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Edited on Fri Feb-13-04 10:18 AM by 9215
Are these favorable witnesses popping up recently to verify Bush's whereabouts during his TANG service being coerced? If history is any indication this is something that should be considered . We usually hear about witnesses who have less than favorable things to say about Bushies being muzzled. Author J.H. Hatfield whose book was pulled off of bookstore shelves, investigative journalist Danny Casolaro and Attorney Paul Wilcher, all three of whom died mysteriously, are examples. All three also were pursuing investigations damning to the Bushies. But the Rabid-Right has given the art of coercion a creative twist: they also will coerce people to lie for them. The price of disloyalty, even when you never signed an oath of fealty can be high. http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/02/14_McDougal.htmlTitle: "Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused To Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned In Jail"
by Susan McDougal, with Pat Harris; introduction by Helen Thomas
SUSAN MCDOUGAL: That is really the entire book. It's one reason I wrote the book is it's so hard to explain in a short, pithy way -- you know, for television newscasts.
I met with the Independent Counsel's office for the first time when I got my first subpoena. And I went with the hope that they would ask me questions, and I would answer them, and I would be able to shed light on what I thought was an honest investigation. Buy when I got to the first meeting, they were not interested in asking me any questions -- they told me that was not what the meeting was about. Even though they had never met me before, they said that they would trade global immunity for a proffer against the target of their investigation, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
I told them then that I didn't know anything that I could give them in a proffer. I didn't say, "Oh, gosh, I would never say anything bad about the Clintons." Or, "I'm the Clintons' friend." Or anything like that. I said, "Look, I don't know anything they've done that's illegal. I can't help you there."
So the pressure escalated, and they started to threaten me and told me that they would prosecute me and they would put me in jail. They expected my cooperation. I repeated that I was willing to cooperate again. I said, "You have documents in front of you. Why don't you let me see them, and I'll answer any questions you have about them."
And the prosecutor for the Independent Counsel took his hand and he pushed them aside. And he said, "No. You've heard our offer. That's what we have on the table. We are very good at our jobs, and that's what we're telling you. You give us a proffer we can use, and you get to have your life back."
And we left the meeting. Well, Bobby McDaniel, who had never come up against anything like this before, said, "You know, this is the strangest system I've ever seen."
Even after all this she is denied reparations by the government:
Mcdougal to recieve no government assistance with her legal bills: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=307170>
Specifically the Bushies use this same tactic:
Here is story about the multi-decorated Vietnam War Veteran who refused to lie about the first Gulf War. Capt. Taus knew that Saddam Hussein was set up and this was later verified by Undersectretary of Defense John Kelly. What happens to people who dont' do your bidding is enough to scare most people into submission.
Here is a link:
<http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:cJCZUKA62eUC:www.druggingamerica.com/sample_chapter_drug.doc+Taus%2Bfalsify&hl=en&ie=UTF-8>
........Taus had two tours of duty flying combat missions in Vietnam during which he received three Bronze Star Medals and seven Air Medals, as well as several decorations for meritorious service. In 1967-68, as an Armed Forces Courier officer, Taus fought in the Tet Offensive and flew in the siege of Khe Sanh. In 1970-71, as a Helicopter Unit Commander for the First Cavalry Division, Taus, then Captain, flew Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters directing rescue-and-recovery operations. .........
Help From Old Friends
MIT Professor Norm (sic) Chomsky tried to help Taus by referring him to John Kelly, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Asian Affairs. Kelly wanted to do a story about the FBI cover-up on his 1994 Public Broadcasting Series (PBS-TV), Inside the FBI, but Taus declined, fearing possible violations of the Secrecy Agreement Act. Kelly later testified before Congress after Iraq invaded Kuwait, falsely explaining that the State Department was unaware of Iraq?s intentions. The CIA and the White House knew what was coming; they made it possible for Iraq to build up its military might to conduct such an invasion.
Note: Kelly is one of the Bush I's boys who gave Saddam the "greenlight" to attack Kuwait when he told Congress, a short time before Saddam invaded Kuwait, that the US had no treaty commitments with Kuwait. He later admitted this.
......Asked To Falsify Reports
Taus explained that one of the events that triggered retaliation against him was his refusal to falsely sign the FBI?s yearly statement requiring FBI agents to certify that they know of no unreported criminal activities. His supervisor wanted him to sign that he knew of none, when in fact he knew of a great amount of high-level criminal activities which his supervisor wanted covered up. When Taus refused to falsely state on that yearly form that he knew of no criminal activities, his Supervisory Special Agent warned him that he wasn?t on the team. That warning, and his reporting of the CIA?s criminal activities and the FBI?s cover-up to FBI Director Sessions and Congress was followed by the false charges against him that resulted in a virtual life sentence in prison.
Removal of His Accusers for Sex and Other Offenses
After Taus was convicted and sentenced, nearly all of his opponents were fired or resigned. The prosecutor and Deputy Chief District Attorney J. Kenneth Littman, who prosecuted Taus for alleged sexual violations, was ousted by the District Attorney for soliciting sex with a minor in the Nassau County courthouse. A November 6, 1993, New York Daily News article addressed the matter with the title, ?Prober A Heel: Long Island Teen.? A November 5, 1993, article in Newsday was titled, ?Prosecutor Ousted.? Taus? trial judge, Edward Baker, retired under questionable circumstances while making front-page headlines in the August 13, 1993, issue of Newsday.
FBI Sessions and FBI ASIC Fox Were the Next Ones Fired.........
Then what about this man?
How Bush treated the man who refused to falsify his Air Ntl Grd records
What do you say?
By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer
March 19, 2003-I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.
I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."
In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records .
George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.
I was a pawn then caught in a struggle for right and wrong, but also caught within a political struggle between a man who would do anything to be 'king' of America and an institution of laws that we knew as America.
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Lt. Col. Bill Burkett completed 28 years of decorated service and was medically retired from the US Army National Guard in 1998 after suffering >meningoencephalitis on return from an assignment in Panama. From 1995 until his illness, Burkett served as State Plans Officer for the Texas Army National Guard and Governor George W. Bush. After refusing to follow direct orders involving falsifying readiness reports, Burkett sought "whistleblower" status for reports involving anti-Semitic activity; personnel fraud; readiness fraud and the alteration of the personal military file of Governor George W. Bush. Lt. Col. Burkett is currently the plaintiff in his appeal to the US Supreme Court in the case of Burkett v. Goodwin, Taliaferro, Meador, et al, in regard to the retaliation against him following breaking the Bush records issue. Lt. Col Burkett served as a War Plans Officer during Operation Desert Storm and functioned as a senior trainer in conducting simulations exercises for deploying troops.
<<http://onlinejournal.com/Commentary/031903Burkett/031903burkett.html> >
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