Originally Posted by BeAChooser
And not all the people who were on this plane were good guys. A lot were hard core Democrats...
Well that about says it all. Good luck to anyone willing to continue with this person's paranoia and disrespect for the dead.
Well there you go, folks. The fact that I note a few other passengers on the Brown plane were themselves implicated in illegal activities during the Clinton administration and that others were big time Democrats, makes the expert opinions of the pathologists and photographer, the clear lies of the government (as in the Peter's letter and Dickerson's statements), and all the other facts in the case suggesting foul play, totally irrelevant.
Sorry, but my views aren't based on paranoia. They are based on facts ... facts which I've demonstrated, time and again, I am willing to defend. Facts which, time and again, your side of this debate has demonstrated it wishes to ignore.
As for disrespecting the dead, we've already been there with that accusation. Remember, beachnut? Look how that turned out. He's been reduced to stuttering as evidenced by his latest post.
Frankly, I think the people who have disrespected the dead and the families of the dead are those who have helped cover up what may have been a mass murder. In fact, I doubt you even know who died on that plane. Here's a list:
Ron Brown, U.S. commerce secretary
Duane Christian, Brown's security officer
Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant
Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of Business Liaison
Carol Hamilton, Brown's press secretary
Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic scheduling and special initiatives
Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and foreign commercial services
Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of Business Liaison
Charles Meissner, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for international trade
William Morton, deputy assistant secretary for international economic development
Lawrence Payne, special assistant for U.S. and foreign commercial service
Naomi Warbasse, international trade specialist
Barry L. Conrad, chairman and CEO of Barrington Group, Miami, Florida
Paul Cushman III, chairman and CEO of Riggs International Banking Corp., Washington, D.C.
Robert E. Donovan, president and CEO of ABB Inc., Norwalk, Connecticut
Claudio Elia, chairman and CEO of Air & Water Technologies Corp., Somerville, New Jersey
David Ford, president and CEO of InterGuard Corp. of Guardian International, Auburn Hills, Michigan
Frank Maier, president of Enserch International Ltd., Dallas, Texas
Walter Murphy, senior vice president of AT&T Submarine Systems Inc., Morristown, New Jersey
Leonard Pieroni, chairman and CEO of Parsons Corp., Pasadena, California
John A. Scoville, chairman of Harza Engineering Co., Chicago
Donald Terner, president of Bridge Housing Corp., San Francisco, California
Stuart Tholan, president of Bechtel-Europe/Africa/Middle East/Southwest Asia, San Francisco, California
Robert A. Whittaker, chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy International, Clinton, New Jersey
Captain. Ashley Davis, pilot
Captain Tim Schafer, pilot
Staff Sergeant Gerald Aldrich, flight mechanic
Staff Sergeant Robert Farrington Jr., steward
Sergeant Cheryl Turnege, steward
Sergeant Shelly Kelly, steward
Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst
Lee Jackson of the Treasury Department
Nathaniel Nash, The New York Times' Frankfurt bureau chief.
Dragica Lendic Bebek, an interpreter
Niksa Antonini, a photographer.
Mind you, this list had to be reconstructed after the fact since no passenger manifest was every found.
For those who doubt what I say about certain passengers themselves being involved in illegal activities, remember that Ron Brown at the time of his death was about to be indicted for selling trade mission seats for campaign cash (among other things). Noting the names in the list that I bolded, consider this sworn testimony ...
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/exposes.htm
In an affidavit sworn by former Freedom of Information Act division head Sonya Stewart and filed with Federal District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth by Judicial Watch, Stewart details the efforts of the administration to withhold secret documents demanded under the FOIA by Judicial Watch and Congress.
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DECLARATION OF SONYA STEWART
I, Sonya Stewart, hereby state, under oath, as follows:
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I was the Commerce Department's Director for Executive Budgeting and Assistance Management in the Office of the Secretary. Additionally, I served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration for Commerce in the Office of the Secretary from November 1998 to September 1999.
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13. I have spoken with George Grafeld, a career civil servant and colleague who formerly worked for the Office of Business Liaison under its former Director Melissa Moss. (Ms. Moss, when deposed by Judicial Watch for a deposition presented to this Court, was asked to name OBL staff members during her tenure as OBL Director. Under oath, Ms. Moss, failed to name Mr. Grafeld and Lyne-Marie Griffin, a career civil servant, notwithstanding that both Mr. Grafeld and Ms. Griffin were, in fact, OBL staff members under Ms. Moss's tenure.) Mr. Grafeld told me that during Ms. Moss's tenure, he saw computer diskettes in OBL that were labeled "contributions/trade missions."
Mr. Grafeld said he knows that these diskettes were never handed over to Judicial Watch or the Court in this FOIA case. Ms. Griffin also saw these diskettes, according to Mr. Grafeld. Mr. Grafeld also told me that when he worked at OBL, he learned of letters from Melissa Moss to trade mission participants which referenced contributions they made to the Democratic Party in order to go on the trade missions at issue in this case.
Mr. Grafeld told me he had discounted these stories about Ms. Moss's fundraising letters until he saw press reports of Nolanda Hill's testimony about the Moss letters that Secretary Ron Brown showed her. Mr. Grafeld believes these letters were created from information that came from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), working in conjunction with the White House. ... snip ...
14. According to Mr. Grafeld, Melissa Moss tasked certain OBL employees, including Ms. Griffin, to enter names, including "political" names, into computers at OBL. Ms. Moss restricted access to the room where information was being entered into the computer, and Mr. Grafeld was not allowed to even be in the same room as the computer on which Ms. Griffin was inputting names. Mr. Grafeld reports that John Ost, a former Commerce OBL employee and political appointee, also worked on this project which eventually grew to 40,000 names.
From reading Mr. Ost's deposition to this Court, I learned that he admitted to receiving faxes from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) with the names of some donors, and he said that he gave them to Melissa Moss in response to Judicial Watch's FOIA requests. I also understand that these documents were never produced. Mr. Ost later left the Commerce Department (where Mr. Grafeld believes he earned approximately $45,000 per annum) to work for the DNC (where Mr. Grafeld believes he earned approximately $120,000 per annum).
According to Mr. Grafeld, Kathy Kellogg also participated in the "names" project in OBL and warned Mr. Grafeld to mind his own business when he inquired about the names being compiled. (Ms. Kellogg died in the tragic plane crash along with Secretary Brown, OBL Deputy Director Gail Dobert, and others.)
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16. In my role as Commerce FOIA Director, I have reviewed Commerce Department documents showing that Commerce Department officials offered to contact White House official Bruce Lindsey concerning the vetting of participants, such as James Riady of the Lippo Group, in trade mission events led by late Secretary Brown. I have also reviewed Commerce Department documents which show that Commerce officials did coordinate with White House official Doris Matsui concerning potential participants in trade mission activities, and that Commerce Department officials considered support for the President and Democratic Party during their review.
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I swear under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on July 7, 2000 in Litchfield Beach, South Carolina.
And this Senate Report ...
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-14.htm
INVESTIGATION OF ILLEGAL OR IMPROPER ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH 1996 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, FINAL REPORT of the COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS SENATE Rept. 105-167 - 105th Congress 2d Session - March 10, 1998
John Huang at Commerce
Throughout the Committee's investigation, John Huang has persisted as one of the most central figures in the campaign finance scandal. Huang's involvement was evident from the earliest inkling that there was systematic illegality in the way the DNC raised money during the 1996 election cycle. The first sign was a Los Angeles Times story about an illegal $250,000 contribution to the DNC from Cheong Am America. Mr. Huang raised that money. Huang proved to be a prodigious fund-raiser for the DNC in 1996, bringing in $3.4 million to DNC coffers. Nearly half of that amount has been returned to date, and there are serious questions about much of the balance not returned.
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The OPM commenced its background investigation of John Huang on August 9, 1994, completing it on October 18, 1994. In the course of the investigation, OPM decided not to conduct an overseas background check on Huang despite Huang's years abroad. OPM claims that its guidelines neither required nor precluded such an investigation in Huang's case.105 The Committee interviewed Scott Kaminski, a former investigator reviewer at OPM, about Huang's case.106 Kaminski reviewed the background investigation of Huang before forwarding the completed report to the DOC. Kaminski told the Committee that under OPM rules then in existence, overseas investigative coverage was only required if the appointee lived overseas more than six months in the three years prior to being appointed to a government agency. After reviewing Huang's OPM file, Kaminski concluded that Huang had not lived overseas in the previous three years and decided, within his discretion, not to schedule an overseas investigation.
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In late 1993, Huang's name was sent over to Commerce along with several other candidates by the White House Personnel Office. This list was sent to Jeffrey Garten, who was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade during most of Huang's tenure there. Once Garten received the list, he forwarded it to the assistant secretaries below him at the International Trade Administration (ITA), including Charles Meissner.37 Meissner, the Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, made the decision to hire Huang as his principal deputy. According to Garten, ``Meissner came to me and said here's what I would like to do, and he wanted to--he was suggesting that we hire Huang, and I think the major reason was that Secretary Brown was quite adamant that we have ethnic diversity.''
So Meissner's desire was a major factor in hiring Huang.
Folks ... keep in mind, as I noted previously, that Huang worked side by side with Brown, was a former employee of James Riady, left Commerce to work for the DNC, repeatedly lied under oath about his involvement in campaign finance violations, invoked the 5th Amendment over 2000 times in depositions, was labeled a "Chinese agent" by the CIA/FBI/Congress, was given a Top Secret clearance by the Whitehouse without a background check, had a close association with Ira Sockowitz who notified Commerce that 2 people survived the crash (when only 1 was ever announced), and received only a "wrist slap" for admitted campaign finance violations.
But if Brown had talked ...
