Cibolo, Texas in an inexplicable crash of an ultra-light airplane at an airport flying what CBS 60 Minutes' star reporter, Lowell Bergman, known for his role in The Insider, reported was Salem's BAC-111 jet.   Bergman's story corrected the glaring error, but when?   Patrick Carr, received a phone call from a "friend" shortly before his death whose family owns property next to the Cibolo, Texas airport where Salem died, an airport now owned by a retired head of the National Reconnaissance Office and Commander of Offuts Air Force Base.

     As Jeff Leen's attack on Gary Webb disclosed and as the general disregard for the testimony of former CIA agents like John Robert Stockwell make clear, there is a veil of secrecy that is protected by the U.S. mainline media.   Mary Mapes and Dan Rather's 2004 "Memogate" story seems to be taking on that veil of secrecy, but at a deeper level their actions supported it.  While there have been some like Columbia University  grad and Yale University insider, Alfred W. McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972) which became the 2nd Edition, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (1991), who provide a type of pressure release valve to journalists like Coll, Loeb, Leen and others who  can point to their work as evidence that there has been no lack of stories on CIA participation in the drug trade, even this acts as firewall to the dark alliances by pushing back the evidence into the distant past while serious investigative reporters like Webb and Brewton took on the immediacy of the story and paid the price.   Brewton's story did not connect the dots to the drug trade as did Webb, however, put together their stories were a lightening bolt for which they would not received as many accolades as has Alfred W. McCoy who has received Yale's Wilbur Lucus Cross Medal, but then their reporting was significantly more pedestrian and volatile disallowing for the management of the storyline upon which the mainline media depends as a tool of propaganda. 

     Front line reporters like Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News and Bill Steward of ABC who differed from Webb only in the fact that his murder was caught on camera, pay the heaviest price for defending the U.S. Fourth Estate.  Others are rewarded as "evidence" that "responsible" reporting is carried out by highly decorated academicians, while reporters like Webb or Steward die.    As a corrective to this well-managed worldview which the mainline media protects, readers need to be reminded that Henry Kissinger received a Nobel Peace Prize while Robert Merton whose Black Scholes formulas tanked the U.S. economy in 2008 received a Nobel Prize for economics.

    Increasingly people are turning to open source reporting for the truth.  For example, open source reporting has become a valuable tool for understanding why in 1992 the FinCEN investigation into James Reynolds Bath's (GWB's Air National Guard Roommate)  relationship to the Saudi royal banker, Khalid Bin Mahfouz, was largely abandoned by the U.S. law enforcement entities also investigating the BCCI or Bank of Commerce and Credit International scandal.

    From this open source reporting the processes of imperial propaganda can be clearly seen.  For example, the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt which spawned Al Qaeda as freedom fighters for the Afghans against the Russians which ultimately backfired in 911 found the American University in Cairo thriving under the protection of Hosni Mubarak.  One of BCCI's other leading personalities, Kamal Adham, funded the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in 1985.  While Kamal Adham was convicted in the BCCI scandal, later in 2008 he was given a lucrative contract to supply jet fuel for the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.  The American University of Cairo is a private university whose President is Lisa Anderson, the former James Shotwell Professor of International Relations at Columbia University, the bastion of applied psychology and sociology in the U.S. where Steve Coll, formerly Jeff Leen's and Vernon Loeb's editor at the Washington Post, had become the Henry Luce Professor of Journalism and Dean of the Columbia Journalism School.   Passing through the halls of Cairo's American University was fellow Pulitzer Prize winner with Steve Coll, Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower about 911 and which avoids the toughest questions related to the entire 911 catastrophe.  Wright had worked for the U.S. State Department at the United Nations when George Herbert Walker Bush was U.N. Ambassador.