In your Tidbits Round Up–July 27 you announced your intention to interview Peter Lance on an upcoming episode of Boiling Frogs. To be sure, he is a great interview and Triple Cross is an important piece of investigative journalism. I have often heard him tell his story on Coast To Coast. The problem is he spends the entire program laying out the details of this very complicated story and there is no time left over for questions from callers. In effect, he is rarely called upon to defend his conclusions because time always runs out. I hope when you interview him on Boiling Frogs you dispense with another time-consuming rehearsal of his story, which at this point is fairly well known, and spend the bulk of your time asking him hard questions about the conclusions he draws regarding Ali Mohamed.

I think the big question he needs to consider, especially in light of your recent bombshell that UBL was an American asset right up to 9-11, is whether Ali Mohamed was indeed a triple agent or just another protected asset of the American intelligence services. If time permits I think another fascinating line of questioning for Mr. Lance could be developed from Robert Schopmeyer's analysis of CIA/FBI obstruction of their own counter-terrorism agents' attempts to thwart the 9-11 plot in the months before that tragic day. Mr. Schopmeyer's work can be found here:

http://www.eventson911.com/

Essentially, Schopmeyer demonstrates that the official documentary evidence entered into the record in the course of three different government inquests into 9/11 (Joint Inquiry, Moussaui trial, and 9/11 Commission) also serves as very telling evidence of intentional obstruction and foreknowledge of 9/11 by known individuals within the FBI and CIA. As you well know these individuals have never been asked to account for their bewildering behavior in the run up to September 11.

Fainter

I am exhausted. Hopefully tomorrow, by noon, we'll have the press release on a very important (and unexpected) development…Sorry for the susp. (DOJ has less than 3 hours to respond)and stay tuned.

Here's to the LCD.

Sounds like something we are expecting. Hau Kola Hoka Hey!

Simon

I read through the first 7 or 8 pages and thought "James Jesus Angleton must be spinning in his grave. It also made me remember another place I was checking out.:

http://www.johnlecarre.com/

Considering the subjects of the secret world and counterintelligence, I suggest you contact Mr. Cornwell about an interview. Since he's publicizing HIS new book, "A Most Wanted Man", I strongly feel, with your credentials and credibility, you might be able to coax an appearance out of the creator of George Smiley. I, for one, would be quite interested in his perspective about our State Secrets laws and your particular experiences with it.

After all, who would know more about foreign intelligence service penetration and it's consequences than the guy who was outed by Kim Philby?

Dennis

Check out this link:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/wmd_chapter11.pdf

That report got almost no attention/coverage.

Emerson: Welcome, and thank you. 'My' story seems to be over & dead, but this blog/forum is alive and moving forward (fast!). Hope to have here people from your part of the world…

I run a small blog in portuguese and will get a post to let portuguese speak people to know about your story.

Emerson

I listened to your interview with Russ Tice on Friday and was meditating on it for the past couple of days when I ran across this piece by Sen. Feinstein at Huffpo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-dianne-feinstein/setting-the-record-straig_b_248787.html

I remember in the late 80's having a bad feeling when both Former CIA director George HW Bush AND Former KGB head Yuri Andropov ascended to power. I thought then about the "Peace of the Spooks".

Now, after reading your's, Bamford's and Tice's allegations, I see the counterintelligence divisions at both FBI and NSA thoroughly penetrated by the intelligence services of at least FOUR foreign powers; Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and China.

Am I the only one who is glimpsing a global alliance of intelligence services whose capabilities are aimed, not at each other, but the hapless inhabitants of those nations as well as our own?

Below, is my reply to another telecom rat on the Feinstein article:

Quite agree. Another 28-year broadband telecomm expert here as well. The only way Warrantless Wiretaps can work, BY DESIGN AND AS CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTED, is to monitor everything. on the DOMESTIC telecommunications infrastructure. If the targets were strictly overseas circuits AS THE NSA MANDATE SPECIFIES, the secret NSA rooms would be in the Transoceanic cable head and Satellite earth station offices, NOT DOMESTIC SWITCHING OFFICES like 611 Folsom St. San Francisco. Meanwhile, I've read credible reports from more than one whistleblower that journalists were routinely targeted for surveillance along with politicians like THIS PIECE'S AUTHOR.

Additionally, I've read credible reports stating that the technology used to implement the WWP is being supplied by companies with connections to foreign intelligence services. I've also read reports stating that counterintelligence divisions at both FBI AND NSA have been thoroughly penetrated by the intelligence services of at least 4 different foreign powers. The people who attempted to bring these allegations forward were, instead, hounded out of their jobs and made subject to State Secrets Gag Orders. Who's minding the intelligence store Senator? Certainly NOT YOU.

Also, Simon, I'm the guy you cited in your first piece. Thank you for including the Infraguard information. I've also been QUITE ALARMED by this latest Fascist maifestation of government/corporate partnership, particularly the revelations of FBI deputization of Corporate Infraguard members including Deadly Force authorizations for their use in "martial law" scenarios.

The other alarming item for me was the revelation that NSA is feverishly building two NEW data storage facilities to hold the volumes of intercepted communications for later data mining.