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Submitted by pbtrue1 on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 2:54am.
Qwest tied to Bush AWOL
Bush military documents
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/7/114253/7435
which lead me here:
http://www.ubthejudge.com/
Political Qwest >> Friday Nov. 3 2000
The NET was not neutral Friday November 3 2000, 4 days before the US presidential election. >> ...
That Friday morning, phone/data line service to an internet hosting company was removed by its telecom co., Qwest Communications. The cutoff of the line and data transmittal lasted until the late afternoon.
A few hours before the disruption, posted to the website of a hosted company were the docs that are printed below.
These were US FOIA ["Freedom of Information Act"] papers, mailed by the federal government and military agency units to citizens and to a few curious reporters at the Boston Globe and the Washinton Post who asked for them. These docs are easy for anyone to check their authenticity.
In fact, they were quietly placed by the US Dept. of Defense in 2004 to the public-access portion of its own website. But no one in the press ever reprinted these official papers. Certainly not in 2000. Nor 4 years later. They are hiding in plain sight, still not printed by the press, just as they were on November 3 2000. Are they are too troubling perhaps?
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Of interest – "AO #87" [Aeronautical Order # 87]. This record — government-supplied — would have saved CBS from the National Guard-story scandal that devoured Dan Rather and his 40plus–year career at the network. >> |
[ End of GW Bush's flying status 2 years b4 discharge.]
This is how the real record, undisputed, got pushed aside the first time, 5 years ago.
Phone/data line service was taken down for an internet-domain host company Friday, Nov. 3, 2000 – the day following a surprise news release about GW Bush, news that would sweep aside coverage of the far more important disclosure.
Prosecution by the government of Qwest executives for huge accounting misstatements and personal gain first stalled and then climbed slowly up the ladder at Qwest, then stopped just short of its board members.
- But at another company, Martha Stewart Living, prosecuters pursued the top executive, Martha Stewart, to take a fall for a well-timed personal stock trade based on information not available to the public. -
Follow the money . . . Note: Donations by Stewart and her company may have favored the wrong political party.
Contrast the $ donations of the 2 companies -list here, below.
- Check out HDTV (Hold down the Vote). How do they do it.
[ link to topic]
- Election WOES -
ETHNIC Cleansing of the Texas Democratic delegation to Congress - Courtesy of Tom DeLay, ex-majority leader
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The Swift Boat vets "for truth:" - They never told you this. . .
Ever wonder why US citizens had to wait far into the presidential election of 2004 to learn that GW Bush as a pilot was grounded from flying in Sept. 1972 — and never flew again for his unit — and why we had to hear it only roundabout, by way of angry denunciations of phony, discredited documents?
Here's how and why: In the fall of 2000, the undisputed government-supplied FOIA documents were pulled offline at a crucial moment in the news cycle.
This is the story of the failed T-1 phone lines of the Internet Service Provider
that connected a publicist-advocate and her website to the public and the press.
A veterans–info site was shoved offline and was owned at the time by
publicist Bev Harris.
[Five years later: Harris is better known now for her voting-issues advocacy. She lifted the veil over the evident security flaws in polling-place voting machines and she lobbies state and county officials to redress the tally-machine vulnerability.]
notice, 11/2000
by Harris, with doc
photocopies, see #3
Disclosure timeline, Yr 2000
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On the day a publicist for Vets sent out a media-wide alert
to make public her Site's web-post of GWB's military
documents (the government-supplied FOIA records,
Fri Nov. 3) — the site was quickly pulled down
by a sudden Qwest- network outage.
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1 day earlier, a Fox News affiliate broke news (Nov. 2)
from Maine about a prior 'DUI' (driving under
the influence) incident. The next day Friday, when site
access to the service records was cut in the all day outage, the
military record story was turned aside -- overtaken by the more
sensational youthful traffic offense that carried news
coverage throughout the weekend.
. Service record
# 1
( Tues Nov 7 - Election day, voters headed to the polls.
January '01 - The 43rd President is sworn into office. )
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Full Circle. FAST Forward: to Aug, 2002–
The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm
with ties to the Bush family, father and son, and prior ties to
the binLaden family (binLaden stake finally cashed out Oct. 2001),
became the lead partner in a buyout of Qwest
Communications' directory business for $ 7 billion. The
Largest leveraged buyout in 14 years was complete in 2003.
. deal,
buyout
.
THESE records were suppressed in the phone-line network outage
days before the 2000 election:
I - FIRST record (printed below, scroll) - Government-supplied, FOIA
In 1972 – and the 2 years following – Lieutenant G W Bush was grounded from flying, by order of the commanding officers :
Summer of 1972 – First Lieutenant G W Bush was suspended from flying status. The order (AO 87) came down August 1 from the commanding officer. Later the command was logged and verified (29 Sep. 1972) - "by order of the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force."
[ See the record below – item #6 ]
An identical order suspending flight status was directed to [ item #7] Maj. James R. Bath [a friend and ally to Bush's dad and to the younger George Bush] (on 29 Sep. 1972), similarly confirming earlier verbal orders.
The compiled records point also to missed attendance by
Bush at required drills for 1 year - from May '72 to May '73 - when he relocated to work for the campaign of a US Senate nominee out of state — and on his return to Houston after the November election. [See the response of his campaign to the record of the gap in service.]
http://www.ubthejudge.com/all_graphics/FOIA_grd_sized_82_pct_gif.GIF
2 accessible sources for the FOIA act records
1. In 2004, access to the records comes from the US Dept of Defense general public-access website , www dot defenselink dot mil
For the direct file-link, click here.
2. The military made available the same records in 2000 to investigators and reporters who inquired (access shown below).
The National Guard Bureau sent the records to a handful of journalists in early 2000 in reply to a Freedom of Information [ FOI ] request, including to researchers at the Boston Globe, Washington Post and the New York Times.
In addition, a private IOWA citizen launched his own FOI inquiry, studied the papers and posted the chronicled records in October 2000 to his website,
http://users.cis.net/coldfeet
[The image at left is a copy of one from the list of records at
http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm [take the link on that page to document 30 "grounded.gif" -- ( users.cis.net/coldfeet/ grounded.gif )]. To see the document at the site where it was posted initially in 2000, by M.Heldt, you can follow that link; if you need to see it in a larger view, click on your browser's 'File'menu -> then click Print Preview from MS Internet Explorer. You can move the zoom to 100%. (The Print Preview function may superimpose on the document a 'header:' "page 1 of 1" and 'footer', showing today's date and name of the web location.)
What did the Bush campaign say about these records when they first came to light in the spring of 2000?
Did they dispute the authenticity of any of the documents in the revealed service record?
Bush campaign spokesmen in 2000 did not dispute any of the FOIA service records. They offered explanations instead ...
http://www.ubthejudge.com/all_graphics/FOIA_not_obs_p1_GIF.GIF
------ Qwest made gifts to politicians in 2000 that totaled $1,479,000, placing it among the 100 largest givers in the 2000 campaigns. approximately 2/3 R, 1/3 to Dems.
Prospects of Campaign donor, Qwest
The Carlyle Group announced in Aug. 2002 it would be lead player to acquire Qwest's directory unit, QwestDex, for $7 billion, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the 1980s, partnering with the NY investment firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe in a consortium purchase. The sale of the yellow pages business would help Qwest raise cash to avoid a bankruptcy filing.
Washington Business Journal
Record of giving, record of legal enforcement
1. Telecom giant, QWEST Communications [ gov't enforcement actions ]
2. CEO Martha Stewart [ her donations to (opposite) election campaigns ]
A tale of 2 investigations: [1] Martha vs. [2] phone-company Qwest.
Martha and her firm may have donated mainly to the wrong party in the last presidential election. Qwest did not make that mistake [a "top-100" donor to all federal candidates and campaign committees for the 2000 election ]. She was prosecuted vigorously and immediately.
Qwest's Rank in Top 100 of Campaign Contributors in the year 2000
From the List of Top 100 Donors to Campaigns in Election 2000
http://www.ubthejudge.com/all_graphics/Top_100_contributors_2000_Jun_200...
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Good Job pbtrue1 !
Thank you for all the work putting it all together ! :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
oh, the tangled web they weave
Thank you, pbtrue1, for the fascinating data you've collected and correlated above.
It's truly mind-boggling trying to keep up with all the machinations of BushCo. And who knows what else is going on at any given moment that we've yet to find out about, and perhaps never will. How sad for us to be trapped in a world ruled by these purveyors of violence and cruelty with so few alternate exits or other options.
Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe purchase Qwest ...
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 August 2002-
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August 20, 2002? Whattaya know? Fits right into the timeline.
--The Bush Cabal demands in 2001 (before 9/11, by the way) that telcos help them to violate the rights of American citizens by wiretapping their phone calls without warrants.
--The Qwest CEO (Joseph Nacchio) refuses to play ball with The Cabal.
--Bush Cabal cronies at Carlyle move in to acquire Qwest in 2002 (apparently to install a CEO who will play ball with The Cabal).
--Joseph Nacchio leaves his position as CEO of Qwest in the same year (2002).
--Richard Notebaert is brought in from Ameritech (see also: "SBC/AT&T/Bush Cabal cronies participating in NSA wiretapping) to be Qwest CEO in 2002.
--Joseph Nacchio finds himself under investigation by the Bush SEC.
--Bush Cabal demands CEO of powerful corporation participate with him in committing crimes.
--CEO of powerful corporation refuses.
--Cabal cronies buy out powerful corporation and install a friendly CEO who will.
--Investigate former CEO as pre-emptive attack on his credibility.
Months Before 9/11
Bush’s Illegal Spying Began Months Before 9/11 Attacks
Washington Post:
A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company thought might be illegal.
Former chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to court documents unsealed in Denver this week. Read more…
C & L
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says
By Ellen Nakashima and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page A01
WAPO
Bush’s Ideological Power Grab: Admin To Spy on Americans Before 9/11
October 13th, 2007
Body Politik org
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
and when the stock dropped, Poppy's Carlyle Group was there to snatch it up in Aug of 2002. "Corporate Raiders" is the term?
The perfect crime family.
Uncle Bucky Bush in the SEC and Jr at the WH
The Bush crime family indeed
Verizon offers details on records releases
updated 8:14 p.m. EDT, Tue October 16, 2007
From Kevin Bohn
CNN
CNN
In an October 12 letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, a senior Verizon official says that from 2005 through this September there were 63,700 such requests, and of those, 720 came from federal authorities.
Blog Wired
Feds Invoke Secrets Privilege to Limit Qwest CEO Defenses in Civil Suit
By Ryan Singel EmailNovember 21, 2007 | 12:42:37 PMCategories: NSA
The nations' top intelligence official told a Denver court Monday that the nation's safety would be imperiled if Qwest employees are allowed to get classified documents about the telecom's secret contracts with the National Security Agency. The employees, who include former CEO Joseph Nacchio want the documents about NSA contracts to fight a civil suit filed against them by federal financial regulators, accusing them of defrauding shareholders in 2001.
In a 12-page affidavit (.pdf), Directtor of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told a federal district court that turning over to the defense any information about classified and unclassified contracts, including dates of meetings between the telecom giant and the intelligence community "reasonably would cause damage to the national security." Nacchio - along with Robert Woodruff, Afshin Mohebbi, James Kozlowski and Frank Noyes - are being sued for millions in damages in civil court by the Security and Exchange Commission.
In July, Nacchio was sentenced to six years imprisonment for selling $230 million worth of shares before the stock tanked, knowing that the company would not meet its public revenue projections.
Nacchio, who is free on bond pending an appeal, unsuccessfully tried to argue in the criminal case that he expected the company to get classified contracts from the NSA that he thought would make Qwest meet its projections. He argued the NSA withheld the promised contracts as punishment after Qwest declined to help the NSA with a unspecified project that Nacchio believed was illegal to help with without being ordered to do so.
In 2006, after media revelations about the government's secret wiretapping program and phone record data-mining, Nachhio's attorney said that when Nacchio was CEO, Qwest had declined repeated requests from the government for call records.
The trial judge in Nacchio's criminal case ruled that Nacchio's classified defense was irrelevant, but in October, released redacted versions of Nacchio's argument, which contained startling charges that the NSA asked Qwest for some unspecified help in February, 2001, 7 months prior to 9/11. A subsequent story by the National Journal's Shane Harris revealed that the NSA asked Qwest before 9/11 to monitor and data-mine traffic on its own domestic network and report results to the NSA, but didn't ask for access to call record databases until after the attacks.
McConnell's court filing invoked the "state secrets privilege," a powerful legal tool that the government can use to quash portions or all of a civil lawsuit if the matter involves military or intelligence matters. The Bush administration has used the tool to end Sibel Edmonds' FBI whistleblower suit and lawsuits challenging the government's outsourcing of torture and warrantless wiretapping.
McConnell said that any information about any meetings between Qwest and intelligence agencies that concerned "any discussion of classified information" was covered by the privilege, as would any information about unclassified contracts with the NSA if that information would reveal details about the NSA's IT infrastructure.
The full scope of and reason for the request are classified, according to the public filing, but were further explained in classified declarations that only the judge can see.
It's unclear how the judge will handle the assertion. Defendants in cases involving national security matters often ask for documents that could embarrass the government or reveal secrets in order to have cases dismissed or force a plea bargain -- its a practice known as 'grey mail.'
The Qwest defendants have until December 4 to respond to the state secrets claim.
See Also:
* Before 9/11, NSA Asked Qwest for Network Access, Not Phone Records ...
* Top Spy Asked to Explain Pre-9/11 Spying Allegations
* NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims
Photo: Peter Kaminski
blog.wired
Before 9/11, NSA Asked Qwest for Network Access, Not Phone Records, National Journal Reports
By Ryan Singel EmailNovember 02, 2007 | 11:29:08 AM
Qwest named official DNCC telecommunications provider
Oh the irony.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/03/dncc-goes-with-qwest/
DNCC Goes With Qwest
By: Nicole Belle on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 PM - PST
Nice to see the DNCC ‘voting with their wallet,‘ so to speak.
You probably remember this revelation about the pre-9/11 wiretapping, and how it landed the CEO of Qwest in jail because he refused to break the law [..]
Today, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced their choice for a telecommunications provider for the convention in a press release:
The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) and Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) announced today that Qwest has been named as the official telecommunications provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, to be held Aug. 25-28 in Denver. In that role, Qwest will provide the network and people to help link the Convention to a nationwide and worldwide audience.[..]
The release didn’t say anything about the wiretapping issue, just the Denver connections. Still, it seems a fine thing that they picked the one provably responsible corporate citizen to reward with the job.
THE LOYALS AND NON-LOYALS, from SingSing
FYI: FISA
Submitted by singsing on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 4:49pm.
CEO OF QUEST "NACCHIO" HAD GOVERNMENT TIES (until 2002)....
Nacchio/Qwest was in bed with homeland security as far back (at least) as 2001...In fact, Nacchio's (unsuccessful) defense against during his recent (2007) trial for insider trading was that [ THE ILLEGAL ] elements of these government contracts could not be made public.
WHEN QWEST SNUBBED THE NSA, QWEST EXECUTIVES WERE SORTED INTO THE LOYALS AND NON-LOYALS.
Some of the loyals include James F. X. Payne (the government contract point-person). In 2005, Payne suddenly leaves Qwest and ends up at Bechtel (read more...)doing work that put him even closer to government agencies (and no surprise he was never prosecuted like most other Qwest execs).
http://www.airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/node/217#comment-5305
McConnell's court filing invoked the "state secrets privilege
i fucking hate this dog--alcoholic face, liquor lips!!!!!
i am going back to reading the bible this shit is getting to awkward for me!
Welcome to Domestic Surveliance
I also noticed that at times of blog difficlties, the IP
64.202.189.182 has been showing instead of Sam's normal Verizon IP.
Registrant:
Ist Source Information
ATTN: PEOPLESEARCHAMERICA.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Domain Name: PEOPLESEARCHAMERICA.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Ist Source Information &# 160;
ATTN: PEOPLESEARCHAMERICA.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-xxx-8780
Record expires on 22-Sep-2011.
Record created on 26-Sep-2005.
Domain servers in listed order:
WSC2.JOMAX.NET
WSC1.JOMAX.NET
The IP Address for peoplesearchamerica.com is 64.202.189.179 while the IP Address for locatecell.com is 64.202.189.182. That entire netblock (65.202.189.XXX) belongs to secureserver.net, GoDaddy hosting.
See: Daily KOS
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/7/16229/48489