Bill,

Thanks for your prompt and positive response below to my post of earlier
today.

I hope that you and other local media folks will take up this story and make
direct contact with former Bush HUD official Catherine Austin Fitts (cc
above) for her take on local/national/global implications of Enron debacle
in financial, oil, and energy industries, especially Enron Wind whose global
offices Fitts finds interestingly spread with their contact info below for
further inquiry perhaps.

Sorry, Mr. Mead, until now I had your name mixed up with that "don't send me
any more of your crap" Bill Deaver.

BTW, there is a big "local corruption in city government hinders
local/global energy industry story" at the bottom of the upcoming February
foreclosure sale by the City of Tehachapi of the Capital Hills Phase One
properties as per owner John Guthrie, cc above 661-822-0550. Why is the
city accepting foreclosure bids waived of over a decade of the bond taxes,
interest and fees which have been deemed excessive due to original city
contractor calculation error in bond/tax payments while simultaneously
disallowing current owners from bidding at the upcoming foreclosure auction?
Why did the city fail to correct this pre-bond-issue calculation mistake
that mistakenly nearly doubled the taxes on the land in error since 1989
making it impossible to sell the Phase One lots competitively and thus
eventually contributing to forcing present owners into their recently filed
bankruptcy? What about the tape recording John Guthrie has of the former
mayor saying to a witness that "they" were going to force Capital Hills into
bankruptcy and take it over due to its competition with other landowners
with developable land who are "connected" to city government?

This mess is hampering my efforts to put together the Research Center
project in town for development of the New-Energy Technology Solutions at
the forefront of science to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, such as
we are now in process of presenting to CA State energy authorities since
last August via Energy Czar David Freeman and his 1970's congressional
energy crisis hearings colleague Dr. Brian O'Leary PhD who is our project
liaison to possibly pursue some of the $5billion bonding authority of the CA
Power Authority to implement these overdue-for-implementation new-energy
technologies being suppressed by the federal government under "dual-use"
secrecy restrictions -- implementation which former NASA scientist/astronaut
O'Leary is pushing via a $100million/year R&D "New-Energy Apollo Project
crash program" proposal which may include funding for the local research and
production facilities I am proposing here as affiliated with Capital Hills
Research Center.

Why have the Tehachapi News and the Bakersfield Californian consistently
refused to publish an investigative report on this Capital Hills story in
the recent years I have been asking for such?

For an overview of the new-energy technologies story, also see Brian
O'Leary's book, "Miracle in the Void", and/or Canadian journalist Jeane
Manning's book from Avery Publishing, "The Coming Energy Revolution" (see
p.162 for copy of secrecy law/order obtained under FOIA as authority for
"dual-use" secrecy restrictions on the new-energy technologies) which was
called his "favorite book" by local actor/celebrity Charles Napier in a
Bakersfield Californian feature article promoting reading which was
published a year or more ago, a few months after I gave him a copy of that
book just before a city official "kicked me off" the Tehachapi Centennial
committee after I brought this "Capital Hills Skullduggery" info to that
committee's attention.

David Crockett Williams, general agent
[CHRC] Capital Hills Research Center project
Tehachapi, CA 661-822-3309
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capital-hills-california

New-Energy Technology Solutions (info input to CA energy officals 2001-2)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-energy-solutions

New-Energy Tech info input as US DOE Comprehensive National Energy Strategy
[CNES] public comments 1998
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doe-cnes-1998

New-Energy Tech info input to DOE Strategic Plan per DOE request 2000
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/strategic-plan

Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams



----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
To: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Enron Wind....interesting locations...


> http://www.wind.enron.com/inside/contactus.html
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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> USA
> 13000 Jameson Road
> Tehachapi, CA 93561, USA
> T. +1 661 823 6700
> F. +1 661 822 7880
> e-mail: wind@...
>
> 444 S. Flower Street, Suite 4530
> Los Angeles, CA 90071-2946, USA
> T. +1 213 452 4880
> F. +1 213 452 4888
> e-mail: wind@...
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> Birger Jarlsgatan 14
> 11434 Stockholm, Sweden
> T. +46 8 54 50 36 30
> F. +46 8 54 50 36 49
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> Holsterfeld 16
> 48499 Salzbergen, Germany
> T. +49 5971 980 0
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> Boulevard Fleming 1
> Rafina 19009 (Athens)
> Greece
> T. +30 2 94 02 38 05
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From: "Bill Mead" <billy1@...>
To: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
Subject: Re: Enron Windbag) You?! -- "vast right-wing conspiracy"? :-)
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:38 AM

DAVID:

I wish I could answer all the questions posed by your email. I would hope
that in the coming months some of them will be answered. Thanks for your
interest.

Bill Mead
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
To: "Bill Mead" <billy1@...>
Cc: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: (re: Enron Windbag) You?! -- "vast right-wing conspiracy"? :-)


> Dear "Old Overalls", Bill Mead, columnist, Tehachapi News
>
> Cc: Catherine Austin Fitts
> Bcc: local media, TehNews, Bakersfield Californian
>
> Mr. Mead, per invitation at end of your newspaper columns;
>
> Today I read your column, "Enron debacle could leave lasting impact," in
the
> Tehachapi News delivered yesterday and had the fantasy that you might be
> open to testimony from former GHWBush HUD official Catherine Austin Fitts
on
> Enron scandal as it relates to her area of expertise in financial
> data-crunching and her discoveries about scope of global drug money
> corruption and laundering influence on US economy and her discovery of
> trillions of dollars "missing" from key government agencies -- you can
blame
> the liberals perhaps? :-)
>
> Is the Enron debacle, like she says, just another sequel to the BCCI and
> Savings and Loan scandal after that industry's "deregulation".
>
> More "crap" you say? :-)
>
> What impact will this have on Enron Wind Division, formerly Zond
industries,
> headquartered here in Tehachapi? Looks like it's ripe for a looting, er,
> sellout?
>
> Anyone seriously checking the books at Enron Wind?
>
>
> David Crockett Williams
> Golden Hills, Tehachapi CA
>
>
> From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
> To: ["Helen Thomas"];
> "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
> Subject: Catherine Austin Fitts, Updated Articles and Interview Links
> Date: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:19 PM
>
> Ms. Thomas:
>
> Per David Williams' request, below please find links describing my
> background and work.
>
> I am one of your many admirers. If I can be of assistance in any way, do
let
> me know.
>
> Catherine Austin Fitts
> Solari, Inc.
> Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, first Bush Administration
> Former Managing Director, member of the board, Dillion Read & Co
> (now part of UBS Warburg)
> President, Hamilton Securities
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Catherine Austin Fitts
>
> Bio:
> http://www.solari.com/about/ca_fitts.html
>
> Articles and Interviews:
>
> Narco Dollars for Dummies:
>
> http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html
> http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars2.html and
> http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars3.html
>
> The Myth of the Rule of Law: The Destruction of Hamilton Securities:
>
> http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~aahpat/q301.pdf
>
> A Collection of Essays and Articles by Fitts:
>
> http://www.solari.com/gideon/articles/index.html
>
> Transcript of Catherine Austin Fitts visit to Drug Sense Forum:
>
> http://www.mapinc.org/tlcnews/v01/n2024/a03.htm?203
>
> Transcript of Catherine Austin Fitts visit to NY Times Drug Forum
(December
> 2001):
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/national/05DPTRAN.html?searchpv=past7days
>
> Transcript of Catherine Austin Fitts panal participation in NY Times Drug
> Forum (January 2002):
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/readersopinions/07DPTRAN.html
>
> Transcript of Catherine Austin Fitts visit to Black Op Radio #57 -
December
> 20, 2001
>
> REAL AUDIO:
> Part 1:
> http://24.76.144.203/fiasco/black/black57b.ram
>
> Part 2:
> http://24.76.144.203/fiasco/black/black57c.ram
>
>
> Articles about Fitts and Federal Financial Fraud/Money Laundering:
>
> http://www.solari.com/media/articles%20on%20gideon.htm
>
>
> From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
> To: ["Helen Thomas"]
> Cc: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
> Subject: Hamilton vs. Enron Illuminates Real Federal Policies
> Date: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:31 PM
>
>
> Ms. Thomas:
>
> In the case of my company Hamilton, DOJ and their investigators had no
> problem firing the company, seizing our offices, seizing our records prior
> to a possible bankruptcy or sale/transfer of assets or any shredding. We
> have produced documentation that their own investigators had told them
were
> were innocent of any wrongdoing before they took this action.
> Our attorneys had offered them all the assurances necessary to ensure that
> they knew we were fully compliant on all requests from the federal
> government and the federal governments interests were fully provided for.
> There was no need to take any of these actions.
>
> The Hamilton story proves that DOJ and federal investigators know how to
do
> this, even when there is no call for it. However, they are letting Enron
> file for bankruptcy protection,
> shred documents and transfer all their assets and cash offshore --- and
keep
> their federal contracts.
>
> The comparison between the two illuminates the extraordinary corruption of
> the Bush Administration's failure to act.
>
> Memo attached.
>
> [omitted here, see Memo as .doc attachment to post at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/operation-burning-bush/message/2]-dcw
>
> Best,
>
> Catherine Austin Fitts
> Solari
> http://www.solari.com
>
> ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
>
>
> From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
> To: "Helen Thomas"
> Cc: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
> Subject: Fitts: more Bush secrets to protect? Fw: The Enron Mess: Is There
> an Opportunity For Tennessee
> Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:16 PM
>
> Hello Ms. Thomas,
>
> I emailed you before on your column as the "recognized-by-your-peers 'Dean
> of White House Reporters'", with Hearst News Service, about GW Bush's
> reasons for increasing secrecy restrictions on his father's and Reagan's
> administrations papers release.
>
> Thank you for your kind response.
>
> Below new info relates to BIG connection between 41 and 43 who is/are
> keeping ongoing "nearly unfathomable" levels of corruption in government,
> per former GHWBush asst. HUD secty Catherine Austin Fitts below.
>
> Helen, I suggest you interview Catherine, cc above, for your column.
>
> Catherine, please email Helen and better introduce yourself and your wider
> story for her column.
>
> Thanks so very much for your dedication to the truth, both of you
wonderful
> women and leaders in your fields.
>
> David Crockett Williams
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <catherine@...>
> To: "Solari Action Network" <catherine@...>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:53 AM
> Subject: The Enron Mess: Is There an Opportunity For Tennessee
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:catherine@...]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:51 PM
> > To: Karen; Kathy Cober; Mary Ann & John Hughes; Kim Simcox; Kim and
> > Robert Simcox
> > Subject: The Enron Mess: Is There an Opportunity For Tennessee
> >
> >
> > From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:catherine@...]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:42 PM
> > To: Steve McDaniel
> > Cc: Jason Spain; Ken.Scroggs@...
> > The Enron Mess: Is There an Opportunity For Tennessee
> > Taxpayers?
> >
> >
> > To: Steve McDaniel
> > Tennessee State Legislature
> > cc: Congressman Bryant's office, Congressman Clement's office
> >
> > Dear Rep. McDaniel:
> >
> > I know you feel as I do that it is a financial and moral sin for
Tennessee
> > to raise our taxes if we are not going to first ensure that the federal
> and
> > state taxes we already pay are used according to the law and in the
> > reasonable best interest of our taxpayers.
> >
> > Perhaps the Enron situation offers Tennessee an opportunity to make some
> > headway.
> >
> > We can not afford to pay more money, if the current money we give is
being
> > stolen and wasted. As a former Assistant Secretary of Housing in the
first
> > Bush Administration, and a former government contractor in the Clinton
> > Administration, I have presented significant documentation that our
> current
> > money is being stolen and wasted. (see http://www.solari.com).
> > This includes links to numerous articles covering the more than $3
> trillion
> > that GAO indicates is missing from federal agencies from fiscal year
1998
> > through fiscal 2000. We are waiting for the fiscal 2001 statements to
see
> > what additional "missing money is" reported. This includes over $149
> billion
> > missing at HUD alone in fiscal 1998 and fiscal 1999.
> >
> > In Tennessee, approximately 80% of our $5,000 plus per year of federal
> taxes
> > paid by Tennessee taxpayers is appropriated to federal agencies such as
> HUD
> > that can not produce working financial systems and/or audited financial
> > statements (See Senator Thompson's report, Government at the Brink,
> covered
> > in articles in link attached).
> >
> > If 2000, I visited with the chief of staff of Senator Kit Bond, then
> > Chairman of the Senate appropriations for HUD. His staffer asked me what
I
> > thought was going on at HUD. I demurred, asking them what they thought.
> They
> > said, "HUD is being run as a criminal enterprise." Subsequent to that
> > conversation, HUD was voted a new annual appropriations reflecting a
> > significant increase over the prior year. My two Senators, Senator Frist
> and
> > Senator Thompson, and Congressman Ed Bryant voted for it (Per Thomas
> data).
> > I am confident that Senators Frist and Thompson and Congressman Bryant
and
>
> > their staff were fully aware that HUD was a "criminal enterprise" when
> they
> > so voted.
> >
> > This raises the question as to why we need to pay our federal
> > representatives $150,000 plus per year so they can transfer our money to
> > criminal enterprises. There is a point of corruption and waste at which
> > Congress becomes unnecessary and an additional layer of expensive.
> >
> > Today, we found out through the Mitch Daniels letter to GSA (See AP
Story
> > below), that HUD has been and is doing business with another criminal
> > enterprise, Enron. Many of the agencies reporting missing money
according
> to
> > GAO are also doing business with Enron and AA.
> >
> > We also find out that no effort is being made to illuminate contracting
> > relationships between agencies with missing money and Enron board
member
> > companies and affiliates, such as DynCorp and Lockheed. Given that
DynCorp
> > runs the computer and information systems for the SEC and DOJ
> investigators
> > of Enron and has a lead investors and is governed by an Enron executive
> > committeeboard member (Indeed, the board member who chaired the finance
> > committee, Herbert S. Winokur), this leaves the American people with the
> > clear notion that there may be no government left. DynCorp's ethical
> > standards have also been the subject of headline news stories, regarding
> > lawsuits filed by former employees regarding sex slave trafficking of
> > childrena nd women by DynCorp employees.
> >
> > This is of particular concern to me as the Department of Justice and the
> > Securities and Exchange Commission have given Enron, their auditors and
> the
> > vendors lots of time to shred documents, sell and transfer cash and
assets
> > and records and file for bankruptcy protection. As DOJ felt free to
seize
> my
> > offices, records and cash when they knew we were innocent and had not
> shred
> > documents or sold assets or filed for bankruptcy, I know that DOJ knows
> what
> > to do to control the records and get cash when they want to.
> >
> > Looks to me like the federal government is absolutely bailing Enron
> > out ---even now ---by giving them all the time in the world they need to
> get
> > away with the money and destroy the paper trail we need to get the money
> > back.
> >
> > Let me suggest that before we be asked to pay more taxes here in
> Tennessee,
> > that our state legislators have our Tennessee Congressional delegation
> > accomplish the following:
> >
> > A. Require that all federal agencies doing business with Enron and
Arthur
> > Anderson as well as any agencies that have failed to produce audited
> > financial statements or are listed in Senator Thompson's and Congressman
> > Horn's reports has having inadequate financial systems (graded F or D by
> > Horn) be required to post immediately in their website FOIA reading
rooms
> > immediately:
> >
> > 1. Agency wide contract budgets, FY 1997 to date;
> > 2. Copies of all AA and Enron billings, FY 1997 to date
> > 3. Copies of all contracts with Enron and AA,
> > 4. Copies of all contracts and billings with affiliated companies of
> > Enron and AA, including companies that their board member and senior
> > management
> > serve on the board of or have affiliated investment or relations in,
> > including
> > DynCorp and Lockheed.
> > 4. Time table for disclosure by agency and review by GAO and congress of
> FY
> > 2002
> > audited financial statements.
> >
> > B. Produce a financial assessment of the impact on Tennessee taxpayers
of
> > the $3 trillion of missing money from the federal government over the
last
> > three years relative to the amount of tax increases that are being
> proposed
> > here in Tennessee.
> >
> > If I can be of assistance in helping you, any members of your staff, or
> any
> > members of the Tennessee delegation in achieving timely full disclosure
by
> > the federal government of any information regarding this situation so
that
> > this information can be used to lower our tax expense here in Tennessee
> and
> > improve the quality of government investment for our Tennessee citizens,
> > please let me know. I believe that I can document ways of reengineering
> > federal investment that will fund an Tennessee deficits within a 2-3
year
> > period.
> >
> > I very much appreciate all of your efforts on behalf of your
consitutents
> > here in Hardeman County. You and your staff have our full support, our
> > thanks and are in our prayers.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Catherine Austin Fitts
> > Solari
> >
> > AP Story below.
> >
> > Links to numerous stories on "missing money" at federal agencies on the
> > Mitch Daniels GSA letter list, including HUD and DOD:
> >
> > http://www.solari.com/media/articles%20on%20gideon.htm
> >
> > Link to article re sex slave trafficking of women and children by
DynCorp
> > employees:
> >
> > http://insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/163052.html
> >
> >
>
============================================================================
> > ===============
> > White House Orders Review of Enron
> >
> > By RON FOURNIER
> > .c The Associated Press
> >
> > WASHINGTON (Jan. 25) - The White House on Friday ordered a review of $70
> > million worth of federal contracts with Enron Corp. and the Arthur
> Andersen
> > accounting firm to determine whether the embattled companies are worthy
of
> > government business.
> >
> > In a letter to the General Services Administration, which oversees
> > government
> > contracts, budget director Mitchell E. Daniels said charges of document
> > shredding, manipulative accounting practices and other activities
''could
> > reflect poorly'' on the companies and their ability to meet government
> > ethics
> > standards.
> >
> > ''These agencies should ensure that existing contracts with Arthur
> Andersen
> > and Enron are being performed in accordance with contract terms and
proper
> > business practices,'' Daniels wrote. Both companies have large contracts
> > with
> > the Justice Department, which is investigating their activities for
> > potential
> > criminal wrongdoing.
> >
> > Arthur Andersen spokesman Patrick Dorton said, ''We have a demonstrated
> > track
> > record of excellent performance for government clients. We will
certainly
> > address any questions and would welcome the opportunity to discuss our
> > strong
> > history in government consulting.'' Enron had no immediate comment.
> >
> > In a somber development elsewhere on Friday, a former Enron executive
was
> > found shot to death in a car in a suburb of Houston - an apparent
suicide,
> > police said.
> >
> > The executive, 43-year-old J. Clifford Baxter, had challenged the
> company's
> > questionable financial practices and resigned last May. He was mentioned
> by
> > name in a warning about hidden losses that Enron executive Sherron
Watkins
> > wrote last August to company chairman Kenneth Lay.
> >
> > Enron, a Texas-based company with deep ties to President Bush, filed for
> > bankruptcy late last year after investors and workers lost fortunes in
> > company stocks. Bush, a friend of Lay, ordered a review of the nation's
> > pension laws and approved a Justice Department criminal investigation
into
> > the company's actions.
> >
> > Andersen, which audited the company's books, is also under
investigation.
> > Congress is holding hearings on the Enron collapse.
> >
> > In other developments Friday:
> >
> > -A Democratic lawmaker said the White House apparently added a
last-minute
> > provision to the Bush administration's energy policy last spring that
was
> > helpful to Enron. The assistance came to light when Rep. Henry Waxman of
> > California produced a draft of the energy plan that contained no
language
> > that would have Bush Cabinet secretaries push energy development in
India,
> > where Enron had a money-losing power plant. The language was in the
final
> > energy plan. Earlier this month, the White House said Enron
> representatives
> > met six times on energy issues last year with Vice President Dick Cheney
> or
> > his aides.
> >
> > -Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has been
> > investigating Enron and Andersen, wrote to Lay asking for information on
> his
> > sales of Enron stock.
> >
> > Lay has agreed to testify at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on
> Feb.
> > 4. But two other key officials, Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling
> and
> > former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, have not responded to the
> > subcommittee's request to appear and are being pressed for an answer,
said
> > panel chairman Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
> >
> > Daniels' letter does not say how many federal agencies have contracts
with
> > the firms, but an aide said Enron and Arthur Andersen hold $70 million
> worth
> > of federal contracts.
> >
> > Enron is getting $479,000 from the Justice Department for gas and
> electrical
> > services, according to Daniels' office, and Arthur Andersen has $2.6
> million
> > in Justice Department contracts for management services and expert
> > witnesses.
> >
> > The Pentagon was the best customer for both companies: Arthur Andersen
has
> > $11.4 million in Defense Department contracts and Enron has $5.7
million.
> >
> > ''Recent reports have highlighted potential irregularities in work done
by
> > the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and the Enron Corp. Some of
> these
> > allegations are serious in nature,'' Daniels wrote.
> >
> > He said federal rules require firms seeking or doing business with the
> > government to have ''a satisfactory record of business ethics and
> > integrity.'' The federal agencies were asked to determine whether Enron
> and
> > Arthur Andersen still met that standard.
> >
> > The agencies were given a summary of contracts awarded to the firms.
> >
> > Also on Friday, the White House confirmed that Bush adviser Karl Rove
> > recommended GOP consultant Ralph Reed to Enron for a job in 1997. Bush,
> who
> > was considering a presidential run at the time, wanted Reed to help him
> > court
> > conservative voters in the 2000 election.
> >
> > ''Our firm creates and manages grass-roots campaigns for Fortune 500
> > companies and that's what we did for Enron, and we kept our political
> > involvements completely separate,'' said Reed, adding that he had not
> known
> > about Rove's help.
> >
> > Enron and its employees contributed more than $500,000 to the Bush
> campaign
> > last year. Lay, who this week resigned as Enron chairman, has been one
of
> > Bush's strongest supporters over the years. Andersen gave Bush $146,000
> > during the past three years, according to the nonpartisan Center for
> > Responsive Politics.
> >
>
> From: "Helen Thomas"
> To: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
> Subject: Re: Is Bush trying to protect dad? -- "Out of The Loop" Bush
> Dynasty Unravelling?
> Date: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:14 AM
>
> Thanks for the info and kind words - helen thomas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Crockett Williams <gear2000@...>
> To: .GeneralAgencyServices.com <gear2000@...>
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:57 PM
> Subject: Is Bush trying to protect dad? -- "Out of The Loop" Bush Dynasty
> Unravelling?
>
>
> > [fwd] Sent to Helen Thomas, columnist for Hearst Newspapers
> >
> > Dear Ms. Thomas, et. al.,
> >
> > I think you have asked here the "64 trillion-dollar question" and, given
> > your wide recognition as the "Dean of White House Reporters" as a result
> of
> > your tenure formerly with UPI, your simply asking this question may
become
> > an historical turning point should the media actually publish the
answers
> > available from researchers like former Los Angeles Police Department
> > investigator Michael C. Ruppert, former GHW Bush HUD official Catherine
> > Austin Fitts, and former major TV network producer Daniel Hopsicker, all
> of
> > whom have experienced severe oppression for their attempts to publicize
> the
> > related info/answers they have developed over the past decade or so.
> >
> > What is GW Bush trying to hide with this secrecy order? When his dad
was
> > Reagan's Vice President, Bush added a new phrase to the now popular
> lexicon
> > when regarding the "Iran-Contra Affair" he said "I was out of the loop".
> > This is where you might start. Convincing evidence shows that he was
not
> > only "in the loop" but was perhaps one of the "loopmasters".
> >
> > For starters I suggest that you check the copious and well documented
> > articles by Ruppert at his website http://www.copvcia.com, recent 3-part
> > article by Catherine Austin Fitts at http://www.narconews.com (her
website
> > is http://www.solari.com), Hopsicker's website http://www.madcowprod.com
> > where you will find on-balance dirt on the Clinton camp as well, and
> related
> > info at http://www.cia-drugs.org
> >
> > If you do, I guarantee that you and other media folks will have a career
> > high experience with the details available relevant to how and why we
are
> > now in a war crisis situation to protect the globalizing economy and
stock
> > market fueled by covert illegal drug industry profits (in conjunction
with
> > petroleum energy industry, see Stan Goff articles at narconews.com)
> > fostering almost unfathomable levels of widespread corruption to the
> highest
> > levels of our government and its elected officials, military, law
> > enforcement, and intelligence agencies.
> >
> > I am copying this to key folks for their direct advice to you on the
> answer
> > to your question.
> >
> > David Crockett Williams
> > an American Peace Movement member
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement
> >
> >
> > ---------thanks to truthout.com for forwarding below article:
> >
> >
> > http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/45766_helen7.shtml
> >
> > OPINION
> >
> > Is Bush trying to protect dad?
> >
> > Thursday, November 8, 2001
> >
> > By HELEN THOMAS
> > HEARST NEWSPAPERS
> >
> > WASHINGTON -- It's easy to see why President Bush wants to keep his
> > administration's current secrets, especially in wartime.
> >
> > But why is he trying to hide historic White House documents of the
Reagan
> > administration that former President Ronald Reagan agreed in writing to
> > release to the public?
> >
> > Reagan issued an order in 1989 that called for disclosure of most of his
> > official papers 12 years after he left office. Until 1978 American
> > presidents had complete control over the release of their internal
> > communications.
> >
> > But after Watergate and the struggle with President Richard Nixon over
the
> > release of his records and tape recordings, Congress passed the 1978
> > Presidential Records Act, which provided for the release to the public
of
> > presidential papers 12 years after the chief executive leaves office.
> >
> > Reagan's records were supposed to be released in January, and historians
> > were eagerly awaiting them. But because of delays ordered by White House
> > counsel Albert R. Gonzales, researchers and the public may never get to
> see
> > them.
> >
> > Welcome to the handy excuse of "national security." It is being used to
> > cover any past, current or future questionable government activities
under
> a
> > new order Bush has signed. The six-page document requires anyone seeking
> > papers of past presidents and vice presidents to demonstrate a "specific
> > need" for those papers before they can be produced. And any release then
> > will be at the discretion of the sitting president -- even if a past
> > president wants the information released. Bush's father was vice
president
> > under Reagan.
> >
> > Amazingly, the current president's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, told
> > reporters the aim of the order was to introduce an "orderly process" for
> > releasing the documents. And Gonzalez said White House officials
recognize
> > "the importance, for historical reasons, of releasing as much
information
> as
> > we can." He even added that "there may be reasons that it's
inappropriate
> or
> > harmful to the country not to release certain information."
> >
> > Yet the order is clearly protective of the president's father and
> officials
> > who are back at the White House in top jobs after serving in the Bush I
> > administration between 1989 and 1993.
> >
> > Gonzales said the order will put the incumbent president "in a better
> > position to decide whether or not the release of documents of a former
> > president does, in fact, jeopardize the national security of this
> country."
> >
> > Gonzales said anyone who would challenge a decision under the order
could
> go
> > to court. But he admitted that the legal battle would take years.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Knowledge is power. Why shouldn't the American people know what was done
> in
> > their name? Aren't presidents supposed to trust the public with the
facts
> in
> > an open and democratic society? Or am I dreaming?
> >
> > Some 68,000 pages of confidential messages between Reagan and his
advisers
> > were closely reviewed by his presidential library staff and cleared for
> > release. But now the White House has seen fit to put a permanent hold on
> > their disclosure to the public.
> >
> > Remember the Iran-Contra scandal of the late 1980s in which Reagan's
aides
> > sold arms covertly to Iran and used the proceeds to illegally fund the
> > Contra rebels in Nicaragua? It led to congressional hearings and
criminal
> > indictments that tainted the Reagan-Bush administration in its final
> years.
> >
> > The new far-reaching order, obviously designed to block historic
> > revelations, covers most records and state secrets in the White House
> files.
> > You can be sure they will stay secret if this order is upheld in the
> courts.
> > The Bush order declares that documents subject to release after 12 years
> > that are not covered by "constitutionally-based privileges" will fall
into
> > the category of freedom-of-information requests. That will permit the
> > Archivist of the United States to withhold them, too.
> >
> > It's a shame that a former president will no longer have the last word
on
> > release of his official papers if the sitting president disagrees with
the
> > disclosure.
> >
> > The Bush order said that "absent compelling circumstances," the
incumbent
> > president or a future president would have the right to determine
whether
> he
> > or she agrees with the former president's decision.
> >
> > Secrecy is endemic in government, but this order goes counter to the
> > American tradition of government by the people and for the people.
> >
> > True, it's wartime and information is important. But so is truth, and
> trust
> > is a two-way street.
> >
> > The American people have always been willing to give government the
> benefit
> > of the doubt until those in charge lose their credibility. Witness the
> > Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in which Lyndon B. Johnson and
> Nixon,
> > respectively, lost the trust of the American people. Historians and
> writers
> > are still digging out the deceptions of those eras.
> >
> > Is the Bush White House trying to protect the reputations of prominent
> > political players -- especially George H. W. Bush -- through suppression
o
> f
> > historic data? If so, that would deny the American people a chance to
hold
> > their past public servants accountable, albeit belatedly.
> >
> > We have a right to know what our history is, warts and all.
> >
> > © 1998-2001 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> >
>
>
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>
> This group is dedicated to the discussion and public archiving of
> intelligence gathered to further the altruistic and noble goals of the
> visionaries who created The United States to become "One Nation Under God"
> on Earth, intelligence to bring out the truth to the public which might
set
> it free of the oppression of secrecy in government and industrial policies
> in today's society.
>
> Symbol of The Burning Bush comes from Jewish history of Moses receiving a
> sign from God. Operation Burning Bush was originally initiated in August
of
> 1990 after the creation of the American Peace Flame at the University of
> California at Santa Barbara on August 2nd, coincidentally the day Iraq
> invaded Kuwait, with a trip to Washington DC and arrangements, made by
> Proposition One Office http://www.prop1.org via Iraqi Embassy and
> consequently agreed to by the Iraqi government, for an American Peace Walk
> delegation to visit Iraq and conduct the Peace Walk from Baghdad to
> Jerusalem. This walk did not take place due to lack of American public
> interest/support although Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp did agree to participate
> and conduct the Tree of Peace Ceremony to help bring out The Great Law of
> Peace, the foundation of the indigenous confederacy's historical and
> traditional culture of peace http://www.sixnations.org, as a peace
offering
> for creation of a Global Culture of Peace such as mandated in 2000 by the
> United Nations for the 21st Century.
>
> Multiple connotations of the name Operation Burning Bush, official and
> renegade, are to be expected and developed keeping to the commitment to
> nonviolence in all ways.
>
>
>
> David Crockett Williams
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement
> Initiator, Operation Burning Bush 1990, 2002
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