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IA, KAPPES , Directorate Of Operations @ Langley HIT BACK.
White House-linked clandestine operations " NEWGATE ".
From Texas to Florida:
White House-linked clandestine operations, paid for "vote switching"
software.
Special Reports .
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html
http://www.outsupport.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52888#52888
Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation, paid for "vote
switching" software.
By Wayne Madsen.
Online Journal Contributing Writer.
December 6, 2004-The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent
presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in
the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial
trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party
politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida
Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program to
suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida
computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and
registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of
Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration.
According to a notarized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis, while he was
employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang Enterprises,
Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a program to "control the
vote." At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be
used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County,
Florida. His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney
became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the
Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.
According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a
company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted the
program, written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) and designed to operate in Windows
and be portable to Unix-based vote tabulation systems, to be "undetectable"
to voters and election supervisors.
Yang, an engineering and computer services company subcontracted to NASA
prime contractors like Lockheed Martin, was founded in 1986 by Dr. Tyng-Lin
(Tim) Yang. Granted minority-owned "Section 8A" and woman-owned preferential
status by the U.S. government, Yang's clients also include the Florida
Department of Transportation (DOT). Yang's President, Li-Woan (Lee) Yang, is
Tim Yang's wife. Feeney was the registered agent for another Yang company, Y
& H Greens, Inc., a company that was dissolved in 1988 and operated from the
Yangs' residence on Merritt Island. The Yangs also serve as co-trustees for
an entity called Yang of Merritt Island, Ltd., founded on January 31, 2000,
and also run from their residence.
In the autumn of 1999, Curtis, who served as a sort of technology adviser
for Yang, first became aware of Feeney's interest in election rigging.
Curtis said at one meeting, Feeney "bragged that he could reduce the
minority vote and deliver the election to 'George.'" At the same meeting,
according to Curtis, Feeney said he had "implemented a list that would
eliminate thousands of voters that would vote for Democratic candidates" and
that "a proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black
vote by as much as 25 percent."
Feeney's desire to manipulate the vote would be manifested in his home base
of Volusia County in the 2000 presidential election. According to The
Washington Post, at 10 p.m. on election night, Al Gore was leading Bush in
Volusia County by 83,000 to 62,000 votes. One-half hour later, Gore's vote
total had been reduced by 16,000 to 67,000 and an obscure Socialist
candidate saw a sudden surge to 10,000 votes in a precinct with only 600
voters. The information on the Volusia optical scanner voting anomalies came
from a leaked internal Diebold memorandum. In the end, Bush won Florida and
the White House by a mere 537 votes in the most controversial U.S.
presidential election in history.
Feeney had long been a voice in Florida GOP politics. He was gubernatorial
candidate Jeb Bush's running mate in 1994, a race in which Democratic
incumbent Lawton Chiles defeated Bush. Chiles once referred to Feeney as
"the David Duke of Florida politics."
In 2002, Feeney asked Curtis if he could develop a touch screen voting
machine "flip flop" program. According to Curtis, Feeney asked him, "Can you
write a program to flip votes around on touch screen machines?" Curtis said
Feeney wanted the program to merely reduce votes in heavily Democratic areas
and flip Republican votes to 51 percent and keep Democrat votes to 49
percent. Curtis added that Feeney "did not want to win by a lot." In return,
Curtis said Feeney offered him "big jobs." Curtis's main tasks at Yang were
to develop the Florida DOT's Electronic Document Management System. He also
worked on the Project Pipeline Information System at another one of Yang's
major clients, Exxon Mobil's Coral Gables facility.
Curtis said he developed the voting program and eventually handed off his
prototype to Feeney. The program was also reviewed by Curtis's senior coder,
Hai Lin (Henry) Nee, who according to Florida Department of Transportation
sources, was an illegal alien working in the United States. According
Curtis, not only did Nee review the vote switching program code but he
constantly downloaded sensitive data to his computer from NASA's computers.
Nee, according to Curtis, moonlighted at an Orlando company called Azure
Systems, described by The Orlando Sentinel as a "three person engineering
firm" and one of a number of companies linked to Ting Ih-Hsu, a former
Lockheed Martin employee. At the same time Nee was reviewing Yang's vote
switching program, he was also being investigated by U.S. federal
investigators for illegally shipping Hellfire missile parts to China. Oddly,
although U.S. law enforcement agents had put Nee and his associates under
surveillance for illegal exports of technology to China in 1999, he and his
colleagues were not arrested until March of this year.
Curtis claimed that Yang's corporate bosses stressed that the company had
"unlimited" sources of money that came "mostly" from China. According to
Florida DOT employees, House Speaker Feeney pressured their agency to give
money to Yang for nonexistent software. The sources also revealed that
Feeney was aware that Yang was employing a number of illegal aliens on State
of Florida and federal contracts.
Feeney's ties to Yang paralleled similar close ties to NASA. Feeney's wife
Ellen has worked as an engineer for NASA's Kennedy Space Center since 1985.
Jeb Bush ensured that Florida's 24th Congressional District was redrawn so
that Feeney would have an easy time in his 2002 race against Democratic
opponent Harry Jacobs. According to Florida state officials, who spoke on
the condition anonymity, 500 Yang employees at the Kennedy Space Center were
paid for their time when they agreed to picket against Jacobs. In addition,
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, according to the same sources, lobbied
extensively for Feeney within NASA. In addition, O'Keefe and his close
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:43:03 +0100, "Mortimer Sacks-Rofman"
<Sacks-Rofman@rocketmail.com> wrote:
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Get a clue. The rest of the world really don't give a crap about
this.
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harlie Wilson's War - The Israeli Jihad Connection.
Charlie Wilson's War:
The Israeli Jihad Connection.
One problem I have had with theories connecting Israel with the
September 11 attacks is the obvious centrality of Pakistan's
intelligence agency, the ISI. This was the agency that
recruited bin Laden and created his persona as an Afghan
warlord and terrorist; it was the ISI that funded the
hijackers. ISI agents predicted the attacks on the World Trade
Center and the collapse of the towers well in advance. Surely
the ISI was pulling the strings, but who was pulling THEIR
strings? Why would leaders of an Islamic state perpetrate an
outrage that could only wreak terrible damage on the Islamic
world? I thought that this lead could only point to the CIA,
which, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had cultivated
the ISI as their most important client and agent. A direct
connection from Israel to the ISI seemed highly unlikely to me.
Boy, was I ever wrong.
I just read "Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile, Grove Press,
NY, 2003. This book presents itself (and has been widely
advertised in the media) as the story of how a wild, womanizing
Texas congressman changed history by becoming the foremost
champion of the CIA campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
However, even a casual reading of the book reveals a completely
different story - the story of how the Mossad used Charlie
Wilson to penetrate the CIA's Afghan campaign, and thereby the
ISI and the Pakistani government at all levels. This is the
story of how Mossad gained control of the artificial Afghan
"jihad" and won that most precious possession a secret service
can obtain - a "controlled opposition."
I should make it very clear that this is not Crile's thesis.
He struggles with a theory of two very different Charlie
Wilsons. One Charlie Wilson "seemed to be little more than
a public joke. He almost never spoke on the House floor. He
wasn't associated with any legislative initiatives." (Crile,
pg. 76) His main claim to fame was as an alcoholic, cocaine-
addicted womanizer. Crile believes that this "persona" was
the "perfect cover" for a second Charlie Wilson, who was a
dedicated, incredibly effective political operator, climbing
the political ladders in Congress at record breaking speed.
While I don't doubt that Wilson is a complex character, the
the elephant in the drawing room has never been more painfully
obvious - in this case so omnipresennt that you can barely
breathe. It's hard even to know where to begin.
Well, let's start with Wilson's very close relationship with
the Israeli embassy's congressional liaison officer, Zvi Rafiah.
According to Crile, "Rafiah is a short, very smart Israeli who
Wilson always believed was a highly placed Mossad agent"
(Crile pg. 31). Wilson's close working relationship with
Rafiah continued even after Rafiah left his diplomatic post
and joined Israeli Military Industries (IMI), Israel's largest
defense company (Crile, pg. 99). There was no doubt about who
was the dominant figure in this partnership:
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Rafiah had always acted as if he owned Wilson's office.
One of the staffers kept a list of people he needed to
lobby. He would use the phones, give projects to the
staff, and call on Charlie to intervene whenever he
needed him. (Crile, pg. 144)
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During the late 1970's and early 1980's Charlie Wilson got
a series of appointments to the key Congressional committees
that controlled funding for all major intelligence and military
projects.
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Getting the Appropriations assignment as a junior
congressman was an amazing political maneuver because his
own Texas delegation opposed it; they backed a Texan with
more seniority ... It was Wilson's Jewish friends who
made it possible. (Crile, pg. 33)
His Jewish friends had helped get him onto the committee;
once there, Chalie learned from these master politicians
how to influence budgets and policies. When he won a
seat on the Foreign Operations subcommittee, which
allocates all U.S. military and economic assistance, he
was suddenly positioned to champion Israel's annual
$3 billion foreign-aid package. (Crile, pg. 77)
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CIA officer Milton Bearden says that in this period Dick Cheney
played a key role in getting Wilson appointed to the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which may suggest
that Cheney was an important player in the pro-Israeli network
even at this point ("The Main Enemy", Milton Bearden,
Ballantine Books, NY, 2003. pg. 277).
The Israelis may have gained Wilson's allegiance in part by
pandering to his appetites. Charlie Wilson was very close with
at least three very beautiful Israeli women, and at least two
of these were put in his path by the Israeli government. One
was "Ziva, a beautiful Israeli ballerina" (Crile, pg. 2). Then
there was "a raven-haired captain in the Israeli Defense Forces.
She was the congressman's official guide to the war zone, and
Wilson's infatuation began on that first trip into the desert
to see the burning Russian tanks" (Crile, pg. 32). Then he was
introduced to Gila Almagor, Israel's leading movie star (Crile,
pg. 32). "By the time he got back to Washington, Wilson had
become, in his own words, 'an Israeli commando' in the U.S.
Congress" (Crile, pg. 32).
As soon as he had gained access to the key Congressional
positions, the "Israeli commando" became obsessed with funding
and controling the CIA's Afhan jihad against the Soviets. In
the words of Milton Bearden, the CIA Field Officer in
Afghanistan at the time, "More than any other member of either
house, Charlie fashioned Congress into the engine that drove
the CIA's program for Afghanistan." (Bearden, pg. 277). Given
what George Crile has revealed about Charlie Wilson's career,
we can substitute "the Mossad" for "Charlie" in the previous
statement. The fingerprints of the Israelis are all over
Wilson's Afghan projects from start to finish. For example,
the famous anti-helicopter missile system Wilson had
specially built for the Mujahideen was designed by the
Israelis. Crile notes in this respect,
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Charlie Wilson was marching himself into a true
forbidden zone. Congressmen are not allowed to
commission a foreign power to design and construct
a weapons system. Nor do they have the authority
to commit the Pentagon to pay for such a weapon.
But these were minor outrages compared to Wilson's
potentially explosive attempt to bring the Israelis
into the Muslim jihad that the CIA was funding
against the Soviets in Afghanistan. (Crile, pg 142)
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In addition to the missile system, the Israelis also
sold Tanks and other weapons systems to Pakistan for use
in the jihad, using Charlie Wilson as an intermediary.
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The Israelis were hoping this deal [involving T-55 Tanks]
would serve as the beginning of a range of under-the-table
understandings with Pakistan that the congressman would
continue to quietly negotiate for them. (Crile, 142)
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Traveling from Israel to Pakistan, Wilson was successful
in selling president Zia on acquiring massive amounts of
Israeli technology and weaponry (Crile,
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