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"Key congressional leaders say they didn't know
George Walker
Bush established a "shadow government," moving dozens of senior civilian
managers to secret
underground locations outside Washington to ensure that
the federal
government could survive a devastating terrorist attack on the nation's
capital" - Washington
Post, Saturday edition
Governance is no longer
conducted in accordance with the US
Constitution, and in many cases within states, according to state
constitutions.
Although recognizing
legislation passed does not
favor their interests most
Americans still cling to the naive belief corruption is rare and
exceptional.
Americans institutions of society: the
courts, the press,
and law enforcement agencies, still
attempt to comply with the
Constitution and the
law.
This
assumption hypothesizes corrupting forces are disunited.
Mounting evidence makes it clear
that the situation is far worse.
The US Constitution is now used as
a façade to placate
the masses.
What has replaced it is what many call the Shadow
Government.
It for the most part, operates in secret, as internal
controls are not secure.
16-year-old Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was assassinated while
eating dinner by a CIA drone
airstrike in Yemen on
October 14, 2011.
Anwar al-Awlaki, an American/Yemeni imam and Islamic
lecturer, was assassinated by an armed CIA drone two weeks prior to the death
of his son.
Anwar al-Awlaki's daughter, Nawar, is fatally shot in
intelligence operation on
al-Qa`ida that left
at least 14 people, including a US commando, dead.
"Without
public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and
fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War, which projects
an "arc of instability" caused by
insurgent groups from
Europe to South Asia
that will last between 50 and 80 years.
According to one of its
engineers, Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan are just "small wars in the midst of a big one." - Tom
Hayden |
"Military intellectuals envision a
prolonged Cold War
against Al Qaeda, with hot wars along the way.
It happens that the Long
War is over Muslim lands rich with oil, natural gas and planned pipelines. " -
Tom Hayden |
| "Last October,
senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the
Washington Post
their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be
used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite
detention, prosecution in a real court,
assassination-by-CIA-drones,
etc." - Glenn Greewald |
1954 Wackenhut founded in Coral Gables, Florida, by George
Wackenhut and three former FBI agent partners.
Current and past members
of the Wackenhut board of directors include
Frank Carlucci, Bobby Inman,
William Raborn, and Clarence Kelly.
1960 There
are more police officers than
hired security guards
in America.
1964 Wackenhut
contracts to guard the
Kennedy Space Center and the US Atomic Energy Commission nuclear
test site in Nevada.
From FBI reject to private warlord: the rise of George
Wackenhut
Dick with Don and more Dick
1969 Richard
Nixon appoints Donald Rumsfeld to head the Office of Economic
Opportunity, responsible for overseeing the "War on Poverty."
Richard Nixon wants the agency restructured, and Donald Rumsfeld, with chief aide, Dick Cheney,
quickly began bringing in management contractors to do the work of the
civil servants.
"Don found
himself with bureaucracy
that hated him. He was forced to seek outside help. I remember Don reciting
the Al Smith statement, 'If
I don't look to my friends for help, who do I look to, my enemies?'" - Dick
Cheney
Frank Carlucci succeeds Rumsfeld to become Defense secretary for
Reagan.
Cloaked in
contractual and formal approvals the Executive branch accelerates
the process of merging government
and business interests.
1970
Nixon Approves 'Huston Plan' for Domestic
Surveillance'
1971 Frank Carlucci tells
Congress that he is dramatically curtailing the agency's spending on management
contractors.
"We did not think we were getting our money's worth." -
Frank Carlucci
Nixon Passes a Rule to Doom the Post Office
1976 Daniel
Guttman and Barry Willner write The Shadow
Government.
Decision-making authority
as well as actual services are being outsourced to overpriced consultants,
secretive think tanks, and
vested corporate interests.
Using a process' cloaked in formal
approvals by various executive functions a drive to merge government and
business interests began as early as 1969.
1980
Ronald Reagan authorizes a
presidential commission on privatization.
The boundary between public and
private might be erased giving
private interests more opportunity to move into traditionally government
roles.
The same idea surfaces in the "re-inventing government"
movement taken up by the Bill
Clinton:
"We would do well," one proponent wrote, "to glory in blurring of public
and private and not keep trying to draw a disappearing line in the
water."
Privatization has affected every aspect of American public
life since then.
The most visible surge in government outsourcing has
come in the military.
Purportedly acute manpower shortages has America
hiring private companies to perform duties reserved in the past for the
American military.
America now
has over 40 corporations that provide mercenaries.
Every facet of
"personal security" is now in the hands of private
business.
1981 John Philip Nichols, Peter
Zokosky (Armtech), and A. Robert Frye, a vice president of Wackenhut, travel to
Quebec to purchase Valleyfield Chemical Products Corporation, a weapons
propellant manufacturer.
The deal goes bust due to Canadian government
objections.
After the death of his wife, John Philip Nichols hooks up
with a junkie.
1982 Fred Alvarez, a Cabazon
tribal leader, and two companions, are found murdered on the Indio reservation.
Alvarez had been critical of Nichols' and Wackenhut's dealings with the
Cabazon tribe and he had received death threats.
Cabazon
murders tied to corruption coverup
1983 DoD
gives Cabazon authorization to manufacture weaponry.
1985 Nichols attempts to hire hitman, pleads no contest and is
sentenced to prison and serves nineteen months.
1988 Supreme Court holds, California v. Cabazon Band of
Mission Indians, federal and tribal interests in Indian gaming preempt
state law such that state regulation of gaming did not apply to tribal gaming
operations on tribal land.
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
inacted.
The stated purposes of the act includes providing a legislative
basis for the operation/regulation of Indian gaming, protecting gaming as a
means of generating revenue for the tribes, encouraging economic development of
these tribes, and protecting enterprises from negative influences.
1990 Control of the Cabazon reservation is turned over to Mark
Nichols.
A thirty thousand sqft casino and bingo hall are under
construction.
Colmac Corporation is constructing a $150 million power
generating plant .
Other business dealings by the Cabazon tribe
included plans for a thirteen hundred luxury housing project to take advantage
of HUD funding and an industrial incinerator for medical wastes.
A
parimutuel offtrack betting parlor is opened courtesy of a HUD grant.
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 made the practice of
Indians opening betting parlors and casinos commonplace by the early 1990s.
In fact, the act allowed tribes to buy property outside the reservation
but regulate it under the same rules of sovereignty that protected the
industrial incinerator and Riconosciuto's manufacture of chemical weapons from
federal control creating great potential growth for such
enterprises.
August
10, 1991 Danny Casolaro is meeting an informant to "bring back the head of the
Octopus" when his body was found in a hotel in Martinsburg, West
Virginia
Casolaro's investigation began with his inquiry into the case
of Inslaw.
DOJ steals PROMIS
software, selling it to governments
and global financial
institutions, after modifying it to provide a back door by to track the
movement of money and fungible assets in real
time globally.
The Danny Casolaro Primer: 13 reasons to doubt the official
narrative
"As Casolaro headed ever deeper into the rabbit hole, he
found that the Octopus had
played key roles in the 1962 Cuban missile
crisis (which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war), the Watergate
scandal which brought down President
Richard M. Nixon, and the December 1988 destruction of a Boeing 747 Jumbo
Jet aircraft over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Then things got really weird.
The Octopus had
a significant
presence at Area 51, Nevada.
The Octopus was reportedly
funding research to create deadly
virus.
Things took a strange turn when Casolaro met with Michael
Riconosciuto, who was in the field of spies, espionage and intelligence for
years." - Nick Redfern
Secret Pentagon Program Spent Millions To Research
UFO
Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': Pentagon Mysterious UFO
Program
Michael Riconosciuto, an electronics and computer expert, is
arrested in early
1991, shortly after providing Inslaw with an affidavit in
support of their lawsuit against the DoJ.
2002
Wackenhut acquired by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck.
2004 Group 4 Falck merges to form British company G4S
Wackenhut.
2010 G4S Wackenhut changed its name to
G4S Secure Solutions.
Within 8 days of this declaration, Riconosciuto was arrested for
conspiracy to manufacture, conspiracy to distribute, possession with intent to
distribute, and with distribution - a total of ten counts related to
methamphetamine and methadone.
3. In spite of the threats, Riconosciuto
agreed to the interview on February 7, 2000. Within one hour following the
interview, he was charged with a disciplinary infraction.
4. This
infraction was expunged at a BOP hearing on February 11, 2000.
5.
Within an hour of this hearing, the FBI charged Riconosciuto with
solicitation of
murder; the charge relating to the expunged incident.
6. Because of
this allegation, Riconosciuto is placed in solitary confinement for several
months.
7. Upon his return to the general prison population,
Riconosciuto is transferred to the FCI Allenwood, Pennsylvania, with the
reputation of being a "threat" to BOP staff members.
8. On February 5,
2001, Riconosciuto wrote a certified letter (Exhibit A) to his attorney, Don
Bailey, that he had contact with someone in an Islamic group called the "Base"
and that group was currently in preparation for an attack in the US, but would
not divulge specific details unless the US Government granted
immunity from
prosecution to his sources.
9. On February 13, 2001, Riconosciuto
sent a certified letter
(Exhibit B) to Congressman Bryan Baird (D- W A), in an effort to expedite the
reporting of his information to the
appropriate authorities.
10. On February 19, 2001, Louis Buffardi,
another Riconosciuto attorney, wrote to
Secretary of State Colin
Powell, with a cc to Attorney General John Ashcroft (Exhibit C), to the
effect that he had a client with information concerning an imminent terrorist
attack in the United States, and Buffardi asked that someone other than the FBI
obtain the details from his client.
11. On February 20, 2001
Riconosciuto filed BOP Form 148 (Exhibit D), for use of a private telephone to
handle sensitive conversations relating to matters mentioned in 8, 9, and 10,
above.
12. Once he received his private telephone, Riconosciuto told
this reporter that he had conversations concerning the afore-mentioned topics
with, among others, John O'Neill, former FBI terrorist expert in charge of
security for the World Trade Center.
13. On an unrecalled day in March
2001, Riconosciuto was visited by Special Agent (SA) Keith Cutri of the
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, FBI agency.
14. Riconosciuto furnished SA
Cutri with the identification of an individual in New Jersey (unidentified
herein to eliminate damage or complications to future official investigations)
who:
a. Was coordinating forthcoming terrorist attacks on the United
States.
b. Had information on the movement of Soviet-made shoulder-fired
missiles.
c. Was coordinating forthcoming skyjackings.
d. Was
coordinating bombings and espionage.
e. Knew the identities of "sleepers"
in the United States and overseas.
15. Riconosciuto also furnished SA
Cutri with information on a false ID ring in Montreal, Canada, and in New
Jersey, and could furnish the exact false ID of 30 terrorists who had been
chosen for actions inside the United States.
16. Riconosciuto further
told SA Cutri 37 Soviet-made missiles were being handled through Thabet
Aviation in Quebec City, Canada, also brokered old but serviceable aircraft
(Swearingtons, DC-9s, 747s, and high-performance military) to be used in
drug-running and future terrorist attacks in a so-called "40 minute" war
scenario using aircraft as flying "missiles".
17. Riconosciuto further
informed SA Cutri that terrorists were taking flight
training in various types of aircraft brokered by Thabet, and if
given immunity for himself
and his contacts, he would provide specific information where said training
was taking place and the identities of the students involved." -
Terrorism Cover Up in America, Ted Gunderson
March 1,
2002 "Execution of the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan"
resulted not from the Cold War
threat of intercontinental missiles, the scenario rehearsed for decades,
but from heightened fears that the al Qaeda terrorist network might somehow
obtain a portable nuclear weapon, according to three officials with first-hand
knowledge.
Although US intelligence has no specific knowledge the risk
is thought great enough to justify the
disruption of
activating the shadow government.
Deployed "on the fly" in the first
hours of turmoil on Sept. 11, one party said, the shadow government has evolved
into an indefinite precaution.
For that reason, the high-ranking
officials representing their departments have begun rotating in and out of the
assignment at one of two fortified locations along the East Coast.
Rotation is among several changes made in late October or early
November, sources said, to the standing directive Bush inherited from a line of
presidents reaching back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Officials who are activated for what some of them call "bunker duty"
live and work underground 24 hours a day, away from their families.
As
it settles in for the long haul, the shadow government has sent home most of
the first wave of deployed personnel, replacing them at 90-day intervals.
The civilian cadre present in the bunkers usually numbers 70 to 150,
and "fluctuates based on intelligence"
about terrorist threats, according to a senior official involved in
managing the program.
It draws from every Cabinet department and some
independent agencies.
Its first mission, in
the event of a disabling
blow to Washington, would be to prevent collapse of essential government
functions." - Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt, Washington
Post
2003 3,512 security contracts for
domestic security functions.
2006 In the 22
month period ending in August the Department of Homeland Security has
issued more than 115,000 security related contracts.
It was not until
the mid–19th century that urban governments, by
setting up local police
forces, made global property protection
a state
responsibility.
No
one with wealth relies on state guarantees of security.
People with wealth have withdrawn
into protected walled enclaves.
The chief obligations of
government is simply to dispense justice - to resolve disputes, oversee
legal business, mete out punishment.
Lawyers increasingly shun the
civil courts - congested, expensive, fickle - instead they
buy private
arbitration, provided by "rent a judge" companies.
Those sentenced to prison may very well do
their time in a private facility.
Faced with rising numbers of inmates,
governments found the cost effective way is to
turn the prison industry over to the
private sector - companies such as the behemoth Nashville based
Corrections Corporation of America.
Public colleges and
universities are fast losing their 'public' character.
These
institutions were created by an act signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 providing
federal land grants to states for financing higher education.
Nationwide, state legislatures are picking up only about two-thirds of
the annual cost of public higher education.
To a large degree it's
money from private donors and private corporations, creating an incipient
"academic-industrial complex" at public and private institutions
alike.
At the
University of
California at Berkeley, one administrator is officially known as the
Bank of America Dean of the Haas
School of Business.
Money for university research comes with strings
attached - pushing research in certain directions and
ownership of patents derived from
sponsored research.
Sociologists have a term for what is occurring:
they call it the "externalization of state
functions."
Water and sewage systems are being
privatized, as are airports and highways and public hospitals.
Voucher programs and charter schools are a way of
shifting education toward the private sector.
The protection of nuclear waste is
in private hands.
Meat inspection is done
largely by the meatpacking companies themselves.
The privatization
of terminal operations at American ports began three decades ago and 80% of
them were already operated by foreign companies.
Serious proposals to privatize
portions of Social Security have been on the table, and
Obamacare effectively
puts an enormous government program into the hands of
private insurance and
drug companies.
Many government services now charge user fees.
Detailed statistical data
was once freely available to everyone as
public information,
now that information must be bought from a private provider.
The vaults
of the Smithsonian were once open to documentary film makers.
Now a
contractual agreement between the Smithsonian and the cable company
Showtime, the Smithsonian Channel, has
jurisdiction over, and priority access to, certain kinds of material.
A considerable
amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than
raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a
rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies.
It's "tax
farming" for the modern age, recalling the hated Roman practice of selling the
right to collect taxes to private individuals (including the apostle Matthew in
the Gospels), who were then allowed to keep anything over what they had agreed
to collect for the government.
As the recent revelations about torture
have made clear, even official interrogations for national security purposes have been outsourced
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to other countries through the process known as "extraordinary rendition."
The sale
of naming rights for public facilities nomenclature creates
mutants such as the
Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail at the New York Botanical Garden in
the Bronx and Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi.
To attract
more corporate underwriting, the
Department of the
Interior has proposed national parks be liberally opened up to the sale
of naming rights.
An analyst at
Johns Hopkins observes,
"Contractors have become so big and entrenched that it's a fiction that the
government maintains any control."
One obvious recent example is the
rebuilding effort in Iraq.
There may have been no
alternative to giving the reconstruction job in Iraq to private
corporations, including Bechtel and
Halliburton, but the
result has been an effort that defies management or accountability.
The
evidence of widespread
corruption in Iraq is beyond dispute.
Private companies are exempt
from regulations applying to government.
Private records can't be
obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
They can use
foreign subsidiaries to avoid laws meant to restrain American companies.
Before the war, Halliburton itself used subsidiaries to do business
with Iran, Iraq,
and Libya, despite
official American trade sanctions against them.
Secret intelligence work
- translation, airborne surveillance, computing, interrogation, analysis,
reporting, briefing - is being outsourced.
The intelligence community
is further fragmented by a "spy drain"
draws officers
out of the public sector and into the private market (Snowden).
The
drain isn't restricted to spies: at least 90 former top officials at the
Department of Homeland
Security and the White House Office of Homeland Security
now work for private
companies in the domestic-security business.
The government has
turned the job of border police
over to multi-national
contractors, a task that will in turn be
subcontracted out to
smaller firms.
Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon,
Boeing, and
Northrop Grumman submit
bids to build a high-tech "virtual fence" along the Mexican border, with an
array of motion detectors, satellite monitors, and
aerial drones which
Boeing wins.
While being
erected Donald Trump decides a
hard steel wall would be a reminder of his stamina and
remind Americans of keeping America
great.
A Homeland
Security official concedes the abdication of government leadership, "We're
asking you to come back and tell us what to do."
Late 1990s study
suggests that the "privatization rate" - the rate at which public functions are
being outsourced - is roughly doubling every year.
On paper
the federal workforce
nationwide, leaving the military aside, appears to total about two million
people.
If you add in all
the people in the
private sector doing essentially government jobs with federal grants and
contracts, then the figure rises by 10.5
million.
The commercialization of government probably explains why so
many Washington entities are now referred to as shops: "lobby shop,"
"counterterrorism shop."
There's no question that in certain ways the
private sector can outperform the public sector.
Users of Federal
Express, U.P.S., and DHL would sooner renounce citizenship than go back to
relying only on the US Postal Service.
The problem is the cumulative
effect of privatization across the board - projected out over decades, over a
century, over two - and the leaching of management capacity from government.
The activities of government are, in effect,
being franchised out.
You can't help lingering over the concept of
"franchise."
The
word originally had to do with political freedom and social responsibility.
Derived from the Old French word franc, meaning "free," it later came
to be associated with the most fundamental political freedom of all: to
exercise your franchise meant to exercise your right to vote.
Only much
later, in the mid–20th century, did the idea of being granted "certain
rights" acquire its commercial connotation: the right to market a company's
services or products, such as fried chicken or Tupperware.
Today, to
have a franchise on something is in effect to have control over it." - adapted
from Cullen Murphy
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