We were a nation of laws, we now are a Nation ruled by Nazi Thugs : Miami IMC

We used to be a nation ruled by law, now that the CIA is allowed free run on American soil (now legally) we are now ruled by thugs that GH Bush brought into it.

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Warning all Americans: REAL Terror Alert! See this Man, Run like hell!
This man was at all three attacks on America. What are the odds? He still walks the streets, with FBI knowledge, and Congressional members withheld this info from the final 911 Commission report!
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June 15, 2006 -- LATE EDITION -- WMR is extremely upset tonight to report that one of our close colleagues, Florida panhandle- and Alabama-based John Caylor, the editor of Insider Magazine (perma-linked from WMR) http://www.insider-magazine.com, was arrested yesterday afternoon by deputies in Panama City, Florida while attempting to retrieve public documents from the Bay County court clerk's office. John was the source of the crime scene photos of the late Florida Department of Transportation investigator Ray Lemme, who was "suicided" in Valdosta, Georgia after obtaining evidence of a link between the Jeb & George W. Bush, voter fraud, gambling money laundering through the Florida turnpike toll system, and contract and electronic voting malfeasance involving current Florida Rep. Tom Feeney. John has been a bane to the Bush cartel for years. Last year, Caylor uncovered evidence of a shady Walton County, Florida real estate deal cut by Karl Rove and real estate developers who donated large sums of money to George W. and Jeb Bush.

Caylor was arrested for non-violently resisting an officer and disorderly conduct and held for seven hours under bright lights in a concrete cell. John, a heart patient, was shackled and forced to stand the entire time while several corrections officers attempted to get John to hit them. John reported that his detention amounted to "torture" under international and U.S. law. Caylor resisted the attempts by guards to have him hit them. More importantly, he was denied his nitro glycerin prescription pills needed for his heart condition. Caylor is investigating a one-time CIA contract sharpshooter who may have murdered a number of Bush family political enemies in Florida and elsewhere over the years. He was attempting to retrieve old court documents related to the case when he was arrested. Caylor also described his treatment in jail as "Guantanamo like."

John Caylor has been after the Bushes for years, yesterday it was payback time.

He was released at 2:30 a.m. this morning and was denied a phone call during his incarceration (which is permitted for 72 hours under Florida law). He was originally told by county clerk officials that Florida's "sunshine law" on public access to documents did not apply to the documents he was trying to obtain. After stating that refusal to let him have the requested documents was illegal, Caylor was told the documents would be made available to him after they were reviewed by clerk officials. Caylor knew that was a ruse and the critical documents would simply disappear. After protesting that decision by the clerk officials, Caylor was arrested. Caylor reports tonight that the entire government structure in Bay County (executive and courts) is run by Bush loyalists who will do anything to protect Bush and what Caylor has dubbed the "Dixie Mafia" -- a group of ne'er-do-wells and roughnecks that goes back to the days of the Bay of Pigs, the illegal CIA war in Angola, Iran-Contra, and now, the Iraq War rip-off.

John will undoubtedly rack up some legal expenses to defend himself from the trumped up charges brought against him. Although WMR appreciates our readers generous financial support, http://www.insider-magazine.com has a contribution button if you'd like to help John. There may be a time when WMR will require legal assistance also, but right now John, who is on disability, is badly in need of it (either monetary or pro bono legal assistance).

Postscript: News from our Texas sources also reports disturbing developments and an attempt to silence an individual who is investigating Bush family criminal dealings. One development involves the possible poisoning of a critical source. The word from Houston is that the Bush-Cheney regime is currently "on the move." What that move entails is a major focus of WMR at the present time. In the intelligence world, incidents like that which occurred to John Caylor and the news from Houston are known as "Indications and Warnings." Right now, the I&W looks extremely troubling.

One final note to the Bush crime cartel: You can't silence the media by jailing and roughing up one journalist. There are thousands of non-corporate and independent journalists around the country and the world who will continue to ferret out your criminal deeds and see you brought to final justice. That's not a threat but a promise.

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June 15, 2006 -- The Chesapeake Bay is becoming to Washington, DC what the Jersey Pine Barrens were for the New York and Philly mobs -- a place where people simply disappear. The latest victim of the "Chesapeake Triangle" is Philip Merrill, the publisher of the Annapolis-based Capital-Gazette Newspapers (publisher of the Annapolis Capital and Maryland Gazette) and the Washingtonian magazine. Last Sunday, Merrill's sailboat, the Merrilly, was found drifting with the engine running off Breezy Point in Calvert County, Maryland. Although Merrill's wallet was found on board, there was no sign of Merrill, an experienced sailor who, after an extensive search, was declared dead. A witness who found the drifting Merrilly said there was some blood found in the back of the boat.

Washington has experienced similar inexplicable losses in the Bay. On Sep. 26, 1978, retired CIA Deputy Director for Strategic Research John A. Paisley's sailboat was found moored off Solomon's Island, Maryland, south of where Merrill's boat was found. Later, Paisley's body was found in the nearby Patuxent River, his submerged body tied to diving weights. Although Paisley was shot through the head, police ruled it a suicide. Paisley was involved with the electronic intercept programs of both the CIA and NSA and may have had important information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that he was about to impart to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

On April 28, 1996, former CIA Director William Colby, who was cooperating with John DeCamp, a Republican State Senator in Nebraska and a former CIA colleague in Vietnam, in investigating a national pedophile ring said to involve George H. W. Bush and reported in The Washington Times, went missing at his home at Rock Point on Cobb Island in Charles County, southwest of where Paisley's boat was found. After Colby's canoe was found adrift, his body was later discovered on the shoreline of the bay. Colby, a veteran of CIA missions in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, was said to have lost his footing and drowned.

Local police never ruled out foul play in either the Paisley or Colby cases.

Now we have Merrill disappearing under similar circumstances. Merrill outwardly was connected to many neo-conservative organizations. He served on the advisory council of Frank Gaffney's ultra-neocon Center for Security Policy; the Defense Policy Board alongside such arch-neocons as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, and Ken Adelman; set up the neocon Center for Strategic Studies under his Defense Policy Board neocon colleague Eliot Cohen; and was appointed as the President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank by President George W. Bush and was sworn in by his friend Dick Cheney, who recommended him for the EX-IM Bank position. Merrill was also described in yesterday's Washington Post editorial as someone who took on "diplomatic and intelligence missions for the government over the years."

The Bay claims another victim who had an intelligence background.

However, Merrill also was very much part of the traditional Washington foreign policy establishment, having served as Assistant Secretary General of NATO, a participant in Law of the Sea and disarmament conferences, philanthropist for the environmental Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the University of Maryland journalism college, and a trustee of the chic Aspen Institute. Merrill served intermittently as a Senior Intelligence Analyst for South Asia at the Department of State from 1961 to 1968.

WMR has learned from an informed source who knew Merrill for a number of years that while Merrill headed the EX-IM Bank from 2002 to 2005, the bank routed a significant amount of money to entities associated with the Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli mafia -- the shadowy network that his been linked to fugitive Marc Rich, his one-time lawyer "Scooter" Libby, Jack Abramoff, Adam Kidan, and various Russian oligarchs who are now exiled in Israel to avoid extradition for their various crimes. The EX-IM Bank under Merrill's tenure also financed U.S. reconstruction projects in Coalition Provisional Authority-occupied Iraq, programs that resulted in the loss of billions of U.S. taxpayers' funds. Merrill had also supported using future Iraqi oil and natural gas revenues to finance Halliburton and Bechtel oil industry infrastructure projects in the occupied country. In May 2003, Merrill told a congressional committee that the locking of Iraqi revenues for future U.S. projects had "real merit."

WMR is continuing to investigate the Merrill case.

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From Knight Rider: Supreme Court backs wide police search powers By Stephen Henderson Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court said Thursday that police with search warrants who barged into homes without knocking didn't risk having evidence they uncovered tossed out at trial, a ruling that civil liberties advocates called a major blow to privacy protections.

The 5-4 decision turns on a distinction drawn between how police enter a home and what they find once they're inside.

Yes, the so-called knock-and-announce rule is violated when police fail to announce their presence and wait a reasonable amount of time before entering someone's home. But no, that violation isn't sufficiently related to what they find during a search to justify banning drugs, guns or any other evidence that's uncovered from later criminal proceedings.

Justice Antonin Scalia said the increasing professionalism of police and the threat of civil suits was enough of a deterrent to keep officers from abusing their authority.

To exclude evidence from a trial merely because of an entry violation, the court said, would unnecessarily increase the risk of "grave, adverse" consequences, including the technical exoneration of guilty - and often dangerous - criminals.

The "jackpot" for criminals would be enormous, wrote Scalia, who was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. He said the court essentially would be issuing "get-out-of-jail-free" cards if it indulged suppression of evidence based on an entry violation.

Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito went further, and seemed to question decades of precedents on the exclusionary rule, which calls for booting evidence when police break the law during a search. Kennedy didn't join that part of the opinion, however, and wrote a concurrence that said the exclusionary rule wasn't in jeopardy.

Justice Stephen Breyer penned a sharp dissent that accused the court of misreading its own precedents and defying "elementary logic." Compliance with knock-and-announce procedure is one way that the court judges the reasonableness of a search under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, he wrote. And the threat of losing valuable evidence for defying the rules is the "driving purpose" behind provisions such as the knock-and-announce requirement.

The court's ruling means that a Detroit man's conviction for drug possession stands, despite the fact that police rushed into his home without knocking. Once inside, they found crack cocaine in Booker Hudson's pockets.

Hudson's attorneys, relying on a line of court decisions over the last decade, said the officers' failure to knock and announce themselves before entering made the evidence they obtained the "fruit" of a "poisonous tree."

That idea is bedrock in Fourth Amendment law, which governs when and how government may search a citizen's home or person. It presumes, most of the time, that any illegal action during a search taints all the evidence that's turned up. It's the reason that confessions that come after a beating aren't any good and that an unreasonable search performed without a warrant can't help convict someone.

Scalia wrote, though, that "the interests protected by the knock-and-announce requirement are quite different." He said the rule was intended to protect police whose unannounced entry might trigger a self-defense instinct by a homeowner, to give citizens the chance to comply with requests for police access and to give homeowners time to "collect" themselves before answering the door.

Those interests don't extend to shielding relevant evidence from government eyes, he wrote.

Breyer said the court's opinion "weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection." He said separating the manner of entry from the ensuing search "slices the violation too finely." He said the failure to knock and announce wasn't an independent event, but a "factor that renders the search constitutionally defective."

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Given the CIA is an extension of the Party in power, given rulings like that of above, what is to stop abuse of power? A political opponent's home can be broken into, and the officers can "plant" contraband, and the political opponent is silenced.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060616/ap_on_re_us/sept11_thefts;_ylt=AtaQF VIVdODkL2m0rp7rKslI2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--AP Enterprise: 9/11 thefts not prosecuted By MARGARET EBRAHIM and PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writers 13 minutes ago

NEW YORK - As firefighters searched for survivors after the Sept. 11 attacks, heat from the World Trade Center's smoldering ruins burned the soles off their boots. They needed new ones every few hours, and Chris Christopherson made sure they got them.

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The disaster specialist was proud to dispatch replacement boots from the Long Island warehouse of a company paid by the government to manage rescue supplies donated by Americans. Then came the moment that crushed Christopherson's faith.

His employer dispatched trucks to the warehouse and loaded hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donated bottled water, clothes, tools and generators to be moved to Minnesota in a plot to sell some for profit, according to government records and interviews.

Dan L'Allier said he witnessed 45 tons of the New York loot being unloaded in Minnesota at his company's headquarters. He and Christopherson complained to a company executive, but were ordered to keep quiet. They persisted, going instead to the

FBI.

The two whistleblowers eventually lost their jobs, received death threats and were blackballed in the disaster relief industry. But they remained convinced their sacrifice was worth seeing justice done.

They were wrong.

Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press detail how the company, Kieger Enterprises of Lino Lakes, Minn., went unpunished for the Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero.

As a result, most Americans were kept in the dark about a major fraud involving their donated goods even as new requests for charity emerged with disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And Christopherson and L'Allier were left disillusioned.

"I wouldn't open my mouth again for all the tea in China," L'Allier said. Added Christopherson, a 34-year-old father of two: "I paid a big price."

The government ultimately gave the whistleblowers $30,000 each after expenses, their share in a civil settlement against KEI. They say the sum was hardly worth their trouble.

Federal prosecutors eventually charged KEI and some executives with fraud, including overbilling the government in several disasters, but excluded the Sept. 11 thefts. Officially, the government can't fully explain why.

KEI had worked for years for the government, providing disaster relief services during tornadoes, floods and other catastrophes. It was picked to manage the New York warehouse for the government's main Sept. 11 relief contractor.

Thomas Heffelfinger, the former U.S. attorney in Minnesota who prosecuted KEI, said he never intended to charge the company for the ground zero theft, and instead referred that part of the case to prosecutors in New York.

"At the heart of the KEI case was financial fraud," Heffelfinger said. "It was so bad we didn't need the theft."

Heather Tasker, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in New York, declined to discuss the KEI case. The whistleblowers, however, said they've never been contacted by New York prosecutors.

FBI documents indicate the government, in fact, was preparing to charge KEI with Sept. 11 thefts.

A March 2002 entry in the FBI's "prosecutive status" report states the U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota intended "to prosecute individuals who were alleged to be involved in the transportation of stolen goods from New York City after the terrorist attack." A followup entry from Sept. 6, 2002 lists the specific evidence supporting such a charge.

The lead investigators for the FBI and the

Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.

That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the

Pentagon.

"How could you secure an indictment?" FEMA investigator Kirk Beauchamp asked. "It would be a conflict."

While the globe's discovery had been widely reported, its impact on the Sept. 11 thefts had remained mostly unknown.

Prosecutors "and the FBI were very conscious of the fact that if they proceeded in one direction, they would have to proceed in the other, which meant prosecuting FBI agents," said Jane Turner, the lead FBI agent. She too became a whistleblower alleging the bureau tried to fire her for bringing the stolen artifacts to light. Turner retired in 2003.

The FBI declined to discuss Turner's allegation, saying it involved a personnel matter.

"It's illogical" not to prosecute KEI because of the agents' stolen artifacts, said E. Lawrence Barcella, former chief of major crimes in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington. "The fact that FBI agents stole trinkets is an order of magnitude different than a company selling things they steal."

Nick Gess, another former federal prosecutor, said the agents' actions shouldn't have precluded prosecuting the company.

"DEA agents have been found to smoke pot occasionally," Gess said. "That doesn't mean they (the Drug Enforcement Administration) can't still work on drug cases."

The government also didn't prosecute any of its employees for taking souvenirs, claiming it lacked a policy prohibiting such thefts.

Ultimately, the FBI donated the stolen goods found at KEI's warehouse to the Salvation Army.

Joe Friedberg, a lawyer who represented a KEI executive, dismissed the Sept. 11 thefts as "much ado about nothing." Friedberg said KEI took a few pallets of water and T-shirts because they had authorization from a FEMA official to take surplus items.

But that FEMA official, Kathy McCoy, said she never gave Kieger such permission.

Those who work near ground zero today are shocked to learn such thefts went unpunished.

"To take advantage of people at a time of despair, it's probably one of the worst things human beings can do to another person," said Gregory Broms, Sr., a firefighter with Engine Company 10 at the foot of the former World Trade Center site. "It was morally wrong."

Christopherson recalled receiving boxes of white T-shirts stolen from the Long Island warehouse sent back to him after KEI had embossed a Sept. 11 logo on the front. He was instructed by his boss to sell them to firefighters, police and volunteers for $12 a piece. Disgusted, he threw them in the corner and never sold them.

Christopherson and L'Allier went to the FBI in fall 2001. On April 16, 2002, agents raided KEI, recovering at least 15,000 T-shirts and 18,000 bottles of bottled water. Because months had passed, the seized items were a fraction of the total the company had taken, the whistleblowers said.

Both men were threatened and harassed, reporting it to the FBI's Turner. "We all experienced the death threats," L'Allier said. "We all experienced the phone ringing at three in the morning and no one being there. I'd come home and the house would be wide open."

A few months after the raid, prosecutors drafted charges accusing the company of stealing the ground zero relief supplies, seeking an indictment on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Turner said.

But Turner discovered in late August 2002 a cracked Tiffany & Co. globe -- lifted from the World Trade Center ruins -- on the desk of a colleague. The theft case against KEI sputtered.

Eventually, KEI executives Edward Kieger Jr., Patrick Iwan and Joseph Dreshar were indicted in 2004 by a federal grand jury on charges of scheming to defraud the government. The former executives pleaded guilty, and Kieger and Iwan are serving prison terms. KEI has gone out of business.

Christopherson and L'Allier were stunned when the indictment excluded the ground zero thefts. They spent two years unsuccessfully trying to find new work in disaster relief. Christopherson now runs a landscaping business; L'Allier works as a paramedic.

For years, the two couldn't speak publicly because their whistleblower case remained under seal. They worried similar fraud might have occurred during Katrina.

"If you donated, at your local supermarket, water or canned goods or cleaning supplies and a truck goes down there (to New Orleans), who knows where it is ending up," L'Allier.

Today, the whistleblowers worry their fate might chill others from exposing wrongdoing.

"They felt they had to come forward about the theft because it was so wrong," Turner said. "I've lost my career. They've lost their jobs. The price is so high for telling the truth."

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A crime scene? To remove evidence "The lead investigators for the FBI and the

Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.

That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the

Pentagon. "

If FBI officials can remove evidence from a crime scene, they can also plant evidence! Remember Atta's passport found intact in NYC while everything else was reduced to dust?

Same man, Melvin Lattimore, was aiding attacks at Oklahoma, WTC 1, and 911, evidence hidden by Congress [portland.indymedia.org]

DONALD RUMSFELD???"Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.

That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the

Pentagon. "

We were a nation of laws,,,,,,,,,,,, your fate is now up to Nazi thugs.....................

Same man, Melvin Lattimore aided attackers at all three attacks on America, WTC 1, Oklahoma, 911, still walks the streets today, with the knowledge of FBI, CIA, Fitzgerald, members of Congress blocked this evidence going to the 911 Commission's final report [portland.indymedia.org]