OMFG! You will not, er scratch that …just go read it…
Item in great condition – Would do business again! AAA+++

We have flash drives. Three days after the Los Angeles Times broke the story of the US military secrets for sale at an Afghan bazaar, a reporter for the paper bought ($40) another computer drive sold openly outside the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan. The 1-gigabyte flash drive holds “what appears to be a trove of potentially sensitive American intelligence data, including the names, photographs and telephone numbers of Afghan spies informing on the Taliban and Al Qaeda, personal snapshots, Special Forces training manuals, records of direct action training missions in South America, along with numerous computer slide presentations and documents marked secret.” Most documents are neither locked nor encrypted. But the good news is, some of them can’t be opened without a password, and the Army is investigating anyway.

Deja Vu on the mayberry machiavelli’s The People Running Things, Act IV…
Could it be as Jeff Wells of rigorous intuition blog recently wrote, that “..the conspirators, who create both a false opposition and a false conspiracy, remain invisible and free to deal more death”.
It’s a conceit of liberalism to believe knowledge is power, and it’s a deceit of the “Information Age” to mistake information for knowledge. Gone missing, for the greater part, is wisdom. Find that, and maybe we find our power.
Either way, things are freekin bizarro..

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 13 2006 9:30 utc | 4

@Uncle $cam:
Just reading Trainor’s book Cobra II. Similar incident occurred in Iraq.
An American tank was disabled on the war to Baghdad, and the computer HD was not removed. Contained the complete battle plan and other sensitive informatiom.
The drive ended up in a Baghdad bazaar and was bought back 3 weeks later by an American officer.
One car wonder.

Posted by: Groucho | Apr 13 2006 11:47 utc | 6

911 movie
http://www.policestateplanning.com/loose_change_ii.htm

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Apr 13 2006 14:40 utc | 8

from the narcosphere: Script for invasion of Iran appears headed for production

So why the rush to war?
Well, to explore that subject, Narco News decided to check in with a trusted source — a consultant who was recently invited to Washington, D.C., to bid on a contract to help develop an Iran war plan for the Pentagon. The source came forward after discovering that the insanity of the Bush Administration’s plan for Iran, as it was laid out in the contract negotiations, merited exposure.
Now, many folks reading this notebook may immediately conclude that a writer for Narco News couldn’t possibly have the inside skinny on this insanity. After all, Bill Conroy is no Seymour Hersh.
Still, I feel compelled to convey what I was told and only ask that you mark the link to this story. Then, six months from now, you can look back and see if any of it was on the mark. In terms of preventing this madness from unfolding in the meantime, well, that is something that can’t wait six months.
So, following, in brief, is what the source had to say about what he was told by Pentagon officials, whom, he claims, were seeking to hire him to help develop a strategy to get the American people “on board” with this Iran plan. (The goal, the source says, is to “educate” the American people, not through PR, but by “tweaking the danger” factor, to get the people to “support the government’s pronouncements about how much of a danger Iran is to us.”)
The source claims this Iran plan has been in the works for about 24 months, blowing out of the water any claim by the administration that it is a “contingency” plan.
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Included in the “equipment” shipped into Iraq for the assault on Iran will be tactical nuclear weapons, for use in targeting deep underground installations, the consultant claims. The troop preparation for the invasion of Iran, and the invasion itself, will be staged from U.S. bases in Iraq, he adds.
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Within six months (prior to the upcoming Congressional elections), the strategic bombing is slated to begin in Iran, the consultant claims. However, he says because there are an estimated 100 or more unknown underground sites that are being used as part of Iran’s fledgling nuclear program, strategic bombing (even tactical nuclear weapons) alone won’t do the trick, the consultant says, which is why the ground troops must be committed to the war effort.
The Bush Administration will launch the invasion with or without the consent of Congress, the consultant claims. The legal justification that will be used, according to information supplied to him by Justice Department attorneys, is that the Iraq war resolution adopted by Congress also authorizes the action in Iran.
The consultant adds that the rationale for the invasion currently being packaged for the media and the American public by the Pentagon (Iran’s supposed imminent nuclear-weapon threat) is a red herring — the bait for the jaws of war.
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“We’ve gone through nine reasons for going into Iraq,” the consultant says. “They aren’t looking for reality here (in the planned Iran invasion) either. The real reason for this (new war) is to rally the American people to get the administration out of the horrible bind they’re in.”

Posted by: b real | Apr 13 2006 18:24 utc | 10

re: a good lie hangs on specifics
remember Joe McCarthy and his “I have here a list!” rant? he waved a piece of paper and claimed to have the names of a specific number of soviet spies and informers inside the US government. no one ever got to see that list. but millions believed in it. and if you want to blame most of the cold war era on McCarthy and the puppeteers who set him in motion, millions died as a result of a good well crafted lie.

Posted by: DeAnander | Apr 13 2006 19:25 utc | 12

Joe McCarthy later admitted to a friend, after all was said and done, that the famous list was actually his laundry list, which is the real reason nobody was allowed to see it.

If the Bushies are planning to bomb Iran without reference to Congress “within 6 months” then maybe there’s some hope after all, if we can actually get some Congresscritters to show some spine. If, on the other hand, they’re going to try for the next couple of weeks, then there isn’t much more to be done, except maybe plead with the Islamic world to take its revenge on Washington (or wherever Bush goes to hide after stirring up the world’s largest hornets’ nest) first.

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Apr 13 2006 23:58 utc | 14

A ground invasion of Iran is so impossible that it’s the one thing all have agreed would never happen. Seems to me cheney Cabal would have to nuke america & impose a draft to pull it off…
Now several generals(ret.) have openly called for Rumbo’s head. But Bu$h cannot afford to fire anyone, lest they go public w/the Real Story of his Moronic Admin. After reading this post from Wayne Madsen today, in which he puts into words what many of us are thinking (I even mentioned something about it recently, though suggesting the Secret Service do the hands on work), I wonder if top brass are giving him one last chance – remove Rumbo so they can rebuild, or they’ll remove him. Anyone have any thghts?
How to rid a country of fascists. …
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin had it right when they mutinied against their Czarist officers in 1905. So did the Portuguese military when they ousted their nation’s Fascist government in a revolution in 1974 and brought an end to Portugal’s dictatorship and its global empire. The Spanish military helped put down a right-wing Francoist coup by the Guardia Civil in 1981. Two military officers, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Ollanta Humala of Peru, rebelled against right-wing regimes. The Soviet military refused to support the fascist coup in 1991. Bush laid down the gauntlet when he challenged the American people and the world, “if you’re not with me, you’re against me.” It’s time for the military to let Bush and his cabal know that those who swore to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies are against Bush and stand with the U.S. Constitution.
A couple of strong Marines could hustle the Criminal in Chief into custody — not because Bush is naturally strong but the insane sometime have an uncanny strength well above the their norm. As for the criminal Vice President, a few Girl Scouts could pile him into the back of a waiting police car, as long as Cheney was unarmed.

Posted by: jj | Apr 14 2006 2:11 utc | 16

Anyone have any thghts?
hell yeah i have thoughts. i think you (jj) pointed out the previous madsen report os whispers of mutiny. ok, he can be wild but i don’t think it’s al in his head. who knows if he’s recieved death threats. i was first introduced to him around the election when he had a theory of offshore $$ sources w/a team fixing the elction via the machines. nothing to back it up but lets face it, somebody was doing the dirty work. i take him w/a grain of salt but not a pound. you can bet is all these retired guys are coming out of the woodwork they have plenty of buddies inside, plus murtha told us on more than one occasion he’s heard mass grumblings.
now, i would have liked to have thought these pillars of courage would have come out and spoken prior to the war but we didn’t know george then like we know him now, it may have not been met w/the same response. but…. times have changed. if anyone outside the admin is privy to the future intent it is the top brass. my guesstimation is we’ll either be seeing more retirements (lets hope not), all those courageous dude have more loyalty than brains (let’s hope not) or maybe, just maybe we will have some redemption.
after all, between them there have got to be some mighty cajones. lets see if they can strut their stuff for a finale. the chance of this happening .001 . i can still hope.

Posted by: annie | Apr 14 2006 3:04 utc | 18