DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet

A server problem at the U.S. National Security Agency has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet.

The agency’s Web site was unresponsive at 7 a.m. Pacific time Thursday and continued to be unavailable throughout the morning for Internet users.

http://www.networkworld.com/ne…..a-off.html

Questions.

1. Col Karpinski has stated that there were foreign individuals at Abu Grarib directing to torture taking place at that prison. What can he tell us about Col. Karpinski’s claims?
http://www.democracynow.org/20…..ormer_head

2. Just after 9/11 Carl Cameron of Fox news reported in four parts on Fox News ( I do watch to see what other peoples perspectives are) that there were “allegedly” several hundred young Israeli spies operating in the U.S. before the attack on 9/11. The media coverage on this issue was quickly shut down and that four part report was quickly pulled from Fox News website. What can your guest tell us about this “alleged”investigation into Israeli spies?

http://www.informationclearing…..le7545.htm

3. Also in that four part report Cameron reported that Israeli based communication and data mining companies (Amdocs which supposedly has access to 95% of all U.S. phone companies billing records and Comverse Infosys) may have “mistakenly”? provided a back door in their systems to foreign spying which may have jeopardized U.S. National Security. What can he tell us about this?

4. What can he tell us about that meeting in Italy with Ledeen, Harold Rhode, larry Franklin, (now serving a prison sentence), Manucher Ghorbanifar which supposedly had to do with Iraq and Iran?

……I thought Colin Powell forbid these folks to meet after that meeting?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.c…..shall.html

5. Can he address why we are not hearing much about the U.S. Vs. Rosen investigation and trial in the MSM or the so called “progressive” blogosphere? Few Americans know about this investigation and trial which has to do with Aipac’s Rosen and Weissman “allegedly” handing over highly classified intelligence having to do with Iran to Israeli officials.

U.S. vs. Rosen indictment http://www.globalsecurity.org/…..ug2005.htm

I keep calling the Alexandria Division of the U.S. District Courts since this investigation and trial having to do with Aipac’s prior officials allegedly handing off classified intelligence about Iran to Israeli Officials seems to be “off limits” or territory too dangerous or intimidating for the MSM and “progressive” blogosphere to cover. The last update from one of the folks who answer the phone at that division is that there are on going private hearings reviewing the classified documents having to do with the case and that there are two motion hearing open to the public on May 20th and May 29th.

What can you tell us about this investigation and trial having to do with foreign spying and the mis-use of classified intelligence?

6. What can he tell us about the status of Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which has to do with the investigation of the pre-war intelligence used to lie our nation into the invasion of Iraq? From my understanding Republican Senator Pat Roberts did everything he could do to divert, delay and dilute Phase I and Phase II

……..Has the Office of Special Plans been thoroughly investigated? Will Americans ever witness anyone held accountable for this false pre-war intelligence? Is Dem. Senator Rockefeller doing any better job than Rep. Senator Roberts at bringing those responsible for creating, cherry picking and dessiminating this false intelligence to JUSTICE?

7. What can he tell us about the Niger Documents? Will anyone be held accountable for these documents that were immediately debunnked by the director of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Mr. El Baradei at the UN in early March of 2003 just before the invasion. (I will never forget that day and how the MSM basically ignored what El Baradei had to say about the validity of these documents as the Bush administration marched ahead with their illegal and immoral invasion.

8. What can he tell us about the “alleged” spying on Colin Powell by John Bolton? I will never forget the Senate hearings on John BOlton’s nomination to the UN where I thought Senators Biden, Boxer, Kennedy, Dodd, Kerry, and Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee looked as if they might jump over the tables and strangle Bolton for being so arrogant while they were demanding that the Bush administration turn over those NSA intercepts that they have the right to and have been demanding for a very long time.

Sidney Blumenthal covers this topic in this article
The good soldier’s revenge
In Colin Powell’s battle to block Bush’s nominee to the UN, far more is at stake than John Bolton’s unsuitability
Sidney Blumenthal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..sa.comment

“And after Bolton attempted to coerce a state department intelligence officer to agree to an unfounded report about nonexistent Cuban WMD, Powell personally assembled the entire intelligence staff to instruct them to ignore Bolton. When the British foreign secretary Jack Straw complained to Powell that Bolton was obstructing negotiations with Iran on the development of nuclear weapons, Powell ordered Bolton to be cut out of the process, telling an aide: “Get a different view.” The British also objected to Bolton’s interference in talks with Libya, and again Powell removed Bolton. But as much as he may have wanted to, Powell could not dismiss him because of his powerful patron: Vice-President Cheney.

The Bolton confirmation hearings have revealed his constant efforts to undermine Powell on Iran and Iraq, Syria and North Korea. They have also exposed a most curious incident that has triggered the administration’s stonewall reflex. The foreign relations committee has discovered that Bolton made a highly unusual request and gained access to 10 intercepts by the National Security Agency, which monitors worldwide communications, of conversations involving past and present government officials. Whose conversations did Bolton secretly secure and why?

Staff members on the committee believe that Bolton was probably spying on Powell, his senior advisers and other officials reporting to him on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton opposed. If so, it is also possible that Bolton was sharing this top-secret information with his neoconservative allies within the Pentagon and the vice-president’s office, with whom he was in daily contact and who were known to be working in league against Powell.

If the intercepts are released they may disclose whether Bolton was a key figure in a counter-intelligence operation run inside the Bush administration against the secretary of state, who would resemble the hunted character played by Will Smith in Enemy of the State. Both Republican and Democratic senators have demanded that the state department, which holds the NSA intercepts, turn them over to the committee. But Rice so far has refused. What is she hiding by her cover-up?”

##### Have these intercepts ever been released?