And the U.S. squints and says “Hanh? GAG ORDER?”
BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
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By Jane Corbin
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Waxman: “It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history.”
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A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
The BBC’s Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.
A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.
War profiteering
While Presdient George W Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.
To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq.
The president’s Democratic opponents are keeping up the pressure over war profiteering in Iraq.
Henry Waxman, who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform, said: “The money that’s gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, it’s egregious.
“It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history.”
(UPDATE! Now we have photos of the “NOT Cheney!”)
UPDATE: Where did this information come from, anyway? The link below outlines selected information from papers received by Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at the US House of Representatives, between Friday 16th May 2008 and Monday 26th May 2008. This information was provided by Dr. Sue Arrigo (California Medical License G 50197), a Two-Star General seconded to the Pentagon from the CIA between October 2003 and July 2004.
Someone has set loose the hounds on Halliburton. Meanwhile, Cheney has been “detained” in his so-called undisclosed location. Personally, I hope he’s being waterboarded but hey thats just me being bitter.
HOW BUSH, CHENEY RIPPED OFF THE CIA AND THE PENTAGON
HALLIBURTON SCAMMING OPERATIONS SET UP INSIDE BOTH ORGANISATIONS
Monday 26 May 2008 19:09
INTERNAL STEALING STRUCTURES ESTABLISHED UNDER BUSH’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS
RAPIDLY WIDENING SCOPE OF EXPOSURE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS
STAGGERING BREACHES OF NATIONAL SECURITY DUE TO CHENEY’S CORRUPTION
168 CIA DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO CHENEY’S BLACKMAILED HALLIBURTON SCAMSTERS
PLUS: UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS
(I would NOT want a job as Cheney’s body double!)
It’s interesting, the information coming out on the Cheney “doubles.” I’ve always been suspicious of some photographs purporting to contain images of Cheney. He simply looks too young, too upright for him to be the real deal. We know the man is practically at death’s door, a stooped-over troll with a failing ticker and a bad attitude, so why do they always choose younger, healthier actors to play his part? “Public image?” Really people? Do we want SO badly to believe our leaders are “strong” that we won’t even notice an obvious plant? Come on, people: Deep down we KNOW the man is really a fleet of Malfunctioning Cyborgs!!!
(Not a convincing double, IMHO. Were they in a rush to find someone?)
THE TEN-GALLON HAT EPISODE
On Wednesday 21st May, a ‘Cheney’, sporting a ten-gallon hat’ was reported by Associated Press, well known to be a US Government mouthpiece, to have addressed 200 graduating Coastguard cadet officers at the 127th commencement ceremony at the US Coast Guard Academy. Also on the podium was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (Reichsminister Hermann Goering).
(Actually, the hat looks ridiculous. Whose stupid idea was it anyway?)
Unterreichsführer Cheney does not wear hats, and neither does he stand upright. He is ‘vertically challenged’ and is rather stout. The ‘gentleman’ under the ten-gallon hat stood up straight and was somewhat thinner than the latter-day Himmler is known to be. The wearer of the ten-gallon hat was greeted with ‘a thunderous 19-gun salute. A jet and helicopter flew over as cadets tossed their hats in the air’. Himmler did not follow suit in order not to blow his cover (so to speak).
(The REAL Cheney does not wear hats)
To give them their due, certain members of the Fourth Estate thought there was ‘something funny’ about the Unterreichsführer double’s headgear . . . Asked to comment by the Editor of this service, a veteran US analyst ‘with connections’ whom we have known for many years responded to us on 23rd May at 00:50 UK time in the following vein, having studied the video images in question:
‘Here are a few comments regarding Cheney’s ten-gallon hat and here is my take on the chapeau. This guy’s performing a balancing act as a Cheney double. I have seen numerous photos and this Cheney is thinner and is not stupped over with a hump in his back when he walks. Furthermore the double’s head didn’t match Cheney’s so they affixed a Texas-style bonnet on it and viola! Only a long-horned steer could tell the difference by the stink!’
It’s not just Cheney, either. They’ve all got body doubles, for obvious security reasons, I mean, who DOESN’T want to see these guys assassinated? There are (were?) at least two Henry Paulsons running around the globe talking smack about our doomed economy. There’s a Hillary who looks much younger and more well rested than the “regulation” Hillary. There’s the Hillary with the mole by her lip, and the Hillary without it. There’s that smooth Texas-talkin’ dancin’ and conductin’ G.W. Bush and that somnambulant, jerky, babbling fuck.
Here’s my HPS Theory of the Day: Why does Shrub act as though he doesn’t have a care in the world? Because you’re looking at an actor playing his part, while the real G.W. Bush 1) is already dead, or 2) cowers in an undisclosed location, hiding from a sniper’s bullet. It’s elementary my dears.
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The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // May 29, 2008 at 12:20 am
From the same source . . .
UPDATE: 5.15pm 28th May: We hear from several of our own sources (not web sources) that it is being suggested that the Unterreichsführer is ‘ill’. We predict that this is how Cheney’s ’situation’ will be ‘handled’. Otherwise, surely, the phrases ‘handcuffs’ and ‘cockroaches’ would have to apply, especially in the light of the kind of information summarised below, of which (we are told), more is in the pipeline. Interesting, isn’t it, how once the key perpetrators’ sell-by date has been exceeded, their services (if not also their person) are peremptorily dispensed with. Some roaches are harder to exterminate than others, especially those roaches that feed other roaches in the food chain.
••UPDATE, 7.30pm 28th May: At about 6.15pm we received confirmation from very knowledgeable, American FINANCIAL sources to the effect that ‘what you posted (on 26th May) is’ quote ‘almost 100% accurate’. Furthermore, the Editor was informed that this corruption was ‘known about’ and indeed underlay a determination in certain circles that this nexus of scandalous practices could not be allowed to continue. The sources for this confirmation are of the highest calibre.
Hedonisticpleasureseeker // June 3, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Update June2, 2008, from the same source:
Given that the criminalised US intelligence community cannot stuff the genie back into the bottle, thanks to the massive kick in the pants it was given by (yes) the (’unexpected’) exposures of its criminality on this website, it is working overtime to disguise its vulnerability by manufacturing OBFUSCATION red herrings, of which many more will surface in the immediate future.
These ‘lines’ will all have one single objective: TO MASK/OBFUSCATE THE CONCLUSION OF THE SETTLEMENTS and to HIDE the horrendous struggle that is taking place behind the scenes which the Editor knows resulted in an EXPLOSION on Monday the 2nd June when the absolute, absolute, final deadline for the Settlements was again torpedoed, it is believed by Cheney (who did a deal: earlier reports to that effect were true. He turned up at Richmond last week accompanied by a large Gestapo force which was clearly deployed to protect him. Amazing!).
This led to exchanges by certain countries with the United States which can only be described as liable, if not met with appropriate action by the US criminalists, to yield horrendous consequences.
Hedonisticpleasureseeker // June 3, 2008 at 9:10 pm
http://www.worldreports.org/news/136_british_police_raid_private_safety_deposit_boxes
UPDATE, 7.30pm UK time, 3rd June 2008: This is clearly a huge operation. This afternoon there was heavy police presence in the Park Lane area, with streets adjacent to the big hotels cordoned off. Physical removal of the lock boxes, including massive walk-in vaults, to a secret location, indicates that British police have taken the special precaution of making it impossible for the ‘crime scene’ information to be tampered with. By removing the lock boxes in their entirety from the addresses that have been raided, it is impossible for intelligence/organised crime desperados to interfere.
That this would be likely arises from the fact that, following this posting, we have established that it was indeed in Mayfair, Central London, that many of the stolen assets et al. used as the basis for launching the open-ended fiat-financial criminality in the second half of the 1980s, were located.
Given that Safe Deposit Centres Limited was established in Mayfair at around that time, there can be little doubt that this police operation is indeed DIRECTLY CONNECTED to the ongoing cleanup offensive that has been ‘in the works’ for two years, at least. Moreover the timing of the UK raids can be interpreted as signalling to the intelligence-linked criminalist cadres that the international financial community, however compromised itself in part by these criminals, has had enough of this free-wheeling organised crime hiding behind arrogant, over-powerful official structures.
That the timing is especially significant will become evident in the near future, we believe.
And that in turn should be interpreted as a signal to the den of iniquity at Langley to ‘clean up its act’ because it has blown not only its cover, but the patience of the Rest of the World as well.
Hedonisticpleasureseeker // June 4, 2008 at 5:10 pm
UPDATE, 4.15pm UK time, 4th June 2008: Today’s UK press contains ZERO further information on the lock box raids conducted by 300 armed police, reported below, on addresses in Mayfair, Central London, and in Hampstead and Edgware, Northwest London. Furthermore, we understand from US sources that there has been ZERO coverage of this operation in the US media.
The way the Editor interprets this silence is that, after we identified this massive operation against lock boxes as a critical element of a huge ongoing operation to close down the intelligence sector-organised criminal financial corruption, or to severely wound the head of the serpent, a decision was taken to suppress further open media reports on the subject.
That deduction presupposes that the raids are indeed DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE ROLLING-UP ACTIVITY THAT IS TAKING PLACE behind the scenes, which has geopolitical implications.
For instance, the South African connection opens the door into an explanation of the capitulation of South Africa, and of the offensive against Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe. Since Bush Sr.’s operation was running this financial corruption through South Africa in conformity with the long-range offensive against Britain masterminded by Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, Dachau, we can now begin at last to comprehend the fundamentals of Pan-German (Nazi) long-range strategy against the hated ‘Main Enemy’ (even though the offensive has been run by part of the ‘Main Enemy’ since Bush Sr. was Director of Central Intelligence and then President of the United States) and to start to understand the central role of financial corruption in the realisation of long-range Nazi strategic objectives.
Since the methodology is replicated in the European Union context (where financial corruption is likewise the primary driving force), the Editor will have more to say on these parallels in future reports on this website. For the time being, the message is: the SUDDEN cessation of reporting on the massive armed police raids in London provides further confirmation of their huge significance.
Hedonisticpleasureseeker // June 12, 2008 at 4:04 pm
http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman06112008.html
Now Counterpunch is covering it . . .
Exposing Pentagon and CIA Corruption
In August 2001, DCI George Tenet told her to assemble “a moving van full of Pentagon documents showing Defense Contractor kickbacks to Pentagon officials.” She did as instructed but not to expose corruption as she learned – to conceal it and in her judgment so CIA could divert defense business to Halliburton and “Carlyle-related contractors.” She stated: “The mood at the CIA and Pentagon was ‘war is coming’ because the Bush Family stands to make billions from it — so get ready.”
Arrigo worked at CIA for over 30 years and reported directly to Tenet. But she wasn’t prepared for what she found – a new section at the Agency without her knowledge. It employed 40 people, all working for Halliburton “while being paid by the US taxpayer as if they were CIA.” It was secret. No files were on them. They were never interviewed, never vetted, and she concluded: “CIA had a back door in its security to let Halliburton put anyone they wanted in (its) hallways. It was an outrageous (breach) of US National Security,” and in a post-9/11 “war on terrorism” climate.
She was shocked and told Tenet. His reply: “Yes, I know.” Head of CIA building security also knew. Arrigo asked what he’d do about it. His answer: “Keep my mouth shut so I can stay alive and I suggest you do the same.”
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