WHICH KERRY DO YOU LIKE?
http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200401260838.asp
RICH LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW - Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General
John Ashcroft for violating American civil liberties with his evil tool,
the Patriot Act. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock
in the night," Kerry huffs. "So it is time to end the era of John
Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that
protects our people and our liberties at the same time." Maybe Kerry
should have thought about that before voting for the Patriot Act in 2001
- since laws and liberties are pretty important and all.
Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean,
Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he
said on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the
members of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary
Committee. I congratulate them and thank them for that work." While
supportive of "sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself
"pleased at the compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism
legislation." These are not the words of a man about to help inaugurate
an era of brown-shirt law enforcement.
John Kerry, A.D. (After Dean), attacks President Bush's No Child Left
Behind Act as "one-size-fits-all testing mania." Worse, according to
Kerry, "By signing the No Child Left Behind Act and then breaking his
promise by not giving schools the resources to help meet new standards,
George Bush has undermined public education and left millions of
children behind." The funding charge is a canard - overall spending on
education under Bush is up 65 percent - but it gives Kerry a way to join
the Dean-led assault on the act, which he voted for - enthusiastically.
"This is groundbreaking legislation," John Kerry, B.D. (Before Dean),
gushed on the Senate floor, "that enhances the federal government's
commitment to our nation's public education system ... and embraces many
of the principles and programs that I believe are critical to improving
the public education system." He didn't just support the bill, he took
credit for it: "Last year I worked with 10 of my Democratic colleagues
to introduce legislation that would help break the stalemate and move
beyond the tired, partisan debates of the past. Our education proposal
became the foundation of the bill before us today."
As for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the target of Dean and
other liberal critics, Kerry promises to "fix it." The agreement
supposedly doesn't do enough to keep Mexico from employing low-wage
workers, thus encouraging jobs to leave the United States and depressing
wages here. True to form, he used to love the trade deal. "NAFTA is not
the problem," he explained in 1993. "Job loss is taking place without
NAFTA."
Elsewhere:
AMY GOODDMAN: Senator Kerry -- quick question. You said that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons when other nations wouldn't try. What intelligence was that based on?
JOHN KERRY: I don't know what report -- I don't know what you are talking about.
AMY GOODDMAN: You said Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons.
JOHN KERRY: When did I say that? I don't recall. I don't know.
AMY GOODDMAN: You said he was developing chemical and biological weapons.
JOHN KERRY: I never said he was developing nuclear. I believe I said --
AMY GOODDMAN: You said, why is Saddam Hussein attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
JOHN KERRY: Attempting to, because he did. He did attempt to.
AMY GOODDMAN: According to intelligence, Iraq has chemical and biological weapons.
JOHN KERRY: Say it again?
AMY GOODDMAN: You said according to intelligence, Iraq has biological and chemical weapons.
JOHN KERRY: That's what we were told. Right.
AMY GOODDMAN: Is that intelligence wrong? Do you think Bush -- you made a wrong statement, then? Because Kucinich at the time was saying no credible sources were there, but you are saying --
JOHN KERRY: I'm sorry, we're going to have to do --
JEREMY SCAHILL: Amy was then told by Kerry's people to stop asking questions and the press could ask them later. But when she asked if there would be an avail after the event, press lingo for press availability, Kerry's staffers conceded that there would be none. We persisted in our questioning of Kerry on this issue.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Senator Kerry, why did you say that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction?
STAFFER: We have to get the Apollo crew in here.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Answer the question, senator Kerry. Why did you accuse Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction?
Rand Beers
Rand Beers was on Bush's National Security Council until he quit in 2003 and became the foreign policy spokesperson for the Kerry Presidential Campaign. Journalist Michael Ruppert calls this the handing of the torch from the Bush administration to his intended replacement, who is Bush's blood brother in the Skull and Bones secret society.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/032503_perfect_storm_2.html
from THE PERFECT STORM - Part II by Michael Ruppert
As resignations of outraged civil servants are stacking up on both sides of the Atlantic like freshly cut firewood, the Bush administration was also seriously hurt by the resignation of the top Bush National Security Council official in charge of terrorism, Rand Beers. A March 19 UPI story, while repeating the Bush administration position that Beers' resignation was not because of administration deceit and vanishing credibility, left no doubt that Beers, widely respected in Washington, was just plain fed up and possibly sensing a sinking ship.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html
from Beyond Bush II, by Michael Ruppert
A key sign that Kerry might be the anointed one came for me when George W. Bush's chief counter-terrorism adviser Rand Beers resigned in a dramatic moment last June, in protest over Bush's handling of the war on terror and his headlong rush into Iraq. Beers immediately became Kerry's senior foreign policy advisor, as Kerry continued to state that he would improve on and expand the war on terror. Beers' protestations concealed what I considered to be a much more sinister objective, the placement of a key, hands-on operative to manage a smooth transition of power and a continuation of secret policy. Beers, who had served in national security roles for three Republican administrations, was the man who had replaced Lt. Col. Oliver North after North was fired in 1987 during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Although Beers is not listed as a [Council on Foreign Relations] member he was a key contributor, and acknowledged in a 1996 CFR report "Making Intelligence Smarter" produced by a CFR panel headed by AIG Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Narconews publisher Al Giordano refers to Beers as a "CFR type". One thing is certain, Rand Beers committed perjury right after 9/11 by testifying before Congress that Colombian and Ecuadorian rebels had links to Al Qaeda. He got caught and had to go back and amend his testimony and retract the statement. Sound familiar? Giordano caught that and actually published Beers' retraction under oath at http://www.narconews.com/beersperjury1.html.
http://www.narconews.com/beersperjury1.html
September 10, 2002
Narco News '02
Beers "Corrects" Falsehood Under Oath in Dyncorp Case
I made the following statement: "It is believed that FARC terrorists have received training at Al Qaida terrorist camps in Afghanistan." I wish to strike this sentence.
Narco News Commentary: Under oath and "the penalties and pains of perjury" last November, Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers made a blatantly false statement, toying with the emotions of American citizens after the aerial attacks of September 11th to try to justify, of all things, aerial herbicide attacks on Ecuadoran peasant farmers near the Colombia border.
Now he swears under oath that his outrageous and shocking statement was false.
Thus, a high official of the U.S. government had to admit in court that he had committed perjury; lied under oath to the same court.
Narco News has obtained a copy of the State Department fixer's "correction" filed in the court case by Ecuadoran farmers against Dyncorp, the company contracted to attack them.
Michael Ruppert on Kerry's "investigation" of drug scandals
I have a long history with Kerry. Back in 1986, 1987, and 1988, I was in contact with his office and his chief of staff Jonathan Winer on a number of occasions about CIA drug trafficking. They eagerly asked for any material I could send them and gave me a direct line. It was one of my most bitter lessons about how hot issues are controlled. Kerry, in charge of the potentially explosive Iran-Contra drug hearings succeeded in producing a 1,200-page record that was a treasure trove of information for researchers, but absolutely useless in unraveling a corruption that controls the US government to this day. What lies buried in those pages was enough to have turned the American political system inside out. In the end, its greatest usefulness was as a benchmark against which to compare the CIA's investigation of itself after the 1996 Dark Alliance stories and hard revelations of CIA connections to cocaine smuggling that Kerry knew all about anyway. Those of us close to the issue took the lemons Kerry had left us and made lemonade, as we forced the CIA Inspector General to reconcile his 1998 report with what we already knew was in Kerry's.
And still - as intended - nothing changed. John Kerry had successfully contained what was, up to that time, the biggest scandal in American history.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html
http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200401260838.asp
RICH LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW - Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General
John Ashcroft for violating American civil liberties with his evil tool,
the Patriot Act. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock
in the night," Kerry huffs. "So it is time to end the era of John
Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that
protects our people and our liberties at the same time." Maybe Kerry
should have thought about that before voting for the Patriot Act in 2001
- since laws and liberties are pretty important and all.
Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean,
Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he
said on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the
members of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary
Committee. I congratulate them and thank them for that work." While
supportive of "sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself
"pleased at the compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism
legislation." These are not the words of a man about to help inaugurate
an era of brown-shirt law enforcement.
John Kerry, A.D. (After Dean), attacks President Bush's No Child Left
Behind Act as "one-size-fits-all testing mania." Worse, according to
Kerry, "By signing the No Child Left Behind Act and then breaking his
promise by not giving schools the resources to help meet new standards,
George Bush has undermined public education and left millions of
children behind." The funding charge is a canard - overall spending on
education under Bush is up 65 percent - but it gives Kerry a way to join
the Dean-led assault on the act, which he voted for - enthusiastically.
"This is groundbreaking legislation," John Kerry, B.D. (Before Dean),
gushed on the Senate floor, "that enhances the federal government's
commitment to our nation's public education system ... and embraces many
of the principles and programs that I believe are critical to improving
the public education system." He didn't just support the bill, he took
credit for it: "Last year I worked with 10 of my Democratic colleagues
to introduce legislation that would help break the stalemate and move
beyond the tired, partisan debates of the past. Our education proposal
became the foundation of the bill before us today."
As for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the target of Dean and
other liberal critics, Kerry promises to "fix it." The agreement
supposedly doesn't do enough to keep Mexico from employing low-wage
workers, thus encouraging jobs to leave the United States and depressing
wages here. True to form, he used to love the trade deal. "NAFTA is not
the problem," he explained in 1993. "Job loss is taking place without
NAFTA."
Elsewhere:
AMY GOODDMAN: Senator Kerry -- quick question. You said that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons when other nations wouldn't try. What intelligence was that based on?
JOHN KERRY: I don't know what report -- I don't know what you are talking about.
AMY GOODDMAN: You said Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons.
JOHN KERRY: When did I say that? I don't recall. I don't know.
AMY GOODDMAN: You said he was developing chemical and biological weapons.
JOHN KERRY: I never said he was developing nuclear. I believe I said --
AMY GOODDMAN: You said, why is Saddam Hussein attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
JOHN KERRY: Attempting to, because he did. He did attempt to.
AMY GOODDMAN: According to intelligence, Iraq has chemical and biological weapons.
JOHN KERRY: Say it again?
AMY GOODDMAN: You said according to intelligence, Iraq has biological and chemical weapons.
JOHN KERRY: That's what we were told. Right.
AMY GOODDMAN: Is that intelligence wrong? Do you think Bush -- you made a wrong statement, then? Because Kucinich at the time was saying no credible sources were there, but you are saying --
JOHN KERRY: I'm sorry, we're going to have to do --
JEREMY SCAHILL: Amy was then told by Kerry's people to stop asking questions and the press could ask them later. But when she asked if there would be an avail after the event, press lingo for press availability, Kerry's staffers conceded that there would be none. We persisted in our questioning of Kerry on this issue.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Senator Kerry, why did you say that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction?
STAFFER: We have to get the Apollo crew in here.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Answer the question, senator Kerry. Why did you accuse Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction?
Rand Beers
Rand Beers was on Bush's National Security Council until he quit in 2003 and became the foreign policy spokesperson for the Kerry Presidential Campaign. Journalist Michael Ruppert calls this the handing of the torch from the Bush administration to his intended replacement, who is Bush's blood brother in the Skull and Bones secret society.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/032503_perfect_storm_2.html
from THE PERFECT STORM - Part II by Michael Ruppert
As resignations of outraged civil servants are stacking up on both sides of the Atlantic like freshly cut firewood, the Bush administration was also seriously hurt by the resignation of the top Bush National Security Council official in charge of terrorism, Rand Beers. A March 19 UPI story, while repeating the Bush administration position that Beers' resignation was not because of administration deceit and vanishing credibility, left no doubt that Beers, widely respected in Washington, was just plain fed up and possibly sensing a sinking ship.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html
from Beyond Bush II, by Michael Ruppert
A key sign that Kerry might be the anointed one came for me when George W. Bush's chief counter-terrorism adviser Rand Beers resigned in a dramatic moment last June, in protest over Bush's handling of the war on terror and his headlong rush into Iraq. Beers immediately became Kerry's senior foreign policy advisor, as Kerry continued to state that he would improve on and expand the war on terror. Beers' protestations concealed what I considered to be a much more sinister objective, the placement of a key, hands-on operative to manage a smooth transition of power and a continuation of secret policy. Beers, who had served in national security roles for three Republican administrations, was the man who had replaced Lt. Col. Oliver North after North was fired in 1987 during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Although Beers is not listed as a [Council on Foreign Relations] member he was a key contributor, and acknowledged in a 1996 CFR report "Making Intelligence Smarter" produced by a CFR panel headed by AIG Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Narconews publisher Al Giordano refers to Beers as a "CFR type". One thing is certain, Rand Beers committed perjury right after 9/11 by testifying before Congress that Colombian and Ecuadorian rebels had links to Al Qaeda. He got caught and had to go back and amend his testimony and retract the statement. Sound familiar? Giordano caught that and actually published Beers' retraction under oath at http://www.narconews.com/beersperjury1.html.
http://www.narconews.com/beersperjury1.html
September 10, 2002
Narco News '02
Beers "Corrects" Falsehood Under Oath in Dyncorp Case
I made the following statement: "It is believed that FARC terrorists have received training at Al Qaida terrorist camps in Afghanistan." I wish to strike this sentence.
Narco News Commentary: Under oath and "the penalties and pains of perjury" last November, Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers made a blatantly false statement, toying with the emotions of American citizens after the aerial attacks of September 11th to try to justify, of all things, aerial herbicide attacks on Ecuadoran peasant farmers near the Colombia border.
Now he swears under oath that his outrageous and shocking statement was false.
Thus, a high official of the U.S. government had to admit in court that he had committed perjury; lied under oath to the same court.
Narco News has obtained a copy of the State Department fixer's "correction" filed in the court case by Ecuadoran farmers against Dyncorp, the company contracted to attack them.
Michael Ruppert on Kerry's "investigation" of drug scandals
I have a long history with Kerry. Back in 1986, 1987, and 1988, I was in contact with his office and his chief of staff Jonathan Winer on a number of occasions about CIA drug trafficking. They eagerly asked for any material I could send them and gave me a direct line. It was one of my most bitter lessons about how hot issues are controlled. Kerry, in charge of the potentially explosive Iran-Contra drug hearings succeeded in producing a 1,200-page record that was a treasure trove of information for researchers, but absolutely useless in unraveling a corruption that controls the US government to this day. What lies buried in those pages was enough to have turned the American political system inside out. In the end, its greatest usefulness was as a benchmark against which to compare the CIA's investigation of itself after the 1996 Dark Alliance stories and hard revelations of CIA connections to cocaine smuggling that Kerry knew all about anyway. Those of us close to the issue took the lemons Kerry had left us and made lemonade, as we forced the CIA Inspector General to reconcile his 1998 report with what we already knew was in Kerry's.
And still - as intended - nothing changed. John Kerry had successfully contained what was, up to that time, the biggest scandal in American history.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html
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