Need to get more coffee!

Welcome to EW’s!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind…..rt_Program

Or if that’s too long a line try this

I’m amazed, I think an old dog has just learned a new trick!

CIFA – TALON Chronology

In August 2006, Marcy Wheeler put together a CIFA chronology with “some relevant dates”, which ties in with the preceding.[12][13] Research and reports by Walter Pincus of the Washington Post are noted in the references section. These and other additional items—identified as Note—have been inserted into the chronology.

* September 2002, then Deputy Secretary of Defense for Counter-Intelligence Burtt (the guy who resigned [August 10, 2006])[14] establishes CIFA to oversee counterintelligence units of the armed services[15]; consulting on the new agency was James King, recently retired director of National Imagery and Mapping Agency and MZM vice president

* Late 2002, Cunningham got Mitchell Wade a data storage contract worth $6 million, of which $5.4 was profit[16]

* Note: In May 2003, the TALON “fact-gathering operation” was initiated by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and the “data would be fed to CIFA to help the Pentagon’s ‘terrorism threat warning process,’ according to an internal Pentagon memo.”[17]

* Note: “According to its contract, MZM was to ‘assist the government in identifying and procuring data’ on maps, as well as ‘airports, ports, dams, churches/mosques/synagogues, schools (and) power plants.’ The company also received three contracts to provide undisclosed ‘intelligence services’ directly to the White House.”[18]

* Note: In June 2003, the Pentagon revived the citizen-based reporting program Operation TIPS by implementing TALON to “contain ‘raw, non-validated’ reports of ‘anomalous activities’ within the United States” and to “provide a mechanism to collect and rapidly share reports ‘by concerned citizens and military members regarding suspicious incidents.’”[19]

A link to the whole document here:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind…..on_Notice_(TALON)_Report_Program

I’m adding Trescott to this timeline and chewing on it…

The question is, will the new DOJ go after high-level offenders when the new president is sworn in, and will there be enough new blood in DC (with enough constituent pressure) to go after these guys with guns blazing?

It’ll be interesting to see.

“Then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter wrote an extraordinary letter –two months after publication of the Post article — citing the special knowledge and expertise he has as Chairman, insisting that there was “no evidence” that NSLs were being abused and thus demanding full renewal of the Patriot Act. Here’s what Specter — at exactly the time the FBI was massively abusing its NSL powers — wrote; just marvel at this:

…Despite recent press reports, there is no evidence that NSL’s have been abused…

Identically, the DOJ — after the Post article on NSLs was published — repeatedly insisted to Congress when it was debating re-authorization of the Patriot Act in November, 2005, that the claims in the Post story about NSL abuses were false. As but one example, the DOJ sent a letter, from Assistant Attorney General William Moschella to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Sensenbrenner, accusing the Post of presenting a “materially misleading portrayal” of the FBI’s use of NSLs.”

Did Arlen endorse McCain yet? Was he at the Pres endorsement? I hope so…

Arlen’s done…

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html